A metadata framework delivers an improved understanding of metadata and how it is structured to improve the value of data. The development of a metadata framework must be easy to replicate for all of the critical data elements of the organization. The framework must also relate to the use of business glossaries, data dictionaries, and data catalogs.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will share a framework that can be applied in every organization. The framework he will share can be created for yourself and is reusable for all of the critical data elements in your organization. You will walk away from this webinar thinking about how to apply the framework to your organization’s most important metadata.
Metadata turns data into information by providing context. Metadata is a determining factor of a successful Data Governance initiative and becomes an important asset that needs to be managed. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for a webinar that focuses on the governance of metadata following the non-invasive approach. In this session, Bob will share tips and techniques for assuring that the appropriate metadata is being collected and utilized to support your Data Governance program.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
Concepts of Non-Invasive Metadata Governance
Metadata as a valuable data resource
Aligning Data Governance with Metadata Governance
Implementing effective Metadata Governance tools
Maximizing metadata resources with accountability
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how data architecture is a key component of an overall enterprise architecture for enhanced business value and success.
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Roles and responsibilities are the foundation of a successful Data Governance program. An operating model of roles focuses on all levels of the organization including the executive, strategic, tactical and operational responsibilities. A complete model also includes roles that support the program.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will present a proven Operating Model of Data Governance Roles & Responsibilities that can be applied to the existing culture of any organization. This webinar may be the most important webinar of the year because of its impact on the rest of your data governance program.
In this webinar Bob will share information about:
The Operating Model as a pyramid diagram
Three different approaches to stewardship
Five distinct levels of responsibilities
Who is expected to participate at each level?
What will be “the ask” of these people?
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Client Management
Project and people management
Agile Methodology
Architectural design
Data Analytics
Incident, Problem and Change Management
Big Challenges in Data Modeling: Modeling MetadataDATAVERSITY
We invite you to join us in this monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series, “Big Challenges with Data Modeling” hosted by Karen Lopez. Join Karen and guest expert panelists each month to discuss their experiences in breaking through these specific data modeling challenges. Hear from experts in the field on how and where they came across these challenges and what resolution they found. Join them in the end for the Q&A portion to ask your own questions on the challenge topic of the month.
RWDG Slides: Data Architecture Is Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data Architecture and Data Governance are the same thing! Aren’t they?
Most people would say that this line of thinking is absurd — or even worse. There is NO WAY that they are the same thing. Or are they?
This RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner and his special guest Anthony Algmin looks at the disciplines of Data Governance and Data Architecture and explores how much they are the same … and how they are different. The speakers will let you draw your own conclusion, but they will get you thinking about whether Data Architecture and Data Governance are two sides of the same coin.
In this webinar, Bob and Anthony will discuss:
• What is meant by the saying two sides of the same coin … and how it relates
• The similarities between Data Architecture and Data Governance
• The differences between the two
• How to use Data Architecture to sell Data Governance … and the other way around
• Deciding if the two disciplines are the same … or different
RWDG Slides: The Future of Data Governance – IoT, AI, IG, and CloudDATAVERSITY
Data Governance, as a discipline, has been around for more than 20 years. With each passing year, Data Governance faces new challenges that come from advances in technology and new ways of leveraging data to do business. The changes make life interesting for those of us delivering formalized Data Governance programs.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s webinar focused on keeping Data Governance current with advancements in information technology and how to stay relevant as the uses of data expand around us. The data at the heart of each advancement will not govern itself. That is the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Advancements in Information Technology
• The impact of the advances on Data Governance
• The impact of Data Governance on the advances
• What the future of Data Governance looks like
• How to sell Data Governance’s role moving forward
RWDG Slides: Data and Metadata Will Not Govern ThemselvesDATAVERSITY
There is a direct relationship between the value your organization gets from its data, the trust your organization has in its data, and how formally that data is being governed. This is not new news. In fact, this has always been the case.
Join Bob Seiner for the RWDG webinar to kick off the year, where he will discuss how data does not naturally or automatically increase in value or become more trusted without a resolute effort. That effort focuses on governance. The webinar will focus on the effort that must be orchestrated at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels of the organization to demonstrate value and gain the trust of the people at all levels.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
• How governance applies equally to data and metadata
• The meaning of a “resolute effort” to govern important assets
• How the governance of data and metadata increases their value
• The people who must be held formally accountable for data and metadata
• Communicating the webinar’s title with people who can make a difference
Metadata turns data into information by providing context. Metadata is a determining factor of a successful Data Governance initiative and becomes an important asset that needs to be managed. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for a webinar that focuses on the governance of metadata following the non-invasive approach. In this session, Bob will share tips and techniques for assuring that the appropriate metadata is being collected and utilized to support your Data Governance program.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
Concepts of Non-Invasive Metadata Governance
Metadata as a valuable data resource
Aligning Data Governance with Metadata Governance
Implementing effective Metadata Governance tools
Maximizing metadata resources with accountability
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how data architecture is a key component of an overall enterprise architecture for enhanced business value and success.
Seiner dataversity-rwdg2017-05-operating modelofdatagovernanceroles-20170518f...DATAVERSITY
Roles and responsibilities are the foundation of a successful Data Governance program. An operating model of roles focuses on all levels of the organization including the executive, strategic, tactical and operational responsibilities. A complete model also includes roles that support the program.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will present a proven Operating Model of Data Governance Roles & Responsibilities that can be applied to the existing culture of any organization. This webinar may be the most important webinar of the year because of its impact on the rest of your data governance program.
In this webinar Bob will share information about:
The Operating Model as a pyramid diagram
Three different approaches to stewardship
Five distinct levels of responsibilities
Who is expected to participate at each level?
What will be “the ask” of these people?
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Client Management
Project and people management
Agile Methodology
Architectural design
Data Analytics
Incident, Problem and Change Management
Big Challenges in Data Modeling: Modeling MetadataDATAVERSITY
We invite you to join us in this monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series, “Big Challenges with Data Modeling” hosted by Karen Lopez. Join Karen and guest expert panelists each month to discuss their experiences in breaking through these specific data modeling challenges. Hear from experts in the field on how and where they came across these challenges and what resolution they found. Join them in the end for the Q&A portion to ask your own questions on the challenge topic of the month.
RWDG Slides: Data Architecture Is Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data Architecture and Data Governance are the same thing! Aren’t they?
Most people would say that this line of thinking is absurd — or even worse. There is NO WAY that they are the same thing. Or are they?
This RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner and his special guest Anthony Algmin looks at the disciplines of Data Governance and Data Architecture and explores how much they are the same … and how they are different. The speakers will let you draw your own conclusion, but they will get you thinking about whether Data Architecture and Data Governance are two sides of the same coin.
