Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation. But just as critical is the technical infrastructure that supports the diverse data environments that run the business. Data models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules and the technical data systems that support them. Without the valuable metadata these models provide, data governance often lacks the “teeth” to be applied in operational and reporting systems.
Join Donna Burbank and her guest, Nigel Turner, as they discuss how data models & metadata-driven data governance can be applied in your organization in order to achieve improved data quality.
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
Peter Vennel presents on the topic of DAMA DMBOK and Data Governance. He discusses his background and certifications. He then covers some key topics in data governance including the challenges of implementing it and defining what it is. He outlines the DAMA DMBOK knowledge areas and introduces the concept of a Data Management Center of Excellence (DMCoE) to establish governance. The DMCoE would include steering committees for each knowledge area and a data governance council and team.
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.
Data Architecture Strategies: Data Architecture for Digital TransformationDATAVERSITY
MDM, data quality, data architecture, and more. At the same time, combining these foundational data management approaches with other innovative techniques can help drive organizational change as well as technological transformation. This webinar will provide practical steps for creating a data foundation for effective digital transformation.
This introduction to data governance presentation covers the inter-related DM foundational disciplines (Data Integration / DWH, Business Intelligence and Data Governance). Some of the pitfalls and success factors for data governance.
• IM Foundational Disciplines
• Cross-functional Workflow Exchange
• Key Objectives of the Data Governance Framework
• Components of a Data Governance Framework
• Key Roles in Data Governance
• Data Governance Committee (DGC)
• 4 Data Governance Policy Areas
• 3 Challenges to Implementing Data Governance
• Data Governance Success Factors
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.
Introduction to Data Governance
Seminar hosted by Embarcadero technologies, where Christopher Bradley presented a session on Data Governance.
Drivers for Data Governance & Benefits
Data Governance Framework
Organization & Structures
Roles & responsibilities
Policies & Processes
Programme & Implementation
Reporting & Assurance
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization - Aligning Business & Data StrategyDATAVERSITY
More organizations are aspiring to become ‘data driven businesses’. But all too often this aim fails, as business goals and IT & data realities are misaligned, with IT lagging behind rapidly changing business needs. So how do you get the perfect fit where data strategy is driven by and underpins business strategy? This webinar will show you how by de-mystifying the building blocks of a global data strategy and highlighting a number of real world success stories. Topics include:
•How to align data strategy with business motivation and drivers
•Why business & data strategies often become misaligned & the impact
•Defining the core building blocks of a successful data strategy
•The role of business and IT
•Success stories in implementing global data strategies
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
Peter Vennel presents on the topic of DAMA DMBOK and Data Governance. He discusses his background and certifications. He then covers some key topics in data governance including the challenges of implementing it and defining what it is. He outlines the DAMA DMBOK knowledge areas and introduces the concept of a Data Management Center of Excellence (DMCoE) to establish governance. The DMCoE would include steering committees for each knowledge area and a data governance council and team.
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.
Data Architecture Strategies: Data Architecture for Digital TransformationDATAVERSITY
MDM, data quality, data architecture, and more. At the same time, combining these foundational data management approaches with other innovative techniques can help drive organizational change as well as technological transformation. This webinar will provide practical steps for creating a data foundation for effective digital transformation.
This introduction to data governance presentation covers the inter-related DM foundational disciplines (Data Integration / DWH, Business Intelligence and Data Governance). Some of the pitfalls and success factors for data governance.
• IM Foundational Disciplines
• Cross-functional Workflow Exchange
• Key Objectives of the Data Governance Framework
• Components of a Data Governance Framework
• Key Roles in Data Governance
• Data Governance Committee (DGC)
• 4 Data Governance Policy Areas
• 3 Challenges to Implementing Data Governance
• Data Governance Success Factors
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.
Introduction to Data Governance
Seminar hosted by Embarcadero technologies, where Christopher Bradley presented a session on Data Governance.
Drivers for Data Governance & Benefits
Data Governance Framework
Organization & Structures
Roles & responsibilities
Policies & Processes
Programme & Implementation
Reporting & Assurance
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization - Aligning Business & Data StrategyDATAVERSITY
More organizations are aspiring to become ‘data driven businesses’. But all too often this aim fails, as business goals and IT & data realities are misaligned, with IT lagging behind rapidly changing business needs. So how do you get the perfect fit where data strategy is driven by and underpins business strategy? This webinar will show you how by de-mystifying the building blocks of a global data strategy and highlighting a number of real world success stories. Topics include:
•How to align data strategy with business motivation and drivers
•Why business & data strategies often become misaligned & the impact
•Defining the core building blocks of a successful data strategy
•The role of business and IT
•Success stories in implementing global data strategies
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.
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.
Data Governance Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
This document discusses the need for and benefits of data governance, as well as common challenges companies face with data governance. It outlines roles and responsibilities in a data governance program, ways to establish a data governance program, and provides a data governance framework and roadmap for improvement. Specific topics covered include ensuring data consistency, guiding analytical activities, saving money, and providing clarity on conflicting data. Common challenges include lack of communication, organizational issues, cost, lack of data and application integration, and issues with data quality and migration. The document compares manual and automated approaches to data governance.
