Few organizations operate without having to exchange data. (Many do it professionally and well!) The larger the data exchange burden (DEB), the greater the organizational overhead incurred. This death by 1,000 cuts must be factored into each organization’s calculations. Unfortunately, most organizations do not know if their organization’s DEB is great or small. A somewhat greater number of organizations have organized Data Management practices. Focusing Data Management efforts on increasing interoperability by decreasing the DEB friction is a good area to “practice.”
Learning Objectives:
• Gaining a good understanding of both important topics
• Understanding that data only operates at a very intricate, specifically dependent intent and what this means
• Understand state-of-the-practice
• Coordination is key, requiring necessary but insufficient interdependencies and sequencing
• Practice makes perfect
DataEd Slides: Expressing Data Improvements as Business OutcomesDATAVERSITY
Join us and learn how you can better align your Data Management projects with business objectives to justify funding and gain management approval. Failure to successfully monetize Data Management investments sets up an unfortunate loop of fixing symptoms without addressing the underlying problems. As organizations begin to understand that data practices are the root causes of many business problems, they become more willing to make the required investments. However, we need to also approach them. The No. 1 reason that data programs fail to deliver is that they do not set or measure specific objectives that are meaningful to management. While there are opportunities to assist at the project level, data improvements are better able to be leveraged at the organization level. An improvable, dedicated data program can only be achieved by repeated application of data practices in service of specific business objectives. Data improvements typically do not maintain an ROI calculation. ROIs expressed in terms that board/executive management cares about deeply ensure data program viability. Improving organizational execution of specific data practice improvements must lead directly to specific improvements in organizational KPIs. While organizations may not be currently practiced in this ability, it is quite easy to learn. This presentation uses a number of specific examples calculating the business impact of data improvements. Program learning objectives include:
• Coming to grips with the state of practice
• Understanding the need for a comparable baseline measure
• Seeing application in a number of contexts
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Monetizing Data ManagementDATAVERSITY
Many data professionals struggle with the ability to demonstrate tangible returns on data management investments. In a webinar that is designed to appeal to both business and IT attendees, your presenter will describe multiple types of value produced through data-centric development and management practices. One of our examples, the healthcare space, offers the unique opportunity to demonstrate additional types of return on investment or value outcomes, namely returns in the form of lives saved through increased rates of Bone Marrow Donor matches. In addition to metrics around increasing revenues or decreasing costs, i.e. investments that directly impact an organization’s financial position, these additional statistics of lives saved can be used to justify data management and quality initiatives.
Takeaways:
Learn to think about data differently, in terms of how it can drive organizational needs. Data is not an IT solution but an information solution.
Take a broad view to ensure data sharing across organizational silos
Start small and go for quick wins: Build momentum and support
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality management effectively in support of business strategy. This, in turn, allows for speedy identification of business problems, the delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering 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.
The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata — literally, data about data — is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices, and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques, supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
* Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
* Discuss foundational metadata concepts
* Guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
* Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
* Metadata strategies, including:
* Metadata is a gerund so don’t try to treat it as a noun
* Metadata is the language of Data Governance
* Treat glossaries/repositories as capabilities, not technology
DataEd Online: Data Architecture and Data Modeling Differences — Achieving a ...DATAVERSITY
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<p>Many can be confused when it comes to data topics. Architecture, models, data — it can seem a bit overwhelming. This program offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling and Data Architecture with a focus on the power of their interdependence. Both Data Architecture and data models are made more useful by each other. Data models are a primary means to achieve a shared understanding of specific data challenges. They are literally the pages that intersect data assets and the organizational response. Data models, as documentation, are the currency of data coordination, used to verify integration, and are mandated input to any data systems evolution. Ideally, Data Architecture is the sum of the organizational data models. However, coverage is rarely complete. Anytime you are talking about architecture, it is important to include the complementary role of engineered data models. Developing these models often incorporates both forward and reverse perspectives. Only when working in a coordinated manner, can organizations take steps to better understand what they have and what they need to accomplish by employing Data Modeling and Data Architecture.</p>
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The first step towards understanding data assets impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
• Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
• Discussing foundational metadata concepts
• Exploring guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy — Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Business Value from MDMDATAVERSITY
This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and master data management (MDM), including establishing and implementing authoritative data sources, establishing and implementing more effective means of delivery data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions (such as BI). You will understand the parallel importance of incorporating data quality engineering into the planning of reference and MDM.
