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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
How to identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM...Christopher Bradley
1. What are the different Master Data Management (MDM) architectures?
2. How can you identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM initiative?
3. A reference architecture for MDM.
4. Selection criteria for MDM tooling.
chris.bradley@dmadvisors.co.uk
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
DMBOK 2.0 and other frameworks including TOGAF & COBIT - keynote from DAMA Au...Christopher Bradley
This document provides biographical information about Christopher Bradley, an expert in information management. It outlines his 36 years of experience in the field working with major organizations. He is the president of DAMA UK and author of sections of the DAMA DMBoK 2. It also lists his recent presentations and publications, which cover topics such as data governance, master data management, and information strategy. The document promotes training courses he provides on information management fundamentals and data modeling.
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
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
Introduction to Data Management Maturity ModelsKingland
Jeff Gorball, the only individual accredited in the EDM Council Data Management Capability Model and the CMMI Institute Data Management Maturity Model, introduces audiences to both models and shares how you can choose which one is best for your needs.
The document outlines a data governance capability model that includes core data management capabilities and cross-domain support disciplines. It lists the key functions of enterprise data governance such as providing oversight of data assets, assessing compliance, managing risks, and enhancing the value of data. Some of the core capabilities include master data management, metadata management, data lifecycle management, data security and privacy, and data quality management.
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
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.
The Data Driven University - Automating Data Governance and Stewardship in Au...Pieter De Leenheer
The document discusses implementing data governance and stewardship programs at universities. It provides examples of programs at Stanford University, George Washington University, and in the Flanders region of Belgium. The key aspects covered are:
- Establishing a data governance framework with roles, processes, asset definitions. and oversight council.
- Implementing data stewardship activities like data quality management, metadata development, and reference data management.
- Stanford's program established foundations for institutional research through data quality and context definitions.
- George Washington runs a centralized program managed by the IT governance office.
- The Flanders program provides research information and services across universities through consistent definitions, roles and collaborative workflows.
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
MDM solutions require tightly integrated capabilities including data modeling, integration, synchronization, propagation, flexible architecture, granular and packaged services, performance, availability, analysis, information quality management, and security. These capabilities allow organizations to extend data models, integrate and synchronize data in real-time and batch processes across systems, measure ROI and data quality, and securely manage the MDM solution.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The document discusses data governance and why it is an imperative activity. It provides a historical perspective on data governance, noting that as data became more complex and valuable, the need for formal governance increased. The document outlines some key concepts for a successful data governance program, including having clearly defined policies covering data assets and processes, and establishing a strong culture that values data. It argues that proper data governance is now critical to business success in the same way as other core functions like finance.
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.
• 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
Data governance is a framework for managing corporate data through establishing strategy, objectives, and policy. It consists of processes, policies, organization, and technologies to ensure availability, usability, integrity, consistency, auditability, and security of data. Implementing data governance addresses the needs of different groups requiring different data definitions, ethical duties regarding privileged data, organizing data inventories, and staying compliant with rules and other databases. Data governance is important for increasing customer demands, adapting to technology and market changes, and addressing increasing data volumes and quality issues.
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.
How to identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM...Christopher Bradley
1. What are the different Master Data Management (MDM) architectures?
2. How can you identify the correct Master Data subject areas & tooling for your MDM initiative?
3. A reference architecture for MDM.
4. Selection criteria for MDM tooling.
chris.bradley@dmadvisors.co.uk
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
DMBOK 2.0 and other frameworks including TOGAF & COBIT - keynote from DAMA Au...Christopher Bradley
This document provides biographical information about Christopher Bradley, an expert in information management. It outlines his 36 years of experience in the field working with major organizations. He is the president of DAMA UK and author of sections of the DAMA DMBoK 2. It also lists his recent presentations and publications, which cover topics such as data governance, master data management, and information strategy. The document promotes training courses he provides on information management fundamentals and data modeling.
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
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
Introduction to Data Management Maturity ModelsKingland
Jeff Gorball, the only individual accredited in the EDM Council Data Management Capability Model and the CMMI Institute Data Management Maturity Model, introduces audiences to both models and shares how you can choose which one is best for your needs.
The document outlines a data governance capability model that includes core data management capabilities and cross-domain support disciplines. It lists the key functions of enterprise data governance such as providing oversight of data assets, assessing compliance, managing risks, and enhancing the value of data. Some of the core capabilities include master data management, metadata management, data lifecycle management, data security and privacy, and data quality management.
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
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.
The Data Driven University - Automating Data Governance and Stewardship in Au...Pieter De Leenheer
The document discusses implementing data governance and stewardship programs at universities. It provides examples of programs at Stanford University, George Washington University, and in the Flanders region of Belgium. The key aspects covered are:
- Establishing a data governance framework with roles, processes, asset definitions. and oversight council.
- Implementing data stewardship activities like data quality management, metadata development, and reference data management.
- Stanford's program established foundations for institutional research through data quality and context definitions.
- George Washington runs a centralized program managed by the IT governance office.