Introduction to DCAM, the Data Management Capability Assessment Model - Editi...Element22
DCAM stands for Data management Capability Assessment Model. DCAM is a model to assess data management capabilities within the financial industry. It was created by the EDM Council in collaboration with over 100 financial institutions. This presentation provides an overview of DCAM and how financial institutions leverage DCAM to improve or establish their data management programs and meet regulatory requirements such as BCBS 239. Also the benefits of DCAM are described as part of this presentation.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
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
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.
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.
Creating a clearly articulated data strategy—a roadmap of technology-driven capability investments prioritized to deliver value—helps ensure from the get-go that you are focusing on the right things, so that your work with data has a business impact. In this presentation, the experts at Silicon Valley Data Science share their approach for crafting an actionable and flexible data strategy to maximize business value.
Data Governance Best Practices, Assessments, and RoadmapsDATAVERSITY
When starting or evaluating the present state of your Data Governance program, it is important to focus on best practices such that you don’t take a ready, fire, aim approach. Best practices need to be practical and doable to be selected for your organization, and the program must be at risk if the best practice is not achieved.
Join Bob Seiner for an important webinar focused on industry best practice around standing up formal Data Governance. Learn how to assess your organization against the practices and deliver an effective roadmap based on the results of conducting the assessment.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Criteria to select the appropriate best practices for your organization
- How to define the best practices for ultimate impact
- Assessing against selected best practices
- Focusing the recommendations on program success
- Delivering a roadmap for your Data Governance program
Most Common Data Governance Challenges in the Digital EconomyRobyn Bollhorst
Todays’ increasing emphasis on differentiation in the digital economy further complicates the data governance challenge. Learn about today’s common challenges and about the new adaptations that are required to support the digital era. Avoid the pitfalls and follow along on Johnson & Johnson’s journey to:
- Establish and scale a best in class enterprise data governance program
- Identify and focus on the most critical data and information to bolster incremental wins and garner executive support
- Ensure readiness for automation with SAP MDG on HANA
The Business Value of Metadata for Data GovernanceRoland Bullivant
In today’s digital economy, data drives the core processes that deliver profitability and growth - from marketing, to finance, to sales, supply chain, and more. It is also likely that for many large organizations much of their key data is retained in application packages from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. In order to ensure that their foundational data infrastructure runs smoothly, most organizations have adopted a data governance initiative. These typically focus on the people and processes around managing data and information. Without an actionable link to the physical systems that run key business processes, however, governance programs can often lack the ‘teeth’ to effectively implement business change.
Metadata management is a process that can link business processes and drivers with the technical applications that support them. This makes data governance actionable and relevant in today’s fast-paced and results-driven business environment. One of the challenges facing data governance teams however, is the variety in format, accessibility and complexity of metadata across the organization’s systems.
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.
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.
Metadata is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
Data Architecture Strategies: Building an Enterprise Data Strategy – Where to...DATAVERSITY
The majority of successful organizations in today’s economy are data-driven, and innovative companies are looking at new ways to leverage data and information for strategic advantage. While the opportunities are vast, and the value has clearly been shown across a number of industries in using data to strategic advantage, the choices in technology can be overwhelming. From Big Data to Artificial Intelligence to Data Lakes and Warehouses, the industry is continually evolving to provide new and exciting technological solutions.
This webinar will help make sense of the various data architectures & technologies available, and how to leverage them for business value and success. A practical framework will be provided to generate “quick wins” for your organization, while at the same time building towards a longer-term sustainable architecture. Case studies will also be provided to show how successful organizations have successfully built a data strategies to support their business goals.
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.
Reference matter data management:
Two categories of structured data :
Master data: is data associated with core business entities such as customer, product, asset, etc.
Transaction data: is the recording of business transactions such as orders in manufacturing, loan and credit card payments in banking, and product sales in retail.
Reference data: is any kind of data that is used solely to categorize other data found in a database, or solely for relating data in a database to information beyond the boundaries of the enterprise .
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.
The document discusses building a data governance framework. It provides examples of components to consider for a framework, including vision and strategy, organization and people, processes and workflows, data management and measures, culture and communications, and tools and technology. The framework is intended to help align data governance efforts with business needs, ensure a holistic approach, and provide a baseline for a data governance program. Key questions are provided under each component to help assess where activities may be needed.
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.
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.
Data Governance Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
This document discusses the need for and benefits of data governance, as well as common challenges companies face with data governance. It outlines roles and responsibilities in a data governance program, ways to establish a data governance program, and provides a data governance framework and roadmap for improvement. Specific topics covered include ensuring data consistency, guiding analytical activities, saving money, and providing clarity on conflicting data. Common challenges include lack of communication, organizational issues, cost, lack of data and application integration, and issues with data quality and migration. The document compares manual and automated approaches to data governance.
Introduction to DCAM, the Data Management Capability Assessment Model - Editi...Element22
DCAM stands for Data management Capability Assessment Model. DCAM is a model to assess data management capabilities within the financial industry. It was created by the EDM Council in collaboration with over 100 financial institutions. This presentation provides an overview of DCAM and how financial institutions leverage DCAM to improve or establish their data management programs and meet regulatory requirements such as BCBS 239. Also the benefits of DCAM are described as part of this presentation.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
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
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.
