This document summarizes a presentation on self-service data analysis, data wrangling, data munging, and how they fit together with data modeling. It discusses how these techniques allow business stakeholders and data scientists to prepare and transform data for analysis without extensive technical expertise. While these tools increase flexibility, they can also decrease governance if not used properly. The document advocates finding a balance between managed data assets and exploratory analysis to maximize insights while maintaining data quality.
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
Webinar: Decoding the Mystery - How to Know if You Need a Data Catalog, a Dat...DATAVERSITY
There’s a lot of confusion out there about the differences between a data catalog, a data dictionary and a business glossary, and it's not always easy to understand who needs which and why. Join Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D., President of Data Millennium, and Amichai Fenner, Product Lead at Octopai, as they help decode the mystery. Spoiler alert: one of these enables collaboration across BI and IT, which is it?
Linking Data Governance to Business GoalsPrecisely
The importance of data to businesses has increased exponentially over recent years as companies seek benefits such as gains in efficiency, the ability to respond to growing privacy regulations scale quickly and increased and increase customer loyalty.
Despite being a vital part of any Data Transformation, Data Governance has sometimes been misrepresented as a restrictive and controlling process leaving governance leaders having to continually make the case for business buy-in.
In this on-demand webinar we will explore the concept of business-first Data Governance, an approach that promotes adoption by the organisation, lays the foundation for data integrity and consistently delivers business value in the long term.
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
Overcoming the Challenges of your Master Data Management JourneyJean-Michel Franco
This Presentaion runs you through all the key steps of an MDM initiative. It considers and showcase the key milestones and building blocks that you will have to roll-out to make your MDM
journey
-> Please contact Talend for a dedicated interactive sessions with a storyboard by customer domain
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy — Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Tackling Data Quality problems requires more than a series of tactical, one-off improvement projects. By their nature, many Data Quality problems extend across and often beyond an organization. Addressing these issues requires a holistic architectural approach combining people, process, and technology. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide practical ways to control Data Quality issues in your organization.
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
Webinar: Decoding the Mystery - How to Know if You Need a Data Catalog, a Dat...DATAVERSITY
There’s a lot of confusion out there about the differences between a data catalog, a data dictionary and a business glossary, and it's not always easy to understand who needs which and why. Join Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D., President of Data Millennium, and Amichai Fenner, Product Lead at Octopai, as they help decode the mystery. Spoiler alert: one of these enables collaboration across BI and IT, which is it?
Linking Data Governance to Business GoalsPrecisely
The importance of data to businesses has increased exponentially over recent years as companies seek benefits such as gains in efficiency, the ability to respond to growing privacy regulations scale quickly and increased and increase customer loyalty.
Despite being a vital part of any Data Transformation, Data Governance has sometimes been misrepresented as a restrictive and controlling process leaving governance leaders having to continually make the case for business buy-in.
In this on-demand webinar we will explore the concept of business-first Data Governance, an approach that promotes adoption by the organisation, lays the foundation for data integrity and consistently delivers business value in the long term.
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
Overcoming the Challenges of your Master Data Management JourneyJean-Michel Franco
This Presentaion runs you through all the key steps of an MDM initiative. It considers and showcase the key milestones and building blocks that you will have to roll-out to make your MDM
journey
-> Please contact Talend for a dedicated interactive sessions with a storyboard by customer domain
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy — Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace from digital transformation, to marketing, to customer centricity, population health, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify data strategy and data architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
Improving Data Literacy Around Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Data Literacy is an increasing concern, as organizations look to become more data-driven. As the rise of the citizen data scientist and self-service data analytics becomes increasingly common, the need for business users to understand core Data Management fundamentals is more important than ever. At the same time, technical roles need a strong foundation in Data Architecture principles and best practices. Join this webinar to understand the key components of Data Literacy, and practical ways to implement a Data Literacy program in your organization.
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
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
Gartner will further examine key trends shaping the future MDM market during the Gartner MDM Summit 2011, 2-3 February in London. More information at www.europe.gartner.com/mdm
Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance – Working TogetherDATAVERSITY
The data disciplines listed in the title must work together. The key to success requires understanding the boundaries and overlaps between the disciplines. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to present the relationships between the disciplines in a simple all-in diagram? At the end of this webinar, you will be able to do just that.
This new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will outline how Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance can be optimized to work together. Bob will share a diagram that has successfully communicated the relationship between these disciplines to leadership resulting in the disciplines working in harmony and delivering success.
