Organizations are investing heavily in becoming data-centric. Data Governance practitioners must begin to deploy effective Data Governance techniques to support these investments. One of these techniques is to tackle the problem of convincing stakeholders that Data Governance is necessary. This webinar will help you address that challenge.
Join Bob Seiner for this RWDG webinar, where he will provide three questions that must be answered thoroughly and honestly from a business and technical perspective. The answers to these questions will provide practitioners with the artillery needed to break down barriers preventing the organization from being convinced that the time is right to formalize Data Governance.
This webinar will focus on:
- Identifying the stakeholders that must be convinced
- The three questions that must be asked of the stakeholders
- What answers you should expect to receive
- The answers that may surprise you
- Using the answers to convince stakeholders that Data Governance is necessary
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big ThingDATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Activate Data Governance Using the Data CatalogDATAVERSITY
This document discusses activating data governance using a data catalog. It compares active vs passive data governance, with active embedding governance into people's work through a catalog. The catalog plays a key role by allowing stewards to document definition, production, and usage of data in a centralized place. For governance to be effective, metadata from various sources must be consolidated and maintained in the catalog.
Data Governance and Metadata ManagementDATAVERSITY
Metadata is a tool that improves data understanding, builds end-user confidence, and improves the return on investment in every asset associated with becoming a data-centric organization. Metadata’s use has expanded beyond “data about data” to cover every phase of data analytics, protection, and quality improvement. Data Governance and metadata are connected at the hip in every way possible. As the song goes, “You can’t have one without the other.”
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a way to renew your energy by focusing on the valuable asset that can make or break your Data Governance program’s success. The truth is metadata is already inherent in your data environment, and it can be leveraged by making it available to all levels of the organization. At issue is finding the most appropriate ways to leverage and share metadata to improve data value and protection.
Throughout this webinar, Bob will share information about:
- Delivering an improved definition of metadata
- Communicating the relationship between successful governance and metadata
- Getting your business community to embrace the need for metadata
- Determining the metadata that will provide the most bang for your bucks
- The importance of Metadata Management to becoming data-centric
The document discusses building effective data governance through a data governance summit. It outlines that business intelligence requires highly relevant applications, reports and dashboards designed to provide users with specific, actionable knowledge from corporate data, which requires an optimized data architecture and governance model. It then discusses what data governance entails, focusing on decision rights, processes and organizational structures governing enterprise information. Finally, it outlines a seven phase lifecycle for building an effective data governance program, including developing a value statement, roadmap, funding, design, deployment, ongoing governance and monitoring.
Building a Data Quality Program from Scratchdmurph4
The document outlines steps for building a data quality program from scratch, including defining data quality, identifying factors that impact quality, best practices, common causes of poor quality data, benefits of high quality data, and who is responsible. It then provides recommendations for getting started with a proof of concept, expanding to full projects, profiling data, analyzing and fixing issues, monitoring, and celebrating wins.
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big ThingDATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Activate Data Governance Using the Data CatalogDATAVERSITY
This document discusses activating data governance using a data catalog. It compares active vs passive data governance, with active embedding governance into people's work through a catalog. The catalog plays a key role by allowing stewards to document definition, production, and usage of data in a centralized place. For governance to be effective, metadata from various sources must be consolidated and maintained in the catalog.
Data Governance and Metadata ManagementDATAVERSITY
Metadata is a tool that improves data understanding, builds end-user confidence, and improves the return on investment in every asset associated with becoming a data-centric organization. Metadata’s use has expanded beyond “data about data” to cover every phase of data analytics, protection, and quality improvement. Data Governance and metadata are connected at the hip in every way possible. As the song goes, “You can’t have one without the other.”
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a way to renew your energy by focusing on the valuable asset that can make or break your Data Governance program’s success. The truth is metadata is already inherent in your data environment, and it can be leveraged by making it available to all levels of the organization. At issue is finding the most appropriate ways to leverage and share metadata to improve data value and protection.
Throughout this webinar, Bob will share information about:
- Delivering an improved definition of metadata
- Communicating the relationship between successful governance and metadata
- Getting your business community to embrace the need for metadata
- Determining the metadata that will provide the most bang for your bucks
- The importance of Metadata Management to becoming data-centric
The document discusses building effective data governance through a data governance summit. It outlines that business intelligence requires highly relevant applications, reports and dashboards designed to provide users with specific, actionable knowledge from corporate data, which requires an optimized data architecture and governance model. It then discusses what data governance entails, focusing on decision rights, processes and organizational structures governing enterprise information. Finally, it outlines a seven phase lifecycle for building an effective data governance program, including developing a value statement, roadmap, funding, design, deployment, ongoing governance and monitoring.
Building a Data Quality Program from Scratchdmurph4
The document outlines steps for building a data quality program from scratch, including defining data quality, identifying factors that impact quality, best practices, common causes of poor quality data, benefits of high quality data, and who is responsible. It then provides recommendations for getting started with a proof of concept, expanding to full projects, profiling data, analyzing and fixing issues, monitoring, and celebrating wins.
