Volume of Data Requires Governance and Taxonomy

The continuous push and pull of new regulations, projects and analytics investments create constant disruption for organizations. The volume of data created and managed is overwhelming. To address this, it feels like a refresher on data governance 101 is in order. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in their article, “Data governance for…

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Data Governance and Quality

Strong data governance is key to any data management strategy. A data governance policy will set standards for privacy and access to data, which will ensure an organization maintains high-quality data and provides more trusted data for analysis. It’s never been more important to ensure that you maintain data quality, data lineage and security. Tech Target brought…

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The Importance of Strategy

Data strategy describes a set of decisions that together chart a high-level course of action to achieve high-level goals. This includes business plans to use information for a competitive advantage as well as support enterprise goals. It has never been more important that an organization have one. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to our attention…

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Data Governance in the Pandemic

Data governance is important to any data management strategy. All organizations need to plan how they use data so that it’s handled consistently, to support business outcomes. This topic came to us from datanami in their article, “COVID-19 Has a Data Governance Problem.” It’s all about how you handle the data collected. Scientists and government officials…

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The Currency of Business

TopQuadrant is a provider of data governance solutions using knowledge graph technologies. They have released a flagship product, TopBraid Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) 6.3, that delivers enhanced data governance capabilities and a new user experience for editing and viewing knowledge graphs. KM World brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Knowledge graph technology-based data…

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Data Governing in the Cloud

It is not news that data continues to grow and accumulate. However, 60% of all workloads will be hosted or born in the cloud by 2022. Cloud computing has offered a solution, but the risks are increasing. This interesting news came to us from Redmond Mag in their article, “Data Governance for the Cloud Era.” Enterprises…

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Governance and Compliance

The siloed approach to data governance continues to haunt organizations because it is often confused with compliance. Good governance should enable an organization to move forward, not slow them down. Government News out of Australia brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Building foundations for good data governance.” All organizations need to plan how they…

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Data Governance in a New Digital World

The coronavirus pandemic has taught us many things and there are certainly more lessons to be learned as we continue to navigate through this unprecedented time. When it comes to business and data, no one can challenge the value of data in our society, especially now and especially in public health. This interesting topic came to…

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Data Governance Tears Down Silos

Building a comprehensive data governance model is key, but it requires all departments to bring together disparate datasets to drive value across an organization. Information Age brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Building a data governance model and the challenge of harnessing data.” Technology has impacted every industry, including marketing, and…

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