In this webinar, Bob and Anthony will discuss:
• What is meant by the saying two sides of the same coin … and how it relates
• The similarities between Data Architecture and Data Governance
• The differences between the two
• How to use Data Architecture to sell Data Governance … and the other way around
• Deciding if the two disciplines are the same … or different
RWDG Slides: The Future of Data Governance – IoT, AI, IG, and CloudDATAVERSITY
Data Governance, as a discipline, has been around for more than 20 years. With each passing year, Data Governance faces new challenges that come from advances in technology and new ways of leveraging data to do business. The changes make life interesting for those of us delivering formalized Data Governance programs.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s webinar focused on keeping Data Governance current with advancements in information technology and how to stay relevant as the uses of data expand around us. The data at the heart of each advancement will not govern itself. That is the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Advancements in Information Technology
• The impact of the advances on Data Governance
• The impact of Data Governance on the advances
• What the future of Data Governance looks like
• How to sell Data Governance’s role moving forward
RWDG Slides: Data and Metadata Will Not Govern ThemselvesDATAVERSITY
There is a direct relationship between the value your organization gets from its data, the trust your organization has in its data, and how formally that data is being governed. This is not new news. In fact, this has always been the case.
Join Bob Seiner for the RWDG webinar to kick off the year, where he will discuss how data does not naturally or automatically increase in value or become more trusted without a resolute effort. That effort focuses on governance. The webinar will focus on the effort that must be orchestrated at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels of the organization to demonstrate value and gain the trust of the people at all levels.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
• How governance applies equally to data and metadata
• The meaning of a “resolute effort” to govern important assets
• How the governance of data and metadata increases their value
• The people who must be held formally accountable for data and metadata
• Communicating the webinar’s title with people who can make a difference
Metadata Governance for Vocabularies, Dictionaries, and DataDATAVERSITY
Business vocabularies, glossaries and dictionaries are an imperative part of improving organizational understanding of their most important data. The metadata in these resources must meet stakeholder’s requirements from a content and quality perspective. The metadata must be governed.
This Real-World Data Governance webinar, with Bob Seiner and a special guest, will cover several components of implementing Metadata Governance specifically focused on business vocabulary, glossaries, data dictionaries and data catalogs. Bob will share his experience as a repository administrator and provide detailed requirements for tools that will help you govern the metadata and data.
In this webinar Bob and his guest will discuss:
Value add from vocabulary, glossaries and dictionaries
Metadata that populates each of these data stores
Responsibilities for governing metadata
Applying governance to metadata processes
Requirements for tools associated with governing metadata
DAS Slides: Building a Future-State Data Architecture Plan - Where to Begin?DATAVERSITY
With technology changing at an ever more rapid pace and business requirements ever-evolving to meet the needs of the market, building a future-state Data Architecture plan can be a challenge. Join this webinar to learn practical ways to balance technology and business needs as you develop your future-state architecture for the coming years.
RWDG Slides: Three Approaches to Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
There are different ways to connect people with data stewardship responsibilities. You can assign people to be data stewards, identify people as data stewards or recognize people as data stewards. These approaches vary in several ways.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series where he will compare and contrast three distinct approaches to data stewardship. The approach you select and follow will heavily influence how data governance results will be achieved.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- Three approaches to data stewardship
- The influence of each approach on program results
- Factors to assist in the selection of the approach to follow
- Obstacles to being successful with each approach
- Benefits of following each approach
RWDG Slides: Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
If you have the discipline to develop, deliver, and maintain a business glossary, data dictionary, and/or a data catalog, you may already have the makings of a Data Governance program. The roles required to deliver these assets can translate to successful Data Governance in several ways.
In this month’s webinar, Bob Seiner will highlight the aspects of delivering these valuable business assets that result in formal Data Governance. It is practical that your program recognize existing efforts to formalize the definition, production, and usage of data.
Topics to be discussed in this webinar:
• How glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs add value
• What should be included in these assets
• Who has responsibility for these assets
• When these assets will be valuable to your organization
• Where the discipline results in Data Governance
The first step towards understanding what data assets mean for your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata—literally, data about data—is one of many data management disciplines inherent in good systems development, and is perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood out of the lot. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight, the efficiency of organizational practices, and can also enable you to combine more sophisticated data management techniques in support of larger and more complex business initiatives.
In this webinar, we will:
Illustrate how to leverage metadata in support of your business strategy
Discuss foundational metadata concepts based on the DAMA Guide to Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK)
Enumerate guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses
The Data Model as a Data Governance ArtifactDATAVERSITY
Data Modelling lies at the core of many data management programs. The basic definition of data and the conceptual, logical and physical models can be used in many ways and benefit many people. Some of the uses of the Data Model may not be obvious or may not presently be followed by your organization. Find out why.
Join Bob Seiner for this installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will discuss the use of the Data Model as an artifact of Data Governance. Bob will look at the data models as a way to effectively communicate along the path to better data definition, production and usage.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
•Applying DG Best Practices to Data Modelling
•The Data Model as an Effective Communications Tool
•Using Data Models to Improve Data Definition, Production and Use
•Appropriate Audiences for the Models
•The Relationship Between Data Governance and Data Modelling
Comparing Approaches to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
There are three distinct approaches to implementing Data Governance programs. There is the command-and-control approach, the traditional approach, and the non-invasive approach to implementing data governance. Selecting the best approach for your organization may be the most important data governance decision you make.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series as he compares and contrasts the three approaches. In this webinar Seiner will describe a method to compare the approaches using five primary components of data governance viewed by the five levels of responsibility associated with the program.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
Three distinct approaches to implement Data Governance
Five core components to Data Governance success
Assessing each approach by each core component
Why the selection of approach is so important?
How to determine the best approach for your organization
RWDG Slides: Apply Data Governance to Agile EffortsDATAVERSITY
Data Governance Programs and Agile Data Projects are known to conflict when it comes to how the information and data is managed. Senior leadership has come to expect both the formal governance of data and data projects to be delivered quickly and effectively. These two requirements continue to cause problems.
Bob Seiner will discuss how to govern data during Agile projects during this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series. It is inevitable that governance and Agile need to work together and complement each discipline’s intended results. Bob will share several considerations for bringing the two together.