Bob will share the following in this webinar:
- Categories of disciplines focused on managing data as an asset
- A definition of Data Management that embraces numerous data disciplines
- The importance of Metadata -Management to all data disciplines
- Why data and metadata require formal governance
- A graphic that effectively exhibits the relationship between the disciplines
Real-World DG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Success DATAVERSITY
A Data Governance Framework must include best practices, a practical set of roles & responsibilities for Data Governance built specifically for your organization, a plan for communicating with the entire organization and an action plan for applying governance in effective and measurable ways.
Join Bob Seiner for this Real-World Data Governance webinar as he discusses how to stay practical and work within the culture of your organization to develop and deliver a Data Governance Framework to meet your specifications and the business’ expectations.
This session will focus on:
Defining a Non-Invasive Operating Model of Roles & Responsibilities
Clearly Stating the Difference between Executive, Strategic, Tactical, Operational & Supporting Roles
Defining Data Stewards, Data Stewardship and How to Steward the Data
Recognizing & Identifying People into Roles Rather than Handing them to People as New Responsibilities
Leveraging the Framework to Implement a Successful Data Governance Program
Data Catalog for Better Data Discovery and GovernanceDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2Vq9FR0
Data catalogs are en vogue answering critical data governance questions like “Where all does my data reside?” “What other entities are associated with my data?” “What are the definitions of the data fields?” and “Who accesses the data?” Data catalogs maintain the necessary business metadata to answer these questions and many more. But that’s not enough. For it to be useful, data catalogs need to deliver these answers to the business users right within the applications they use.
In this session, you will learn:
*How data catalogs enable enterprise-wide data governance regimes
*What key capability requirements should you expect in data catalogs
*How data virtualization combines dynamic data catalogs with delivery
The Data Driven University - Automating Data Governance and Stewardship in Au...Pieter De Leenheer
Data Governance and Stewardship requires automation of business semantics management at its nucleus, in order to achieve data trust between business and IT communities in the organization. University divisions operate highly autonomously and decentralized, and are often geographically distributed. Hence, they benefit more from an collaborative and agile approach to Data Governance and Stewardship approach that adapts to its nature.
In this lecture, we start by reviewing 'C' in ICT and reflect on the dilemma: what is the most important quality of data being shared: truth or trust? We review the wide spectrum of business semantics. We visit the different phases of growing data pain as an organization expands, and we map each phase on this spectrum of semantics.
Next, we introduce our principles and framework for business semantics management to support Data Governance and Stewardship focusing on the structural (what), processual (how) and organizational (who) components. We illustrate with use cases from Stanford University, George Washington University and Public Science and Innovation Administrations.
Enterprise Data Management Framework OverviewJohn Bao Vuu
A solid data management foundation to support big data analytics and more importantly a data-driven culture is necessary for today’s organizations.
A mature Data Management Program can reduce operational costs and enable rapid business growth and development. Data Management program must evolve to monetize data assets, deliver breakthrough innovation and help drive business strategies in new markets.
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, customer centricity, 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.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
Data Catalogues - Architecting for Collaboration & Self-ServiceDATAVERSITY
The interest in Data Catalogs is growing as more business & technical users are looking to gain insight from data using a self-service approach. Architectural techniques for Data Provisioning and Metadata Cataloging have evolved to cater to these new audiences and ways of working. This webinar provides concrete methods of architecting your Self-service BI & Analytics environment to foster collaboration while at the same time maintaining Data Quality and reducing risk.
Wonder what this data mesh stuff is all about? What are the principles of data mesh? Can you or should you consider data mesh as the approach for your analytics platform? And most important - how can Snowflake help?
Given in Montreal on 14-Dec-2021
DAS Slides: Metadata Management From Technical Architecture & Business Techni...DATAVERSITY
Metadata provides context for the “who, what, when, where, and why” of data, and is of critical interest in today’s data-driven business environment. Since metadata is created and used by both business and IT, architectural and organizational techniques need to encompass a holistic approach across the organization to address all audiences. This webinar provides practical ways to manage metadata in your organization using both technical architecture and business techniques.