- The Flanders program provides research information and services across universities through consistent definitions, roles and collaborative workflows.
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
MDM solutions require tightly integrated capabilities including data modeling, integration, synchronization, propagation, flexible architecture, granular and packaged services, performance, availability, analysis, information quality management, and security. These capabilities allow organizations to extend data models, integrate and synchronize data in real-time and batch processes across systems, measure ROI and data quality, and securely manage the MDM solution.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
The document discusses data governance and why it is an imperative activity. It provides a historical perspective on data governance, noting that as data became more complex and valuable, the need for formal governance increased. The document outlines some key concepts for a successful data governance program, including having clearly defined policies covering data assets and processes, and establishing a strong culture that values data. It argues that proper data governance is now critical to business success in the same way as other core functions like finance.
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.
• 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
Data governance is a framework for managing corporate data through establishing strategy, objectives, and policy. It consists of processes, policies, organization, and technologies to ensure availability, usability, integrity, consistency, auditability, and security of data. Implementing data governance addresses the needs of different groups requiring different data definitions, ethical duties regarding privileged data, organizing data inventories, and staying compliant with rules and other databases. Data governance is important for increasing customer demands, adapting to technology and market changes, and addressing increasing data volumes and quality issues.
Data Quality Strategy: A Step-by-Step ApproachFindWhitePapers
Data quality is critical for organizations to realize full benefits from their enterprise systems. A data quality strategy involves making decisions across six factors: context, storage, data flow, workflow, stewardship, and continuous monitoring. These factors determine the processes, solutions, and resources needed to improve data quality. The document provides guidance on developing a comprehensive data quality strategy.
This document outlines the City of Dallas' data management strategy for 2019-2022. The strategy aims to develop a business strategy to collect, store, manage, and process data in a standard way required by the City. It establishes a data governance structure and framework to help the City gain benefits from its data assets by controlling, monitoring, and protecting data use. The data management strategy is tightly coupled with IT governance and project management to create a well-planned approach to managing the City's data.
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
This document summarizes a review of existing literature on information management. The review finds that information management is multi-disciplinary and incorporates knowledge from various fields. While investments in information technology have not impacted organizational performance, investments in information have resulted in better organizational performance. Lack of support like human resources and management have been identified as key challenges for effective information management systems. The review concludes that conceptualizing strategies aligned with organizational goals, adoption of appropriate technologies, and administrative support are important for effective information governance.
Mr. Hery Purnama is an IT consultant and trainer in Bandung, Indonesia with over 20 years of experience in various IT projects. He specializes in areas like system development, data science, IoT, project management, IT service management, information security, and enterprise architecture. He holds several international certifications and provides training on topics such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional), COBIT, and TOGAF.
The document discusses an overview and exam requirements for the CDMP certification. It covers the 14 topics tested in the 100 question exam, including data governance, data modeling, data security, and big data. Tips are provided for exam registration and practice questions are available online.
The document provides an overview of the SAS Data Governance Framework, which is designed to provide the depth, breadth and flexibility necessary to overcome common data governance failure points. It describes the key components of the framework, including corporate drivers, data governance objectives and principles, data management roles and processes, and technical solutions. The framework is presented as a comprehensive approach for establishing an effective and sustainable enterprise data governance program.
DGIQ 2013 Learned and Applied Concepts Angela Boyd
This document summarizes a presentation on data governance concepts from a conference. It discusses what data governance is, provides examples of issues it can help with like inaccurate hospital statistics and duplicate patient data. Industry definitions are presented that define governance as raising awareness rather than command. The presentation outlines initial data governance objectives like establishing a governance office and teams, defining key data elements, and establishing policies. Attendees of the conference included experts in data management and governance. The document concludes with a review of the key topics and time for questions.
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
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Governance StrategiesDATAVERSITY
This webinar discusses data governance strategies and provides an overview of key concepts. It covers defining data governance and why it is important, outlining requirements for effective data governance such as accessibility, security, consistency, quality and being auditable. The presentation also discusses data governance frameworks, components, and best practices, providing examples to illustrate how data governance can be implemented and help organizations.
The data governance function exercises authority and control over the management of your mission critical assets and guides how all other data management functions are performed. When selling data governance to organizational management, it is useful to concentrate on the specifics that motivate the initiative. This means developing a specific vocabulary and set of narratives to facilitate understanding of your organizational business concepts. This webinar provides you with an understanding of what data governance functions are required and how they fit with other data management disciplines. Understanding these aspects is a necessary pre-requisite to eliminate the ambiguity that often surrounds initial discussions and implement effective data governance and stewardship programs that manage data in support of organizational strategy.
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Federated data organizations in public sector face more challenges today than ever before. As discovered via research performed by North Highland Consulting, these are the top issues you are most likely experiencing:
• Knowing what data is available to support programs and other business functions
• Data is more difficult to access
• Without insight into the lineage of data, it is risky to use as the basis for critical decisions
• Analyzing data and extracting insights to influence outcomes is difficult at best
The solution to solving these challenges lies in creating a holistic enterprise data governance program and enforcing the program with a full-featured enterprise data management platform. Kreig Fields, Principle, Public Sector Data and Analytics, from North Highland Consulting and Rob Karel, Vice President, Product Strategy and Product Marketing, MDM from Informatica will walk through a pragmatic, “How To” approach, full of useful information on how you can improve your agency’s data governance initiatives.