Takeaways:
What is reference and MDM?
Why are reference and MDM important?
Reference and MDM Frameworks
Guiding principles & best practices
DataEd Slides: Expressing Data Improvements as Business OutcomesDATAVERSITY
Join us and learn how you can better align your Data Management projects with business objectives to justify funding and gain management approval. Failure to successfully monetize Data Management investments sets up an unfortunate loop of fixing symptoms without addressing the underlying problems. As organizations begin to understand that data practices are the root causes of many business problems, they become more willing to make the required investments. However, we need to also approach them. The No. 1 reason that data programs fail to deliver is that they do not set or measure specific objectives that are meaningful to management. While there are opportunities to assist at the project level, data improvements are better able to be leveraged at the organization level. An improvable, dedicated data program can only be achieved by repeated application of data practices in service of specific business objectives. Data improvements typically do not maintain an ROI calculation. ROIs expressed in terms that board/executive management cares about deeply ensure data program viability. Improving organizational execution of specific data practice improvements must lead directly to specific improvements in organizational KPIs. While organizations may not be currently practiced in this ability, it is quite easy to learn. This presentation uses a number of specific examples calculating the business impact of data improvements. Program learning objectives include:
• Coming to grips with the state of practice
• Understanding the need for a comparable baseline measure
• Seeing application in a number of contexts
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Monetizing Data ManagementDATAVERSITY
Many data professionals struggle with the ability to demonstrate tangible returns on data management investments. In a webinar that is designed to appeal to both business and IT attendees, your presenter will describe multiple types of value produced through data-centric development and management practices. One of our examples, the healthcare space, offers the unique opportunity to demonstrate additional types of return on investment or value outcomes, namely returns in the form of lives saved through increased rates of Bone Marrow Donor matches. In addition to metrics around increasing revenues or decreasing costs, i.e. investments that directly impact an organization’s financial position, these additional statistics of lives saved can be used to justify data management and quality initiatives.
Takeaways:
Learn to think about data differently, in terms of how it can drive organizational needs. Data is not an IT solution but an information solution.
Take a broad view to ensure data sharing across organizational silos
Start small and go for quick wins: Build momentum and support
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality management effectively in support of business strategy. This, in turn, allows for speedy identification of business problems, the delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering 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.
The first step towards understanding data assets’ impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata — literally, data about data — is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices, and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques, supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
* Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
* Discuss foundational metadata concepts
* Guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
* Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
* Metadata strategies, including:
* Metadata is a gerund so don’t try to treat it as a noun
* Metadata is the language of Data Governance
* Treat glossaries/repositories as capabilities, not technology
DataEd Online: Data Architecture and Data Modeling Differences — Achieving a ...DATAVERSITY
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<p>Many can be confused when it comes to data topics. Architecture, models, data — it can seem a bit overwhelming. This program offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling and Data Architecture with a focus on the power of their interdependence. Both Data Architecture and data models are made more useful by each other. Data models are a primary means to achieve a shared understanding of specific data challenges. They are literally the pages that intersect data assets and the organizational response. Data models, as documentation, are the currency of data coordination, used to verify integration, and are mandated input to any data systems evolution. Ideally, Data Architecture is the sum of the organizational data models. However, coverage is rarely complete. Anytime you are talking about architecture, it is important to include the complementary role of engineered data models. Developing these models often incorporates both forward and reverse perspectives. Only when working in a coordinated manner, can organizations take steps to better understand what they have and what they need to accomplish by employing Data Modeling and Data Architecture.</p>
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<p>This program's learning objectives include:</p>
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<ul><li>Understanding the role played by models</li><li>Incorporating the interrelated concepts of architecture/engineering</li><li>What is taught: forward engineering with a goal of building</li><li>What is also needed: reverse engineering with a goal of understanding</li><li>How increasing coordination requirements increase design simplicity</li></ul>
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The first step towards understanding data assets impact on your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata – literally, data about data – is a practice area required by good systems development, and yet is also perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood Data Management practice. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight into the efficiency of organizational practices and enable you to combine practices into sophisticated techniques supporting larger and more complex business initiatives. Program learning objectives include:
• Understanding how to leverage metadata practices in support of business strategy
• Discussing foundational metadata concepts
• Exploring guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses applied strategy
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy — Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Business Value from MDMDATAVERSITY
This presentation provides you with an understanding of the goals of reference and master data management (MDM), including establishing and implementing authoritative data sources, establishing and implementing more effective means of delivery data to various business processes, as well as increasing the quality of information used in organizational analytical functions (such as BI). You will understand the parallel importance of incorporating data quality engineering into the planning of reference and MDM.
