Posts Tagged ‘Data’
Creative Storage Efforts
The growth of data has taken many by surprise and has impacted how we manage and govern data. We have been seeing new trends like mobile computing, cloud storage, and social media, to name a few. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Smart Data Governance.” According to TopQuadrant co-founder, CMO, and VP of Professional…
Read MoreData Governance Event
Mark your calendars now for an Online Data Governance Event on January 27th, 2016. The first-ever Enterprise Data Governance Online Conference (EDGO) is packed with great speakers talking about Data Governance, Modeling Governance, Stewardship, and how to implement and manage it all. Registration opens on November 30th, 2015 and it is free. You can attend from…
Read MoreSources of Data
One of the lesser known responsibilities of records management is to identify the best technology available to provide the best service available within the allowed parameters, financial and otherwise. This takes time, a lot of time. And what happens when poor records-management leads to poor employee-management? Fierce Content Management brought this information to us in their article,…
Read MoreA New Spark
IBM is not sitting by while others profit from managing and analyzing big data. The organization plans a bigger push into data crunching by opening a new technology center in San Francisco dedicated to a trendy technology. This interesting topic came from Fortune magazine in their article, “Why IBM is betting big on this new big data technology.”…
Read MoreIs More Data Better?
While having more big data can lead to more accurate analysis of a problem, more isn’t always better when it comes to data. This information came from the University of Delaware in their article, “Big data, big answers.” We talk a lot about big data. We talk about its continued increase in quantity and need for…
Read MoreGuarding the Data
Data security is important in any situation, but as the workplace becomes more and more mobile, the challenges in keeping resources secure continue to grow. This interesting information came from The Huffington Post’s Business Blog in their post, “Managing Security in a Changing Workforce.” According to the United States Census Bureau, 35% or 13.4 million workers…
Read MoreSize vs. Brains
Big data has spawned a new term – content intelligence. It is the combination of semantic technology and information science that allows machines to model, analyze, and visualize the human intelligence within an organization. That includes the reasoning processes that hide in e-mails, contracts, technical documents, meeting notes, etc. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in…
Read MoreThe Pitfalls of Big Data
What is a data swamp? Well, start with a data lake. It accepts any data, without oversight or governance. Without descriptive metadata and a mechanism to maintain it, the data lake risks turning into a data swamp. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Avoiding Data Swamps with Big Data Governance.” Analysts…
Read MoreData Management
Information governance (IG) has been discussed for several years now. Unfortunately, implementation has proven difficult, due to the scale of the domain. Datamation brought this situation to our attention in their article, “Trends in Information Governance: eDiscovery and Big Data.” Given this, organizations have the best chance for success by concentrating on the highest risk and…
Read MoreSmart Data Reveals Value
Data’s future lies in just how smart it is. The properties of smart data are necessary for the massive quantities of big data and the variety of data types. For instance, unstructured data can have different needs for integration than structured. Smart data can handle that. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their…
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