Learn how to kick start your data governance intiatives and how an enterprise data management platform can help you:
• Innovate and expose hidden opportunities
• Break down data access barriers and ensure data is trusted
• Provide actionable information at the speed of business
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.
data collection, data integration, data management, data modeling.pptxSourabhkumar729579
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Boosting Cybersecurity with Data Governance (peer reviewed)Guy Pearce
Data Governance has a significant role to play in information security, with special data classes beyond the regular four cyber classes (public, confidential, classified and restricted) being useful in helping the organization identify whether sensitive data was exposed in a breach.
Module 1 Data Governance and Stewardship Core Concepts1.pptxAhmad Rjoub
The document discusses the differences between data management and data governance. It defines data management as planning, organizing, and controlling data assets, while defining data governance as establishing consistent policies and processes to guide data management. The document also discusses how data governance oversees and guides the overall data management function through establishing standards, policies, and decision rights. It emphasizes the importance of separating the duties of data management and data governance to avoid conflicts of interest.
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All students must review one (1) Group PowerPoint Presentation from another group and complete the follow activities:
1. First each student (individually) must summarize the content of the PowerPoint of another group in 200 words or more.
2. Additionally each student must present a detailed discussion of what they learned from the presentation they summarized and discuss the ways in which they would you use this information in their current or future profession.
PowerPoint is attached separately
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Create a new product that will serve two business (organizational) markets.
Write a 750-1,000-word paper that describes your product, explains your strategy for entering the markets, and analyzes the potential barriers you may encounter. Explain how you plan to ensure your product will be successful, given your market strategy.
Include an introduction and conclusion that make relevant connections to course objectives.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide
Management Information Systems
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Data
Data can be defined as a specific piece of information or a basic building block of information.
Data is stored in files or in databases.
Data can be presented into tables, graphs or charts, so that legitimate and analytical results can be derived from the gathered information.
An authentic data is very important for the smooth running of any business organizations. It helps IT managers to make effective decisions. Data helps to interpret and enhance overall business processes (Cai & Zhu, 2015).
Uses of Data
The main purpose of data is to keep the records of several activities and situations.
Gathering data helps to better understand the interest of customers which can enhance the sales of organization (Haug & Liempd, 2011).
Relevant data assists in creating strong business strategies.
Use of big data helps to promote service support to the customers. It also helps organizations to find new markets and new business opportunities.
After all, data plays a great role in running the company more effectively and efficiently.
Data Management
Data management is the implementation of policies and procedures that put organizations in control of their business data regardless of where it resides. Data management is concerned with the end-to-end lifecycle of data, from creation to retirement, and the controlled progression of data to and from each stage within its lifecycle (Dunie, M. 2017).
Data Management
Information technology has evolved to deal with the most important data management computer science which helps the computer leads to the advantage of a navigable and transparent communication space.
Large volumes of data can be processed and managed with the help of management systems through the methods of algebra with applications in economic engineering especially in ...
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize data quality management in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor data quality. Showing how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Quality EngineeringDATAVERSITY
Organizations must realize what it means to utilize data quality management in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor data quality. Showing how data quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Takeaways:
Understanding foundational data quality concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Utilizing data quality engineering in support of business strategy
Data Quality guiding principles & best practices
Steps for improving data quality at your organization
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.
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
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.
Empowering the Data Driven Business with Modern Business IntelligenceDATAVERSITY
By consolidating data engineering, data warehouse, and data science capabilities under a single fully-managed platform, BigQuery can accelerate computation, reduce data analysis costs, and streamline data management.
Following in-depth interviews with a security services provider and a telecommunications company, Nucleus Research found that customers moving to Google Cloud BigQuery from on-premises data warehouse solutions accelerate data processing by over 75 percent while reducing data ongoing administrative expenses by over 25 percent.
As BigQuery continues to optimize its platform architecture for compute efficiency and multicloud support, Nucleus expects the vendor to see rapid adoption and further penetrate the data warehouse market.
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
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A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
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Tech Talk: Unstructured Data and Vector Databases
Speaker: Tim Spann (Zilliz)
Abstract: In this session, I will discuss the unstructured data and the world of vector databases, we will see how they different from traditional databases. In which cases you need one and in which you probably don’t. I will also go over Similarity Search, where do you get vectors from and an example of a Vector Database Architecture. Wrapping up with an overview of Milvus.
