The Warehouse

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...

When planning your integrated enterprise data environment, it is impossible to understate the importance of master data management. Much has been written about MDM, and it encompasses a broad range of (mostly non-technical) disciplines that are beyond the scope of a single blog entry. Here we will provide a broad overview of the four main areas of MDM to start your journey towards enterprise data governance. We will also examine the relationship between MDM and recent developments around other enterprise management programs such as Product Information Management.

What is master data management? Quite simply it is the administrative oversight of organizational “data as an asset” to...