Takeaways:
What is reference and MDM?
Why are reference and MDM important?
Reference and MDM Frameworks
Guiding principles & best practices
Data stewards are the implementation arm of Data Governance. They are also the first line of defense against bad data practices. Whether it’s data profiling or in-depth root cause analysis, data stewards ensure the organization’s shared data is reliably interconnected. Whether starting or restarting your Data Stewardship program, success comes from:
- Understanding the cadence/role of foundational data practices supporting organizational operations
- Proving value with tangible ROI
- Improving effectiveness/efficiencies using organization-wide insight
- Comprehending how stewards need to be multifunctional and dexterous, especially at first
- Integrating the role of data debt fighting
DataEd Slides: Data Management vs. Data StrategyDATAVERSITY
This document appears to be a slide presentation on data management given by Peter Aiken. The presentation covers the following key points:
1. It provides Peter Aiken's background and experience in data management.
2. It discusses the current state of data literacy and the confusion that exists between IT, data, and business roles and responsibilities regarding data.
3. It defines data management and explains why effective data management is important for organizations. Poor data management can lead to poor quality data and bad organizational outcomes.
4. It highlights some of the current challenges in data management, including a general lack of data literacy, "second world data challenges" of fixing existing poor data, and the need for interoper
Data-Ed: A Framework for no sql and HadoopData Blueprint
Big Data and NoSQL continue to make headlines everywhere. However, most of what has been written about these topics is focused on the hardware, services, and scale out. But what about a Big Data and NoSQL Strategy, one that supports your business strategy? Virtually every major organization thinking about these data platforms is faced with the challenge of figuring out the appropriate approach and the requirements. This presentation will provide guidance on how to think about and establish realistic Big Data management plans and expectations. We will introduce a framework for evaluating the various choices when it comes to implementing and succeeding with Big Data/NoSQL and show how to demonstrate a sample use case.
DataEd Slides: Getting Data Quality Right – Success StoriesDATAVERSITY
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is “of sufficient quality.” This program provides a useful framework guiding those approaching Data Quality challenges. Specifically, Data Quality must be approached as an engineering discipline. Data Quality engineering must be approached as a specific ROI-based discipline or it cannot effectively support business strategy. Better understanding of how to “do Data Quality right” allows for speedy identification of business problems, delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Program learning objectives include:
• Vivid demonstrations of how chronic business challenges for organizations are often rooted in broader kinds of Data Quality that suggested treatments can address
• Helping you to understand foundational Data Quality concepts, guiding principles, best practices, and an improved approach to Data Quality at your organization
• The basis of a number of specific case studies illustrating the hallmarks and benefits of Data Quality success
Business Value Through Reference and Master Data StrategiesDATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for many organizational transactions — the master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (one-third succeeding on time, within budget, and achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach, typically involving Data Governance and Data Quality activities.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand foundational reference and MDM concepts based on the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK)
• Understand why these are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Gain awareness of reference and MDM frameworks and building blocks
• Know what MDM guiding principles consist of and best practices
• Know how to utilize reference and MDM in support of business strategy
This document provides an introduction to big data concepts. It discusses the characteristics of big data, including volume, velocity, variety, veracity, and value. Volume refers to the large amount of data being generated. Velocity refers to the speed at which data is created and needs to be analyzed. Variety means data comes in different forms like text, images, video. Veracity refers to the quality and reliability of data. Value means the usefulness of data for businesses. The document also covers challenges in analyzing big data and different technologies used like Hadoop, Spark and cloud computing.
