Data Governance, Data Stewardship

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Data governance council – what is it and why do you need one?

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George Firican

July 18, 2018

I get these questions a lot from organizations wanting to start a data governance program or who are in the early stages of planning. A data governance council is a governing body responsible for the strategic guidance of the data governance program, prioritization for the data governance projects and initiatives, approval of organization-wide data policies and standards,

Data Governance, Free Downloads, Master Data Management

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How to create an inventory of your data sources

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George Firican

July 11, 2018

A data sources inventory is meant to record basic information about the different systems across and/or outside your ecosystem from which you are capturing, producing, acquiring or procuring data. The data sources tend to be well known to their end users and administrators, but not so much to the organization as a whole. I believe

Business Intelligence

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10 components of the Business Intelligence landscape

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George Firican

July 4, 2018

Data is only meaningful if it serves a purpose. This purpose is to have it transformed into meaningful insight, hindsight, and foresight for an organization to take advantage of. Similarly to how raw materials go through a complex conveyor belt system in a factory before the end product is created, so does the data before

Data Quality

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Estimating the cost of poor data quality in 5 steps

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George Firican

June 27, 2018

According to the IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub, poor data costs the US economy $3.1 trillion every year. Ovum Research reported that poor data can cost businesses at least 30% of revenues. These numbers are staggering and in my opinion, they should be enough to motivate any organization to start investing in data governance,

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5 graphs you should always use

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George Firican

June 21, 2018

It’s been long proven that the human process of comprehension and insight is faster with visualizations than with plain numbers or tabular data. Since the 14th century, when Nicole Oresme used a bar chart in “The Latitude of Forms” to plot velocity of a constantly accelerating object against time,  charts and graphs have been used

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Understanding the different types of a data steward

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George Firican

June 13, 2018

Data stewardship roles can be segmented and categorized in multiple ways, depending on their responsibilities and required skills, as well as the organization’s structure, industry, goals and objectives and its data management needs. There is also an argument to be made that everyone is a data steward, but for the scope of this article I

Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Stewardship, Metadata Management

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Adapting data governance to big data in 4 areas

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George Firican

June 6, 2018

It’s generally accepted that any organization working with data needs to adopt data governance. Readily available frameworks, tools, and services can be adapted to the requirements and environment of your organization, yet when it comes to big data governance, the options are a bit more complex. Organizations must adapt to big data in four important

Data Governance

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Get the scoop on data classification and GDPR before you’re too late

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George Firican

May 23, 2018

Do you need to adhere to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? As the video below, shows there are a few things you need to establish in order to achieve compliance. Data classification is an important part of the foundation needed for auditing and reviewing your data as well as establishing an organization wide awareness

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What is data stewardship?

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George Firican

May 16, 2018

What is data stewardship? Discussing data stewardship with seasoned data governance practitioners can yield different definitions and understandings of what it is. Some use the two terminologies, data governance and data stewardship, interchangeably, which can make it even more confusing. In my own opinion, they are definitely not the same. For a revision on data

Data Governance, Free Downloads, Master Data Management, Metadata Management

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Learn how to create a MDM change request

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George Firican

May 9, 2018

Managing and securing your organization’s master data is crucial for supporting any organizational goals which rely on data – so all of them!!! It’s also important for today’s business to work with their master data in an accurate, efficient, and well understood way.  As such, the process for managing change requests to either add, remove,