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.
Creating a clearly articulated data strategy—a roadmap of technology-driven capability investments prioritized to deliver value—helps ensure from the get-go that you are focusing on the right things, so that your work with data has a business impact. In this presentation, the experts at Silicon Valley Data Science share their approach for crafting an actionable and flexible data strategy to maximize business value.
Data Governance Best Practices, Assessments, and RoadmapsDATAVERSITY
When starting or evaluating the present state of your Data Governance program, it is important to focus on best practices such that you don’t take a ready, fire, aim approach. Best practices need to be practical and doable to be selected for your organization, and the program must be at risk if the best practice is not achieved.
Join Bob Seiner for an important webinar focused on industry best practice around standing up formal Data Governance. Learn how to assess your organization against the practices and deliver an effective roadmap based on the results of conducting the assessment.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Criteria to select the appropriate best practices for your organization
- How to define the best practices for ultimate impact
- Assessing against selected best practices
- Focusing the recommendations on program success
- Delivering a roadmap for your Data Governance program
Most Common Data Governance Challenges in the Digital EconomyRobyn Bollhorst
Todays’ increasing emphasis on differentiation in the digital economy further complicates the data governance challenge. Learn about today’s common challenges and about the new adaptations that are required to support the digital era. Avoid the pitfalls and follow along on Johnson & Johnson’s journey to:
- Establish and scale a best in class enterprise data governance program
- Identify and focus on the most critical data and information to bolster incremental wins and garner executive support
- Ensure readiness for automation with SAP MDG on HANA
The Business Value of Metadata for Data GovernanceRoland Bullivant
In today’s digital economy, data drives the core processes that deliver profitability and growth - from marketing, to finance, to sales, supply chain, and more. It is also likely that for many large organizations much of their key data is retained in application packages from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. In order to ensure that their foundational data infrastructure runs smoothly, most organizations have adopted a data governance initiative. These typically focus on the people and processes around managing data and information. Without an actionable link to the physical systems that run key business processes, however, governance programs can often lack the ‘teeth’ to effectively implement business change.
Metadata management is a process that can link business processes and drivers with the technical applications that support them. This makes data governance actionable and relevant in today’s fast-paced and results-driven business environment. One of the challenges facing data governance teams however, is the variety in format, accessibility and complexity of metadata across the organization’s systems.
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.
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.
Metadata is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
Data Architecture Strategies: Building an Enterprise Data Strategy – Where to...DATAVERSITY
The majority of successful organizations in today’s economy are data-driven, and innovative companies are looking at new ways to leverage data and information for strategic advantage. While the opportunities are vast, and the value has clearly been shown across a number of industries in using data to strategic advantage, the choices in technology can be overwhelming. From Big Data to Artificial Intelligence to Data Lakes and Warehouses, the industry is continually evolving to provide new and exciting technological solutions.
This webinar will help make sense of the various data architectures & technologies available, and how to leverage them for business value and success. A practical framework will be provided to generate “quick wins” for your organization, while at the same time building towards a longer-term sustainable architecture. Case studies will also be provided to show how successful organizations have successfully built a data strategies to support their business goals.
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.
Reference matter data management:
Two categories of structured data :
Master data: is data associated with core business entities such as customer, product, asset, etc.
Transaction data: is the recording of business transactions such as orders in manufacturing, loan and credit card payments in banking, and product sales in retail.
Reference data: is any kind of data that is used solely to categorize other data found in a database, or solely for relating data in a database to information beyond the boundaries of the enterprise .
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.
The document discusses building a data governance framework. It provides examples of components to consider for a framework, including vision and strategy, organization and people, processes and workflows, data management and measures, culture and communications, and tools and technology. The framework is intended to help align data governance efforts with business needs, ensure a holistic approach, and provide a baseline for a data governance program. Key questions are provided under each component to help assess where activities may be needed.
Data Governance & Data Architecture - Alignment and SynergiesDATAVERSITY
The definition of Data Governance can vary depending on the audience. To many, Data Governance consists of committees and stewardship roles. To others, it focuses on technical Data Management and controls. Holistic Data Governance combines both aspects, and a robust Data Architecture 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 and Data Governance for business and IT success.
DAS Slides: Self-Service Reporting and Data Prep – Benefits & RisksDATAVERSITY
As more organizations see the value of becoming data-driven, an increasing number of business stakeholders want to become more actively involved in the reporting and preparation of critical business data. Tools and technologies have evolved to support this desire, and the ability to manage and analyze vast amounts of disparate data has become more accessible than ever before. With this increased visibility and usage of data, the need for data quality, metadata context, lineage and audit, and other core fundamental best practices is greater than ever.
How can an effective architecture & governance model be created that supports both business agility, as well as long-term sustainability and risk reduction? Where do these responsibilities lie between business and IT stakeholders? Join our panel of experts as they discuss the latest best practices, architectures, and tools that support self-service reporting and data prep to maximize benefits while at the same time reducing risk.
DAS Slides: Data Quality Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
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.
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, customer centricity, 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.
