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
Real-World Data Governance: Build Your Own Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
There are many tools available to assist your organization to govern your data better. The value from these tools is proven and organizations come to rely on using these tools to deliver high quality and protected data. Some of these tools are available for purchase however many can be developed and provided internally.
This RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will address the design, development and deployment of several key instruments of data governance success. Bob will describe the purpose of these tools, ways to build these tools and how to deliver value from tools you can construct with little or no cost.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss tools focused on:
Formalizing accountability for governing data definition, production and use
Recording critical data governance metadata
Applying governance to existing and/or new processes
Providing necessary awareness and communications
Building and improving data understanding
RWDG Slides: Activate Your Data Governance PolicyDATAVERSITY
What does it mean to activate a Data Governance policy? Can an inactive policy be effective? Data Governance policies can address different things depending on the organization. Some policies are very general and introduce the awareness of formal Data Governance to the organization. Other policies address specific needs like Data Quality, data documentation, and data protection.
Join Bob Seiner and a special guest for this RWDG webinar where they will tackle of the subject of how to develop and deploy an active Data Governance policy. Bob and his guest will provide specific examples of policy components and examples of how organizations use policies to govern their data.
In this webinar, Bob and his guest will discuss:
- When a Data Governance policy is necessary (and when it isn’t)
- The difference between an active and inactive policy
- Tips for activating a Data Governance policy
- Using the policy to drive Data Governance
- Getting people to follow a Data Governance policy
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Roles & ResponsibilitiesDATAVERSITY
Well thought out data governance roles and responsibilities lie at the heart of successful data governance programs. All activities focus on the roles. From how we recognize stewards and apply governance, to how we engage and communicate with the people in the roles – the roles become the operating model for how governance works.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the DATAVERSITY Real-World Data Governance webinar series focused on defining an operating model that can be assimilated to your organization. This model includes an easy-to-explain set of roles and responsibilities aligned with how your organization functions.
The session will cover:
Operational, Tactical, Strategic and Support Roles
How to recognize your stewards and other roles
How to apply roles consistently through all facets of your program
Providing incentive for active involvement
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?
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Policy - Components and ContentDATAVERSITY
Metadata is the most valuable tool of the Data Steward. Where the stewards get their metadata and how they participate in the process of delivering core metadata is an issue organizations have been struggling with for years. The Operational Metadata Store or OMS may be the answer.
The traditional Operational Data Store or ODS is a database designed to integrate data from numerous sources that supports business operations and then feeds that data back into the operational systems. This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner and a panel of industry pundits will hold a lively discussion on the practicality of creating the ODS using metadata as the data, utilizing the metadata from a variety of existing sources to operationalize your data stewards.
The session will focus on:
Identifying the most significant metadata for your organization
Identifying existing sources of metadata – known and hidden
Identifying when that metadata will be most useful to your data stewards
Defining a lifecycle that encourages data steward participation
Delivering a model that incorporates all of the above
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Data Governance and Metadata Best PracticeDATAVERSITY
Best practices are defined as a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. In addition the definition goes on to say that a "best" practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. A best practice can also be considered a target behavior to which you can compare your organization to deliver the actionable steps you can follow to achieve best practice.
In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner focuses on defining, assessing and deploying Data Governance and metadata best practice that will move your organization in the best possible direction of success. Participants can expect to leave the webinar with a working list that can be used for self or contracted assessment.
This session will cover:
Criteria to Determine if Something is Best Practice
Development of Data Governance Best Practice
The Process to Complete the Best Practice Assessment
The Delivery of the Assessment to Management
How to Use the Assessment to Deliver Action
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
Real-World Data Governance: A Different Way of Defining Data Stewards & Stewa...DATAVERSITY
What if everybody in your organization was considered a steward of the data they define, produce and use? What would it take to get that message across? How would we communicate with everybody, all the time, in an effective way … or this just a pipe dream? What exactly would it take to change the mindset of the organization as to the value of governance and stewardship of our most critical of assets? Bob Seiner thinks he has the answer. And he wants to share it with you during this installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series.
Real-World Data Governance: Build Your Own Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
There are many tools available to assist your organization to govern your data better. The value from these tools is proven and organizations come to rely on using these tools to deliver high quality and protected data. Some of these tools are available for purchase however many can be developed and provided internally.
This RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will address the design, development and deployment of several key instruments of data governance success. Bob will describe the purpose of these tools, ways to build these tools and how to deliver value from tools you can construct with little or no cost.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss tools focused on:
Formalizing accountability for governing data definition, production and use
Recording critical data governance metadata
Applying governance to existing and/or new processes
Providing necessary awareness and communications
Building and improving data understanding
RWDG Slides: Activate Your Data Governance PolicyDATAVERSITY
What does it mean to activate a Data Governance policy? Can an inactive policy be effective? Data Governance policies can address different things depending on the organization. Some policies are very general and introduce the awareness of formal Data Governance to the organization. Other policies address specific needs like Data Quality, data documentation, and data protection.
Join Bob Seiner and a special guest for this RWDG webinar where they will tackle of the subject of how to develop and deploy an active Data Governance policy. Bob and his guest will provide specific examples of policy components and examples of how organizations use policies to govern their data.
In this webinar, Bob and his guest will discuss:
- When a Data Governance policy is necessary (and when it isn’t)
- The difference between an active and inactive policy
- Tips for activating a Data Governance policy
- Using the policy to drive Data Governance
- Getting people to follow a Data Governance policy
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Roles & ResponsibilitiesDATAVERSITY
Well thought out data governance roles and responsibilities lie at the heart of successful data governance programs. All activities focus on the roles. From how we recognize stewards and apply governance, to how we engage and communicate with the people in the roles – the roles become the operating model for how governance works.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of the DATAVERSITY Real-World Data Governance webinar series focused on defining an operating model that can be assimilated to your organization. This model includes an easy-to-explain set of roles and responsibilities aligned with how your organization functions.
The session will cover:
Operational, Tactical, Strategic and Support Roles
How to recognize your stewards and other roles
How to apply roles consistently through all facets of your program
Providing incentive for active involvement
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?
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance Policy - Components and ContentDATAVERSITY
Metadata is the most valuable tool of the Data Steward. Where the stewards get their metadata and how they participate in the process of delivering core metadata is an issue organizations have been struggling with for years. The Operational Metadata Store or OMS may be the answer.
The traditional Operational Data Store or ODS is a database designed to integrate data from numerous sources that supports business operations and then feeds that data back into the operational systems. This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner and a panel of industry pundits will hold a lively discussion on the practicality of creating the ODS using metadata as the data, utilizing the metadata from a variety of existing sources to operationalize your data stewards.
The session will focus on:
Identifying the most significant metadata for your organization
Identifying existing sources of metadata – known and hidden
Identifying when that metadata will be most useful to your data stewards
Defining a lifecycle that encourages data steward participation
Delivering a model that incorporates all of the above
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Data Governance and Metadata Best PracticeDATAVERSITY
Best practices are defined as a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. In addition the definition goes on to say that a "best" practice can evolve to become better as improvements are discovered. A best practice can also be considered a target behavior to which you can compare your organization to deliver the actionable steps you can follow to achieve best practice.
In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner focuses on defining, assessing and deploying Data Governance and metadata best practice that will move your organization in the best possible direction of success. Participants can expect to leave the webinar with a working list that can be used for self or contracted assessment.
This session will cover:
Criteria to Determine if Something is Best Practice
Development of Data Governance Best Practice
The Process to Complete the Best Practice Assessment
The Delivery of the Assessment to Management
How to Use the Assessment to Deliver Action
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
Real-World Data Governance: A Different Way of Defining Data Stewards & Stewa...DATAVERSITY
What if everybody in your organization was considered a steward of the data they define, produce and use? What would it take to get that message across? How would we communicate with everybody, all the time, in an effective way … or this just a pipe dream? What exactly would it take to change the mindset of the organization as to the value of governance and stewardship of our most critical of assets? Bob Seiner thinks he has the answer. And he wants to share it with you during this installment of his Real-World Data Governance webinar series.
Real-World Data Governance: Metadata to Empower Data Stewards - Introducing t...DATAVERSITY
Metadata is the most valuable tool of the Data Steward. Where the stewards get their metadata and how they participate in the process of delivering core metadata is an issue organizations have been struggling with for years. The Operational Metadata Store or OMS may be the answer.
The traditional Operational Data Store or ODS is a database designed to integrate data from numerous sources that supports business operations and then feeds that data back into the operational systems. This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner and a panel of industry pundits will hold a lively discussion on the practicality of creating the ODS using metadata as the data, utilizing the metadata from a variety of existing sources to operationalize your data stewards.