During this webinar Bob will discuss:
- Looking for common ground to stand on
- The data goals of an Agile effort
- The Agile goals of a Data Governance program
- Bridging the gap and building understanding
- Steps to apply governance to Agile efforts
RWDG Webinar: Build Your Own Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
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<p>Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share tools that you can build yourself and talk about how the tools can be used to determine requirements to acquire outside tools. Tools developed internally at little or no cost have helped to solve many Data Governance problems. Several of these problems and their solutions will be described in detail during this webinar.</p>
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RWDG Webinar: Data Steward Definition and Other Data Governance RolesDATAVERSITY
The role of the Data Steward is critical to the success of a Data Governance program. There are several approaches to Stewardship including assigning people to be Data Stewards, identify existing Data Stewards and recognizing Data Stewards according to their relationship to the data they define, produce and use. However Stewards are only one of several Data Governance roles that must be considered.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will discuss several approaches to defining the role of the Data Steward as well as the other roles necessary for Data Governance program success. Data Governance roles must include operational, tactical, strategic and supporting levels of responsibilities. Spend an hour with Bob where he will share a customize-able Operating Model of Data Governance roles and responsibilities.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Several approaches to defining Data Stewards and Stewardship
• How to select the Stewardship approach that is right for you
• Different levels of Stewards required for a successful program
• An Operating Model of DG Roles that can be molded to fit in any culture
• Why the approach to defining DG roles can make or break the program
Master Data is an important discipline that being implement by most organizations. Master Data sits at the heart of the single point of truth mentality or the need to discover and make available the system of record for the organization’s most valuable data. This importance leads to a need to formally govern master data. That is why you see MDM and DG connected at the hip.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will discuss the relationship between master data and data governance and the importance of connecting these two disciplines. It makes sense to assure that the resources committed to providing quality master data also follow repeatable governed processes as part of their normal course of action. Learn more by attending this important RWDG webinar.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- The connection between Master Data and Data Governance
- Why and how Master Data needs to be governed
- Applying governance roles and actions to Master Data processes
- Whether there is such a thing as Master Data Governance
- The value Data Governance brings to Master Data
Slides: Powering a Sustainable Data Governance Program – Learnings & Best Pra...DATAVERSITY
This webinar will take you on the digital transformation journey of a traditional energy company that reinvented how it conducts business – from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. There’s no doubt E.ON, based in Essen, Germany, has established one of the most comprehensive and successful data governance programs in modern business. In an interactive format, you’ll hear how E.ON launched data governance as a service from the inside out, including:
• Building a business case
• Evaluating supporting technology
• Developing policies and processes
• Involving and educating employees
• Ongoing evaluation and improvements
• Future implications
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a real-world data governance success. We promise it will recharge how you approach the practice and the role of data. It really does have the power to change things.
Seiner dataversity - rwdg 2017-09 - how to select the appropriate data gove...DATAVERSITY
Organizations purchase Data Governance Tools to formalize responsibility and automate and assist the processes of governing data and metadata. There are many different types of tools on the market that assist in program implementation and there are several criteria and requirements that organization’s use to review and assess available tools.
In this installment of the RWDG webinar series, Bob Seiner will talk about the types of tools available on the market and requirements that can be used to assist in the selection of the most appropriate tool for your organization. Learn about the latest types of data governance tools and how to select the right one in this RWDG webinar.
RWDG Slides: Governing Data Governance and Master MetadataDATAVERSITY
Data Governance and Master Metadata are types of metadata collected about the accountability for master data across the organization. These are types of data about data – but better still they are metadata that can be used to effectively operationalize a master data governance program. And these types of metadata need to be governed.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series as he describes the metadata that is a byproduct of a master data governance program. This metadata focuses on people’s relationship to master data as definers, producers and users. You cannot operationalize a data governance program without master metadata.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- A description of Data Governance (DG) and Master Metadata
- Requirements for DG and Master Metadata
- Where DG and Master Metadata comes from
- Using DG and Master Metadata to operationalize data governance
- Tools and templates for collecting DG and Master Metadata
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of a high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality Management effectively in support of business strategy, which in turn allows for speedy identification of business problems, delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor Data Quality. Showing how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Data Governance and Metadata ManagementDATAVERSITY
Metadata is a tool that improves data understanding, builds end-user confidence, and improves the return on investment in every asset associated with becoming a data-centric organization. Metadata’s use has expanded beyond “data about data” to cover every phase of data analytics, protection, and quality improvement. Data Governance and metadata are connected at the hip in every way possible. As the song goes, “You can’t have one without the other.”
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a way to renew your energy by focusing on the valuable asset that can make or break your Data Governance program’s success. The truth is metadata is already inherent in your data environment, and it can be leveraged by making it available to all levels of the organization. At issue is finding the most appropriate ways to leverage and share metadata to improve data value and protection.
Throughout this webinar, Bob will share information about:
- Delivering an improved definition of metadata
- Communicating the relationship between successful governance and metadata
- Getting your business community to embrace the need for metadata
- Determining the metadata that will provide the most bang for your bucks
- The importance of Metadata Management to becoming data-centric
Data-Ed Webinar: The Seven Deadly Data Sins - Emerging from Management PurgatoryDATAVERSITY
While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a full organizational effort. The difficulty of implementing a new data strategy often goes underappreciated, particularly the multi-faceted nature of the challenges that need to be met. Deficiencies in organizational readiness and core competence represent clearly visible problems faced by data managers, but beyond that there are several cultural and structural barriers common to virtually all organizations that must be eliminated in order to facilitate effective management of data.
In this webinar, we will discuss these barriers—the titular “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and in the process will also:
Elaborate upon the three critical factors that lead to strategy failure
Demonstrate a two-stage data strategy implementation process
Explore the sources and rationales behind the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and recommend solutions and alternative approaches
Everybody is a Data Steward – Get Over It!DATAVERSITY
When Data Stewardship is based on people’s relationships to data, the program is assured to cover the entire organization. People that define, produce, and use data must be held formally accountable for their actions. That may include every person in your organization. Is this a good thing? Of course, it is.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series, where he will share how formalizing accountability, based on the actions people take with data, requires heightened awareness and enforcement of data rules. These rules focus on improving Data Quality, protecting sensitive data, and increasing people’s knowledge of the data that adds value for their business.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
Why the “Everybody is a Data Steward” approach is different (and better)
How to recognize the Data Stewards
Formalizing accountability based on data relationships
Coverage of the entire organization
Leveraging the technique to sell stewardship
RWDG Webinar: How to Construct a Data Governance PolicyDATAVERSITY
A Data Governance Policy consists of several components. The components include, but are not limited to, a policy statement, core principal statements, and dimensions of how the policy’s effectiveness will be measured. The rationale and implications of policy principals emphasize how governance will be implemented.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a do-it-yourself format to build a Data Governance policy. Bob will walk through each of the pieces of a Data Governance Policy and provide examples that can be inserted into a draft policy.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
The need for a Data Governance Policy
How to craft a Data Governance Policy statement
How to select the core principals to match your program’s needs
Selection of dimensions to measure policy effectiveness
Using the policy to address the need for Data Governance
Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available, who is responsible for the data, and knowing how to get their hands on the data to perform their job function. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for the webinar where he will discuss how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in effective Data Governance. People must have confidence in the metadata associated with the data that you need them to trust. Therefore, the metadata in your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary must result in governed data. Learn how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in Data Governance in this webinar.
Bob will discuss the following subjects in this webinar:
- Successful Data Governance relies on value from very important tools
- What it means to govern your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary
- Why governing the metadata in these tools is important
- The roles necessary to govern these tools
- Governance expected from metadata in catalogs, glossaries, and dictionaries
The Role of Metadata in a Data Governance ProgramDATAVERSITY
It is impossible to formally govern or manage any-“thing” without information about that “thing.” This certainly holds true for data and information. Data about the data improves confidence in data. Data about data engages and activates people that define, produce, and use data in your organization. Data about data is metadata.
