With data taking an increasingly prominent role in business strategy, there is a growing tension between how data is architected and what the business needs to execute on strategy. Part of this is the IT legacy – the result of 50 plus years of what has been mostly organic growth in the IT infrastructure, usually …Read More
The Challenge of End-User Computing Data Governance
Data governance is still relatively new as a function in many enterprises and is trying to address concerns on a variety of fronts such as legal requirements, dealing with data vendors and ensuring that data issues are processed efficiently. Yet the needs are great, and there are significant areas that data governance is only just …Read More
Data Quality as a Driver of Architecture and Governance in MDM
Editor’s note: The Briefing Room with Malcolm Chisholm and Jake Freivald and Vincent Lam of Information Builders is archived and available here. Data quality is widely recognized as being intimately linked with master data management (MDM). Since an item of data can be used repeatedly by the enterprise, any defects in the data have the …Read More