Articles
Six Data Quality Dimensions to Get Your Data AI-Ready
If you look at Google Trends, you’ll see that the explosion of searches for generative AI (GenAI) and large language models correlates…
The End of Agile – Part 4 (Lessons from Agile)
In my first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application…
The End of Agile – Part 3 (What Is Agile Really?)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the…
Data Lifecycle Management: Optimizing Data Storage, Usage, and Disposal
The use of data worldwide for business and recreation has exploded in the last decade, with an estimated 328.77 million terabytes of data…
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Data Speaks for Itself: Is Metadata Data?
Well, of course, metadata is data. Our standard definition explicitly says that metadata is data describing other data. So why would I even ask…
A Step Ahead: IoT Data Characteristics — Seven Vs
IoT (Internet of Things) incorporates many new and innovative technologies, such as sensors, smart devices, machine-to-machine communication,…
Crossing the Data Divide: AI Data Assistants — A Data Leader’s Force Multiplier
The focus of my last column, titled Crossing the Data Divide: Data Catalogs and the Generative AI Wave, was on the impact of large language…
Data Professional Introspective: The Data Management Education Program
In my work with the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) 3.0 development group, we are adding a capability that…
Blogs
New Gartner Category Impacts Data Governance Professionals
With the latest SEC developments lighting a fire under the feet of companies and their executives, data governance is increasingly a…
Data Crime: Arizona Is Not Arkansas
I call it a “data crime” when someone is abusing or misusing data. When we understand these stories and their implications, it can…
Do Citizen Data Scientists Add Value or Is the Concept Mere Buzz?
If you read trade or industry journals or business publications, you have probably noticed that the subject of…
Data Cleansing Tools for Big Data: Challenges and Solutions
In the realm of big data, ensuring the reliability and accuracy of data is crucial for making well-informed decisions and actionable…
Features
Master Data Match Rules
As part of a master data management (MDM) implementation, a series of rules must be implemented to determine if two records refer to the…
Data Governance Made Simple
Those of us in the field of enterprise data management are familiar with the many authors contributing their knowledge and expertise to the…
The Importance of Data Due Diligence
Acquiring an existing business can be an exceptional way to make your entrepreneurial dreams come to life — or even diversify your…
The Role of Citizen Data Scientists vs. Data Scientists in Augmented Analytics
If you are an IT professional, a business manager, or an executive, you have probably been following the progress of the citizen data…
The Importance of a Federated Data Stewardship Approach
In the digital era, navigating the choppy waters of data governance poses a significant challenge for enterprises. On one end of the…
Explainable AI: 5 Open-Source Tools You Should Know
Explainable AI refers to ways of ensuring that the results and outputs of artificial intelligence (AI) can be understood by humans. It…
Stop Complaining About Your Data – And Do Something About It
Organizations are drowning in a sea of data, facing challenges that range from inconsistent quality to inefficient and ineffective…
The Currency of Information: Measuring the Value of Data (Part Four)
Data professionals often talk about the importance of managing data and information as organizational assets, but what does this mean? What…
The Currency of Information: Managing Data as an Asset (Part Three)
Data professionals often talk about the importance of managing data and information as organizational assets, but what does this mean? What…