Data Architecture Best Practices for Today’s Rapidly Changing Data LandscapeDATAVERSITY
With the rise of the data-driven organization, the pace of innovation in data-centric technologies has been tremendous. New tools and techniques are emerging at an exponential rate, and it is difficult to keep track of the array of technological choices available to today’s data management professional.
At the same time, core fundamentals such as data quality and metadata management remain critical in order for organizations to obtain true business value from their data. This webinar will help demystify the options available: from data lake to data warehouse, to graph database, to NoSQL, and more, and how to integrate these new technologies with core architectural fundamentals that will help your organization benefit from the quick wins that are possible from these exciting technologies, while at the same time build a longer-term sustainable architecture that will support the inevitable change that will continue in the industry.
Lessons in Data Modeling: Why a Data Model is an Important Part of Your Data ...DATAVERSITY
Data can provide tremendous value to an organization in today’s information-driven economy. New customer insights, better efficiency, and new product innovation are just some of the ways organizations are obtaining value through data. But in order to achieve this value, a strong data architecture is required to ensure that the data infrastructure runs smoothly, while at the same time aligning with business needs and corporate culture. A Data Strategy can assist in building a data architecture foundation through:
Identifying business requirements, rules & definitions via a business-centric data model
Creating a data inventory & integrating disparate data sources
Building a technical data architecture through data models & related artifacts
Coordinating the people, processes and culture necessary for success
Identifying tools & technology needed for creating & maintaining high quality data
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Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace: digital transformation, marketing, customer centricity, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify Data Strategy and Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
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Data Modeling is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent surveys. Part of the appeal of data models lies in their ability to translate complex data concepts in an intuitive, visual way to both business and technical stakeholders. This webinar provides real-world best practices in using Data Modeling for both business and technical teams.
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy — Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy – Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Metadata is hotter than ever, according a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
Data Architecture Strategies Webinar: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – ...DATAVERSITY
A robust data architecture is at the core what’s driving today’s innovative, data-driven organizations. From AI to machine learning to Big Data – a strong data architecture is needed in order to be successful, and core fundamentals such as data quality, metadata management, and efficient data storage are more critical than ever.
With the vast array of new technologies available to support these trends, how do you make sense of it all? Our panel of experts will offer their perspectives on how the latest trends in data architecture can support your organization’s data-driven goals.
DAS Slides: Data Governance and Data Architecture – Alignment and SynergiesDATAVERSITY
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 and Data Governance for business and IT success.
Metadata management is critical for organizations looking to understand the context, definition and lineage of key data assets. Data models play a key role in metadata management, as many of the key structural and business definitions are stored within the models themselves. Can data models replace traditional metadata solutions? Or should they integrate with larger metadata management tools & initiatives?
Join this webinar to discuss opportunities and challenges around:
How data modeling fits within a larger metadata management landscape
When can data modeling provide “just enough” metadata management
Key data modeling artifacts for metadata
Organization, Roles & Implementation Considerations
LDM Slides: Conceptual Data Models - How to Get the Attention of Business Use...DATAVERSITY
Achieving a ‘single version of the truth’ is critical to any MDM, DW, or data integration initiative. But have you ever tried to get people to agree on a single definition of “customer”? Or to get Sales, Marketing, and IT to agree on a target audience?
This webinar will discuss how a conceptual data model can be used as a powerful communication tool for data-intensive initiatives. It will cover how to build a high-level data model, how the core concepts in a data model can have significant business impact on an organization, and will provide some easy-to-use templates and guidelines for a step-by-step approach to implementing a conceptual data model in your organization.
The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What Does It Mean for Your Career?DATAVERSITY
If you’re a data architect, you’ve heard it all—from ‘data management is the sexiest job of the 21st century’ to ‘data management is dead’. The truth almost certainly lies somewhere in the middle of the extremes, but how can you make sense of the true future of the data architect’s role in the rapidly-changing data landscape? The Data Architect holds a unique position as the translator between business value and technical implementation.
Join this webinar to learn how you can take advantage of the uniqueness of this role to catapult your career to the next level.
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This document summarizes a presentation on self-service data analysis, data wrangling, data munging, and how they fit together with data modeling. It discusses how these techniques allow business stakeholders and data scientists to prepare and transform data for analysis without extensive technical expertise. While these tools increase flexibility, they can also decrease governance if not used properly. The document advocates finding a balance between managed data assets and exploratory analysis to maximize insights while maintaining data quality.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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-Building the catalog into people’s routines
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
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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:
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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:
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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:
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- 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
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Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
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* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
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Data Modeling, Data Governance, & Data Quality
1. Data Modeling, Data Governance & Data Quality
Donna Burbank & Nigel Turner
Global Data Strategy Ltd.
Lessons in Data Modeling DATAVERSITY Series
December 5th, 2017
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Donna Burbank
Donna is a recognised industry expert in
information management with over 20
years of experience in data strategy,
information management, data modeling,
metadata management, and enterprise
architecture. Her background is multi-
faceted across consulting, product
development, product management, brand
strategy, marketing, and business
leadership.