This document discusses data governance and data architecture. It introduces data governance as the processes for managing data, including deciding data rights, making data decisions, and implementing those decisions. It describes how data architecture relates to data governance by providing patterns and structures for governing data. The document presents some common data architecture patterns, including a publish/subscribe pattern where a publisher pushes data to a hub and subscribers pull data from the hub. It also discusses how data architecture can support data governance goals through approaches like a subject area data model.
Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available, who is responsible for the data, and knowing how to get their hands on the data to perform their job function. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for the webinar where he will discuss how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in effective Data Governance. People must have confidence in the metadata associated with the data that you need them to trust. Therefore, the metadata in your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary must result in governed data. Learn how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in Data Governance in this webinar.
Bob will discuss the following subjects in this webinar:
- Successful Data Governance relies on value from very important tools
- What it means to govern your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary
- Why governing the metadata in these tools is important
- The roles necessary to govern these tools
- Governance expected from metadata in catalogs, glossaries, and dictionaries
Business Value Through Reference and Master Data StrategiesDATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for many organizational transactions — the master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (one-third succeeding on time, within budget, and achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach, typically involving Data Governance and Data Quality activities.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand foundational reference and MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK)
• Understand why these are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Gain awareness of reference and MDM frameworks and building blocks
• Know what MDM guiding principles consist of and best practices
• Know how to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy
This document discusses the importance of data quality and data governance. It states that poor data quality can lead to wrong decisions, bad reputation, and wasted money. It then provides examples of different dimensions of data quality like accuracy, completeness, currency, and uniqueness. It also discusses methods and tools for ensuring data quality, such as validation, data merging, and minimizing human errors. Finally, it defines data governance as a set of policies and standards to maintain data quality and provides examples of data governance team missions and a sample data quality scorecard.
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
DAS Slides: Data Governance - Combining Data Management with Organizational ...DATAVERSITY
Data Governance is both a technical and an organizational discipline, and getting Data Governance right requires a combination of Data Management fundamentals aligned with organizational change and stakeholder buy-in. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide an architecture-based approach to aligning business motivation, organizational change, Metadata Management, Data Architecture and more in a concrete, practical way to achieve success in your organization.
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
RWDG Slides: What is a Data Steward to do?DATAVERSITY
Most people recognize that Data Stewards play an essential role in their Data Governance and Information Governance programs. However, the manner in which Data Stewards are used is not the same from organization to organization. How you use Data Stewards depends on your goals for Data Governance.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share different ways to activate Data Stewards based on the purpose of your program. Bob will talk about options to extend existing Data Steward activity and how to build new functionality into the role of your Data Stewards.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- The crucial role of the Data Steward in Data Governance
- Different types of Data Stewards and what they do
- Aligning Data Steward activities with program goals
- Improving existing Data Steward actions
- Finding new ways to use your Data Stewards
Data Catalog for Better Data Discovery and GovernanceDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2Vq9FR0
Data catalogs are en vogue answering critical data governance questions like “Where all does my data reside?” “What other entities are associated with my data?” “What are the definitions of the data fields?” and “Who accesses the data?” Data catalogs maintain the necessary business metadata to answer these questions and many more. But that’s not enough. For it to be useful, data catalogs need to deliver these answers to the business users right within the applications they use.
In this session, you will learn:
*How data catalogs enable enterprise-wide data governance regimes
*What key capability requirements should you expect in data catalogs
*How data virtualization combines dynamic data catalogs with delivery
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Data Governance FrameworkDATAVERSITY
A worthwhile Data Governance framework includes the core component of a successful program as viewed by the different levels of the organization. Each of the components is addressed at each of the levels, providing insight into key ideas and terminology used to attract participation across the organization. A framework plays a key role in setting up and sustaining a Data Governance program.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will share two frameworks. The first is a basic cross-reference of components and levels, while the second can be used to compare and contrast different approaches to implementing Data Governance. When this webinar is finished, you will be able to customize the frameworks to outline the most appropriate manner for you to improve your likelihood of DG success.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss and share:
- Customizing a framework to match organizational requirements
- The core components and levels of an industry framework
- How to complete a Data Governance framework
- Using the framework to enable DG program success
- Measuring value through the DIY DG framework
Data Governance and Data Science to Improve Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Science uses systematic methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Data Science requires high-quality data that is trusted by the organization and data scientists. Many organizations focus their Data Governance programs on improving Data Quality results. These three concepts (governance, science, and quality) seem to be made for each other.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner and his special guest will discuss how the people focusing on Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve the level of confidence the organization has in its most critical data assets. Heavy investments are being made in Data Science but not so much for Data Governance. Bob will talk about how Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve Data Quality.
Data Governance — Aligning Technical and Business ApproachesDATAVERSITY
Data Governance can have a varied definition, depending on the audience. To many, data governance consists of committee meetings and stewardship roles. To others, it focuses on technical data management and controls. Holistic data governance combines both of these aspects, and a robust data architecture and associated diagrams can be the “glue” that binds business and IT governance together. Join this webinar for practical tips and hands-on exercises for aligning data architecture & data governance for business and IT success.