The session will focus on:
Identifying the most significant metadata for your organization
Identifying existing sources of metadata – known and hidden
Identifying when that metadata will be most useful to your data stewards
Defining a lifecycle that encourages data steward participation
Delivering a model that incorporates all of the above
RWDG Webinar: Writing Data Governance Policies & ProceduresDATAVERSITY
A policy is a measured order of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Data Governance requires and delivers a way to get to these outcomes. Writing this policy and the associated procedures properly is paramount to program success.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will speak about the core components that make up an effective Data Governance policy and what it takes to gain acceptance of this policy. Creating acceptable organizational policy may be easier than you think.
This webinar addresses:
* Essential Components of a Data Governance Policy
* Crafting Basic Data Governance Policy Principles
* Verbiage and Diagrams to Build a Data Governance Policy
* Why Policy is Necessary for Your Program
* Process and Procedure to Support the Policy
RWDG Webinar: Agile Data Governance - How to Apply Governance to AgileDATAVERSITY
Agile development efforts and Data Governance efforts are at odds with each other. Even though they both have the sponsorship at the highest level of the organization, there is disconnect when it comes to understanding how the two disciplines interact. Supporters of both disciplines swear by their trade and leave little wiggle room when it comes to working together. Organizations want FAST and they require ACCURATE DATA. Organizations require both.
Bob Seiner will address Agile Data Governance in this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series. Agile efforts are typically corporate priority efforts. Data as an asset is an integral corporate priority. Both disciplines are here to stay to address rapidly changing business requirements and improved analytical and data protection capabilities. Organizations must address this separation and they must act quickly.
This webinar will focus on:
•Relating the Disciplines for Senior Leadership
•Finding Common Ground between Agile and Data Governance
•Applying Data Governance to Agile Efforts
•Best Practices for Agile Data Governance
•Gaining Agile Support for Data Activities
Successful Data Governance Models and FrameworksDATAVERSITY
There are three models that any organization can follow when implementing a Data Governance program. Programs can be developed to “command-and-control” the data. Programs can be developed to focus on a specific discipline such as protecting the data. And programs can focus on formalizing accountability for data across the board. Picking the model for your organization is the trick.
The treat is what will be discussed in this Real World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner. Bob will present a detailed assessment of each of the three models mentioned above. Many of the components of a successful program depend on the model selected. This webinar will outline and discuss these components.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
• The three Data Governance models and frameworks
• Comparison of the models
• The up-side and downside of each model
• How to select the appropriate model for your organization
• Detailing the tricks while providing the treats
Real-World Data Governance: Navigating the Ocean of Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
What exactly is a Data Governance tool? Is it what the software companies say it is? Is it something we can develop internally? Is it the traditional data dictionary or business glossary? The answers to these questions are in reverse Yes, Yes, Yes and whatever you say it is. This needs to be explained.
This month’s Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner will look at the types of Data Governance Tools on the market and the types of tools that can be delivered internally while evaluating the pros, cons and considerations for selecting the combination that will enhance the capability of your Data Governance program.
This session will cover:
How to Develop Data Governance Tool Requirements
Tools that are Available on the Market and Their Capabilities
Tools that can be Delivered Internally
How to Leverage Tools You Already Own
How to Justify the Purchase of Available Software
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 Governance & Data Steward CertificationDATAVERSITY
Becoming certified means that you have been provided some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit and that you passed that review. Being certified can make the difference in getting a job or that desirable position. Many people are seeking certification to differentiate themselves from their competition. It makes sense.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of Real-World Data Governance to explore the depth of necessity of certification in the field of data governance and the responsibility of the data stewards. Bob will talk about the different certifications available and direct you to the one that is appropriate according to your responsibilities. It may not be as easy as you think. Learn why in this webinar.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
The Value of Being Certified
Categories of Available Certification
What to look for from Certification
Whether Certification is Right for You
Internal Versus External Certification
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
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 Webinar: DIY and Purchased Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
Data Governance tools are enablers to program success. The metadata stored in these tools become the backbone of a successful Data Governance program. The question of whether to build your own Data Governance tools versus purchasing Data Governance tools must be answered early in the program development process. There are benefits and drawbacks to either way you answer this question.
This month’s RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner focuses on making smart choices when it comes to selecting or developing the tools to support your Data Governance program. Bob will share his experiences of evaluating tools on the market and also share templates and tools that he has created to assist programs through the growing pains of success. There is something in the webinar for newbies and experienced practitioners.