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DATA MANAGEMENT DEFINITION
AND EVOLUTION
As Table 1 shows, data management consists of six
interrelated and coordinated processes, primarily
derived by Burt Parker from sponsored research he led
for the US Department of Defense at the MITRE
Corporation.4
Figure 1 supports the similarly standardized defini-
tion: “Enterprise-wide management of data is under-
standing the current and future data needs of an
enterprise and making that data effective and efficient in
supporting business activities.”4
The figure illustrates how
organizational strategies guide
other data management pro-
cesses. Two of these processes
—data program coordination
and organizational data inte-
gration—provide direction to
the implementation processes
—data development, data sup-
port operations, and data asset
use. The data stewardship pro-
cess straddles the line between
direction and implementation.
All processes exchange feed-
back designed to improve and
fine-tune overall data manage-
ment practices.
Data management has existed
in some form since the 1950s
and has been recognized as a
discipline since the 1970s. Data
management is thus a young
discipline compared to, for
example, the relatively mature
accounting practices that have been practiced for thou-
sands of years. As Figure 2 shows, data management’s
scope has expanded over time, and this expansion contin-
ues today.
Ideally, organizations derive their data management
requirements from enterprise-wide information and
functional user requirements. Some of these require-
ments come from legacy systems and off-the-shelf soft-
ware packages. An organization derives its future data
requirements from an analysis of what it will deliver, as
well as future capabilities it will need to implement orga-
nizational strategies. Data management guides the trans-
Data program
coordination
Organizational
data integration
Data
stewardship
Data support
operations
Data
asset use
Organizational strategies
Goals
Integrated
models
Business
data
Business value
Application models
and designs
Feedback
Implementation
Direction
Guidance
Data
development
Standard
data
Figure 1.Interrelationships among data management processes (adapted from Burt
Parker’s earlier work4
).Blue lines indicate guidance,red lines indicate feedback,and green
lines indicate data.
Table 1. Data management processes.4
Process Description Focus Data type
Data program Provide appropriate data Direction Program data: Descriptive propositions or observations needed to
coordination management process and establish, document, sustain, control, and improve organizational
technological infrastructure data-oriented activities (such as vision, goals, policies, and metrics).
Organizational Achieve organizational Direction Development data: Descriptive facts, propositions, or observations used
data integration sharing of appropriate data to develop and document the structures and interrelationships of data
(for example, data models, database designs, and specifications).
Data stewardship Achieve business-entity Direction and Stewardship data: Descriptive facts about data documenting
subject area data integration implementation semantics and syntax (such as name, definition, and format).
Data development Achieve data sharing within Implementation Business data: Facts and their constructs used to accomplish enterprise
a business area business activities (such as data elements, records, and files).
Data support Provide reliable access to Implementation
operations data
Data asset use Leverage data in business Implementation
activities
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formation of strategic organizational information needs
into specific data requirements associated with particu-
lar technology system development projects.
All organizations have data architectures, whether
explicitly documented or implicitly assumed. An impor-
tant data management process is to document the archi-
tecture’s capabilities, making it more useful to the
organization.
In addition, data management
• must be viewed as a means to an end, not the end
itself. Organizations must not practice data man-
agement as an abstract discipline, but as a process
supporting specific enterprise objectives—in partic-
ular, to provide a shared-resource basis on which to
build additional services.
• involves both process and policy. Data management
tasks range from strategic data planning to the cre-
ation of data element standards to database design,
implementation, and maintenance.
• has a technical component: interfacing with and facil-
itating interaction between software and hardware.
• has a specific focus: creating and maintaining data to
provide useful information.
• includes management of metadata artifacts that
address the data’s form as well as its content.
Although data management serves the organization,
the organization often doesn’t appreciate the value it
provides. Some data management staffs keep ahead of
the layoff curve by demonstrating positive business
value. Management’s short-term focus has often made
it difficult to secure funding for medium- and long-term
data management investments. Tracing the discipline’s
efforts to direct and indirect organizational benefits has
been difficult, so it hasn’t been easy to present an artic-
ulate business case to management that justifies subse-
quent strategic investments in data
management.
Viewing data management as a col-
lection of processes, each with a role
that provides value to the organization
through data, makes it easier to trace
value through those processes and
point not only to a methodological
“why” of data management practice
improvement but also to a specific,
concrete “how.”
RESEARCH BASIS
Mark Gillenson has published three
papers that serve as an excellent back-
ground to this research.5-7
Like earlier
works, Gillenson focuses on the
implementation half of Figure 1,
adopting a more narrow definition of
data administration. Over time, his work paints a pic-
ture of an industry attempting to catch up with techno-
logical implementation. Our work here updates and
confirms his basic conclusions while changing the focus
from whether a process is performed to the maturity
with which it is performed.
Three other works also influenced our research: Ralph
Keeney’s value-focused thinking,8
Richard Nolan’s six-
stage theory of data processing,9
and the Capability
Maturity Model Integration (CMMI).10,11
Keeney’s value-focused thinking provides a method-
ological approach to analyzing and evaluating the var-
ious aspects of data management and their associated
key process areas. We wove the concepts behind means
and fundamental objectives into our assessment’s con-
struction to connect how we measure data management
with what customers require from it.
In Stage VI of his six-stage theory of data processing,
Nolan defined maturity as data resource management.