Join Bob Seiner for a RWDG webinar focused on the role metadata plays in successful Data Governance implementations. Seiner will share examples of ways organizations have connected Data Governance and metadata to address issues and advance opportunities associated with major data-oriented investments.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
- A definition for metadata that assures its importance
- Using metadata to improve three data actions
- Positioning metadata to support investments in data
- Roles for the governance of metadata
- Don’t forget: the metadata will not govern itself
Metadata Governance for Vocabularies, Dictionaries, and DataDATAVERSITY
Business vocabularies, glossaries and dictionaries are an imperative part of improving organizational understanding of their most important data. The metadata in these resources must meet stakeholder’s requirements from a content and quality perspective. The metadata must be governed.
This Real-World Data Governance webinar, with Bob Seiner and a special guest, will cover several components of implementing Metadata Governance specifically focused on business vocabulary, glossaries, data dictionaries and data catalogs. Bob will share his experience as a repository administrator and provide detailed requirements for tools that will help you govern the metadata and data.
In this webinar Bob and his guest will discuss:
Value add from vocabulary, glossaries and dictionaries
Metadata that populates each of these data stores
Responsibilities for governing metadata
Applying governance to metadata processes
Requirements for tools associated with governing metadata
DAS Slides: Building a Future-State Data Architecture Plan - Where to Begin?DATAVERSITY
With technology changing at an ever more rapid pace and business requirements ever-evolving to meet the needs of the market, building a future-state Data Architecture plan can be a challenge. Join this webinar to learn practical ways to balance technology and business needs as you develop your future-state architecture for the coming years.
RWDG Slides: Three Approaches to Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
There are different ways to connect people with data stewardship responsibilities. You can assign people to be data stewards, identify people as data stewards or recognize people as data stewards. These approaches vary in several ways.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series where he will compare and contrast three distinct approaches to data stewardship. The approach you select and follow will heavily influence how data governance results will be achieved.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- Three approaches to data stewardship
- The influence of each approach on program results
- Factors to assist in the selection of the approach to follow
- Obstacles to being successful with each approach
- Benefits of following each approach
RWDG Slides: Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
If you have the discipline to develop, deliver, and maintain a business glossary, data dictionary, and/or a data catalog, you may already have the makings of a Data Governance program. The roles required to deliver these assets can translate to successful Data Governance in several ways.
In this month’s webinar, Bob Seiner will highlight the aspects of delivering these valuable business assets that result in formal Data Governance. It is practical that your program recognize existing efforts to formalize the definition, production, and usage of data.
Topics to be discussed in this webinar:
• How glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs add value
• What should be included in these assets
• Who has responsibility for these assets
• When these assets will be valuable to your organization
• Where the discipline results in Data Governance
The first step towards understanding what data assets mean for your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata—literally, data about data—is one of many data management disciplines inherent in good systems development, and is perhaps the most mislabeled and misunderstood out of the lot. Understanding metadata and its associated technologies as more than just straightforward technological tools can provide powerful insight, the efficiency of organizational practices, and can also enable you to combine more sophisticated data management techniques in support of larger and more complex business initiatives.
In this webinar, we will:
Illustrate how to leverage metadata in support of your business strategy
Discuss foundational metadata concepts based on the DAMA Guide to Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK)
Enumerate guiding principles for and lessons previously learned from metadata and its practical uses
The Data Model as a Data Governance ArtifactDATAVERSITY
Data Modelling lies at the core of many data management programs. The basic definition of data and the conceptual, logical and physical models can be used in many ways and benefit many people. Some of the uses of the Data Model may not be obvious or may not presently be followed by your organization. Find out why.
Join Bob Seiner for this installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will discuss the use of the Data Model as an artifact of Data Governance. Bob will look at the data models as a way to effectively communicate along the path to better data definition, production and usage.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
•Applying DG Best Practices to Data Modelling
•The Data Model as an Effective Communications Tool
•Using Data Models to Improve Data Definition, Production and Use
•Appropriate Audiences for the Models
•The Relationship Between Data Governance and Data Modelling
Comparing Approaches to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
There are three distinct approaches to implementing Data Governance programs. There is the command-and-control approach, the traditional approach, and the non-invasive approach to implementing data governance. Selecting the best approach for your organization may be the most important data governance decision you make.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series as he compares and contrasts the three approaches. In this webinar Seiner will describe a method to compare the approaches using five primary components of data governance viewed by the five levels of responsibility associated with the program.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
Three distinct approaches to implement Data Governance
Five core components to Data Governance success
Assessing each approach by each core component
Why the selection of approach is so important?
How to determine the best approach for your organization
RWDG Slides: Apply Data Governance to Agile EffortsDATAVERSITY
Data Governance Programs and Agile Data Projects are known to conflict when it comes to how the information and data is managed. Senior leadership has come to expect both the formal governance of data and data projects to be delivered quickly and effectively. These two requirements continue to cause problems.
Bob Seiner will discuss how to govern data during Agile projects during this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series. It is inevitable that governance and Agile need to work together and complement each discipline’s intended results. Bob will share several considerations for bringing the two together.
During this webinar Bob will discuss:
- Looking for common ground to stand on
- The data goals of an Agile effort
- The Agile goals of a Data Governance program
- Bridging the gap and building understanding
- Steps to apply governance to Agile efforts
RWDG Webinar: Build Your Own Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
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<p>Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share tools that you can build yourself and talk about how the tools can be used to determine requirements to acquire outside tools. Tools developed internally at little or no cost have helped to solve many Data Governance problems. Several of these problems and their solutions will be described in detail during this webinar.</p>
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RWDG Webinar: Data Steward Definition and Other Data Governance RolesDATAVERSITY
The role of the Data Steward is critical to the success of a Data Governance program. There are several approaches to Stewardship including assigning people to be Data Stewards, identify existing Data Stewards and recognizing Data Stewards according to their relationship to the data they define, produce and use. However Stewards are only one of several Data Governance roles that must be considered.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will discuss several approaches to defining the role of the Data Steward as well as the other roles necessary for Data Governance program success. Data Governance roles must include operational, tactical, strategic and supporting levels of responsibilities. Spend an hour with Bob where he will share a customize-able Operating Model of Data Governance roles and responsibilities.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Several approaches to defining Data Stewards and Stewardship
• How to select the Stewardship approach that is right for you
• Different levels of Stewards required for a successful program
• An Operating Model of DG Roles that can be molded to fit in any culture
• Why the approach to defining DG roles can make or break the program
Master Data is an important discipline that being implement by most organizations. Master Data sits at the heart of the single point of truth mentality or the need to discover and make available the system of record for the organization’s most valuable data. This importance leads to a need to formally govern master data. That is why you see MDM and DG connected at the hip.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series where he will discuss the relationship between master data and data governance and the importance of connecting these two disciplines. It makes sense to assure that the resources committed to providing quality master data also follow repeatable governed processes as part of their normal course of action. Learn more by attending this important RWDG webinar.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- The connection between Master Data and Data Governance
- Why and how Master Data needs to be governed
- Applying governance roles and actions to Master Data processes
- Whether there is such a thing as Master Data Governance
- The value Data Governance brings to Master Data
Slides: Powering a Sustainable Data Governance Program – Learnings & Best Pra...DATAVERSITY
This webinar will take you on the digital transformation journey of a traditional energy company that reinvented how it conducts business – from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. There’s no doubt E.ON, based in Essen, Germany, has established one of the most comprehensive and successful data governance programs in modern business. In an interactive format, you’ll hear how E.ON launched data governance as a service from the inside out, including:
• Building a business case
• Evaluating supporting technology
• Developing policies and processes
• Involving and educating employees
• Ongoing evaluation and improvements
• Future implications
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a real-world data governance success. We promise it will recharge how you approach the practice and the role of data. It really does have the power to change things.