She is currently the Managing Director at
Global Data Strategy, Ltd., an international
information management consulting
company that specializes in the alignment
of business drivers with data-centric
technology. In past roles, she has served in
key brand strategy and product
management roles at CA Technologies and
Embarcadero Technologies for several of
the leading data management products in
the market.
As an active contributor to the data
management community, she is a long
time DAMA International member, Past
President and Advisor to the DAMA Rocky
Mountain chapter, and was recently
awarded the Excellence in Data
Management Award from DAMA
International in 2016. She was on the
review committee for the Object
Management Group’s Information
Management Metamodel (IMM) and the
Business Process Modeling Notation
(BPMN). Donna is also an analyst at the
Boulder BI Train Trust (BBBT) where she
provides advices and gains insight on the
latest BI and Analytics software in the
market.
She has worked with dozens of Fortune
500 companies worldwide in the Americas,
Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks
regularly at industry conferences. She has
co-authored two books: Data Modeling for
the Business and Data Modeling Made
Simple with ERwin Data Modeler and is a
regular contributor to industry
publications. She can be reached at
donna.burbank@globaldatastrategy.com
Donna is based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Follow on Twitter @donnaburbank
Today’s hashtag: #LessonsDM
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Nigel Turner
Nigel Turner has worked in Information
Management (IM) and related areas for
over 20 years. This experience has
embraced Data Governance, Information
Strategy, Data Quality, Data Governance,
Master Data Management, & Business
Intelligence.
He spent much of his career in British
Telecommunications Group (BT) where he
led a series of enterprise wide IM & data
governance initiatives.
After leaving BT in 2010 Nigel became VP
of Information Management Strategy at
Harte Hanks Trillium Software, a leading
global provider of Data Quality & Data
Governance tools and consultancy. Here
he engaged with over 150 customer
organizations from all parts of the globe.
Currently Principal Consultant for EMEA at
Global Data Strategy, Ltd, he has been a
principal consultant at such firms as
FromHereOn and IPL, where he has led
Data Governance engagement with
customers such as First Great Western.
Nigel is a well known thought leader in
Information Management and has
presented at many international
conferences. He has also lectured part
time at Cardiff University, where he taught
Data Governance modules to both
undergraduate and graduate students. In
addition he was a part time Associate
Lecturer at the UK Open University where
he taught Systems & Management.
Nigel is very active in professional Data
Management organizations and is an
elected Data Management Association
(DAMA) UK Committee member. He was
the joint winner of DAMA International’s
2015 Community Award for the work he
initiated and led in setting up a mentoring
scheme in the UK where experienced
DAMA professionals coach and support
newer data management professionals.
Nigel is based in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Follow on Twitter @NigelTurner8
Today’s hashtag: #LessonsDM
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DATAVERSITY Lessons in Data Modeling Series
• January - on demand How Data Modeling Fits Into an Overall Enterprise Architecture
• February - on demand Data Modeling and Business Intelligence
• March - on demand Conceptual Data Modeling – How to Get the Attention of Business Users
• April - on demand The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What does it mean for your Career?
• May - on demand Data Modeling & Metadata Management
• June - on demand Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling
• July - on demand Data Modeling & Metadata for Graph Databases
• August - on demand Data Modeling & Data Integration
• Sept - on demand Data Modeling & Master Data Management (MDM)
• October - on demand Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?
• December Data Modeling, Data Quality & Data Governance
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This Year’s Line Up
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DATAVERSITY Data Architecture Strategies
• January Panel: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?
• February Building an Enterprise Data Strategy – Where to Start?
• March Modern Metadata Strategies
• April The Rise of the Graph Database: Practical Use Cases & Approaches to Benefit your Business
• May Data Architecture Best Practices for Today’s Rapidly Changing Data Landscape
• June Artificial Intelligence: Real-World Applications for Your Organization
• July Panel: Data as a Profit Driver – Emerging Techniques to Monetize Data as a Strategic Asset
• August Data Lake Architecture – Modern Strategies & Approaches
• Sept Master Data Management: Practical Strategies for Integrating into Your Data Architecture
• October Business-Centric Data Modeling: Strategies for Maximizing Business Benefit
• December Panel: Self-Service Reporting and Data Prep – Benefits & Risks
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Next Year’s Line Up for 2018 – New, Broader Focus
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What We’ll Cover Today
• Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and
information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation.
• But just as critical is the technical infrastructure that supports the diverse data environments that
run the business.
• Data models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules and the technical
data systems that support them. Without the valuable metadata these models provide, data
governance often lacks the “teeth” to be applied in operational and reporting systems.
• Self Service data prep and analytics add additional complexity, as a more diverse set of users has
access to manipulate, model, and report on enterprise data
• This presentation will offer some practical guidance on how to integrate governance to balance
Enterprise Standards with Self-Service Agility
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Business Drivers for Data Architecture
• As more organizations see
data as a strategic asset, and
with the drive towards Digital
Business Transformation on
the rise, the need to analyze,
understand & govern core
data assets continue to be a
key goal.
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What’s Driving the Need?
From Trends in Data Architecture 2017, by Donna
Burbank & Charles Roe
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Who is Responsible for Creating a Data Architecture?