DataEd Slides: Exorcising the Seven Deadly Data SinsDATAVERSITY
The difficulty of implementing a new data strategy often goes under-appreciated, particularly the multi-faceted procedural challenges that need to be met while doing so. Deficiencies in organizational readiness and core competence represent clearly visible problems faced by data managers, but beyond that there are several cultural and structural barriers common to virtually all organizations that must be eliminated in order to facilitate effective management of data. This webinar will discuss these barriers – the titular “Seven Deadly Data Sins” – and in the process will also:
• Elaborate upon the three critical factors that lead to strategy failure
• Demonstrate a two-stage Data Strategy implementation process
• Explore the sources and rationales behind the “Seven Deadly Data Sins,” and recommend solutions
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big ThingDATAVERSITY
Digital Transformation is a top priority for many organizations, and a successful digital journey requires a strong data foundation. Creating this digital transformation requires a number of core data management capabilities such as MDM, With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
DataEd Slides: Data Strategy Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
Your Data Strategy should be concise, actionable, and understandable by business and IT! Data is not just another resource. It is your most powerful, yet poorly managed and therefore underutilized organizational asset. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Overcoming lack of talent, barriers in organizational thinking, and seven specific data sins are organizational prerequisites to be satisfied before (a measurable) nine out of 10 organizations can achieve the three primary goals of an organizational Data Strategy, which are to:
- Improve the way your people use data
- Improve the way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
- Improve your organization’s data
In this manner, your organizational Data Strategy can be used to best focus your data assets in precise support of your organization's strategic objectives. Once past the prerequisites, organizations must develop a disciplined, repeatable means of improving the data literacy, standards, and supply as business objectives in specific areas that become the foci of subsequent Data Governance efforts. 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 covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why Data Strategy is necessary for effective Data Governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective Data Strategy, as well as common pitfalls that can detract from its implementation, such as the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints, and the importance of balancing business operation and innovation while doing so
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Quality Success StoriesDATAVERSITY
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
•Case Studies illustrating data quality success
•Data Quality guiding principles & best practices
•Steps for improving data quality at your organization
Data Management vs. Data Governance ProgramDATAVERSITY
This document contains a presentation by Peter Aiken on data programs, specifically distinguishing between data management and data governance. Some key points:
- Data management focuses on understanding current and future data needs and making data effective and efficient for business activities. Data governance establishes authority and control over data management.
- Both data management and governance are needed for success. Data management executes practices while data governance provides oversight and guidance.
- Messaging should emphasize the critical importance of data and having a singular focus on improving data's role in achieving organizational strategy.
- A data strategy should define each practice area's relationship and focus on continuous improvement over multiple iterations.
ADV Slides: 2021 Trends in Enterprise AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
The document discusses trends in enterprise advanced analytics for 2021 and beyond. Some key trends include remote work continuing, strong tech spending rebound led by cloud capabilities, leading organizations increasing focus on AI/ML with model deployment taking center stage, more edge AI, rise of data lakes, new technology stacks focusing on data fabrics and AI pipelines, increased automation, open source becoming more prevalent, Kubernetes becoming the standard analytics stack, and general AI beginning to emerge. Winning approaches for 2021 include cloud, AI, data lakes, data warehousing, MDM, agile development, Kubernetes, automation, data quality, and DevOps/MLOps.
In that session we will discuss about Data Governance, mainly around that fantastic platform Power BI (but also around on-prem concerns).
How to avoid dataset-hell ? What are the best practices for sharing queries ? Who is the famous Data Steward and what is its role in a department or in the whole company ? How do you choose the right person ?
Keywords : Power Query, Data Management Gateway, Power BI Admin Center, Datastewardship, SharePoint 2013, eDiscovery
Level 200
DataEd Slides: Data Management Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
It is clear that Data Management best practices exist and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This approach combines the DM BoK and the CMMI/DMM, permitting organizations with the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. The approach permits organizations to understand current Data Management practices, strengths to leverage, and remediation opportunities. In a nutshell, it describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use.
Data-Ed Online: Approaching Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality management effectively in support of business strategy. This, in turn, allows for speedy identification of business problems, the delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering 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.