Seiner dataversity - rwdg 2017-09 - how to select the appropriate data gove...DATAVERSITY
Organizations purchase Data Governance Tools to formalize responsibility and automate and assist the processes of governing data and metadata. There are many different types of tools on the market that assist in program implementation and there are several criteria and requirements that organization’s use to review and assess available tools.
In this installment of the RWDG webinar series, Bob Seiner will talk about the types of tools available on the market and requirements that can be used to assist in the selection of the most appropriate tool for your organization. Learn about the latest types of data governance tools and how to select the right one in this RWDG webinar.
RWDG Slides: Governing Data Governance and Master MetadataDATAVERSITY
Data Governance and Master Metadata are types of metadata collected about the accountability for master data across the organization. These are types of data about data – but better still they are metadata that can be used to effectively operationalize a master data governance program. And these types of metadata need to be governed.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the RWDG webinar series as he describes the metadata that is a byproduct of a master data governance program. This metadata focuses on people’s relationship to master data as definers, producers and users. You cannot operationalize a data governance program without master metadata.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- A description of Data Governance (DG) and Master Metadata
- Requirements for DG and Master Metadata
- Where DG and Master Metadata comes from
- Using DG and Master Metadata to operationalize data governance
- Tools and templates for collecting DG and Master Metadata
To take a “ready, aim, fire” tactic to implement Data Governance, many organizations assess themselves against industry best practices. The process is not difficult or time-consuming and can directly assure that your activities target your specific needs. Best practices are always a strong place to start.
Join Bob Seiner for this popular RWDG topic, where he will provide the information you need to set your program in the best possible direction. Bob will walk you through the steps of conducting an assessment and share with you a set of typical results from taking this action. You may be surprised at how easy it is to organize the assessment and may hear results that stimulate the actions that you need to take.
In this webinar, Bob will share:
- The value of performing a Data Governance best practice assessment
- A practical list of industry Data Governance best practices
- Criteria to determine if a practice is best practice
- Steps to follow to complete an assessment
- Typical recommendations and actions that result from an assessment
Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data Management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is of a high quality. Determining how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework for utilizing Data Quality Management effectively in support of business strategy, which in turn allows for speedy identification of business problems, delineation between structural and practice-oriented defects in Data Management, and proactive prevention of future issues. Organizations must realize what it means to utilize Data Quality engineering in support of business strategy. This webinar will illustrate how organizations with chronic business challenges often can trace the root of the problem to poor Data Quality. Showing how Data Quality should be engineered provides a useful framework in which to develop an effective approach. This in turn allows organizations to more quickly identify business problems as well as data problems caused by structural issues versus practice-oriented defects and prevent these from re-occurring.
Data Governance and Metadata ManagementDATAVERSITY
Metadata is a tool that improves data understanding, builds end-user confidence, and improves the return on investment in every asset associated with becoming a data-centric organization. Metadata’s use has expanded beyond “data about data” to cover every phase of data analytics, protection, and quality improvement. Data Governance and metadata are connected at the hip in every way possible. As the song goes, “You can’t have one without the other.”
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a way to renew your energy by focusing on the valuable asset that can make or break your Data Governance program’s success. The truth is metadata is already inherent in your data environment, and it can be leveraged by making it available to all levels of the organization. At issue is finding the most appropriate ways to leverage and share metadata to improve data value and protection.
Throughout this webinar, Bob will share information about:
- Delivering an improved definition of metadata
- Communicating the relationship between successful governance and metadata
- Getting your business community to embrace the need for metadata
- Determining the metadata that will provide the most bang for your bucks
- The importance of Metadata Management to becoming data-centric
Data-Ed Webinar: The Seven Deadly Data Sins - Emerging from Management PurgatoryDATAVERSITY
While wrath and envy are best left for human resources to address, overcoming the numerous obstacles that often inhibit successful data management must be a full organizational effort. The difficulty of implementing a new data strategy often goes underappreciated, particularly the multi-faceted nature of the challenges that need to be met. Deficiencies in organizational readiness and core competence represent clearly visible problems faced by data managers, but beyond that there are several cultural and structural barriers common to virtually all organizations that must be eliminated in order to facilitate effective management of data.
In this webinar, we will discuss these barriers—the titular “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and in the process will also:
Elaborate upon the three critical factors that lead to strategy failure
Demonstrate a two-stage data strategy implementation process
Explore the sources and rationales behind the “Seven Deadly Data Sins”, and recommend solutions and alternative approaches
Everybody is a Data Steward – Get Over It!DATAVERSITY
When Data Stewardship is based on people’s relationships to data, the program is assured to cover the entire organization. People that define, produce, and use data must be held formally accountable for their actions. That may include every person in your organization. Is this a good thing? Of course, it is.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series, where he will share how formalizing accountability, based on the actions people take with data, requires heightened awareness and enforcement of data rules. These rules focus on improving Data Quality, protecting sensitive data, and increasing people’s knowledge of the data that adds value for their business.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
Why the “Everybody is a Data Steward” approach is different (and better)
How to recognize the Data Stewards
Formalizing accountability based on data relationships
Coverage of the entire organization
Leveraging the technique to sell stewardship
RWDG Webinar: How to Construct a Data Governance PolicyDATAVERSITY
A Data Governance Policy consists of several components. The components include, but are not limited to, a policy statement, core principal statements, and dimensions of how the policy’s effectiveness will be measured. The rationale and implications of policy principals emphasize how governance will be implemented.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will provide a do-it-yourself format to build a Data Governance policy. Bob will walk through each of the pieces of a Data Governance Policy and provide examples that can be inserted into a draft policy.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
The need for a Data Governance Policy
How to craft a Data Governance Policy statement
How to select the core principals to match your program’s needs
Selection of dimensions to measure policy effectiveness
Using the policy to address the need for Data Governance
Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house metadata that is important to your organization’s governance of data. People in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available, who is responsible for the data, and knowing how to get their hands on the data to perform their job function. The metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for the webinar where he will discuss how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in effective Data Governance. People must have confidence in the metadata associated with the data that you need them to trust. Therefore, the metadata in your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary must result in governed data. Learn how glossaries, dictionaries, and catalogs can result in Data Governance in this webinar.
