Having trust in your data is critical at your organization. That is why data governance is so important as it leads to this trust by those that are using the data. Trust in the data leads to ...
January 05, 2021
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Jim Walery
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December 01, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Data governance is not easy. There is a lot of components to it. There is a lot of content. You need a framework and hopefully have tools in place. You need a group of individuals to make it...
November 04, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. The report efforts are...
October 20, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Reference data is the forgotten content in data governance. It needs to be documented and managed just like business glossary definitions and report specifications. Over time we have gathered...
October 14, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Do not make everything reference data in your data governance area. This blog post will discuss that only the key ones should be documented and managed. And new ones should be added to over time....
We hope everyone is staying home and staying safe, as much as possible. Being data-minded, we've of course been following the COVID-19 charts, graphs, and projections closely. Huge amounts of data...
March 04, 2020
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Aaron Walker
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Change is afoot..... - Those of you who are old enough may remember going to the library and looking up materials in a printed "card catalog," and perhaps going to the shelves and hoping to find...
December 04, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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By now you've decided that data governance is a good idea for your organization. You want to use organizational data to drive better decisions, and to better understand the effect of actions taken....
November 20, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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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...
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...