Learning Objectives:
Help you understand foundational Data Quality concepts based on the DAMA Guide to Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA DMBoK), as well as guiding principles, best practices, and steps for improving Data Quality at your organization
Demonstrate how chronic business challenges for organizations are often rooted in poor Data Quality
Share case studies illustrating the hallmarks and benefits of Data Quality success
Data strategy - The Business Game ChangerAmit Pishe
This blog highlights the basics of Data Strategy and its application in real-time business scenarios. Components of Data strategy, Data Analytics have been explained crisply. How Insights and Data Stories can be used to create powerful impact on the Business decisions.
Was Big Data worth it? We were promised a data revolution when Big Data and Hadoop exploded onto the scene – but those technologies brought with them ungoverned, underexploited, complex environments that didn’t solve the analytical problems they were supposed to. All is not lost, however. This webcast explores three important things we’ve learned from Big Data that can be applied to every kind of data environment: modern approaches to data that exploit the flexibility and power of Big Data without losing the governance and management our businesses need.
DataEd Slides: Data Strategy – Plans Are Useless but Planning Is InvaluableDATAVERSITY
A data strategy document outlines Peter Aiken's perspective on developing an effective data strategy. Some key points include:
- Effective data strategies require two phases - addressing prerequisites like organizational readiness and hiring qualified talent, and then ongoing iterations of planning.
- Data is one of the most valuable yet underutilized assets in many organizations. A data strategy is needed to specify how data supports organizational goals.
- Data governance provides guidance on managing data decisions and is necessary for an effective data strategy. The data strategy guides how data assets support the organizational strategy.
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 this: “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.” Refocus 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. This approach can also contribute to three primary organizational data goals.
In this webinar, you will learn how improving your organization’s data, the way your people use data, and the way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy 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
Slides: How Automating Data Lineage Improves BI PerformanceDATAVERSITY
BI landscapes are becoming increasingly complex with the surge in adoption of cloud technologies. Your BI group may have one foot in legacy systems and the other in more modern cloud-based systems, and this alone makes managing and understanding your data virtually impossible.
From needing to understand the impact of a change in a source system from the ETL through to reporting, to finding the source of a reporting error that an end-user questioned you on, to quickly responding to auditors’ demands – these recurring daily BI tasks and more turn into weeks-long projects.
Join us for our upcoming webinar where you’ll learn:
• How to enable your BI group to fix problems sooner for quicker access to accurate data
• The advantages of moving from manual to automated data lineage
• Use cases for BI and analytics groups in a variety of industries, including finance and insurance
Getting (Re)Started with Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
In order to find value in your organization’s data assets, heroic data stewards are tasked with saving the day — every single day! Adhering to the organizational Data Governance (DG) framework, they work to ensure that data is captured right the first time, validated through appropriately automated means, and integrated into business processing. Whether it’s data profiling or in-depth root cause analysis, data stewards ensure the organization’s mission-critical data is reliably coordinated. This program will approach this framework and punctuate important facets of a data steward’s role.
DataEd Slides: Data Management Best PracticesDATAVERSITY
It is clear that Data Management best practices exist, and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This program describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use and a way to implement this as part of your data program. The approach combines DMBoK content and CMMI/DMM processes — permitting organizations the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. It also permits organizations to understand:
• Their current Data Management practices
• Strengths that should be leveraged
• Remediation opportunities
Data stewards are the implementation arm of Data Governance. They are also the first line of defense against bad data practices. Whether it’s data profiling or in-depth root cause analysis, data stewards ensure the organization’s shared data is reliably interconnected. Whether starting or restarting your Data Stewardship program, success comes from:
- Understanding the cadence/role of foundational data practices supporting organizational operations
- Proving value with tangible ROI
- Improving effectiveness/efficiencies using organization-wide insight
- Comprehending how stewards need to be multifunctional and dexterous, especially at first
- Integrating the role of data debt fighting
DataEd Slides: Data Management vs. Data StrategyDATAVERSITY
This document appears to be a slide presentation on data management given by Peter Aiken. The presentation covers the following key points:
1. It provides Peter Aiken's background and experience in data management.
2. It discusses the current state of data literacy and the confusion that exists between IT, data, and business roles and responsibilities regarding data.