• History of Data Management
• Business Drivers for implementation of data governance • Building Data Strategy & Governance Framework
• Data Management Maturity Models
• Data Quality Management
• Metadata and Governance
• Metadata Management
• Data Governance Stakeholder Communication Strategy
The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
- Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
- Discuss foundational metadata concepts
- Guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
Metadata strategies include:
- Metadata is a gerund so don’t try to treat it as a noun
- Metadata is the language of Data Governance
- Treat glossaries/repositories as capabilities, not technology
How to Use a Semantic Layer to Deliver Actionable Insights at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Learn about using a semantic layer to enable actionable insights for everyone and streamline data and analytics access throughout your organization. This session will offer practical advice based on a decade of experience making semantic layers work for Enterprise customers.
Attend this session to learn about:
- Delivering critical business data to users faster than ever at scale using a semantic layer
- Enabling data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud.
- Maintaining a single source of governed metrics and business data
- Achieving speed of thought query performance and consistent KPIs across any BI/AI tool like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, DataRobot, Databricks and more.
- Providing dimensional analysis capability that accelerates performance with no need to extract data from the cloud data warehouse
Who should attend this session?
Data & Analytics leaders and practitioners (e.g., Chief Data Officers, data scientists, data literacy, business intelligence, and analytics professionals).
Describes what Enterprise Data Architecture in a Software Development Organization should cover and does that by listing over 200 data architecture related deliverables an Enterprise Data Architect should remember to evangelize.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
This presentation reports on data governance best practices. Based on a definition of fundamental terms and the business rationale for data governance, a set of case studies from leading companies is presented. The content of this presentation is a result of the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
How to Build & Sustain a Data Governance Operating Model DATUM LLC
Learn how to execute a data governance strategy through creation of a successful business case and operating model.
Originally presented to an audience of 400+ at the Master Data Management & Data Governance Summit.
Visit www.datumstrategy.com for more!
Improving Data Literacy Around Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Data Literacy is an increasing concern, as organizations look to become more data-driven. As the rise of the citizen data scientist and self-service data analytics becomes increasingly common, the need for business users to understand core Data Management fundamentals is more important than ever. At the same time, technical roles need a strong foundation in Data Architecture principles and best practices. Join this webinar to understand the key components of Data Literacy, and practical ways to implement a Data Literacy program in your organization.
If you define, produce, or use data as part of your job and you are held formally accountable for how you define, produce, and use the data, then you are a data steward. If that statement is true, then everybody is a data steward. Does this make your Data Governance program more complex?
Join Bob Seiner for this thought-provoking webinar that asks and answers the question, how can everybody be a data steward? His approach to Data Stewardship will at the same time make your program less invasive to deliver and add a touch of complexity when it is recognized that the governance of data involves everybody in the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will talk about:
- Defining the levels and roles of data stewards
- What the term “formalized accountability” means
- How to handle the complexity of everybody being a data steward
- The complete coverage that is deployed by this approach
- How to “get over” everybody being a data steward
RWDG Slides: The Stewardship Approach to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
This document discusses the stewardship approach to data governance. It describes how everybody who defines, produces, or uses data is a data steward. Rather than assigning data steward roles, the stewardship approach recognizes the existing responsibilities that people have. This reduces the invasiveness of data governance initiatives. The document provides guidance on engaging different types of data stewards based on their relationships to data and leveraging their existing responsibilities. It also addresses how the large number of stewards impacts the complexity of data governance programs and how best to deal with accountability.
This document discusses data governance and data architecture. It introduces data governance as the processes for managing data, including deciding data rights, making data decisions, and implementing those decisions. It describes how data architecture relates to data governance by providing patterns and structures for governing data. The document presents some common data architecture patterns, including a publish/subscribe pattern where a publisher pushes data to a hub and subscribers pull data from the hub. It also discusses how data architecture can support data governance goals through approaches like a subject area data model.
Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available, who is responsible for the data, and knowing how to get their hands on the data to perform their job function. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for the webinar where he will discuss how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in effective Data Governance. People must have confidence in the metadata associated with the data that you need them to trust. Therefore, the metadata in your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary must result in governed data. Learn how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in Data Governance in this webinar.
Bob will discuss the following subjects in this webinar:
- Successful Data Governance relies on value from very important tools
- What it means to govern your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary
- Why governing the metadata in these tools is important
- The roles necessary to govern these tools
- Governance expected from metadata in catalogs, glossaries, and dictionaries
Business Value Through Reference and Master Data StrategiesDATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for many organizational transactions — the master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (one-third succeeding on time, within budget, and achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach, typically involving Data Governance and Data Quality activities.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand foundational reference and MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK)
• Understand why these are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Gain awareness of reference and MDM frameworks and building blocks
• Know what MDM guiding principles consist of and best practices
• Know how to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy
This document discusses the importance of data quality and data governance. It states that poor data quality can lead to wrong decisions, bad reputation, and wasted money. It then provides examples of different dimensions of data quality like accuracy, completeness, currency, and uniqueness. It also discusses methods and tools for ensuring data quality, such as validation, data merging, and minimizing human errors. Finally, it defines data governance as a set of policies and standards to maintain data quality and provides examples of data governance team missions and a sample data quality scorecard.