Although Nolan’s theory predates and is similar to the
CMMI, it contains several ideas that we adapted and
reused in the larger data management context. However,
CMMI refinement remains our primary influence.
Most technologists are familiar with the CMM (and its
upgrade to the CMMI), developed at Carnegie Mellon’s
Software Engineering Institute with assistance from the
MITRE Corporation.10,11
The CMMI itself was derived
from work that Ron Radice and Watts Humphrey per-
formed while at IBM. Dennis Goldenson and Diane
Gibson presented results pointing to a link between
CMMI process maturity and organizational success.12
In
addition, Cyndy Billings and Jeanie Clifton demonstrated
the long-term effects for organizations that successfully
sustain process improvement for more than a decade.13
CMMI-based maturity models exist for human
resources, security, training, and several other areas of
the software-related development process. Our colleague,
Expanding Data Management Scope 1950-1970 1970-1990 1990-2000 2000 to
present
Database development
Database operation
Data requirements analysis
Data modeling
Enterprise data management coordination
Enterprise data integration
Enterprise data stewardship
Enterprise data use
Explicit focus on data quality throughout
Security
Compliance
Other responsibilities
Figure 2.Data management’s growth over time.The discipline has expanded from
an initial focus on database development and operation in the 1950s to 1970s to
include additional responsibilities in the periods 1970-1990,1990-2000,and from
2000 to the present.
8. Brett Champlin, contributed a list of dozens of maturity
measurements derived from or influenced by the CMMI.
This list includes maturity measurement frameworks for
data warehousing, metadata management, and software
systems deployment. The CMMI’s successful adoption in
other areas encouraged us to use it as the basis for our
data management practice assessment.
Whereas the core ideas behind the CMMI present a
reasonable base for data management practice maturity
measurement, we can avoid some potential pitfalls by
learning from the revisions and later work done with
the CMMI. Examples of such improvements include
general changes to how the CMMI makes interrela-
tionships between process areas more explicit and how
it presents results to a target organization.
Work by Cynthia Hauer14
and Walter Schnider and
Klaus Schwinn15
also influenced our general approach to
a data management maturity model. Hauer nicely artic-
ulated some examples of the value determination fac-
tors and results criteria that we have adopted. Schnider
and Schwinn presented a rough but inspirational out-
line of what mature data management practices might
look like and the accompanying motivations.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Our research had six specific objectives, which we
grouped into two types: community descriptive goals
and self-improvement goals.
Community descriptive research goals help clarify our
understanding of the data management community and
associated practices. Specifically, we want to understand
• the range of practices within the data management
community;
• the distribution of data management practices, specif-
ically the various stages of organizational data man-
agement maturity; and
• the current state of data management practices—in
what areas are the community data management
practices weak, average, and strong?
Self-improvement research goals help the community
as a whole improve its collective data management prac-
tices. Here, we desire to
• better understand what defines current data man-
agement practices;
• determine how the assessment informs our standing
as a technical community (specifically, how does data
management compare to software development?);
and
• gain information useful for developing a roadmap
for improving current practice.
The CMMI’s stated goals are almost identical to ours:
“[The CMMI] was designed to help developers select
process-improvement strategies by determining their cur-
rent process maturity and identifying the most critical
issues to improving their software quality and process.”10
Similarly, our goal was to aid data management practice
improvement by presenting a scale for measuring data
management accomplishments. Our assessment results
can help data managers identify and implement process
improvement strategies by recognizing their data man-
agement challenges.
DATA COLLECTION PROCESS
AND RESEARCHTARGETS
Between 2000 and 2006, we assessed the data man-
agement practices of 175 organizations. Table 2 pro-
vides a breakdown of organization types.
Students from some of our graduate and advanced
undergraduate classes largely conducted the assessments.
We provided detailed assessment instruction as part of
the course work. Assessors used structured telephone
and in-person interviews to assess specific organizational
data management practices by soliciting evidence of
processes, products, and common features. Key concepts
sought included the presence of commitments, abilities,
measurements, verification, and governance.
Assessors conducted the interviews with the person
identified as having the best, firsthand knowledge of
organizational data management practices. Tracking
down these individuals required much legwork; identi-
fying these individuals was often more difficult than
securing the interview commitment.
The assessors attempted to locate evidence in the orga-
nization indicating the existence of key process areas
within specific data management practices. During the
evaluation, assessors observed strict confidentiality—
they reported only compiled results, with no mention of
specific organizations, individuals, groups, programs,
or projects. Assessors and participants kept all infor-
mation to themselves and observed proprietary rights,
including several nondisclosure agreements.
All organizations implement their data management
practice in ways that can be classified as one of five
maturity model levels, detailed in Table 3 on the next
page. Specific evidence, organized by maturity level,
helped identify the level of data management practiced.
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Table 2. Organizations included in data management
analysis, by type.
Organization type Percent
Local government 4
State government 17
Federal government 11
International organization 10
Commercial organization 58
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For example, the data program coordination practice
area results include:
• Mystery Airline achieved level 1 on responses 1, 2,
and 5, and level 2 on responses 3 and 4.
