Posts Tagged ‘Data governance’
Data as an Asset
Data-driven organizations make better decisions, acquire more customers and keep their customers longer. As a result, they drive more revenue and profits than businesses that make decisions based on speculation. Unfortunately, the inability to quickly find digital assets is a core problem that prevents many organizations from gaining a competitive advantage. Open Access Government brought this interesting…
Read MoreLooking to the Data
Everyone wants to know about the future – what to expect, how to act and most importantly, how to prepare. Predictive analytics is a specialized branch of data analytics that combines the power of data mining, data modeling, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to make probabilistic predictions of future events. Analytics Insight brought this interesting topic to us…
Read MoreGoverning the Data
As data volumes, varieties and velocities increase, securely storing, processing and governing your data becomes more challenging. This interesting topic came to our attention from CIO in their article, “Prevent your data lake from turning into data swamp.” The flexibility of schema in a data lake allows users from different operational silos of a business…
Read MoreBeyond Collecting Data
Data literacy is a key component of data governance. Understanding the data and how it is integral to your business intelligence enables strategic data-driven decision making. Tech Republic brought this topic to us in their article, “Why is data literacy important to data governance?“ Data drives every business process, including sales, churn rates, supply chains,…
Read MoreDigital Transformation Needs Governance
Data governance refers to the set of laws, policies, regulations, authorities and decision-making structures that guide how enterprises collect, share and use data to inform decisions. Failure to strengthen balanced data governance not only leads to harms and infringement of rights, but curtails innovation, restricts economic transformation and undermines using data to its greatest potential…
Read MoreGoverning Data for Quality
Organizations are adopt advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions at a growing rate. With data management challenges continuing to mount on technology teams, the technology decision-makers are realizing that without a firm data strategy provisioning enterprise-wide supply of data on demand, machine learning and AI adoption will remain just another set of buzz words. Tech Republic…
Read MoreData Management and Technology
Data and analytics technology is a benefit to all industries, even higher education. Data and analytics technology solutions and practices can position institutions for success. Campus Technology brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “6 Technologies and Practices Impacting the Future of Data and Analytics in Higher Ed.“ The higher ed IT…
Read MoreMetadata Management and Governing Data
In very practical ways, metadata has different implications for different roles within information science and like so many topics close to us, it can be hard to sift through the available information to find out what it means to you. Regardless of experience, understanding or enthusiasm, metadata is important to us all. Good metadata management is the…
Read MoreKeeping the Data Secure and Still Findable
Data is a critical enterprise asset that underpins operations, drives decision-making, makes personalized end-to-end service delivery possible, unlocks competitive advantage and so much more. Unfortunately, all this data represents a rich prize for cyber criminals looking to steal, hijack or hold data to ransom. This interesting news came to us from Benzinga in their article,…
Read MoreData Governance and Diversity
Data governance refers to the set of laws, policies, regulations, authorities and decision-making structures that guide how enterprises collect, share and use data to inform decisions. Effective data governance grows out of data management maturity. What does it have to do with diversity or equity? This interesting topic came to us from the Business Journal from…
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