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
DAS Slides: Data Governance - Combining Data Management with Organizational ...DATAVERSITY
Data Governance is both a technical and an organizational discipline, and getting Data Governance right requires a combination of Data Management fundamentals aligned with organizational change and stakeholder buy-in. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide an architecture-based approach to aligning business motivation, organizational change, Metadata Management, Data Architecture and more in a concrete, practical way to achieve success in your organization.
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
RWDG Slides: What is a Data Steward to do?DATAVERSITY
Most people recognize that Data Stewards play an essential role in their Data Governance and Information Governance programs. However, the manner in which Data Stewards are used is not the same from organization to organization. How you use Data Stewards depends on your goals for Data Governance.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share different ways to activate Data Stewards based on the purpose of your program. Bob will talk about options to extend existing Data Steward activity and how to build new functionality into the role of your Data Stewards.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- The crucial role of the Data Steward in Data Governance
- Different types of Data Stewards and what they do
- Aligning Data Steward activities with program goals
- Improving existing Data Steward actions
- Finding new ways to use your Data Stewards
Data Catalog for Better Data Discovery and GovernanceDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2Vq9FR0
Data catalogs are en vogue answering critical data governance questions like “Where all does my data reside?” “What other entities are associated with my data?” “What are the definitions of the data fields?” and “Who accesses the data?” Data catalogs maintain the necessary business metadata to answer these questions and many more. But that’s not enough. For it to be useful, data catalogs need to deliver these answers to the business users right within the applications they use.
In this session, you will learn:
*How data catalogs enable enterprise-wide data governance regimes
*What key capability requirements should you expect in data catalogs
*How data virtualization combines dynamic data catalogs with delivery
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Data Governance FrameworkDATAVERSITY
A worthwhile Data Governance framework includes the core component of a successful program as viewed by the different levels of the organization. Each of the components is addressed at each of the levels, providing insight into key ideas and terminology used to attract participation across the organization. A framework plays a key role in setting up and sustaining a Data Governance program.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will share two frameworks. The first is a basic cross-reference of components and levels, while the second can be used to compare and contrast different approaches to implementing Data Governance. When this webinar is finished, you will be able to customize the frameworks to outline the most appropriate manner for you to improve your likelihood of DG success.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss and share:
- Customizing a framework to match organizational requirements
- The core components and levels of an industry framework
- How to complete a Data Governance framework
- Using the framework to enable DG program success
- Measuring value through the DIY DG framework
Data Governance and Data Science to Improve Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Science uses systematic methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Data Science requires high-quality data that is trusted by the organization and data scientists. Many organizations focus their Data Governance programs on improving Data Quality results. These three concepts (governance, science, and quality) seem to be made for each other.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner and his special guest will discuss how the people focusing on Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve the level of confidence the organization has in its most critical data assets. Heavy investments are being made in Data Science but not so much for Data Governance. Bob will talk about how Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve Data Quality.
Data Governance — Aligning Technical and Business ApproachesDATAVERSITY
Data Governance can have a varied definition, depending on the audience. To many, data governance consists of committee meetings and stewardship roles. To others, it focuses on technical data management and controls. Holistic data governance combines both of these aspects, and a robust data architecture and associated diagrams can be the “glue” that binds business and IT governance together. Join this webinar for practical tips and hands-on exercises for aligning data architecture & data governance for business and IT success.
• History of Data Management
• Business Drivers for implementation of data governance • Building Data Strategy & Governance Framework
• Data Management Maturity Models
• Data Quality Management
• Metadata and Governance
• Metadata Management
• Data Governance Stakeholder Communication Strategy
The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
- Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
- Discuss foundational metadata concepts
- Guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
Metadata strategies include:
- Metadata is a gerund so don’t try to treat it as a noun
- Metadata is the language of Data Governance
- Treat glossaries/repositories as capabilities, not technology
How to Use a Semantic Layer to Deliver Actionable Insights at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Learn about using a semantic layer to enable actionable insights for everyone and streamline data and analytics access throughout your organization. This session will offer practical advice based on a decade of experience making semantic layers work for Enterprise customers.
Attend this session to learn about:
- Delivering critical business data to users faster than ever at scale using a semantic layer
- Enabling data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud.
- Maintaining a single source of governed metrics and business data
- Achieving speed of thought query performance and consistent KPIs across any BI/AI tool like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, DataRobot, Databricks and more.
- Providing dimensional analysis capability that accelerates performance with no need to extract data from the cloud data warehouse
Who should attend this session?
Data & Analytics leaders and practitioners (e.g., Chief Data Officers, data scientists, data literacy, business intelligence, and analytics professionals).
Describes what Enterprise Data Architecture in a Software Development Organization should cover and does that by listing over 200 data architecture related deliverables an Enterprise Data Architect should remember to evangelize.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
This presentation reports on data governance best practices. Based on a definition of fundamental terms and the business rationale for data governance, a set of case studies from leading companies is presented. The content of this presentation is a result of the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ) at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
How to Build & Sustain a Data Governance Operating Model DATUM LLC
Learn how to execute a data governance strategy through creation of a successful business case and operating model.
