The Warehouse

We have all heard the notion that data should be viewed as an asset, the “new oil”, a crucial business resource for the enterprise. When viewed in this context, a business’s investment in data must be assessed by the quality of its return. Measuring this return is more than just “how many cool-looking dashboards” you can now create; rather, a CTO/CDO must look beyond the technical capabilities and determine if data is having a true impact on the business culture. This means evolving a BI and Data Science community that engages employees at all levels of the organization. The path to this positive return is creating a modern data culture that permeates the enter...

Data governance is a discipline that continues to get a high level of attention from CDO’s, data consultants and data practitioners. Almost all data-driven organizations recognize the needs for it, many have attempted to implement it, and many have failed. Why? The reasons given are familiar: not enough executive buy-in, not enough data-user buy-in, not enough time to devote to it, no comprehensive technological solution, etc. It seems that the importance of data governance is at odds with the difficulty of its implementation. Does it need to be this hard? Perhaps a rethinking is in order around data governance. Perhaps we need a “Data Governance 2.0”.

Traditionally, data go...