• The airline industry performed above both Mystery
Airline and all respondents on responses 1 through
3.
• The airline industry performed below both Mystery
Airline and all respondents on response 4, and
Mystery Airline performed well below all respon-
dents and just those in the airline industry on
response 5.
Figure 3f illustrates the range of results for all orga-
nizations surveyed for each data management process—
for example, the assessment results for data program
coordination ranged from 2.06 to 3.31.
The maturity measurement framework dictates that
a data program can achieve no greater rating than the
lowest rating achieved—hence the translation to the
scores for Mystery Airline of 1, 2, 2, 2, and 2 combin-
ing for an overall rating of 1. This is congruent with
CMMI application.
Although this might seem a tough standard, the rat-
ing reflects the adage that a chain is only as strong as its
weakest link. Mature data management programs can’t
rely on immature or ad hoc processes in related areas.
The lowest rating received becomes the highest possible
For each data management process, the assessment
used between four and six objective criteria to probe
for evidence. Assessed outside the data collection
process, the presence or absence of this evidence indi-
cated organizational performance at a corresponding
maturity level.
ASSESSMENT RESULTS
The assessment results reported for the various prac-
tice areas show that overall scores are repeatable (level
2) in all data management practice areas.
Figure 3 shows assessment averages of the individual
response scores. We used a composite chart to group the
averages by practice area. Such groupings facilitate
numerous comparisons, which organizations can use to
plan improvements to their data management practices.
We present sample results (blue) for an assessed orga-
nization (disguised as “Mystery Airline”), whose man-
agement was interested in not only how the organization
scored but also how it compared to other assessed air-
lines (red) and other organizations (white).
We grouped 19 individual responses according to the
five data management maturity levels in the horizontal
bar charts. Most numbers are averages. That is, for an
individual organization, we surveyed multiple data man-
agement operations, combined the individual assessment
results, and presented them as averages. We reported
assessments of organizations with only one data man-
agement function as integers.
Table 3. Data management practice assessment levels.
Level Name Practice Quality and results predictability
1 Initial The organization lacks the necessary processes for The organization depends entirely on individuals, with little or no
sustaining data management practices. Data corporate visibility into cost or performance, or even awareness
management is characterized as ad hoc or chaotic. of data management practices. There is variable quality, low
results predictability, and little to no repeatability.
2 Repeatable The organization might know where data management The organization exhibits variable quality with some
expertise exists internally and has some ability to predictability. The best individuals are assigned to critical
duplicate good practices and successes. projects to reduce risk and improve results.
3 Defined The organization uses a set of defined processes, Good quality results within expected tolerances most of the time.
which are published for recommended use. The poorest individual performers improve toward the best
performers, and the best performers achieve more leverage.
4 Managed The organization statistically forecasts and directs Reliability and predictability of results, such as the ability to
data management, based on defined processes, determine progress or six sigma versus three sigma
selected cost, schedule, and customer satisfaction measurability, is significantly improved.
levels. The use of defined data management processes
within the organization is required and monitored.
5 Optimizing The organization analyzes existing data management The organization achieves high levels of results certainty.
processes to determine whether they can be improved,
makes changes in a controlled fashion, and reduces
operating costs by improving current process
performance or by introducing innovative services to
maintain their competitive edge.
10. overall rating. This also explains why many organiza-
tions are at level 1 with regard to their software devel-
opment practices. While the CMMI process results in a
single overall rating for the organization, data manage-
ment requires a more fine-grained feedback mechanism.
Knowing that some data management processes per-
form better than others can help an organization develop
incentives as well as a roadmap for improving individ-
ual ratings.
Taken as a whole, these numbers show that no data
management process or subprocess measured on aver-
age higher than the data program coordination process,
at 3.31. It’s also the only data management process that
performed on average at a defined level (greater than 3).
The results show a community that is approaching
the ability to repeat its processes across all of data
management.
Results analysis
Perhaps the most important general fact represented
in Figure 3 is that organizations gave themselves rela-
tively low scores. The assessment results are based on
self-reporting and, although our 15-percent validation
sample is adequate to verify accurate industry-wide
assessment results, 85 percent of the assessment is based
on facts that were described but not observed. Although
direct observables for all survey respondents would have
provided valuable confirming evidence, the cost of such
a survey and the required organizational access would
have been prohibitive.
We held in-person, follow-up assessment validation
sessions with about 15 percent of the assessed organi-
zations. These sessions helped us validate the collection
method and refine the technique. They also let us gauge
the assessments’ accuracy.