Originally presented to an audience of 400+ at the Master Data Management & Data Governance Summit.
Visit www.datumstrategy.com for more!
Improving Data Literacy Around Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Data Literacy is an increasing concern, as organizations look to become more data-driven. As the rise of the citizen data scientist and self-service data analytics becomes increasingly common, the need for business users to understand core Data Management fundamentals is more important than ever. At the same time, technical roles need a strong foundation in Data Architecture principles and best practices. Join this webinar to understand the key components of Data Literacy, and practical ways to implement a Data Literacy program in your organization.
If you define, produce, or use data as part of your job and you are held formally accountable for how you define, produce, and use the data, then you are a data steward. If that statement is true, then everybody is a data steward. Does this make your Data Governance program more complex?
Join Bob Seiner for this thought-provoking webinar that asks and answers the question, how can everybody be a data steward? His approach to Data Stewardship will at the same time make your program less invasive to deliver and add a touch of complexity when it is recognized that the governance of data involves everybody in the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will talk about:
- Defining the levels and roles of data stewards
- What the term “formalized accountability” means
- How to handle the complexity of everybody being a data steward
- The complete coverage that is deployed by this approach
- How to “get over” everybody being a data steward
RWDG Slides: The Stewardship Approach to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
This document discusses the stewardship approach to data governance. It describes how everybody who defines, produces, or uses data is a data steward. Rather than assigning data steward roles, the stewardship approach recognizes the existing responsibilities that people have. This reduces the invasiveness of data governance initiatives. The document provides guidance on engaging different types of data stewards based on their relationships to data and leveraging their existing responsibilities. It also addresses how the large number of stewards impacts the complexity of data governance programs and how best to deal with accountability.
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Data Governance and Metadata Best PracticeDATAVERSITY
Best practices are defined as a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. In addition the definition goes on to say that a "best" practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. A best practice can also be considered a target behavior to which you can compare your organization to deliver the actionable steps you can follow to achieve best practice.
In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner focuses on defining, assessing and deploying Data Governance and metadata best practice that will move your organization in the best possible direction of success. Participants can expect to leave the webinar with a working list that can be used for self or contracted assessment.
This session will cover:
Criteria to Determine if Something is Best Practice
Development of Data Governance Best Practice
The Process to Complete the Best Practice Assessment
The Delivery of the Assessment to Management
How to Use the Assessment to Deliver Action
RWDG Webinar Everybody is a Data StewardDATAVERSITY
This document discusses the concept that everybody in an organization can be considered a data steward. It begins by defining data governance and data stewardship, and introducing the concept of "Non-Invasive Data Governance". It then discusses how leadership is beginning to recognize that everyone with a relationship to organizational data should be held accountable for that relationship. The document considers how to expand the traditional view of data stewardship to include everybody, and potential benefits and challenges to this approach. It also outlines different types of data stewards and their typical responsibilities.
Data Management and Data Governance are the same thing! Aren’t they? Most people would say that this line of thinking is absurd – or even worse. There is NO WAY that they are the same thing. Or are they?
Join Bob Seiner and Anthony Algmin for a lively, interactive, and entertaining discussion targeted at providing attendees ways to consider relating these two disciplines. You’ve never attended a session like this.
In this session, Bob and Anthony will discuss:
- The similarities between Data Management and Data Governance
- The differences between the two
- How to use Data Management to sell Data Governance … and the other way around
- Deciding if the two disciplines are the same … or different
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Governance for Master DataDATAVERSITY
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY for the July installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where the topic will be formally applying Data Governance to Master Data.
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance ExpectationsDATAVERSITY
When starting a Data Governance program, significant time, effort and bandwidth is typically spent selling the concept of data governance and telling people in your organization what data governance will do for them. This may not be the best strategy to take. We should focus on making Data Governance THEIR idea not ours.
Shouldn’t the strategy be that we get the business people from our organization to tell US why data governance is necessary and what data governance will do for them? If only we could get them to tell us these things? Maybe we can.
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY for this informative Real-World Data Governance webinar that will focus on getting THEM to tell US where data governance will add value. Seiner will review techniques for acquiring this information and will share information of where this information will add specific value to your data governance program. Some of those places may surprise you.
RWDG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Smart DataDATAVERSITY
Does your organization have smart data? How does your company define smart data? Smart data is data that is used in non-traditional ways such as through machine learning, through the semantic web and by taking advantage of new data opportunities such as the Internet of Thing. Businesses have embraced the importance of Big Data. Now we are being asked to embrace and govern Smart Data.
Join Bob Seiner and a Smart Data Expert for this Real-World Data Governance webinar focused on the governing the use of emerging data technologies and smart data practices as a way of maximizing the value of data in your organization. Smart data is new. Smart data will be the next Big Data. Attend this webinar to learn why Smart Data must be governed.