In this webinar Bob will address:
• How to answer the Build vs Buy question
• Criteria for evaluating tools on the market
• Examples of tools you can create yourself
• Complimentary nature of DIY and purchased tools
• Cost and benefits of Data Governance tool choices
RWDG Slides: What is a Data Steward to do?DATAVERSITY
Most people recognize that Data Stewards play an essential role in their Data Governance and Information Governance programs. However, the manner in which Data Stewards are used is not the same from organization to organization. How you use Data Stewards depends on your goals for Data Governance.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share different ways to activate Data Stewards based on the purpose of your program. Bob will talk about options to extend existing Data Steward activity and how to build new functionality into the role of your Data Stewards.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- The crucial role of the Data Steward in Data Governance
- Different types of Data Stewards and what they do
- Aligning Data Steward activities with program goals
- Improving existing Data Steward actions
- Finding new ways to use your Data Stewards
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
Data Governance and the Internet of ThingsDATAVERSITY
Several years back there were already more devices connected to the internet than people. It is estimated that more than 20 billion devices will be connected by 2020 and that number will never fall. Connecting to the internet implies the transfer of data. The numbers of devices and what they transfer imply a lot of data. Who is governing all of this data?
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of Real-World Data Governance to expand your appreciation of the data issues that pertain to the Internet of Things (IoT). You may be surprised how much of what you already know about data governance applies to governing this new definition, production and use of data.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
•Clear Description of IoT Focused on the data
•Addressing Data Management Concerns
•Applications of IoT Data
•Dimensions of IoT Data Processes and Quality
•Risk Associated with Interoperability
RWDG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Smart DataDATAVERSITY
Does your organization have smart data? How does your company define smart data? Smart data is data that is used in non-traditional ways such as through machine learning, through the semantic web and by taking advantage of new data opportunities such as the Internet of Thing. Businesses have embraced the importance of Big Data. Now we are being asked to embrace and govern Smart Data.
Join Bob Seiner and a Smart Data Expert for this Real-World Data Governance webinar focused on the governing the use of emerging data technologies and smart data practices as a way of maximizing the value of data in your organization. Smart data is new. Smart data will be the next Big Data. Attend this webinar to learn why Smart Data must be governed.
In the webinar, Bob and a special guest will share:
• An easy to understand definition of Smart Data
• Why you should provide a framework to govern Smart Data
• How Smart Data Governance sources differs from traditional Data Governance
• How Smart Data can and will be used in the present and future
• What it means to provide a Framework to govern Smart Data
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: Corporate Data Governance - The CDO is the Data Governance ChiefDATAVERSITY
The CDO is a relatively new and evolving role. Many CDO job descriptions detail specific Data Governance responsibilities. Some CDO job descriptions read all-data-governance and all-the-time. It has become obvious. The CDO is the new chief of Data Governance.
In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner and special guest Anthony Algmin will focus on the evolution of the Chief Data Officer role and associated responsibilities. Someone must lead Data Governance and the CDO is the obvious choice. Attend this webinar to learn why.
In this webinar, Bob will present:
• A Detailed CDO Job Description
• Why the CDO is the Data Governance Chief
• The Makeup of the Chief’s Tribe
• Lessons Learned from the CDO’s Office
• Suggestions for new and existing CDOs
RWDG Slides: The Stewardship Approach to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Everybody in the organization is a data steward if they are held accountable for their relationship to data. Understanding who does what with the data is an easy way to recognize who your data stewards are. The data stewards are the people your Data Governance program will rely on.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s webinar, where when he will focus on the role that lies at the heart of any approach to a Data Governance program. The first challenge of many programs is to recognize the stewards and assist them in seeing themselves in that important role.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Why everybody is a data steward
• The stewards’ impact on the complexity of your program
• How to leverage existing data responsibility
• Engaging stewards based on their relationship to data
• How to follow a Stewardship Approach
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
Real-World Data Governance: Metadata to Empower Data Stewards - Introducing t...DATAVERSITY
Metadata is the most valuable tool of the Data Steward. Where the stewards get their metadata and how they participate in the process of delivering core metadata is an issue organizations have been struggling with for years. The Operational Metadata Store or OMS may be the answer.
The traditional Operational Data Store or ODS is a database designed to integrate data from numerous sources that supports business operations and then feeds that data back into the operational systems. This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner and a panel of industry pundits will hold a lively discussion on the practicality of creating the ODS using metadata as the data, utilizing the metadata from a variety of existing sources to operationalize your data stewards.