3. It defines data management and explains why effective data management is important for organizations. Poor data management can lead to poor quality data and bad organizational outcomes.
4. It highlights some of the current challenges in data management, including a general lack of data literacy, "second world data challenges" of fixing existing poor data, and the need for interoper
Data-Ed: A Framework for no sql and HadoopData Blueprint
Big Data and NoSQL continue to make headlines everywhere. However, most of what has been written about these topics is focused on the hardware, services, and scale out. But what about a Big Data and NoSQL Strategy, one that supports your business strategy? Virtually every major organization thinking about these data platforms is faced with the challenge of figuring out the appropriate approach and the requirements. This presentation will provide guidance on how to think about and establish realistic Big Data management plans and expectations. We will introduce a framework for evaluating the various choices when it comes to implementing and succeeding with Big Data/NoSQL and show how to demonstrate a sample use case.
DataEd Slides: Getting Data Quality Right – Success StoriesDATAVERSITY
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- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints, and the importance of balancing business operation and innovation while doing so
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In that session we will discuss about Data Governance, mainly around that fantastic platform Power BI (but also around on-prem concerns).
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It is clear that Data Management best practices exist and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This approach combines the DM BoK and the CMMI/DMM, permitting organizations with the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. The approach permits organizations to understand current Data Management practices, strengths to leverage, and remediation opportunities. In a nutshell, it describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use.
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Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality management effectively in support of business strategy. This, in turn, allows for speedy identification of business problems, the delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering 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.
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Demonstrate how chronic business challenges for organizations are often rooted in poor Data Quality
Share case studies illustrating the hallmarks and benefits of Data Quality success
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- A cohesive argument for why Data Strategy is necessary for effective Data Governance
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- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
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• Their current Data Management practices
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• Remediation opportunities
DataEd Slides: Approaching Data Governance StrategicallyDATAVERSITY
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DataEd Slides: Getting (Re)Started with Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
In order to find value in your organization’s data assets, heroic data stewards are tasked with saving the day – every single day! Adhering to the organizational Data Governance (DG) framework, they work to ensure that data is captured right the first time, validated through appropriately automated means, and integrated into business processing. Whether it’s data profiling or in-depth root cause analysis, data stewards ensure the organization’s mission-critical data is reliably coordinated. This program will approach this framework and punctuate important facets of a data steward’s role. Learning objectives include:
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Organizations across most industries make some attempt to utilize Data Management and Data Strategies. While most organizations have both concepts implemented, they must fully understand the difference to fully achieve their goals.
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Discuss foundational Data Management and Data Strategy concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
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Provide direction for selling Data Governance to organizational management as a specifically motivated initiative
Discuss foundational Data Governance concepts based on “The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge” (DAMA DMBOK)
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- Learn why embedded Data Quality principles are an important part of system/process design
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DataEd Slides: Getting Started with Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
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While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a full organizational effort. The difficulty of implementing a new data strategy often goes underappreciated, particularly the multi-faceted nature of the challenges that need to be met. Deficiencies in organizational readiness and core competence represent clearly visible problems faced by data managers, but beyond that there are several cultural and structural barriers common to virtually all organizations that must be eliminated in order to facilitate effective management of data.
In this webinar, we will discuss these barriers—the titular “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and in the process will also:
Elaborate upon the three critical factors that lead to strategy failure
Demonstrate a two-stage data strategy implementation process
Explore the sources and rationales behind the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and recommend solutions and alternative approaches
The document discusses data quality success stories and provides an overview of a program on the topic. It introduces the program, which will discuss data quality as an engineering challenge, putting a price on data quality, how components of data management complement each other, savings-based and innovation-based success stories, and non-monetary success stories. The program aims to provide takeaways and allow for questions and answers.
Data Governance Strategies - With Great Power Comes Great AccountabilityDATAVERSITY
Much like project team management and home improvement, data governance sounds a lot simpler than it actually is. In a nutshell, data governance is the process by which an organization delegates responsibility and exercises control over mission-critical data assets. In practice, though, data governance directs how all other data management functions are performed, meaning that much of your data management strategy’s capacity to function at all depends on your effectiveness in governing its implementation. Understanding these aspects of governance is necessary to eliminate the ambiguity that often surrounds effective data management and stewardship programs, since the goal of governance is to manage the data that supports organizational strategy.
