Setting the scene
The image below displays a simplified view of every large organization: an organizational border (represented by the outer circle), an HQ that needs consolidated information (represented in the inner circle), customers (represented by the “dollarized” houses), orders (represented by the trucks moving inside), order-processing units (represented by the factories that receive the trucks), [...]
I recently came across Mike Ferguson’s work a couple of times (once at Enterprise Data World in San Francisco, and once at the Data Governance conference in London). As someone who has been active in the data world for sometime, he clearly recognizes the need to properly understand the meaning of your data through clear and [...]
OMG’s Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) is a standard for semantics. In business terms, this translates into clear definitions of key business assets. In operational terms, this translates into technical models and making sure that the (meta)data is understood and aligned. We illustrate the approach with a customer case from SCA Packaging, which [...]
After a short talk with Andy Hayler, which we met at the last IRM UK event, it’s clear that Andy knows the Master Data Management market inside out. During our pleasant talk, we discussed Collibra’s product, market positioning, and unique approach. He agreed that Collibra provides a lot of value for what people are starting [...]
David Linthicum recently posted a brief article at ebizQ on Data Governance: Three Reasons why you Need Data Governance – Leveraging Information and Intelligence
It’s an insightful piece that clearly articulates the need for data governance. In short:
Data management in global 2000 companies is a nightmare which poses a risk.
Security requires data goverance
The move towards SOA [...]
Collibra at IRM’s DM&IQ and DW&BI conference
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Collibra presented its Business Semantics Management to a wider audience of very experienced data management, data governance and BI professionals. We got great feedback and a lot of enthusiastic reactions (ranging from ‘brilliant’ to ‘this is what companies should have been doing already 20 years [...]