Because master data is required to provide competitive advantage, increase customer service levels & drive new product/service combinatorial market offerings, Master Data Management (MDM) must embrace Big Data analytics in …
The Data Governance – Business Dialogue
Productive relationships are based on establishing a shared understanding, then maintaining a meaningful dialogue. For data governance initiatives this means going beyond merely imposing policies and standards and engaging in …
Data Quality – Why I Do What I Do
Data quality and governance might be one of the most unrecognized professions. Oftentimes, I find myself faced with the question “What do you do?” The underlying question is also “Why …
Happy Birthday Data Warehouse—Thirty Today!
Well, perhaps not exactly today! But, it was way back in 1986 when I and colleagues in IBM Europe first defined a data warehouse architecture for internal use in managing …
Data Governance: “Where’s the Money, Honey?”
Becoming a data-driven company: what’s not to like about it? Many organizations are embarking on their own “Big Data” journey, and many are finding that it’s not obvious how to …
Data Management? Take it with a bit of Philosophy
Of one thing rest assured, I am not a fan of those posts that offer a numbered list of advises, you know, those “7 ways to double your salary”, “9 things you should …
Demystifying Big Data Governance
by Peter Hora Big Data is a popular buzzword but when it’s actually used in everyday tasks, practical questions about data governance, no different from those being asked of other …
Big Data Demands Big Picture Thinking, Part 3
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View PostIs the “Data Asset” really different?
I recently presented a seminar at an event called “Data, the vital organisation enabler” Information is at the Heart of ALL of the Business during which I raised the question, …
Defining Business Analysis for Big Data
In the beginning of the Information Era, there was business analysis for application development. Waterfall methods, Rapid Application Development, Agile methods,.. all were based on delivering a functioning piece of …
Big Data Demands Big Picture Thinking, Part 1
View PostTop 5 Data Architecture Challenges
Ron Huizenga, Embarcadero Technologies, Inc, [email protected] Data architects face many challenges on a day-to-day basis. This paper will highlight 5 major challenge areas, and provide insights regarding how to address …
Big Data is All the Rage, But Dimensional Data Warehouses Get the Job Done
By: Aaron Fuller, Principal Consultant and Owner, Superior Data Strategies [email protected] Previous article on TDWI here. Although there’s considerable potential in big data, overinvesting in the technology can starve what produces consistent value …
How To Prioritise Your Big Data Analytics Use Cases
That’s it, you’ve made it. A Big Data Analytics team has been implemented in your company. A few use cases have been identified and for now, they are executed on …
SQL‐on‐Hadoop Engines for Querying Big Data in Hadoop
In a very short time, Apache Hadoop has become one of the most popular platforms for storing and managing big data. To make the data stored in Hadoop accessible for everyone and …
We want to be a data driven company
You could have been on retreat on a mountain, cut-off from all communication for the last four years, but that would be about the only excuse I can think of …
What is data-visualisation?
View PostData Categories
This article is based on content from the book, Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™ (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008), by Danette McGilvray. Data categories are groupings …
10 Reasons Why You Should Attend MDM Summit & Data Governance Conference Europe
Get practical guidance from real life examples from your peers and independent speakers. One stop overview of the DG and MDM market and get your questions answered. Build or strengthen …