This webinar will:
-Illustrate what data governance functions are required for effective data management, how they fit with other data management disciplines, and why data governance can be tricky for many organizations
-Help you develop a detailed vocabulary and set of narratives to facilitate understanding of your business objectives and imperatives that demand governance
-Provide direction for selling data governance to organizational management as a specifically motivated initiative
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Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What Is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
-Selecting the appropriate metadata to govern
-The business and technical value of a data catalog
-Building the catalog into people’s routines
-Positioning the data catalog for success
-Questions the data catalog can answer
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates data modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology and business investment depends.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understanding what types of challenges require data modeling to be part of the solution
- How automation requires standardization on derivable via data modeling techniques
- Why only a working partnership between data and the business can produce useful outcomes
Analytics play a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the obvious value to analytic professionals of providing the analytics for these initiatives, many executives question the economic return of analytics as well as data lakes, machine learning, master data management, and the like.
Technology professionals need to calculate and present business value in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help technology professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative, no matter the form that the business benefit arises. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI and the formulas, and how to collect the necessary information.
How a Semantic Layer Makes Data Mesh Work at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Data Mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. However, the pure definition of Data Mesh lacks a center of excellence or central data team and doesn’t address the need for a common approach for sharing data products across teams. The semantic layer is emerging as a key component to supporting a Hub and Spoke style of organizing data teams by introducing data model sharing, collaboration, and distributed ownership controls.
This session will explain how data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer to decentralize analytics product creation using a Hub and Spoke architecture.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The role of a Data Mesh in the modern cloud architecture.
- How a semantic layer can serve as the binding agent to support decentralization.
- How to drive self service with consistency and control.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
1) The document discusses best practices for data protection on Google Cloud, including setting data policies, governing access, classifying sensitive data, controlling access, encryption, secure collaboration, and incident response.
2) It provides examples of how to limit access to data and sensitive information, gain visibility into where sensitive data resides, encrypt data with customer-controlled keys, harden workloads, run workloads confidentially, collaborate securely with untrusted parties, and address cloud security incidents.
3) The key recommendations are to protect data at rest and in use through classification, access controls, encryption, confidential computing; securely share data through techniques like secure multi-party computation; and have an incident response plan to quickly address threats.
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
This document summarizes a research study that assessed the data management practices of 175 organizations between 2000-2006. The study had both descriptive and self-improvement goals, such as understanding the range of practices and determining areas for improvement. Researchers used a structured interview process to evaluate organizations across six data management processes based on a 5-level maturity model. The results provided insights into an organization's practices and a roadmap for enhancing data management.
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
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202406 - Cape Town Snowflake User Group - LLM & RAG.pdfDouglas Day
Content from the July 2024 Cape Town Snowflake User Group focusing on Large Language Model (LLM) functions in Snowflake Cortex. Topics include:
Prompt Engineering.
Vector Data Types and Vector Functions.
Implementing a Retrieval
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Dive into the details of how to leverage these advanced features without leaving the Snowflake environment.
Difference in Differences - Does Strict Speed Limit Restrictions Reduce Road ...ThinkInnovation
Objective
To identify the impact of speed limit restrictions in different constituencies over the years with the help of DID technique to conclude whether having strict speed limit restrictions can help to reduce the increasing number of road accidents on weekends.
Context*
Generally, on weekends people tend to spend time with their family and friends and go for outings, parties, shopping, etc. which results in an increased number of vehicles and crowds on the roads.
Over the years a rapid increase in road casualties was observed on weekends by the Government.
In the year 2005, the Government wanted to identify the impact of road safety laws, especially the speed limit restrictions in different states with the help of government records for the past 10 years (1995-2004), the objective was to introduce/revive road safety laws accordingly for all the states to reduce the increasing number of road casualties on weekends
* The Speed limit restriction can be observed before 2000 year as well, but the strict speed limit restriction rule was implemented from 2000 year to understand the impact
Strategies
Observe the Difference in Differences between ‘year’ >= 2000 & ‘year’ <2000
Observe the outcome from multiple linear regression by considering all the independent variables & the interaction term