April 2007 47
0 1 2 3 4 0 1 2 3 4
Response 1
Response 2
Response 3
Response 4
Response 5
(a) (b)
1
1
2
2
1
Response 8
Response 9
Response 7
Response 6
2
2
2
2
3.08
2.18
2.57
2.05
0.98
2.34
2.66
2.98
Response 10-a
Response 10-b
Response 10-c
Response 10-d
Response 10-e
Response 10-f
2
2
1
2
2
2
2.13
0.96
1./05
2.23
2.21
1.98
1.1
0.97
2.15
3.04
2.40
0.965
Response 14
Response 13
Response 12
Response 11
Response 15
2
2
2
2
2
0.89
1.2
1.05
0.79
1.14
2.25
2.46
2.01
1.57
2.33
Response 19
Response 18
Response 17
Response 16
0.00
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
Data program
coordination
results
Enterprise
data
integration
results
Data
stewardship
results
Data
development
results
Data support
operations
results
Mystery Airline
Airline industry
All respondents
3.31
3.14
2.88
1.09
3.11
2.06
2.57
2.98
2.72
3.15
0 1 2 3 4
(c)
0 1 2 3 4
(e) (f)
0 1 2 3 4
(d)
3
3
3
3
1.11
2.17
3.04
2.04
2.66
3.11
2.89
2.66
2.06
3.31
2.66
2.18 1.98
2.28
2.46
1.57
2.04
2.66
Figure 3.Assessment results useful to Mystery Airline:(a) data program coordination,(b) enterprise data integration,(c) data
stewardship,(d) data development,(e) data support organizations,and (f) assessments range.
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Although the assessors strove to accurately measure
each subprocess’s maturity level, some interviews
inevitably were skewed toward the positive end of the
scale. This occurred most often because interviewees
reported on milestones that they wanted to or would
soon achieve as opposed to what they had achieved. We
suspected, and confirmed during the validation sessions,
that responses were typically exaggerated by one point
on the five-point scale.
When we factor in the one-point inflation, the num-
bers in Table 4 become important. Knowing that the bar
is so low will hopefully inspire some organizations to
invest in data management. Doing so might give them a
strategic advantage if the competition is unlikely to be
making a similar investment.
The relatively low scores reinforce the need for
this data management assessment. Based on the
overall scores in the data management practice
areas, the community receives five Ds. These areas
provide immediate targets for future data manage-
ment investment.
WHERE AREWE NOW?
We address our original research objectives according
to our two goal categories.
Community descriptive research goals
First, we wanted to determine the range of practices
within the data management community. A wide range
of such practices exists. Some organizations are strong
in some data management practices and weak in others
(the range of practice is consistently inconsistent). The
wide divergence of practices both within and between
organizations can dilute results from otherwise strong
data management programs. The assessment’s applica-
bility to longitudinal studies remains to be seen; this is
an area for follow-up research. Although researchers
might undertake formal studies of such trends in the
future, evidence from ongoing assessments suggests that
results are converging. Consequently, we feel that our
sample constitutes a representation of community-wide
data management practices.
Next, we wanted to know whether the distribution of
practices informs us specifically about the various stages
of organizational data management maturity. The
assessment results confirm the framework’s utility, as do
the postassessment validation sessions. Building on the
framework, we were able to specify target characteris-
tics and objective measurements. We now have better
information as to what comprises the various stages of
organizational data management practice maturity.
Organizations do clump together into the various matu-
rity stages that Nolan originally described. We can now
determine the investments required to predictably move
organizations from one data management maturity level
to another.
Finally, we wanted to determine in what areas the
community data management practices are weak, aver-
age, and strong. Figure 4 shows an average of unad-
justed rates summarizing the assessment results. As the
figure shows, the data management community reports
itself relatively and perhaps surprisingly strong in all five
major data management processes when compared to
the industry averages for software development. The
range and averages indicate that the data management
community has more mature data program coordina-
tion processes, followed by organizational data inte-
gration, support operations, stewardship, and then data
development. The relatively lower data development
scores might suggest data program coordination imple-
mentation difficulties.
Self-improvement research goals
Our first objective was to produce results that would
help the community better understand current best prac-
tices. Organizations can use the assessment results to
compare their specific performance against others in
their industry and against the community results as a
whole. Quantities and groupings indicate the relative
state and robustness of the best practices within each
process. Future research can use this information to
identify specific practices that can be shared with the
Table 4. Assessment scores adjusted for self-reporting
inflation.
Response Adjusted average
1 1.72388
2 1.57463
3 1.0597
4 1.8806
5 2.31343
6 1.66418
7 1.33582
8 1.57463
9 1.1791
10 a 1.40299
10 b 1.14925
10 c 0.97761
10 d 1.20896
10 e 1.23134
10 f 1.12687
11 1.32836
12 0.57463
13 1.00746
14 1.46269
15 1.24627
16 1.65672
17 1.66418
18 1.04478
19 1.17164
12. community. Further study of
these areas will provide lever-
ageable benefits.
Next, we wanted to deter-
mine how the assessment in-
forms our standing as a tech-
nical community. Our research
gives some indication of the
claimed current state of data
management practices. How-
ever, given the validation session
results, we believe that it’s best to caution readers that
the numbers presented probably more accurately
describe the intended state of the data management
community.