The Business Value of Metadata for Data GovernanceRoland Bullivant
In today’s digital economy, data drives the core processes that deliver profitability and growth - from marketing, to finance, to sales, supply chain, and more. It is also likely that for many large organizations much of their key data is retained in application packages from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. In order to ensure that their foundational data infrastructure runs smoothly, most organizations have adopted a data governance initiative. These typically focus on the people and processes around managing data and information. Without an actionable link to the physical systems that run key business processes, however, governance programs can often lack the ‘teeth’ to effectively implement business change.
Metadata management is a process that can link business processes and drivers with the technical applications that support them. This makes data governance actionable and relevant in today’s fast-paced and results-driven business environment. One of the challenges facing data governance teams however, is the variety in format, accessibility and complexity of metadata across the organization’s systems.
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
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.
LDM Webinar: Data Modeling & Business IntelligenceDATAVERSITY
Business Intelligence (BI) is a valuable way to use information to show the overall health and performance of the organization. At its core is quality, well-structured data that allows for successful reporting and analytics. A data model helps provide both the business definitions as well as the structural optimization needed for successful BI implementations.
Join this webinar to see how a data model underpins business intelligence and analytics in today’s organization.
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Improving Data Literacy Around Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Data Literacy is an increasing concern, as organizations look to become more data-driven. As the rise of the citizen data scientist and self-service data analytics becomes increasingly common, the need for business users to understand core Data Management fundamentals is more important than ever. At the same time, technical roles need a strong foundation in Data Architecture principles and best practices. Join this webinar to understand the key components of Data Literacy, and practical ways to implement a Data Literacy program in your organization.
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
Gartner: Master Data Management FunctionalityGartner
Gartner will further examine key trends shaping the future MDM market during the Gartner MDM Summit 2011, 2-3 February in London. More information at www.europe.gartner.com/mdm
Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance – Working TogetherDATAVERSITY
The data disciplines listed in the title must work together. The key to success requires understanding the boundaries and overlaps between the disciplines. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to present the relationships between the disciplines in a simple all-in diagram? At the end of this webinar, you will be able to do just that.
This new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will outline how Data Management, Metadata Management, and Data Governance can be optimized to work together. Bob will share a diagram that has successfully communicated the relationship between these disciplines to leadership resulting in the disciplines working in harmony and delivering success.
Bob will share the following in this webinar:
- Categories of disciplines focused on managing data as an asset
- A definition of Data Management that embraces numerous data disciplines
- The importance of Metadata -Management to all data disciplines
- Why data and metadata require formal governance
- A graphic that effectively exhibits the relationship between the disciplines
Real-World DG Webinar: A Data Governance Framework for Success DATAVERSITY
A Data Governance Framework must include best practices, a practical set of roles & responsibilities for Data Governance built specifically for your organization, a plan for communicating with the entire organization and an action plan for applying governance in effective and measurable ways.
Join Bob Seiner for this Real-World Data Governance webinar as he discusses how to stay practical and work within the culture of your organization to develop and deliver a Data Governance Framework to meet your specifications and the business’ expectations.
This session will focus on:
Defining a Non-Invasive Operating Model of Roles & Responsibilities
Clearly Stating the Difference between Executive, Strategic, Tactical, Operational & Supporting Roles
Defining Data Stewards, Data Stewardship and How to Steward the Data
Recognizing & Identifying People into Roles Rather than Handing them to People as New Responsibilities
Leveraging the Framework to Implement a Successful Data Governance Program
Data Catalog for Better Data Discovery and GovernanceDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://buff.ly/2Vq9FR0
Data catalogs are en vogue answering critical data governance questions like “Where all does my data reside?” “What other entities are associated with my data?” “What are the definitions of the data fields?” and “Who accesses the data?” Data catalogs maintain the necessary business metadata to answer these questions and many more. But that’s not enough. For it to be useful, data catalogs need to deliver these answers to the business users right within the applications they use.
In this session, you will learn:
*How data catalogs enable enterprise-wide data governance regimes
*What key capability requirements should you expect in data catalogs
*How data virtualization combines dynamic data catalogs with delivery
The Data Driven University - Automating Data Governance and Stewardship in Au...Pieter De Leenheer
Data Governance and Stewardship requires automation of business semantics management at its nucleus, in order to achieve data trust between business and IT communities in the organization. University divisions operate highly autonomously and decentralized, and are often geographically distributed. Hence, they benefit more from an collaborative and agile approach to Data Governance and Stewardship approach that adapts to its nature.