Bob will discuss the following subjects in this webinar:
- Successful Data Governance relies on value from very important tools
- What it means to govern your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary
- Why governing the metadata in these tools is important
- The roles necessary to govern these tools
- Governance expected from metadata in catalogs, glossaries, and dictionaries
The Role of Metadata in a Data Governance ProgramDATAVERSITY
It is impossible to formally govern or manage any-“thing” without information about that “thing.” This certainly holds true for data and information. Data about the data improves confidence in data. Data about data engages and activates people that define, produce, and use data in your organization. Data about data is metadata.
Join Bob Seiner for a RWDG webinar focused on the role metadata plays in successful Data Governance implementations. Seiner will share examples of ways organizations have connected Data Governance and metadata to address issues and advance opportunities associated with major data-oriented investments.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
- A definition for metadata that assures its importance
- Using metadata to improve three data actions
- Positioning metadata to support investments in data
- Roles for the governance of metadata
- Don’t forget: the metadata will not govern itself
Driving Data Intelligence in the Supply Chain Through the Data Catalog at TJXDATAVERSITY
Roles and responsibilities are a critical component of every Data Governance program. Building a set of roles that are practical and that will not interfere with people’s “day jobs” is an important consideration that will influence how well your program is adopted. This tutorial focuses on sharing a proven model guaranteed to represent your organization.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will dissect a complete Operating Model of Roles and Responsibilities that encompasses all levels of the organization. Seiner will detail the roles and describe the most effective way to associate people with the roles. You will walk out of this webinar with a model to apply to your organization.
In this session Bob will share:
- The five levels of Data Governance roles
- A proven Operating Model of Roles and Responsibilities
- How to customize the model to meet your requirements
- Setting appropriate role expectations
- How to operationalize the roles and demonstrate value
RWDG Webinar: Govern Metadata: Vocabulary, Dictionaries and DataDATAVERSITY
Governance Metadata is easier to understand and simpler to manage when you address it in three easy levels. These levels are 1) semantic, 2) business metadata and 3) technical metadata and they are all connected in many ways. Laying out an architecture that addresses these components lie at the core of successful data management and data governance programs. In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner lays out an overall structure, structure for each level individually as well as their interactions and uses alongside the other levels. A simple schematic is used to demonstrate navigation across levels and value from making available metadata available. Spend an hour with us and take away several useful ideas. This webinar will cover:
•A Three-Tiered Approach to Mastering Metadata
•Description of the Metadata at each Level
•Planning for the Purchase of Governance/Metadata Tools
•Processes for Metadata Change Management
•Role of Communications in Mastering Metadata
Data Governance vs. Information GovernanceDATAVERSITY
What is the difference between Data Governance and information governance? Organizations either use these terms interchangeably — or they have a distinct, separate meaning. Either way, it is important to discuss the discipline of governance as it pertains to different types of data and information — and what the discipline is called.
Join Bob Seiner for this important RWDG webinar where he will share examples of organizations using each term, what it has meant for them, where their focuses have been, and how the terminology is evolving over time. A lot has been written about Data Governance and information governance. However, it is time to compare and contrast these disciplines and make a decision as to the right name to call it in your organization.
This webinar will focus on:
• Similarities and differences between data and information
• Definitions of data and information governance
• Examples of how organizations have selected their label
• Brief case studies of governance named both ways
• Considerations for naming your program
RWDG Slides: Master Data Governance in ActionDATAVERSITY
Master data is data essential to operations in a specific subject area. Information treated as master data varies from one subject to another and even from one company to another. However defined, one thing for certain is that it does not become master data unless it is governed.
Join Bob Seiner for this RWDG webinar where he outlines a repeatable way to activate your Data Governance program by focusing on your master data initiatives. Get people to trust your data as the “master” by implementing a formal certification process.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• What makes it Master Data Governance
• Aligning roles and responsibilities with Master Data Management (MDM)
• Qualities of “governed data”
• Governing to a “master” version of the truth
• Implementing Data Governance domain by domain
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What Is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
-Selecting the appropriate metadata to govern
-The business and technical value of a data catalog
-Building the catalog into people’s routines
-Positioning the data catalog for success
-Questions the data catalog can answer
RWDG Slides: Building Data Governance Through Data StewardshipDATAVERSITY
Data stewards play an important role in Data Governance solutions. That is why it is critical that organizations get data stewardship right when setting up their program. The data is governed by people. Some people will even tell you that the discipline should be called people governance.
Bob Seiner has a lot to say on this subject. In this RWDG webinar, Bob shares the reasons why you must build your Data Governance program through the stewardship of the data. There is no governance without formal accountability for data. People become stewards when their relationship to data is formalized. It is the only way.
This webinar will focus on:
• The definition of data stewardship that MUST be adopted
• The critical role stewardship plays in governing data
• What it means to formalize accountability
• Why everybody in the organization is a data steward
• How to build Data Governance through stewardship
Data Governance and Data Science to Improve Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Science uses systematic methods, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Data Science requires high-quality data that is trusted by the organization and data scientists. Many organizations focus their Data Governance programs on improving Data Quality results. These three concepts (governance, science, and quality) seem to be made for each other.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner and his special guest will discuss how the people focusing on Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve the level of confidence the organization has in its most critical data assets. Heavy investments are being made in Data Science but not so much for Data Governance. Bob will talk about how Data Governance and Data Science must work together to improve Data Quality.
Convincing Stakeholders Data Governance Is EssentialDATAVERSITY
Organizations are investing heavily in becoming data-centric. Data Governance practitioners must begin to deploy effective Data Governance techniques to support these investments. One of these techniques is to tackle the problem of convincing stakeholders that Data Governance is necessary. This webinar will help you address that challenge.
Join Bob Seiner for this RWDG webinar, where he will provide three questions that must be answered thoroughly and honestly from a business and technical perspective. The answers to these questions will provide practitioners with the artillery needed to break down barriers preventing the organization from being convinced that the time is right to formalize Data Governance.
This webinar will focus on:
- Identifying the stakeholders that must be convinced
- The three questions that must be asked of the stakeholders
- What answers you should expect to receive
- The answers that may surprise you
- Using the answers to convince stakeholders that Data Governance is necessary
Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance – Working TogetherDATAVERSITY
The data disciplines listed in the title must work together. The key to success requires understanding the boundaries and overlaps between the disciplines. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to present the relationships between the disciplines in a simple all-in diagram? At the end of this webinar, you will be able to do just that.
This new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will outline how Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance can be optimized to work together. Bob will share a diagram that has successfully communicated the relationship between these disciplines to leadership resulting in the disciplines working in harmony and delivering success.