• With a greater business focus on
data and a wider range of
technologies associated with Data
Management…
• … it is not surprising that there is a
concomitant rise in the diversity of
roles responsible for developing a
Data Architecture.
• … the role of the data architect, not
surprisingly, continues to play a
large role.
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Wide Range of Responses shows Need for Collaboration
Collaboration is Key
From Trends in Data Architecture 2017, by Donna
Burbank & Charles Roe
Wide range
of roles
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Data
Modeling
Data
Quality
Data
Governance
Data Modeling, Data Governance & Data Quality – the Virtuous Circle
What is Data Quality?
Data that is demonstrably fit for
business purposes
Provides the
means to
deliver
Drives the
need for
What is Data Governance?
A continuous process of managing
and improving data for the benefit
of all stakeholders
What is Data Modeling?
A process for translating business rules
& definitions to the technical data
systems & structures that support them
Scopes & helps
prioritize
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How Data Modeling, Governance & Quality Interact
DATA MODELING DATA QUALITY DATA GOVERNANCE
Maps out the overall relationships
between data entities and their
attributes
Data profiling identifies & baselines the
current state of key data entities and
attributes
Provides an overarching strategic
framework for data improvement
Helps to scope and prioritize the data
that really matters for Governance and
DQ improvement
Raises awareness of DQ issues and
problems in source data, and their
impact
Assigns accountable data owners and
data stewards to lead data
improvement efforts
Starts to identify the key data
stakeholders who may become data
owners & data stewards
Delivers the real benefits of better data
through data cleanse, enrichment &
sustenance
Ensures the business knowledge to
define business rules and DQ thresholds
Acts as a communication tool to
improve understanding of the data
estate
Enables automation of business rules
enforcement via the deployment of
data quality tools
Ensures data improvement aligns and
evolves with changing business needs
First step in defining DQ KPIs and
metrics
Provides an empirical foundation for
action and improvement – KPIs and
metrics
Creates the cross-business teams
needed to tackle data problems &
issues
Creates the link from business rules >
data definitions > database design &
implementation
Helps build the business case for
investment in a more strategic approach
Helps to build and deliver the business
case for improvement
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Data Governance – Overarching Framework
Organization &
People
Process &
Workflows
Data Management &
Measures
Culture &
Communication
Vision & Strategy
Tools & Technology
Business Goals &
Objectives
Data Issues &
Challenges
Managing the Complex Interactions between Technology, Process and People
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Data Improvement - From Firefighting to Fire Prevention
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What is a Data Model?
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Translates Business Rules & Definitions… …to the Technical Data Systems & Structures that Support Them
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Data Modeling is Hotter than Ever
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In a recent DATAVERSITY survey,
over 96% of were engaged in Data
Modeling in their organizations.
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What is a Data Model?
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Translates Regulations, Policies & Procedures… …to the Technical Data Systems & Structures that Support Them
Regulation -
e.g. GDPR
Policy
“All Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) must be
anonymized for the purpose
of information sharing
between departments. “
Which data fields constitute PII
in our databases?
16. Global Data Strategy, Ltd. 2017
Technical & Business Metadata
• Technical Metadata describes the structure, format, and rules for storing data
• Business Metadata describes the business definitions, rules, and context for data.
• Data represents actual instances (e.g. John Smith)
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CREATE TABLE EMPLOYEE (
employee_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
department_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
employee_fname VARCHAR(50) NULL,
employee_lname VARCHAR(50) NULL,
employee_ssn CHAR(9) NULL);
CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER (
customer_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
customer_name VARCHAR(50) NULL,
customer_address VARCHAR(150) NULL,
customer_city VARCHAR(50) NULL,
customer_state CHAR(2) NULL,
customer_zip CHAR(9) NULL);
Technical Metadata
John Smith
Business Metadata
Data
Term Definition
Employee
An employee is an individual who currently
works for the organization or who has been
recently employed within the past 6 months.
Customer
A customer is a person or organization who
has purchased from the organization within
the past 2 years and has an active loyalty card
or maintenance contract.
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Business vs. Technical Metadata
• The following are examples of types of business & technical metadata.
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Business Metadata Technical Metadata
• Definitions & Glossary
• Data Steward
• Organization
• Privacy Level
• Security Level
• Acronyms & Abbreviations
• Business Rules
• Etc.
• Column structure of a database table
• Data Type & Length (e.g. VARCHAR(20))
• Domains
• Standard abbreviations (e.g. CUSTOMER ->
CUST)
• Nullability
• Keys (primary, foreign, alternate, etc.)
• Validation Rules
• Data Movement Rules
• Permissions
• Etc.
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Human Metadata
• Much business metadata and the history of the business exists in employee’s heads.
• It is important to capture this metadata in an electronic format for sharing with others.
• Avoid the dreaded “I just know”
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Avoid the dreaded “I just know”
Part Number is what used to
be called Component
Number before the
acquisition.
Business Glossary
Metadata Repository
Data Models
Etc.
Collaboration Tools
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Business Definitions
From Data Modeling for the Business by
Hoberman, Burbank, Bradley, Technics
Publications, 2009
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Publishing Business Definitions in a Data Model
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• Data Models are a great place to store business definitions
• Display them on the model for a business audience
• Store them in the model repository for reuse across the organization (various users, tools, etc.)