In the webinar, Bob and a special guest will share:
• An easy to understand definition of Smart Data
• Why you should provide a framework to govern Smart Data
• How Smart Data Governance sources differs from traditional Data Governance
• How Smart Data can and will be used in the present and future
• What it means to provide a Framework to govern Smart Data
Improving Data Analytics with Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Organizations are dedicating tremendous resources to improve their analytical capabilities. The focus for many is to improve the quality, understanding, availability and thus the value of the data for data scientists and analysts. These people are focused on providing descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics for the betterment of their organization. It all starts with governed data.
Join Bob Seiner and a special guest for this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where they will discuss the importance of using Data Governance to improve Data Analytics. Bob will challenge the guest with questions about why and how data governance has a positive impact on getting the most out of your data.
In this webinar, Bob and his guest will discuss:
The relationship between Data Governance and Data Analytics
Getting management to understand why Data Governance is necessary
How to focus your Data Governance program on analytics
Using the focus on analytics to bolster your Data Governance program
Final words on the symbiotic relationship between Data Governance and Data Analytics
How to Implement Data Governance Best PracticeDATAVERSITY
This document provides an overview of a webinar on implementing data governance best practices. It discusses defining data governance best practices and assessing an organization's current practices against those best practices. Examples of best practices from different industries are provided. The document emphasizes communicating best practices in a non-threatening way and building best practices into daily operations. Key aspects covered include criteria for determining best practices, messages to convey to management, and best practices related to creating a best practices document.
Data Governance vs. Information GovernanceDATAVERSITY
What is the difference between Data Governance and information governance? Organizations either use these terms interchangeably — or they have a distinct, separate meaning. Either way, it is important to discuss the discipline of governance as it pertains to different types of data and information — and what the discipline is called.
Join Bob Seiner for this important RWDG webinar where he will share examples of organizations using each term, what it has meant for them, where their focuses have been, and how the terminology is evolving over time. A lot has been written about Data Governance and information governance. However, it is time to compare and contrast these disciplines and make a decision as to the right name to call it in your organization.
This webinar will focus on:
• Similarities and differences between data and information
• Definitions of data and information governance
• Examples of how organizations have selected their label
• Brief case studies of governance named both ways
• Considerations for naming your program
Real-World Data Governance: Build Your Own Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
There are many tools available to assist your organization to govern your data better. The value from these tools is proven and organizations come to rely on using these tools to deliver high quality and protected data. Some of these tools are available for purchase however many can be developed and provided internally.
This RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will address the design, development and deployment of several key instruments of data governance success. Bob will describe the purpose of these tools, ways to build these tools and how to deliver value from tools you can construct with little or no cost.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss tools focused on:
Formalizing accountability for governing data definition, production and use
Recording critical data governance metadata
Applying governance to existing and/or new processes
Providing necessary awareness and communications
Building and improving data understanding
Real-World Data Governance: Modeling Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
There are a lot of ways Data Modeling and Data Governance are connected. The discipline of quality data definition through Data Modeling, involving technicians and business people, is obvious. The practices of normalization, cardinality, business rules, domain definition … all reek of best practices in data discipline. This is what Data Governance is all about.
Join Bob Seiner and data modeling guru Donna Burbank for a Real-World Data Governance webinar that will focus on using a Data Model of the components of Data Governance as a way of describing the components themselves, the relationships between the components of Data Governance, and how to use this model as a way of getting everybody in your organization on-board with Data Governance.
The session will cover:
Data Modeling as a part of Data Governance
The Components of Data Governance as Entities
The Entity Relationships of Data Governance
Attribution of Data Governance Entities
Using the Model as a Communications Tool
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Data Governance Framework ComponentsDATAVERSITY
There are several basic components that go into delivering a successful and sustainable data governance program. Many of these framework items can be developed using tools you already own and without going to great expense. Organizations swear by the items that will be discussed in this webinar.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance series to learn about how to build and deliver immediate and future value from your Data Governance program through the delivery of items that will formalize accountability for the management of data and information assets.
Bob will discuss these core components:
Gaining Leadership’s backing and understanding
Best Practice Analysis leading to Recommended Actions
Operating Model of Roles & Responsibilities
Communications Plan to improve awareness
Action Plan / Roadmap to success
RWDG Slides: Master Data Governance in ActionDATAVERSITY
Master data is data essential to operations in a specific subject area. Information treated as master data varies from one subject to another and even from one company to another. However defined, one thing for certain is that it does not become master data unless it is governed.
Join Bob Seiner for this RWDG webinar where he outlines a repeatable way to activate your Data Governance program by focusing on your master data initiatives. Get people to trust your data as the “master” by implementing a formal certification process.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• What makes it Master Data Governance
• Aligning roles and responsibilities with Master Data Management (MDM)
• Qualities of “governed data”
• Governing to a “master” version of the truth
• Implementing Data Governance domain by domain
The Data Model as a Data Governance ArtifactDATAVERSITY
Data Modelling lies at the core of many data management programs. The basic definition of data and the conceptual, logical and physical models can be used in many ways and benefit many people. Some of the uses of the Data Model may not be obvious or may not presently be followed by your organization. Find out why.