Bob will share the following in this webinar:
- Categories of disciplines focused on managing data as an asset
- A definition of Data Management that embraces numerous data disciplines
- The importance of Metadata -Management to all data disciplines
- Why data and metadata require formal governance
- A graphic that effectively exhibits the relationship between the disciplines
RWDG Slides: Data Governance and Three Levels of Metadata ManagementDATAVERSITY
There are three levels of metadata that every organization must govern well. These levels are the semantic level, the business level, and the technical level. All three levels are important components of Data Governance and must be stewarded to focus on the goals and scope of your Data Governance program.
In this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series, Bob Seiner will present a three-tiered approach to defining, producing, and using all levels of metadata to further the cause of Data Governance. Governing the processes associated with this metadata tends to be a central focus of successful Data Governance programs. Join Bob to learn how to simplify the metadata focus.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• The three levels of metadata and how they differ
• Sources of the metadata at each level
• Metadata linkage between the levels
• Processes to govern all the levels of metadata
• Institutionalizing policy to assure quality metadata at all levels
RWDG Webinar: Metadata to Support Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Metadata is a by-product of executing and enforcing authority over the management of data. Metadata is also a by-product of formalizing accountability for the management of data. It is impossible to deliver a successful Data Governance program without it. Identifying the appropriate metadata and applying the appropriate level of governance around the metadata is a critical success factor.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will discuss the relationship between Data Governance success and the management of metadata. Bob will share how to focus on the most important metadata to support your program and the role it plays in the demonstration of value.
This webinar will cover:
•The Relationship between Good Governance and Metadata
•Selecting the First and Right Metadata to Manage
•Using the Metadata to Support Your Program
•Using the Program to Support Your Metadata
•Building Governance Metadata into Everyday Events
Are you spending your summer down by the Data Lake? If so, then you want to make certain that the lake is clean and that you pick the best place to swim. The Data Lake is the new analytical paradise that many organizations are banking on to become that answer to improved insights. And you need to prevent the lake from turning swampy.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner and a special guest will focus on how to govern the data in your Data Lake. Bob’s interaction with his guests is always lively, fact filled and this month they will help you to successfully swim through major barriers to provide an effective and valuable data resource.
In this webinar, Bob and his guest will discuss:
- The relationship between Data Lakes and Data Governance
- Preventing your Data Lake from becoming a Data Swamp
- Governing the Metadata associated with your Data Lake
- Leveraging governed data to provide trustworthy Analytics
- Measuring the value of a governed Data Lake
Data Governance to Build Data IntelligenceDATAVERSITY
Is data intelligence a real thing? How is it related to business intelligence? Isn’t the goal of every data-focused investment to become more intelligent in how we define, produce, and use data? In this webinar these questions will be answered.
Join Bob Seiner and his special guest, Dave Kellogg, for a lively discussion on using Data Governance to build data intelligence. In this webinar, they will discuss the use of the term data intelligence and determine where it fits in the Data Management industry.
In this webinar Bob and Dave will discuss:
- A definition of Data Intelligence
- The relationship between Data Governance and Data Intelligence
- Who owns data intelligence
- How data intelligence relates to other data disciplines
- Building data intelligence through Data Governance
RWDG Slides: Governing Your Data Catalog, Business Glossary, and Data DictionaryDATAVERSITY
Data catalogs, business glossaries, and data dictionaries house the metadata that builds organizational confidence in your data. First and foremost, the people in your organization need to be engaged in leveraging the tools, understanding the data that is available and who is responsible for the data, and knowing how to get their hands on the data they need to perform their job function. This metadata will not govern itself.
Join Bob Seiner for the April RWDG webinar, where he will discuss how to govern the metadata in a data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary. People must have confidence in the metadata associated with the data that you need them to trust. Therefore, the metadata in your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary must be governed. Learn how to govern that metadata in this webinar.
Bob will discuss the following subjects in this webinar:
• Successful Data Governance relies on value from very important tools
• What it means to govern your data catalog, business glossary, and data dictionary
• Why governing the metadata in these tools is so important
• The roles necessary to govern these tools
• Value expected from governing the catalog, glossary, and dictionary
If you define, produce, or use data as part of your job and you are held formally accountable for how you define, produce, and use the data, then you are a data steward. If that statement is true, then everybody is a data steward. Does this make your Data Governance program more complex?
Join Bob Seiner for this thought-provoking webinar that asks and answers the question, how can everybody be a data steward? His approach to Data Stewardship will at the same time make your program less invasive to deliver and add a touch of complexity when it is recognized that the governance of data involves everybody in the organization.
In this webinar, Bob will talk about:
- Defining the levels and roles of data stewards
- What the term “formalized accountability” means
- How to handle the complexity of everybody being a data steward
- The complete coverage that is deployed by this approach
- How to “get over” everybody being a data steward
RWDG Slides: Metadata Governance for Catalogs, Glossaries, Dictionaries, and ...DATAVERSITY
Metadata Governance is the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of Metadata and other data documentation. Organizations that govern their data documentation find it easier to govern their data as a result. There is direct correlation between the use of Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries and Data Dictionaries and successful governance of data and Metadata.
This month’s RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will focus on governing the use of the mentioned tools and the Metadata that can be managed inside each one. Bob will talk about governing Metadata in existing Metadata resources versus using new tools to handle this function.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- The relationship between Data Governance and Metadata Governance
- Metadata collected in Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries, and Data Dictionaries
- How to maximize use the data documentation in each resource
- Governing data documentation in Catalogs, Glossaries, and Dictionaries
- Measuring the effectiveness of governed Metadata
RWDG: Data Governance and Three Levels of Metadata DATAVERSITY
There are three levels of metadata that every organization must focus on. The three levels are the semantic level, the business level and the technical level. All three levels are important components of data governance and must be stewarded to focus on the goals and scope of your data governance program.
In this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series, Bob Seiner will present a three-tiered approach to defining, producing and using all levels of metadata to further the cause of data governance. Governing the processes associated with this metadata tends to be a central focus of successful data governance programs. Join Bob to learn how to simplify the metadata focus.
In this webinar Bob will discuss:
- The three levels of metadata and how they differ
- Sources of the metadata at each level
- Metadata linkage between the levels
- Processes to govern the all levels of metadata
- Institutionalizing policy to assure quality metadata at all levels
RWDG Webinar: Mastering and Master Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Master Data and Data Governance are connected at the hip. Master Data implies that the data in the MDM resource is well defined, quality produced and effectively used. Data Governance for MDM is put in place to assure that these three things are handled properly. We can learn important lessons from Master Data Governance that will help us in Mastering Data Governance.
In this month’s RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will focus on using the governance of Master Data initiatives to put effective Data Governance practices in place across the entire organization. Master Data requires all of the core components of a Data Governance program that can be leveraged in ways that will interest MDM and DG practitioners alike.
This webinar will cover:
• The connection between MDM and Data Governance
• Components of MDM that Require Data Governance
• Leveraging Master Data Governance for the Greater Good
• Mastering the Master Data Governance Roles
• The Role of MDM in Enterprise Data Governance
Architecture, Products, and Total Cost of Ownership of the Leading Machine Le...DATAVERSITY
Organizations today need a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with key data functionality to modernize applications and utilize machine learning. They need a comprehensive platform designed to address multi-faceted needs by offering multi-function data management and analytics to solve the enterprise’s most pressing data and analytic challenges in a streamlined fashion.