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Marketing Database
Netezza
Creating a Technical Data Inventory
• Data models & the associated metadata can create a real-world inventory of the data storage
associated with key business data domains in the control of a data governance program.
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Linking business definitions to technical implementations
Customer
Customer Database
Oracle
Sales Database
DB2
SAP
Data Lake on
Hadoop
Customer Database
SQL Server
CRM Database
POS Data Store
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Data Lineage
• In the data warehouse example below, metadata for CUSTOMER exists in a
number tools & data stores.
• This lineage can be tracked in many data modeling tools & associated metadata &
governance solutions.
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Sales Report
CUSTOMER
Database Table
CUST
Database Table
CUSTOMER
Database Table
CUSTOMER
Database Table
TBL_C1
Database Table
Business Glossary
ETL Tool ETL Tool
Physical Data Model
Physical Data Model
Logical Data Model
Dimensional
Data Model
BI Tool
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Technical Metadata Makes Data Governance Actionable
• Data models can help take the business rules & definitions defined in policies and make them
actionable in physical systems, maintaining a lineage & audit trail.
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Data models are a good vehicle for this
Policies & Procedures Business Rules & Definitions Technical Implementation Audit & Lineage
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Data Quality Improvement
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Why bother?
90% OF ALL DATA HAS BEEN
CREATED IN THE LAST 2 YEARS
AVERAGE BUSINESS DATA
VOLUMES DOUBLE EVERY
1.2 YEARS
2.5 QUINTILLION
GRAINS OF SAND
ON EARTH
7.5 QUINTILLION
BYTES OF NEW DATA
CREATED EVERY DAY
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Data Quality Problems - Recent Evidence
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Source:
Only 3% of Companies’ Data
Meets Basic Quality Standards
Tadhg Nagle, Thomas C. Redman
& David Sammon
Harvard Business Review
September 11 2017
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Some Industry Statistics
Raw data used in Self-Service Analytics and BI environments is
often so poor that many data scientists and BI professionals
spend an estimated 50 – 90% of their time cleaning and
reformatting data to make it fit for purpose.
Source: DataCenterJournal.com
Correcting poor data quality is a Data Scientist’s least favorite
task, consuming on average 80% of their working day
Source: Forbes 2016
Lack of effective Data Governance and the absence of shared
data definitions and metadata cited as main impediments to
the success of Data Lakes
Source: Radiant Advisors 2015
The US economy loses $3.1 trillion a year
because poor data quality
Source: Artemis Ventures
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Traps for the Unwary – Why DQ & Data Governance Can Fail
Lack of business leadership and commitment
Failure to link DQ / DG to organizational goals and
benefits
Failure to focus on the data that really matters
Giving people data responsibility but not equipping
them to succeed
Placing too much emphasis on data monitoring and not
data improvement
Thinking new technology alone will solve the problems
Forgetting DQ / DG must embrace all who use data
across an organization
Not delivering business value early and regularly
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Why It Can Be Hard - the Horizontal Data Flow
Sales Operations Dispatch Finance
CUSTOMER DATA
PRODUCT DATA
FINANCE DATA
EMPLOYEE DATA
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The Newton’s Cradle Effect
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Problems often emerge far away from the cause
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Creating the Data Improvement ‘Sweet Spot’ – Focus on Key Data
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Data
Governance
Data
Modeling
Data
Quality
Improving core data through Data Modeling, Data Governance & Data Quality
Core
Data
‘Sweet Spot’
DATA GOVERNANCE
A management
framework for data
accountability & data
improvement
DATA QUALITY
Approaches & tools for
improving data accuracy,
completeness &
consistency
DATA MODELING
The visual representation
of data relationships &
their physical storage in
technical platforms
CORE DATA
Data which is widely used by
many people & processes
across the business and which
is critical to business success
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Implement “Just Enough” Data Governance
• Know what to manage closely and what to leave alone
• As a general rule, the more the data is shared across & beyond the organization, the more formal
governance needs to be
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Core Enterprise
Data
Functional & Operational
Data
Exploratory Data
Reference &
Master Data
Core Enterprise Data
• Common data elements used by multiple
stakeholders across Bus, LOBs, functional areas,
applications, etc.
• Highly governed
• Highly published & shared
Functional & Operational Data
• Lightly modeled & prepared data for
limited sharing & reuse
• Collaboration-based governance
• May be future candidates for core data
Exploratory Data
• Raw or lightly prepped data for
exploratory analysis
• Mainly ad hoc, one-off analysis
• Light touch governance
Examples
• Operational Reporting
• Non-productionized analytical model data
• Ad hoc reporting & discovery
Examples
• Raw data sets for exploratory analytics
• External & Open data sources
Examples
• Common Financial Metrics: for Financial & Regulatory Reporting
• Common Attributes: Core attributes reused across multiple areas
(e.g. Customer name, Account ID, Address)
Master & Reference Data
• Common data elements used by multiple stakeholders
across functional areas, applications, etc.
• Highly governed
• Highly published & shared
Examples
• Reference Data: Procedure codes, Country Codes, etc.
