IData Insights

This is a different type of blog post for me. I recently reread “What’s the Future of Business – Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences” by Brian Solis. It was written in 2013 but still...

Before you can do a data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) roadmap you need to do an assessment. But what is included in this assessment? In this blog we will cover that and what...

Data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) has many components and is not well understood by most people. It is very difficult to tackle all areas of data governance at once. And a data...

Reference data (or valid value lists) is a special type of data and is an important part of data quality and data governance (or as we call it data intelligence). Reference data lists can be used...

Business glossaries are an important content item in data governance (or as we call it data intelligence).  Therefore business glossaries are important to all organizations as it allows staff to...

Data is an important asset at all organizations – no matter what their business, their size, or their structure. Without data, an organization would not exist, so the decisions made about data are...

We are a firm believer in just-in-time data governance (or as we also call it, data intelligence) which is very agile. The agile methodology has radically transformed the process of software...

You have all this data governance content (definitions, specifications, data dictionary items, business glossary items, data system inventory, data quality rules, etc.). All this content needs to...

A framework helps an organization and its members on how to think and communicate about a project such as a data governance initiative.  And every organization need a data governance framework or...

Your data governance activities should be as self-service as possible, just like self-service analytics and self-service IT support. Users at an organization should be able to get a great deal of...