The session will focus on:
Identifying the most significant metadata for your organization
Identifying existing sources of metadata – known and hidden
Identifying when that metadata will be most useful to your data stewards
Defining a lifecycle that encourages data steward participation
Delivering a model that incorporates all of the above
RWDG Webinar: Writing Data Governance Policies & ProceduresDATAVERSITY
A policy is a measured order of principles to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes. Data Governance requires and delivers a way to get to these outcomes. Writing this policy and the associated procedures properly is paramount to program success.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will speak about the core components that make up an effective Data Governance policy and what it takes to gain acceptance of this policy. Creating acceptable organizational policy may be easier than you think.
This webinar addresses:
* Essential Components of a Data Governance Policy
* Crafting Basic Data Governance Policy Principles
* Verbiage and Diagrams to Build a Data Governance Policy
* Why Policy is Necessary for Your Program
* Process and Procedure to Support the Policy
RWDG Webinar: Agile Data Governance - How to Apply Governance to AgileDATAVERSITY
Agile development efforts and Data Governance efforts are at odds with each other. Even though they both have the sponsorship at the highest level of the organization, there is disconnect when it comes to understanding how the two disciplines interact. Supporters of both disciplines swear by their trade and leave little wiggle room when it comes to working together. Organizations want FAST and they require ACCURATE DATA. Organizations require both.
Bob Seiner will address Agile Data Governance in this month’s installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series. Agile efforts are typically corporate priority efforts. Data as an asset is an integral corporate priority. Both disciplines are here to stay to address rapidly changing business requirements and improved analytical and data protection capabilities. Organizations must address this separation and they must act quickly.
This webinar will focus on:
•Relating the Disciplines for Senior Leadership
•Finding Common Ground between Agile and Data Governance
•Applying Data Governance to Agile Efforts
•Best Practices for Agile Data Governance
•Gaining Agile Support for Data Activities
Successful Data Governance Models and FrameworksDATAVERSITY
There are three models that any organization can follow when implementing a Data Governance program. Programs can be developed to “command-and-control” the data. Programs can be developed to focus on a specific discipline such as protecting the data. And programs can focus on formalizing accountability for data across the board. Picking the model for your organization is the trick.
The treat is what will be discussed in this Real World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner. Bob will present a detailed assessment of each of the three models mentioned above. Many of the components of a successful program depend on the model selected. This webinar will outline and discuss these components.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
• The three Data Governance models and frameworks
• Comparison of the models
• The up-side and downside of each model
• How to select the appropriate model for your organization
• Detailing the tricks while providing the treats
Real-World Data Governance: Navigating the Ocean of Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
What exactly is a Data Governance tool? Is it what the software companies say it is? Is it something we can develop internally? Is it the traditional data dictionary or business glossary? The answers to these questions are in reverse Yes, Yes, Yes and whatever you say it is. This needs to be explained.
This month’s Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner will look at the types of Data Governance Tools on the market and the types of tools that can be delivered internally while evaluating the pros, cons and considerations for selecting the combination that will enhance the capability of your Data Governance program.
This session will cover:
How to Develop Data Governance Tool Requirements
Tools that are Available on the Market and Their Capabilities
Tools that can be Delivered Internally
How to Leverage Tools You Already Own
How to Justify the Purchase of Available Software
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 Governance & Data Steward CertificationDATAVERSITY
Becoming certified means that you have been provided some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit and that you passed that review. Being certified can make the difference in getting a job or that desirable position. Many people are seeking certification to differentiate themselves from their competition. It makes sense.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of Real-World Data Governance to explore the depth of necessity of certification in the field of data governance and the responsibility of the data stewards. Bob will talk about the different certifications available and direct you to the one that is appropriate according to your responsibilities. It may not be as easy as you think. Learn why in this webinar.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
The Value of Being Certified
Categories of Available Certification
What to look for from Certification
Whether Certification is Right for You
Internal Versus External Certification
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
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 Webinar: DIY and Purchased Data Governance ToolsDATAVERSITY
Data Governance tools are enablers to program success. The metadata stored in these tools become the backbone of a successful Data Governance program. The question of whether to build your own Data Governance tools versus purchasing Data Governance tools must be answered early in the program development process. There are benefits and drawbacks to either way you answer this question.
This month’s RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner focuses on making smart choices when it comes to selecting or developing the tools to support your Data Governance program. Bob will share his experiences of evaluating tools on the market and also share templates and tools that he has created to assist programs through the growing pains of success. There is something in the webinar for newbies and experienced practitioners.