In this lecture, we start by reviewing 'C' in ICT and reflect on the dilemma: what is the most important quality of data being shared: truth or trust? We review the wide spectrum of business semantics. We visit the different phases of growing data pain as an organization expands, and we map each phase on this spectrum of semantics.
Next, we introduce our principles and framework for business semantics management to support Data Governance and Stewardship focusing on the structural (what), processual (how) and organizational (who) components. We illustrate with use cases from Stanford University, George Washington University and Public Science and Innovation Administrations.
Enterprise Data Management Framework OverviewJohn Bao Vuu
A solid data management foundation to support big data analytics and more importantly a data-driven culture is necessary for today’s organizations.
A mature Data Management Program can reduce operational costs and enable rapid business growth and development. Data Management program must evolve to monetize data assets, deliver breakthrough innovation and help drive business strategies in new markets.
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, customer centricity, 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.
This presentation was part of the IDS Webinar on Data Governance. It gives a brief overview of the history on Data Governance, describes how governing data has to be further developed in the era of business and data ecosystems, and outlines the contribution of the International Data Spaces Association on the topic.
Data Catalogues - Architecting for Collaboration & Self-ServiceDATAVERSITY
The interest in Data Catalogs is growing as more business & technical users are looking to gain insight from data using a self-service approach. Architectural techniques for Data Provisioning and Metadata Cataloging have evolved to cater to these new audiences and ways of working. This webinar provides concrete methods of architecting your Self-service BI & Analytics environment to foster collaboration while at the same time maintaining Data Quality and reducing risk.
Wonder what this data mesh stuff is all about? What are the principles of data mesh? Can you or should you consider data mesh as the approach for your analytics platform? And most important - how can Snowflake help?
Given in Montreal on 14-Dec-2021
DAS Slides: Metadata Management From Technical Architecture & Business Techni...DATAVERSITY
Metadata provides context for the “who, what, when, where, and why” of data, and is of critical interest in today’s data-driven business environment. Since metadata is created and used by both business and IT, architectural and organizational techniques need to encompass a holistic approach across the organization to address all audiences. This webinar provides practical ways to manage metadata in your organization using both technical architecture and business techniques.
The Business Value of Metadata for Data GovernanceRoland Bullivant
In today’s digital economy, data drives the core processes that deliver profitability and growth - from marketing, to finance, to sales, supply chain, and more. It is also likely that for many large organizations much of their key data is retained in application packages from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. In order to ensure that their foundational data infrastructure runs smoothly, most organizations have adopted a data governance initiative. These typically focus on the people and processes around managing data and information. Without an actionable link to the physical systems that run key business processes, however, governance programs can often lack the ‘teeth’ to effectively implement business change.
Metadata management is a process that can link business processes and drivers with the technical applications that support them. This makes data governance actionable and relevant in today’s fast-paced and results-driven business environment. One of the challenges facing data governance teams however, is the variety in format, accessibility and complexity of metadata across the organization’s systems.
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
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.
LDM Webinar: Data Modeling & Business IntelligenceDATAVERSITY
Business Intelligence (BI) is a valuable way to use information to show the overall health and performance of the organization. At its core is quality, well-structured data that allows for successful reporting and analytics. A data model helps provide both the business definitions as well as the structural optimization needed for successful BI implementations.
Join this webinar to see how a data model underpins business intelligence and analytics in today’s organization.
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Data Lake Architecture – Modern Strategies & ApproachesDATAVERSITY
Data Lake or Data Swamp? By now, we’ve likely all heard the comparison. Data Lake architectures have the opportunity to provide the ability to integrate vast amounts of disparate data across the organization for strategic business analytic value. But without a proper architecture and metadata management strategy in place, a Data Lake can quickly devolve into a swamp of information that is difficult to understand. This webinar will offer practical strategies to architect and manage your Data Lake in a way that optimizes its success.
The recent focus on Big Data in the data management community brings with it a paradigm shift—from the more traditional top-down, “design then build” approach to data warehousing and business intelligence, to the more bottom up, “discover and analyze” approach to analytics with Big Data. Where does data modeling fit in this new world of Big Data? Does it go away, or can it evolve to meet the emerging needs of these exciting new technologies? Join this webinar to discuss:
Big Data –A Technical & Cultural Paradigm Shift
Big Data in the Larger Information Management Landscape
Modeling & Technology Considerations
Organizational Considerations
The Role of the Data Architect in the World of Big Data
Data modeling continues to be a tried-and-true method of managing critical data aspects from both the business and technical perspective. Like any tool or methodology, there is a “right tool for the right job”, and specific model types exist for both business and technical users across operational, reporting, analytic, and other use cases. This webinar will provide an overview of the various data modeling techniques available, and how to use each for maximum value to the organization.