As it turns out, the relative number of organizations
above level 1 for both software and data management
are approximately the same, but a more detailed analy-
sis would be helpful. Given the belief that investment
in software development practices will result in signif-
icant improvements, it’s appropriate to anticipate sim-
ilar benefits from investments in data management
practices.
Finally, we hoped to gain information useful for devel-
oping a roadmap for improving current practice.
Organizations can use the survey assessment information
to develop roadmaps to improve their individual data
management practices. Mystery Airline, for example,
could develop a roadmap for achieving data management
improvement by focusing on enterprise data integration,
data stewardship, and data development practices.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Additional research must include a look at relation-
ships between data management practice areas, which
could indicate an efficient path to higher maturity lev-
els. Research should also explore the success or failure
of previous attempts to raise the maturity levels of orga-
nizational data management practices.
One of our goals was to determine why so many orga-
nizational data management practices are below expec-
tations. Several current theses could spur investigation
of the root causes of poor data management practices.
For example,
• Are poor data management practices a result of the
organization’s lack of understanding?
• Does data management have a poor reputation or
track record in the organization?
• Are the executive sponsors capable of understanding
the subject?
• How have personnel and project changes affected
the organization efforts?
Our assessment results suggest a need for a more for-
malized feedback loop that organizations can use to
improve their data management practices. Organizations
can use this data as a baseline from which to look for,
describe, and measure improvements in the state of the
practice. Such information can enhance their under-
standing of the relative development of organizational
data management. Other investigations should probe
further to see if patterns exist for specific industry or busi-
ness focus types.
Building an effective business case for achieving a cer-
tain level of data management is now easier. The failure
to adequately address enterprise-level data needs has
hobbled past efforts.4
Data management has, at best, a
business-area focus rather than an enterprise outlook.
Likewise, applications development focuses almost
exclusively on line-of-business needs, with little atten-
tion to cross-business-line data integration or enterprise-
wide planning, analysis, and decision needs (other than
within personnel, finance, and facilities management).
In addition, data management staff is inexperienced in
modern data management needs, focusing on data man-
agement rather than metadata management and on syn-
taxes instead of semantics and data usage.
F
ew organizations manage data as an asset. Instead,
most consider data management a maintenance cost.
A small shift in perception (from viewing data as a
cost to regarding it as an asset) can dramatically change
how an organization manages data. Properly managed
data is an organizational asset that can’t be exhausted.
Although data can be polluted, retired, destroyed, or
become obsolete, it’s the one organizational resource that
can be repeatedly reused without deterioration, provided
that the appropriate safeguards are in place. Further, all
organizational activities depend on data.
To illustrate the potential payoff of the work presented
here, consider what 300 software professionals applying
software process improvement over an 18-year period
achieved:16
• They predicted costs within 10 percent.
• They missed only one deadline in 15 years.
• The relative cost to fix a defect is 1X during inspec-
tion, 13X during system testing, and 92X during
operation.
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Initial Repeatable Defined
Data program coordination 2.06 2.71 3.31
Enterprise data integration 2.18 2.44 2.66
Data stewardship 1.98 2.18 2.40
Data development 1.57 2.12 2.46
Data support operations 2.04 2.38 2.66
Figure 4.Average of unadjusted rates for the assessment results,by process.
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• Early error detection rose from 45 to 95 percent
between 1982 and 1993.
• Product error rate (measured as defects per 1,000
lines of code) dropped from 2.0 to 0.01 between
1982 and 1993.
If improvements in data management can produce
similar results, organizations should increase their matu-
rity efforts. ■
Acknowledgments
We thank Graham Blevins, David Rafner, and Santa
Susarapu for their assistance in preparing some of the
reported data. We are greatly indebted to many of Peter
Aiken’s classes in data reengineering and related topics
at Virginia Commonwealth University for the careful
work and excellent results obtained as a result of their
various contributions to this research. This article also
benefited from the suggestions of several anonymous
reviewers. We also acknowledge the helpful, continuing
work of Brett Chaplin at Allstate in collecting, apply-
ing, and assessing CMMI-related efforts.
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Peter Aiken is an associate professor of information systems
at Virginia Commonwealth University and founding direc-
tor of Data Blueprint. His research interests include data
and systems reengineering. Aiken received a PhD in infor-
mation technology from George Mason University. He is a
senior member of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Data Man-
agement Association (DAMA) International. Contact him
at peter@datablueprint.com.
M. David Allen is chief operating officer of Data Blueprint.
His research interests include data and systems reengineer-
ing. Allen received an MS in information systems from
Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a member of
DAMA. Contact him at mda@datablueprint.com.
Burt Parker is an independent consultant based in Wash-
ington, DC. His technical interests include enterprise data
management program development. Parker received an
MBA in operations research/systems analysis (general sys-
tems theory) from the University of Michigan. He is a mem-
ber of DAMA. Contact him at parkerbg@comcast.net.
Angela Mattia is a professor of information systems at J.
Sergeant Reynolds Community College. Her research inter-
ests include data and systems reengineering and maturity
models. Mattia received an MS in information systems from
Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a member of
DAMA. Contact her at amattia@jsr.vccs.edu.