Data stewardship is one of the toughest components of data governance to get right. What is a data steward? What is it that stewards really do? What makes someone a good data steward? When these questions go unanswered, the result is often disenchantment with data stewardship. To help you keep
If you've been following this thread of posts on entity resolution, you'll recall that we have differentiated between the full integration of entity resolution within a master data management system from the other (perhaps operational) uses that do not require a master data index. While the examples we've looked at
I am constantly faced with decisions on whether to do calculations in reports or store the calculated value in the data warehouse. So, I thought, why not share these thoughts with you? Pros and cons: If I calculate a value in the report, I could be putting undue stress and complexity
Lately, there's been lots of buzz around the logical data warehouse (LDW). In fact, Gartner is hearing LDW mentions as part of data warehouse (DW) inquiries almost 20% of the time and considers it a "megatrend." The definition usually includes some use of data virtualization or data federation capabilities to complement
One of the benefits of running an online data quality and data governance community is that over the course of many interviews, you start to see common threads and patterns emerging in the way practitioners create success in their data-driven programs. Data governance is a relatively new discipline, so it’s
Data warehouse (DWH) environments have typically been the standard when it comes to supporting analytical environments. There can be many systems supporting a particular modeling or analytical group, and because these groups have varying requirements for data, the replicated data is maintained because the transition to new storage and computing
Few companies had histories as storied as Eastman Kodak. Although the company developed the first digital camera in 1975, "the product was dropped for fear it would threaten Kodak's photographic film business." [Wikipedia] Well, we all know how that turned out. In September, the company emerged from bankruptcy, but its future is anything
I have previously blogged about sneezing to unleash the data quality ideavirus, but in this post I have a different kind of sneezing in mind and, unfortunately, in nose. The common cold is so-called because it’s the most common human infectious disease. Despite the apparent irony of my traditional spring and summer
In the past few weeks I have presented training sessions on data governance, master data management, data quality and analytics at three different venues. At each one of these events, during one of the breaks a variety of people in my course noted that the technical concepts of implementing programs
Rafael Nadal is nothing less than a freak of nature on the tennis court. One oft-cited stat among tennis aficionados: Nadal routinely hits the ball at 5,000 revolutions per minute. By way of contrast, Roger Federer's strokes come in at 3,200 RPM. Put differently, "Rafa" hits the ball with 50 percent more
