Clients often come to us for data governance assistance after they have migrated to a major new software solution, or after they have deployed significant upgrades to their BI stack (a new warehouse,...
April 04, 2024
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September 09, 2021
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Jim Walery
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Having some of your data governance-related activities automated drives strategic decision-making and improves daily operations in the organization. Data governance automation is an incredibly...
September 01, 2021
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Jim Walery
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You should, at your organization, have documented data-related policies on protection of organization data, data retention, data sharing agreements, data backups, data access, handing of Personally...
July 08, 2021
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Jim Walery
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Data, an organization asset, requires strong and consistent management. Therefore, you need to have data-related policies created, updated, and known. These policies should be accessible by all staff...
September 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect January 1, 2020. This regulation, much like GDPR, provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and how this information...
July 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Reporting can always be improved. It is often not the reporting technology being used that is the problem. Usually it comes down to people and processes. In this post we share some thoughts on...
June 12, 2019
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Jim Walery
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While some organizations have been successful with a wide range of reporting tools, many others struggle with the same tools. We feel it is because organizational reporting or analytics problems are...
June 26, 2018
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Jim Walery
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that took effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and...
May 23, 2018
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Jim Walery
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A data dictionary is a repository of definitions of the data you use to make decisions at your organization. This post will suggest, gathered from our experience, the preferred way to build your data...
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...