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Learn how to create a MDM change request

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, …read more

Data governance operating models exposed

May 3, 2018

Deciding what the operating model your organization will adopt is part of the initial steps in setting up your data governance program. Why? The most important reasons I see are the fact that: It outlines how your program will operate Sets the expectations of escalation and decision making as well as program oversight Provides the …read more

10 guiding principles every data governance program should follow

Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Free Downloads

April 18, 2018

Data governance can be a topic of hardship for any enterprise without such a program, but also with one in the works or at different maturity stages. There are a lot of success factors which need to be met to coast through and achieve a highly mature data governance program while the variables keep changing. …read more

11 essential elements of a communication plan

April 11, 2018

I’m a strong believer that communication is one of the vital ingredients for any successful implementation and deployment of a Business Intelligence, Data Governance or overall Data Management program. Your Business Intelligence, Data Governance or Data Management strategy should have a communication plan as one of its deliverables. If you haven’t done one already or …read more

The benefits and risks of standard data models

Business Intelligence, Free Downloads

April 4, 2018

Templates for data models can be found for different industries, such as education and learning, healthcare, energy and utilities, banking and financial markets, insurance, telecommunications, retail, aviation, and more others. As a quick FYI, these are often put together by standards bodies or vendors of different systems and databases. They can also go by different …read more

White paper on best practices for powerful dashboards

Data Quality, Free Downloads

March 28, 2018

In any domain in any organization, great dashboards are valuable not only because they can sum up important information and offer a single view of data, but also because they are simple to use and offer a quick, unambiguous way to draw meaningful conclusions from data. Developing and designing such powerful dashboards does not come …read more

The single best strategy for improving your mailing addresses

March 21, 2018

Having accurate and current addresses for your constituents is one of the most important thing in your database. You’re using this information to engage with them, solicit them, inform them, communicate with them, and learn more about them in order to develop and evolve a two-way relationship. So why don’t we then have good addresses? …read more

Business Intelligence

Tools for managing your report inventory (Part 2 of 2)

March 14, 2018

Part 2: This is the second and final article on tools for managing your report inventory. For the first article, please read “Tools for managing your report inventory (Part 1 of 2)“. 4. Data governance tool Dedicated data governance tools can track information about reports as individual elements in a data dictionary or business glossary, but these …read more

The ultimate guide to a Data Quality issues log