In this webinar Bob will address:
• How to answer the Build vs Buy question
• Criteria for evaluating tools on the market
• Examples of tools you can create yourself
• Complimentary nature of DIY and purchased tools
• Cost and benefits of Data Governance tool choices
RWDG Slides: What is a Data Steward to do?DATAVERSITY
Most people recognize that Data Stewards play an essential role in their Data Governance and Information Governance programs. However, the manner in which Data Stewards are used is not the same from organization to organization. How you use Data Stewards depends on your goals for Data Governance.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will share different ways to activate Data Stewards based on the purpose of your program. Bob will talk about options to extend existing Data Steward activity and how to build new functionality into the role of your Data Stewards.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- The crucial role of the Data Steward in Data Governance
- Different types of Data Stewards and what they do
- Aligning Data Steward activities with program goals
- Improving existing Data Steward actions
- Finding new ways to use your Data Stewards
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
Data Governance and the Internet of ThingsDATAVERSITY
Several years back there were already more devices connected to the internet than people. It is estimated that more than 20 billion devices will be connected by 2020 and that number will never fall. Connecting to the internet implies the transfer of data. The numbers of devices and what they transfer imply a lot of data. Who is governing all of this data?
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s installment of Real-World Data Governance to expand your appreciation of the data issues that pertain to the Internet of Things (IoT). You may be surprised how much of what you already know about data governance applies to governing this new definition, production and use of data.
In this webinar Bob will talk about:
•Clear Description of IoT Focused on the data
•Addressing Data Management Concerns
•Applications of IoT Data
•Dimensions of IoT Data Processes and Quality
•Risk Associated with Interoperability
RWDG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Smart DataDATAVERSITY
Does your organization have smart data? How does your company define smart data? Smart data is data that is used in non-traditional ways such as through machine learning, through the semantic web and by taking advantage of new data opportunities such as the Internet of Thing. Businesses have embraced the importance of Big Data. Now we are being asked to embrace and govern Smart Data.
Join Bob Seiner and a Smart Data Expert for this Real-World Data Governance webinar focused on the governing the use of emerging data technologies and smart data practices as a way of maximizing the value of data in your organization. Smart data is new. Smart data will be the next Big Data. Attend this webinar to learn why Smart Data must be governed.
In the webinar, Bob and a special guest will share:
• An easy to understand definition of Smart Data
• Why you should provide a framework to govern Smart Data
• How Smart Data Governance sources differs from traditional Data Governance
• How Smart Data can and will be used in the present and future
• What it means to provide a Framework to govern Smart Data
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: Corporate Data Governance - The CDO is the Data Governance ChiefDATAVERSITY
The CDO is a relatively new and evolving role. Many CDO job descriptions detail specific Data Governance responsibilities. Some CDO job descriptions read all-data-governance and all-the-time. It has become obvious. The CDO is the new chief of Data Governance.
In this Real-World Data Governance webinar, Bob Seiner and special guest Anthony Algmin will focus on the evolution of the Chief Data Officer role and associated responsibilities. Someone must lead Data Governance and the CDO is the obvious choice. Attend this webinar to learn why.
In this webinar, Bob will present:
• A Detailed CDO Job Description
• Why the CDO is the Data Governance Chief
• The Makeup of the Chief’s Tribe
• Lessons Learned from the CDO’s Office
• Suggestions for new and existing CDOs
RWDG Slides: The Stewardship Approach to Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
Everybody in the organization is a data steward if they are held accountable for their relationship to data. Understanding who does what with the data is an easy way to recognize who your data stewards are. The data stewards are the people your Data Governance program will rely on.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s webinar, where when he will focus on the role that lies at the heart of any approach to a Data Governance program. The first challenge of many programs is to recognize the stewards and assist them in seeing themselves in that important role.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
• Why everybody is a data steward
• The stewards’ impact on the complexity of your program
• How to leverage existing data responsibility
• Engaging stewards based on their relationship to data
• How to follow a Stewardship Approach
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 Management 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?
Join Bob Seiner and Anthony Algmin for a lively, interactive, and entertaining discussion targeted at providing attendees ways to consider relating these two disciplines. You’ve never attended a session like this.
