Is the effort to implement data governance and data intelligence worth it? The answer to this question is yes. With the implementation of data governance and data intelligence, the organization will...
May 21, 2025
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April 09, 2025
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Keep in mind that data governance and data intelligence is not only about technology and information but also about staff. Make it easy for the staff at your organization to follow data-related...
December 26, 2024
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And the envelope please! We did our review and here are the top 10 most viewed blog posts in 2024 from our IData Insights Blog about Data Management, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance. They are...
August 06, 2024
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Data intelligence includes a framework with people and processes along with content designed to help people access, understand, connect, protect, and effectively use an organization’s data across all...
June 18, 2024
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Jim Walery
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A data intelligence or data governance initiative at an organization involves change and is not easy to perform. Acknowledge that change is difficult. You understand that any change is complex to...
January 05, 2024
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Jim Walery
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We did our review and here are the top 12 most viewed blog posts in 2023 from our IData Insights Blog about Data Management, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance. There was quite a variety of...
October 11, 2023
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Jim Walery
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Organizations are constantly generating and gathering vast amounts of data. And this data is critical to the success of the organization. The amount of data makes it challenging for employees to...
March 21, 2023
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Jim Walery
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You want to gain greater acceptance of your data intelligence, data governance, and data catalog efforts at your organization. You do this by getting more employees involved in the efforts and...
December 14, 2022
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We have a great deal of resources (blog posts, videos, and recorded webinars) related to a variety of topics and components in data governance (or what we call data intelligence).
Topics include: ...
December 07, 2022
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A data governance and data intelligence initiative is very important to an organization. And for the initiative to succeed it needs to have a trained staff and communication to those involved which...
November 30, 2022
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Communication is key in data intelligence and data governance success. Communication with employees should be ongoing and when an employee is hired. Spread the word. Explain to every level in your...
March 30, 2022
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In this blog post we will discuss the organization culture that will maximize the benefit of data intelligence and data governance at all levels. And that data intelligence needs to be a part of your...
January 26, 2022
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For data governance and data intelligence success, an organization must have a data governance oversight and management team or committee (team) in place. This team is the champion for data...
December 15, 2021
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A data intelligence or data governance initiative at an organization involves change and is not easy to perform. Acknowledge that change is difficult. You understand that it is complex to implement...
March 03, 2021
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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...
December 08, 2020
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Having a communication plan for data governance (or data intelligence) is a necessary strategy to help ensure data governance success. You want to create and maintain staff awareness of data...
May 13, 2020
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One of the three components of a data governance (data intelligence) framework is having a communication process which includes facilitating just-in-time data governance, supporting data governance...
November 20, 2019
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When we speak with new or prospective clients, the topic of their organization's data quality often comes up. And it's frequently our experience that when someone who is not data-savvy thinks their...
August 14, 2019
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Jim Walery
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An important component of data governance (also known as data intelligence) is data quality. But there are many parts to data quality including sources of data quality, issues, their impact, people...
June 19, 2019
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Recently we found ourselves re-reading Educause’s annual Top 10 IT Issues, 2019 Edition. We commented on this publication when it came out, but we wanted to revisit in this post a few observations...
May 08, 2019
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Jim Walery
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In this blog post we’ll discuss the institution culture that will maximize the benefit of data governance at all levels. And that data governance needs to be a part of your higher education...
February 20, 2019
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Internal communication is a key process in the success of a data quality program at an organization. To build trust in your data you want to be as transparent as possible regarding data quality. If...
May 16, 2018
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Jim Walery
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There are many paths to create data governance (data intelligence) content for organizations such as higher education institutions. Creation of the path should be determined by institution...
May 11, 2018
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Jim Walery
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In higher education there are many types of content for data governance (also called data intelligence). This blog post will mention the 12 areas of content that we have learned about from our...
February 20, 2018
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Brian Parish
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Data governance needs to provide trust in the data for it to be successful. Organizations need to trust their data so that they can make effective decision making. But building trust is not easy. It...