• Master Data: Location, Customer, Product
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The Rise of Self-Service BI, Analytics, & Data Prep
• The interest in self-service data reporting has increased among data-savvy
business users.
• The availability of tools & data sets has made it easier for business people to do their
own data manipulation & reporting
• Self Service BI & Data Manipulation – the tools are slick!
• Accessible Data & Open Data Sets – the amount of data available is amazing!
• Tech-Savvy Business Users – this isn’t any harder than a spreadsheet!
• While this offers great opportunities, it can also be fraught with challenges.
• Data modelers and the models & metadata they create can make the job of business
intelligence easier for both BI professionals and the casual BI reporting user
• Particularly for enterprise-wide, standardized data
• But what about non-standard, non-relational, and discovery data?
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The Self-Service User
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“If there are standardized
data sets, I’d love to use
them!”
e.g. Master Data, Data Warehouse
“Published documentation,
metadata, & standard
definitions are super-helpful!”
e.g. Glossaries, data models, etc.
“I want to integrate these data
sets with my own exploratory
data for analysis & modeling!”
e.g. Self-Service Data Prep & Analysis Tools
“How can I leverage what other
people have done, and see
what is most relevant?
e.g. Data Cataloguing & Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing Governance & Metadata Definitions
• Many data governance projects (& vendors) are embracing the concept of “crowdsourcing”. i.e. The
Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia approach
• Open editing
• Popularity & Usage Rankings
• Dynamically changing
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Encyclopedia Wikipedia
• Created by a few, then published as read-only
• Single source of “vetted” truth
• Static
• Created by a by many, edited by many
• Eventual consistency with multiple inputs
• Dynamic
For Standardized, Enterprise Data Sets For Self-Service Data Prep & Analytics
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Harnessing “Tribal Knowledge”
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Usage Ranking
• Which:
• Definitions are most
complete & helpful?
• Algorithms offer a helpful
starting point?
• Queries offer great logic
to share?
• Etc.
Helpfulness Ranking
• Which:
• Queries are others using?
• Tables are accessed the
most?
• Glossary terms are most
often searched?
• Etc.
Collaboration & Crowdsourcing
Term: Part Number
Alternate Names: Component Number
Definition:
A part number is an 8 digit alphanumeric field that uniquely
identifies a machine part used in the manufacturing process.
Is this truly the same as the old Component
Number? That was a 10 digit numeric field. It
didn’t have letters.
Yes, it is. I had the same problem for the
finance app, and I wrote a quick program to
convert the numbers. We just strip off the first
two chars now. Click here to find it.
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Finding the Right Balance
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• When implementing successful data governance in today’s rapidly-changing, self-service data
landscape, it is important to find a balance between:
Standards-based
Governance
The two methods work well together, using the right
approached depending on the data usage.
Collaboration-based
Governance
• Well-suited for enterprise-wide
data standards • Well-suited for self-service data
preparation & analytics
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Summary
• Data governance requires a mix of people, processes, and technologies
• Data models & metadata support the policies & procedures defined by data governance
• Data model metadata supports actionable data governance through
• Linking business & technical definitions & business rules
• Providing standardization & consistency
• Supporting data lineage & audit trails
• It is important to establish the right level of governance for each unique data use case
• Self-Service data prep & analytics require a new paradigm for “crowdsourcing” metadata
• A combination of standards-driven + collaborative governance provides a powerful mix that offers
value across the organization.
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About Global Data Strategy, Ltd
• Global Data Strategy is an international information management consulting company that specializes
in the alignment of business drivers with data-centric technology.
• Our passion is data, and helping organizations enrich their business opportunities through data and
information.
• Our core values center around providing solutions that are:
• Business-Driven: We put the needs of your business first, before we look at any technology solution.
• Clear & Relevant: We provide clear explanations using real-world examples.
• Customized & Right-Sized: Our implementations are based on the unique needs of your organization’s
size, corporate culture, and geography.
• High Quality & Technically Precise: We pride ourselves in excellence of execution, with years of
technical expertise in the industry.
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Data-Driven Business Transformation
Business Strategy
Aligned With
Data Strategy
Visit www.globaldatastrategy.com for more information
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DATAVERSITY Data Architecture Strategies
• January Panel: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?
• February Building an Enterprise Data Strategy – Where to Start?
• March Modern Metadata Strategies
• April The Rise of the Graph Database: Practical Use Cases & Approaches to Benefit your Business
• May Data Architecture Best Practices for Today’s Rapidly Changing Data Landscape
• June Artificial Intelligence: Real-World Applications for Your Organization
• July Panel: Data as a Profit Driver – Emerging Techniques to Monetize Data as a Strategic Asset
• August Data Lake Architecture – Modern Strategies & Approaches
• Sept Master Data Management: Practical Strategies for Integrating into Your Data Architecture
• October Business-Centric Data Modeling: Strategies for Maximizing Business Benefit
• December 5 Panel: Self-Service Reporting and Data Prep – Benefits & Risks
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Next Year’s Line Up for 2018 – New, Broader Focus
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White Paper: Trends in Data Architecture
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White Paper: Emerging Trends in Metadata Management
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• Under ‘Whitepapers’
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