Ferraris don’t run on kerosene: The case for good data

Madhu Nair
Madhu Nair|April 19, 2013

Imagine a shiny, new red Ferrari in your driveway. You have splurged on it and cannot wait to rev the engine and pull ahead of the annoyingly slow cars on the highway. This is the machine that will take you to your destination with style and speed. Would you run [...]

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Everything is "big data" these days – but where is the data management?

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|March 28, 2013

When I first began working in the data management industry in 2003, I interviewed a VP of IT for a Fortune 500 manufacturer about their data quality and data integration initiatives. The executive was excited to talk about their rather novel approach to a massive ERP system integration. She mentioned that instead [...]

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Data stewardship and the benefits of employee retention

Daniel Teachey
Daniel Teachey|January 16, 2013

Like most Americans (who hold an average of 11 jobs over the duration of their careers), I’ve worked for a variety of companies. Some were employee-friendly, while others, to put it kindly, thought of employees as a means to an end.  I was thinking about all those jobs today as we found [...]

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Keep the change: Why investing in change management matters

Analise Polsky
Analise Polsky|January 11, 2013

The always dynamic data environment makes it difficult for organizations to avoid change. In my last post, I talked about how change management can bolster data governance programs. It can also be used for other activities, including taking a portfolio-driven approach to business intelligence and adopting a new enterprise application [...]

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Baking it in: Change management as part of data governance

Analise Polsky
Analise Polsky|November 28, 2012

If people are the heartbeat of an organization, data is the blood that moves with each pulse. When everything is flowing smoothly the organization thrives. Unfortunately, it is not hard to imagine instances where something malfunctions. Little by little vital components will slow, break, or shut down. Is there a [...]

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Big data quality - don't tell me, another buzzword!

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|March 30, 2012

Marketing is a big part of my job so I should be supportive of efforts to capitalize on the trend of the day. But given my background in R&D, I am dubious of marketing efforts that are not backed up by real product or solution capabilities. So, I’m a bit [...]

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Introducing SAS Information Management

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|February 16, 2012

Several of my recent posts have introduced the need for leveraging a strategic approach to information management backed by industry luminaries such as Gartner. Now it’s time to take a look at our definition of Information Management and discuss how it can be used by IT to effectively manage their [...]

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Announcing SAS Data Management & Integration Technical Forum and Blog

Mark Troester
Mark Troester|February 11, 2011

Many of us in the SAS world are responsible for the data that feeds the various business intelligence, analytics and business solutions provided by SAS. We’ve been involved in data integration, data migration, data quality, ETL / ELT, data access projects that support SAS solutions or are used for other [...]

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