In this session, Bob and Anthony will discuss:
- The similarities between Data Management and Data Governance
- The differences between the two
- How to use Data Management to sell Data Governance … and the other way around
- Deciding if the two disciplines are the same … or different
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
Activate Data Governance Using the Data CatalogDATAVERSITY
Data Governance programs depend on the activation of data stewards that are held formally accountable for how they manage data. The data catalog is a critical tool to enable your stewards to contribute and interact with an inventory of metadata about the data definition, production, and usage. This interaction is active Data Governance in the truest sense of the word.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will share tips and techniques focused on activating your data stewards through a data catalog. Data Governance programs that involve stewards in daily activities are more likely to demonstrate value from their data-intensive investments.
Bob will address the following in this webinar:
- A comparison of active and passive Data Governance
- What it means to have an active Data Governance program
- How a data catalog tool can be used to activate data stewards
- The role a data catalog plays in Data Governance
- The metadata in the data catalog will not govern itself
RWDG Webinar Everybody is a Data StewardDATAVERSITY
Leadership is beginning to recognize that everyone that has a relationship to your data must be held formally accountable for that relationship. People that define data must look to see if the data they need is already available. People that produce data must understand the impact of what they produce. People that use data must be held accountable for following internal and external rules. Almost everybody has a relationship to the data.
Join Bob Seiner for the June installment of the RWDG webinar series to gain a better understanding of the “everybody is a data steward” approach to stewardship. The future of data stewardship will not only engage the few select subject matter stewards but will be opened to engage everybody in the organization. This open view of stewardship may need to be addressed by your data governance program.
Join Bob Seiner to learn about:
How to expand a data governance program to include a role for everybody
How to define stewardship to embrace formalized accountability
How to communicate with everybody in the organization no matter your size
How to embrace perspectives associated with people’s relationships to data
How to deal with the idea that “everybody is a data steward”
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
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
Real-World Data Governance: Governing Data – Big and Small, Come One Come AllDATAVERSITY
With Big Data being such a hot topic, a frequent question for panels at conferences and on webinars has been “is there any such thing as Big Data Governance?” Bob Seiner has been asked that question many times in many venues. In this webinar Bob tries to answer that question once and for all. Perhaps you will agree with him. As always, there is a strong chance you won’t.
As many organizations consider Big Data solutions they recognize that there are aspects of big data that require specific attention. Some of these management issues are the same as issues with normal size or small data. Some of these management issues differ. What are the differences and what impact do they have on the governance of that data?
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY for a Real-World Data Governance webinar focused on investigating the similarities and differences between managing and governing big data versus small data.
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Governance for Master DataDATAVERSITY
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY for the July installment of the Real-World Data Governance webinar series where the topic will be formally applying Data Governance to Master Data.
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
Real-World Data Governance: How to Write a Data Steward Job DescriptionDATAVERSITY
A Data Steward Job Description is a list of job responsibilities that a Data Steward uses for tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of them in their everyday role. It includes to whom they report, the qualifications or skills needed by the person, and sometimes even includes a salary range. The job description of a Data Steward is not a new job description or different from their other job description. Is this confusing? We thought so.
This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner will focus on defining the typical responsibilities for every data steward all at once, no matter the industry, their role in the organization, or their role in the Data Governance program. Bob will focus on a list of competencies required for people to become great Data Stewards.
The session will include:
Components of a Data Steward Job Description
Seiner’s Rules for Becoming a Data Steward and How They Apply
Getting the Data Steward Involved in the Writing
Evaluating a Data Steward Based on the Job Description
Is a Job Description Even Necessary
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Big Data Governance - What Is It and Why ...DATAVERSITY
Big Data is all the rage. Everybody is asking about Big Data, researching Big Data, considering Big Data, some are even doing Big Data. Certainly many people are asking questions about Big Data Governance. We have some answers for them.
This Real-World Data Governance webinar with Bob Seiner will focus on the strength of Big Data Governance as a concept and a practice and will highlight how the concepts of each, Big Data and Data Governance, both benefit and hurt each other.
This session will include:
Defining Big Data Governance
Ways to Govern Big Data
Making the Connection for IT and Business People
Determining the Vitality of Big Data Governance
Considerations for Big Data Governance
How to Implement Data Governance Best PracticeDATAVERSITY
Data Governance Best Practice is defined as basis and guidelines for suggested governing activities. Organizations define best practices to be used as a point of comparison when determining their readiness, willingness and actions necessary to put a Data Governance program in place. But what are the best practices and how can they be implemented? This webinar will address these questions and more.