Join Bob Seiner for this installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will discuss the use of the Data Model as an artifact of Data Governance. Bob will look at the data models as a way to effectively communicate along the path to better data definition, production and usage.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
•Applying DG Best Practices to Data Modelling
•The Data Model as an Effective Communications Tool
•Using Data Models to Improve Data Definition, Production and Use
•Appropriate Audiences for the Models
•The Relationship Between Data Governance and Data Modelling
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Policy - Components and ContentDATAVERSITY
Metadata is the most valuable tool of the Data Steward. Where the stewards get their metadata and how they participate in the process of delivering core metadata is an issue organizations have been struggling with for years. The Operational Metadata Store or OMS may be the answer.
The traditional Operational Data Store or ODS is a database designed to integrate data from numerous sources that supports business operations and then feeds that data back into the operational systems. This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner and a panel of industry pundits will hold a lively discussion on the practicality of creating the ODS using metadata as the data, utilizing the metadata from a variety of existing sources to operationalize your data stewards.
The session will focus on:
Identifying the most significant metadata for your organization
Identifying existing sources of metadata – known and hidden
Identifying when that metadata will be most useful to your data stewards
Defining a lifecycle that encourages data steward participation
Delivering a model that incorporates all of the above
Metadata turns data into information by providing context. Metadata is a determining factor of a successful Data Governance initiative and becomes an important asset that needs to be managed. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for a webinar that focuses on the governance of metadata following the non-invasive approach. In this session, Bob will share tips and techniques for assuring that the appropriate metadata is being collected and utilized to support your Data Governance program.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
Concepts of Non-Invasive Metadata Governance
Metadata as a valuable data resource
Aligning Data Governance with Metadata Governance
Implementing effective Metadata Governance tools
Maximizing metadata resources with accountability
RWDG Slides: Three Ways to Manage Your Data StewardsDATAVERSITY
There are three ways to manage the data stewards in your organization. You can assign people to be data stewards, identify people as data stewards and you can recognize people as data stewards. The approach you select to associating people with their stewardship role may dictate how your data governance program is perceived by your organization.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will be sharing three unique approaches to managing data stewards in your organization. Each approach brings with it benefits as well as challenges that must be addressed while planning a data governance program. Join us to learn how the approaches differ.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
Details of the three ways to manage data stewards
How to select the appropriate way to manage data stewards
The benefits and challenges associated with each method
Preparing for how the organization will respond to each method
Staying true to the method you choose or altering your approach
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Roles & ResponsibilitiesDATAVERSITY
Well thought out data governance roles and responsibilities lie at the heart of successful data governance programs. All activities focus on the roles. From how we recognize stewards and apply governance, to how we engage and communicate with the people in the roles – the roles become the operating model for how governance works.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the DATAVERSITY Real-World Data Governance webinar series focused on defining an operating model that can be assimilated to your organization. This model includes an easy-to-explain set of roles and responsibilities aligned with how your organization functions.
The session will cover:
Operational, Tactical, Strategic and Support Roles
How to recognize your stewards and other roles
How to apply roles consistently through all facets of your program
Providing incentive for active involvement
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Architecture, Products, and Total Cost of Ownership of the Leading Machine Le...DATAVERSITY
Organizations today need a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with key data functionality to modernize applications and utilize machine learning. They need a comprehensive platform designed to address multi-faceted needs by offering multi-function data management and analytics to solve the enterprise’s most pressing data and analytic challenges in a streamlined fashion.
In this research-based session, I’ll discuss what the components are in multiple modern enterprise analytics stacks (i.e., dedicated compute, storage, data integration, streaming, etc.) and focus on total cost of ownership.
A complete machine learning infrastructure cost for the first modern use case at a midsize to large enterprise will be anywhere from $3 million to $22 million. Get this data point as you take the next steps on your journey into the highest spend and return item for most companies in the next several years.
Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so they can get trusted data to those who need it faster. Efficient data discovery, mastering and democratization is critical for swiftly linking accurate data with business consumers. When business teams can quickly and easily locate, interpret, trust, and apply data assets to support sound business judgment, it takes less time to see value.
Join data mastering and data governance experts from Informatica—plus a real-world organization empowering trusted data for analytics—for a lively panel discussion. You’ll hear more about how a single cloud-native approach can help global businesses in any economy create more value—faster, more reliably, and with more confidence—by making data management and governance easier to implement.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Building a Data Strategy – Practical Steps for Aligning with Business GoalsDATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task – but it’s worth the effort. Getting your Data Strategy right can provide significant value, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace – from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, to population health, and more. This webinar will help demystify Data Strategy and its relationship to Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Uncover how your business can save money and find new revenue streams.
Driving profitability is a top priority for companies globally, especially in uncertain economic times. It's imperative that companies reimagine growth strategies and improve process efficiencies to help cut costs and drive revenue – but how?