In this research-based session, I’ll discuss what the components are in multiple modern enterprise analytics stacks (i.e., dedicated compute, storage, data integration, streaming, etc.) and focus on total cost of ownership.
A complete machine learning infrastructure cost for the first modern use case at a midsize to large enterprise will be anywhere from $3 million to $22 million. Get this data point as you take the next steps on your journey into the highest spend and return item for most companies in the next several years.
Data at the Speed of Business with Data Mastering and GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Do you ever wonder how data-driven organizations fuel analytics, improve customer experience, and accelerate business productivity? They are successful by governing and mastering data effectively so they can get trusted data to those who need it faster. Efficient data discovery, mastering and democratization is critical for swiftly linking accurate data with business consumers. When business teams can quickly and easily locate, interpret, trust, and apply data assets to support sound business judgment, it takes less time to see value.
Join data mastering and data governance experts from Informatica—plus a real-world organization empowering trusted data for analytics—for a lively panel discussion. You’ll hear more about how a single cloud-native approach can help global businesses in any economy create more value—faster, more reliably, and with more confidence—by making data management and governance easier to implement.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Building a Data Strategy – Practical Steps for Aligning with Business GoalsDATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task – but it’s worth the effort. Getting your Data Strategy right can provide significant value, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace – from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, to population health, and more. This webinar will help demystify Data Strategy and its relationship to Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Uncover how your business can save money and find new revenue streams.
Driving profitability is a top priority for companies globally, especially in uncertain economic times. It's imperative that companies reimagine growth strategies and improve process efficiencies to help cut costs and drive revenue – but how?
By leveraging data-driven strategies layered with artificial intelligence, companies can achieve untapped potential and help their businesses save money and drive profitability.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
- How your company can leverage data and AI to reduce spending and costs
- Ways you can monetize data and AI and uncover new growth strategies
- How different companies have implemented these strategies to achieve cost optimization benefits
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data,” “NoSQL,” “Data Scientist,” and so on. Few realize that all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business. Since quality engineering/architecture work products do not happen accidentally, the more your organization depends on automation, the more important the data models driving the engineering and architecture activities of your organization. This webinar illustrates data modeling as a key activity upon which so much technology and business investment depends.
Specific learning objectives include:
- Understanding what types of challenges require data modeling to be part of the solution
- How automation requires standardization on derivable via data modeling techniques
- Why only a working partnership between data and the business can produce useful outcomes
Analytics play a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the obvious value to analytic professionals of providing the analytics for these initiatives, many executives question the economic return of analytics as well as data lakes, machine learning, master data management, and the like.
Technology professionals need to calculate and present business value in terms business executives can understand. Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help technology professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative, no matter the form that the business benefit arises. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI and the formulas, and how to collect the necessary information.
How a Semantic Layer Makes Data Mesh Work at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Data Mesh is a trending approach to building a decentralized data architecture by leveraging a domain-oriented, self-service design. However, the pure definition of Data Mesh lacks a center of excellence or central data team and doesn’t address the need for a common approach for sharing data products across teams. The semantic layer is emerging as a key component to supporting a Hub and Spoke style of organizing data teams by introducing data model sharing, collaboration, and distributed ownership controls.
This session will explain how data teams can define common models and definitions with a semantic layer to decentralize analytics product creation using a Hub and Spoke architecture.
Attend this session to learn about:
- The role of a Data Mesh in the modern cloud architecture.
- How a semantic layer can serve as the binding agent to support decentralization.
- How to drive self service with consistency and control.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
Would you share your bank account information on social media? How about shouting your social security number on the New York City subway? We didn’t think so either – that’s why data governance is consistently top of mind.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the common Cloud data governance best practices – and how to apply them today. Join us to uncover Google Cloud’s investment in data governance and learn practical and doable methods around key management and confidential computing. Hear real customer experiences and leave with insights that you can share with your team. Let’s get solving.
Topics that you will hear addressed in this webinar:
- Understanding the basics of Cloud Incident Response (IR) and anticipated data governance trends
- Best practices for key management and apply data governance to your day-to-day
- The next wave of Confidential Computing and how to get started, including a demo
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
It is clear that Data Management best practices exist and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This program describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use and a way to implement this as part of your data program. The approach combines DMBoK content and CMMI/DMM processes – permitting organizations with the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. It also permits organizations to understand:
- Their current Data Management practices
- Strengths that should be leveraged
- Remediation opportunities
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
Keeping the Pulse of Your Data – Why You Need Data Observability to Improve D...DATAVERSITY
With the explosive growth of DataOps to drive faster and more confident business decisions, proactively understanding the quality and health of your data is more important than ever. Data observability is an emerging discipline within data quality used to expose anomalies in data by continuously monitoring and testing data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to trigger alerts when issues are discovered.
Join Julie Skeen and Shalaish Koul from Precisely, to learn how data observability can be used as part of a DataOps strategy to improve data quality and reliability and to prevent data issues from wreaking havoc on your analytics and ensure that your organization can confidently rely on the data used for advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Topics you will hear addressed in this webinar:
Data observability – what is it and how it can complement your data quality strategy
Why now is the time to incorporate data observability into your DataOps strategy
How data observability helps prevent data issues from impacting downstream analytics
Examples of how data observability can be used to prevent real-world issues
As Europe's leading economic powerhouse and the fourth-largest hashtag#economy globally, Germany stands at the forefront of innovation and industrial might. Renowned for its precision engineering and high-tech sectors, Germany's economic structure is heavily supported by a robust service industry, accounting for approximately 68% of its GDP. This economic clout and strategic geopolitical stance position Germany as a focal point in the global cyber threat landscape.
In the face of escalating global tensions, particularly those emanating from geopolitical disputes with nations like hashtag#Russia and hashtag#China, hashtag#Germany has witnessed a significant uptick in targeted cyber operations. Our analysis indicates a marked increase in hashtag#cyberattack sophistication aimed at critical infrastructure and key industrial sectors. These attacks range from ransomware campaigns to hashtag#AdvancedPersistentThreats (hashtag#APTs), threatening national security and business integrity.
🔑 Key findings include:
🔍 Increased frequency and complexity of cyber threats.
🔍 Escalation of state-sponsored and criminally motivated cyber operations.
🔍 Active dark web exchanges of malicious tools and tactics.
Our comprehensive report delves into these challenges, using a blend of open-source and proprietary data collection techniques. By monitoring activity on critical networks and analyzing attack patterns, our team provides a detailed overview of the threats facing German entities.
This report aims to equip stakeholders across public and private sectors with the knowledge to enhance their defensive strategies, reduce exposure to cyber risks, and reinforce Germany's resilience against cyber threats.