In this RWDG webinar, Bob Seiner will talk about how to create, validate, assess and implement Data Governance Best Practice with immediate impact on present and future Data Governance activities. The result of a Best Practice assessment is a thorough actionable plan focused on demonstrating value from your Data Governance program.This webinar will cover:
• Two Criteria for Data Governance Best Practice Development
• How to Assess against Best Practice to Build Program Success
• Examples of Industry Selected DG Best Practice
• How to Communicate DG Best Practice in a Non-Threatening Way
• How to Build DG Best Practice into Daily Operations
RWDG Slides: Data Governance versus Information GovernanceDATAVERSITY
If Data Governance is the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets, what is Information Governance? How are they the same and how do they differ? This is a question pondered by the greatest minds in Data Management. And there is no correct answer.
Join Bob Seiner for this month’s RWDG webinar where he will compare Data and Information Governance and share situations when it is makes sense to call it one over the other. Most organizations name their program after they select exactly what will be governed and how that governed “stuff” will be used. What are you governing?
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- Describing what it means to “Govern” something
- How to define Governance in both contexts
- Differences between Data and Information Governance
- How to select what to call your program
- Why what you call your program matters … or does it?
Real-World Data Governance Webinar: Agile and Data Governance - Bridging the GapDATAVERSITY
The concepts of both Data Governance and Agile Development continue to be applied in many organizations with differing levels of success. Nobody is surprised that Data Governance and Agile Methods can be at odds with each other. Perhaps they can partner to demonstrate success in both disciplines. Can Data Governance be applied to agile projects? Can Data Governance be applied in an agile way? These are two fascinating questions.
Join Robert S. Seiner for this RWDG Webinar to explore ideas for how to stay Agile in our Data Governance efforts and how to Govern Agile efforts. The subject of Agile always seems to spark interest from skeptics and believers alike. This session focuses on discovering ways of bridging the gap.
This session will cover:
Data Governance and Agile Roles & Responsibilities
Applying Governance to Agile Projects
Being Agile with our Governance Requirements
Can the two coexist? “Selling” Agile to Governance People and the other way around
Real-World Data Governance: Modeling Data GovernanceDATAVERSITY
There are a lot of ways Data Modeling and Data Governance are connected. The discipline of quality data definition through Data Modeling, involving technicians and business people, is obvious. The practices of normalization, cardinality, business rules, domain definition … all reek of best practices in data discipline. This is what Data Governance is all about.
Join Bob Seiner and data modeling guru Donna Burbank for a Real-World Data Governance webinar that will focus on using a Data Model of the components of Data Governance as a way of describing the components themselves, the relationships between the components of Data Governance, and how to use this model as a way of getting everybody in your organization on-board with Data Governance.
The session will cover:
Data Modeling as a part of Data Governance
The Components of Data Governance as Entities
The Entity Relationships of Data Governance
Attribution of Data Governance Entities
Using the Model as a Communications Tool
Real-World Data Governance: Data Governance ExpectationsDATAVERSITY
When starting a Data Governance program, significant time, effort and bandwidth is typically spent selling the concept of data governance and telling people in your organization what data governance will do for them. This may not be the best strategy to take. We should focus on making Data Governance THEIR idea not ours.
Shouldn’t the strategy be that we get the business people from our organization to tell US why data governance is necessary and what data governance will do for them? If only we could get them to tell us these things? Maybe we can.
Join Bob Seiner and DATAVERSITY for this informative Real-World Data Governance webinar that will focus on getting THEM to tell US where data governance will add value. Seiner will review techniques for acquiring this information and will share information of where this information will add specific value to your data governance program. Some of those places may surprise you.
RWDG Slides: A Complete Set of Data Governance Roles & ResponsibilitiesDATAVERSITY
Roles and responsibilities are the backbone to a successful Data Governance program. The way you define and utilize the roles will be the biggest factor of program success. From Data Stewards to the steering committee and everyone in between, people will need to understand the role they play, why they are in the role and how the role fits in with their existing job.
Join Bob Seiner for this RWDG webinar where he will provide a complete and detailed set of Data Governance roles and responsibilities. Bob will share an Operating Model of Roles and Responsibilities that can be customized to address the specific needs of your organization.
In this webinar, Bob will discuss:
- Executive, Strategic, Tactical, Operational, and Support Level Roles
- How to customize an Operating Model to fit your organization
- Detailed Responsibilities for each level
- Defining who participates at each level
- Using working teams to implement tactical solutions
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
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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.
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
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.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).