By leveraging data-driven strategies layered with artificial intelligence, companies can achieve untapped potential and help their businesses save money and drive profitability.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- How your company can leverage data and AI to reduce spending and costs
- Ways you can monetize data and AI and uncover new growth strategies
- How different companies have implemented these strategies to achieve cost optimization benefits
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What Is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
-Selecting the appropriate metadata to govern
-The business and technical value of a data catalog
-Building the catalog into people’s routines
-Positioning the data catalog for success
-Questions the data catalog can answer
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates data modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology and business investment depends.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understanding what types of challenges require data modeling to be part of the solution
- How automation requires standardization on derivable via data modeling techniques
- Why only a working partnership between data and the business can produce useful outcomes
Analytics play a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the obvious value to analytic professionals of providing the analytics for these initiatives, many executives question the economic return of analytics as well as data lakes, machine learning, master data management, and the like.
Technology professionals need to calculate and present business value in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help technology professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative, no matter the form that the business benefit arises. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI and the formulas, and how to collect the necessary information.
How a Semantic Layer Makes Data Mesh Work at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Data Mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. However, the pure definition of Data Mesh lacks a center of excellence or central data team and doesn’t address the need for a common approach for sharing data products across teams. The semantic layer is emerging as a key component to supporting a Hub and Spoke style of organizing data teams by introducing data model sharing, collaboration, and distributed ownership controls.
This session will explain how data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer to decentralize analytics product creation using a Hub and Spoke architecture.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The role of a Data Mesh in the modern cloud architecture.
- How a semantic layer can serve as the binding agent to support decentralization.
- How to drive self service with consistency and control.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
1) The document discusses best practices for data protection on Google Cloud, including setting data policies, governing access, classifying sensitive data, controlling access, encryption, secure collaboration, and incident response.
2) It provides examples of how to limit access to data and sensitive information, gain visibility into where sensitive data resides, encrypt data with customer-controlled keys, harden workloads, run workloads confidentially, collaborate securely with untrusted parties, and address cloud security incidents.
3) The key recommendations are to protect data at rest and in use through classification, access controls, encryption, confidential computing; securely share data through techniques like secure multi-party computation; and have an incident response plan to quickly address threats.
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
This document summarizes a research study that assessed the data management practices of 175 organizations between 2000-2006. The study had both descriptive and self-improvement goals, such as understanding the range of practices and determining areas for improvement. Researchers used a structured interview process to evaluate organizations across six data management processes based on a 5-level maturity model. The results provided insights into an organization's practices and a roadmap for enhancing data management.
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
Keeping the Pulse of Your Data – Why You Need Data Observability to Improve D...DATAVERSITY
This document discusses the importance of data observability for improving data quality. It begins with an introduction to data observability and how it works by continuously monitoring data to detect anomalies and issues. This is unlike traditional reactive approaches. Examples are then provided of how unexpected data values or volumes could negatively impact downstream processes but be resolved quicker with data observability alerts. The document emphasizes that data observability allows issues to be identified and addressed before they become costly problems. It promotes data observability as a way to proactively improve data integrity and ensure accurate, consistent data for confident decision making.
Difference in Differences - Does Strict Speed Limit Restrictions Reduce Road ...ThinkInnovation
Objective
To identify the impact of speed limit restrictions in different constituencies over the years with the help of DID technique to conclude whether having strict speed limit restrictions can help to reduce the increasing number of road accidents on weekends.
Context*
Generally, on weekends people tend to spend time with their family and friends and go for outings, parties, shopping, etc. which results in an increased number of vehicles and crowds on the roads.
Over the years a rapid increase in road casualties was observed on weekends by the Government.
In the year 2005, the Government wanted to identify the impact of road safety laws, especially the speed limit restrictions in different states with the help of government records for the past 10 years (1995-2004), the objective was to introduce/revive road safety laws accordingly for all the states to reduce the increasing number of road casualties on weekends
* The Speed limit restriction can be observed before 2000 year as well, but the strict speed limit restriction rule was implemented from 2000 year to understand the impact
Strategies
Observe the Difference in Differences between ‘year’ >= 2000 & ‘year’ <2000
Observe the outcome from multiple linear regression by considering all the independent variables & the interaction term
This presentation is about health care analysis using sentiment analysis .
*this is very useful to students who are doing project on sentiment analysis
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Discover the cutting-edge telemetry solution implemented for Alan Wake 2 by Remedy Entertainment in collaboration with AWS. This comprehensive presentation dives into our objectives, detailing how we utilized advanced analytics to drive gameplay improvements and player engagement.
Key highlights include:
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Tech Stack: Leveraging AWS services such as EKS for hosting, WAF for security, Karpenter for instance optimization, S3 for data storage, and OpenTelemetry Collector for data collection. EventBridge and Lambda were used for data compression, while Glue ETL and Athena facilitated data transformation and preparation.
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This presentation is an invaluable resource for professionals in game development, data analytics, and cloud computing, offering insights into how telemetry and analytics can revolutionize player experience and game performance optimization.
202406 - Cape Town Snowflake User Group - LLM & RAG.pdfDouglas Day
Content from the July 2024 Cape Town Snowflake User Group focusing on Large Language Model (LLM) functions in Snowflake Cortex. Topics include:
Prompt Engineering.
Vector Data Types and Vector Functions.
Implementing a Retrieval
Augmented Generation (RAG) Solution within Snowflake
Dive into the details of how to leverage these advanced features without leaving the Snowflake environment.