This blog post suggests the best sources of definition content and ways to determine what should be defined. The sources are existing popular reports, pre-existing local glossaries, data...
In this blog post we will be discussing data governance or data intelligence committees (or whatever your organization calls it). Sometimes these committees are ineffective. There is nothing wrong...
A business glossary is a major component within a data governance (or data intelligence) initiative. Glossary entries consist of a name and a functional definition. The purpose of a functional...
Integration between data systems is a key part of data management. As more data systems are used in an organization, system integrations are becoming even more critical. IData’s staff is expert at...
Some organizations lose momentum with their data governance (data intelligence) initiative. In this blog post, we’ll mention some of the reasons to restart your data governance initiative.
A few...
Data governance (or what we call data intelligence) consists of many components including data system inventory, data request, data stewardship, reference data, data lineage, business glossary, data...
Data stewardship is an important part of data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) and thus an important part of the success of the organization. A key part of data governance is...
To have successful data governance (or data intelligence or data management) you need to have data stewardship. And for data stewards to be successful you need to provide them with the proper...
For folks identified as data stewards there are a few principles you should follow which are: being helpful, being a problem solver, being a creator, being a protector and being positive. Data...
This blog post will show you how to evaluate your data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) processes so that they can be improved, thus improving the organization’s efficiency and...