A key part of data governance is to have an easily accessible knowledge base. Important content of this knowledge base is a data processing catalog. In a previous blog post we covered about ...
August 04, 2021
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Data is everywhere at an organization in many data systems. And growing all the time. This data needs to be understood, individually and collectively, and cannot be done without a data systems...
August 19, 2020
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What is it that you want to track in a data system inventory? It’s a lot of information. In this blog post we cover this by discussing the ten levels of data system inventory complexity. They get...
December 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data governance (or what we call data intelligence) consists of many components including data system inventory, data request, data stewardship, reference data, data lineage, and data quality. We...
October 16, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data is everywhere at an organization and in many data systems. And growing all the time. Data at an organization needs to be understood, individually and collectively, and can’t be done without a...
September 11, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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IData Inc. has been in business since 2004, and we’ve performed a lot of different work for hundreds of clients in that time. It’s a little bit amazing then, how little some of the complaints we...
July 11, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Something we often say during our early conversations with clients is that data governance (or data intelligence) is what you do when you recognize data is an asset, and when you start to treat...
February 19, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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It is critical to know where your data resides. Therefore, it is necessary to inventory all of the data systems used at the organization. This post discusses what to include in an inventory. ...
February 17, 2018
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Building a data system inventory is necessary, but not easy. This post describes the 8 steps we recommend when building your data system inventory at your organization.
February 16, 2018
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This blog post will cover the benefits of having an inventory of your data systems at your organization (such as a higher education institution). Part of the knowledgebase for data governance...