DAS Slides: Self-Service Reporting and Data Prep – Benefits & RisksDATAVERSITY
As more organizations see the value of becoming data-driven, an increasing number of business stakeholders want to become more actively involved in the reporting and preparation of critical business data. Tools and technologies have evolved to support this desire, and the ability to manage and analyze vast amounts of disparate data has become more accessible than ever before. With this increased visibility and usage of data, the need for data quality, metadata context, lineage and audit, and other core fundamental best practices is greater than ever.
How can an effective architecture & governance model be created that supports both business agility, as well as long-term sustainability and risk reduction? Where do these responsibilities lie between business and IT stakeholders? Join our panel of experts as they discuss the latest best practices, architectures, and tools that support self-service reporting and data prep to maximize benefits while at the same time reducing risk.
Data Architecture Best Practices for Today’s Rapidly Changing Data LandscapeDATAVERSITY
With the rise of the data-driven organization, the pace of innovation in data-centric technologies has been tremendous. New tools and techniques are emerging at an exponential rate, and it is difficult to keep track of the array of technological choices available to today’s data management professional.
At the same time, core fundamentals such as data quality and metadata management remain critical in order for organizations to obtain true business value from their data. This webinar will help demystify the options available: from data lake to data warehouse, to graph database, to NoSQL, and more, and how to integrate these new technologies with core architectural fundamentals that will help your organization benefit from the quick wins that are possible from these exciting technologies, while at the same time build a longer-term sustainable architecture that will support the inevitable change that will continue in the industry.
Metadata management is critical for organizations looking to understand the context, definition and lineage of key data assets. Data models play a key role in metadata management, as many of the key structural and business definitions are stored within the models themselves. Can data models replace traditional metadata solutions? Or should they integrate with larger metadata management tools & initiatives?
Join this webinar to discuss opportunities and challenges around:
How data modeling fits within a larger metadata management landscape
When can data modeling provide “just enough” metadata management
Key data modeling artifacts for metadata
Organization, Roles & Implementation Considerations
Data Modeling, Data Governance, & Data QualityDATAVERSITY
Data Governance is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information, and these aspects are critical to the success of any data governance implementation. But just as critical is the technical infrastructure that supports the diverse data environments that run the business. Data models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules and the technical data systems that support them. Without the valuable metadata these models provide, data governance often lacks the “teeth” to be applied in operational and reporting systems.
Join Donna Burbank and her guest, Nigel Turner, as they discuss how data models & metadata-driven data governance can be applied in your organization in order to achieve improved data quality.
LDM Slides: Conceptual Data Models - How to Get the Attention of Business Use...DATAVERSITY
Achieving a ‘single version of the truth’ is critical to any MDM, DW, or data integration initiative. But have you ever tried to get people to agree on a single definition of “customer”? Or to get Sales, Marketing, and IT to agree on a target audience?
This webinar will discuss how a conceptual data model can be used as a powerful communication tool for data-intensive initiatives. It will cover how to build a high-level data model, how the core concepts in a data model can have significant business impact on an organization, and will provide some easy-to-use templates and guidelines for a step-by-step approach to implementing a conceptual data model in your organization.
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, customer centricity, 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.
Data Modeling Best Practices - Business & Technical ApproachesDATAVERSITY
Data Modeling is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent surveys. Part of the appeal of data models lies in their ability to translate complex data concepts in an intuitive, visual way to both business and technical stakeholders. This webinar provides real-world best practices in using Data Modeling for both business and technical teams.
Metadata is hotter than ever, according a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
DAS Slides: Graph Databases — Practical Use CasesDATAVERSITY
Graph databases are seeing a spike in popularity as their value in leveraging large data sets for key areas such as fraud detection, marketing, and network optimization become increasingly apparent. With graph databases, it’s been said that ‘the data model and the metadata are the database’. What does this mean in a practical application, and how can this technology be optimized for maximum business value?
Data Governance & Data Architecture - Alignment and SynergiesDATAVERSITY
The definition of Data Governance can vary depending on the audience. To many, Data Governance consists of committees and stewardship roles. To others, it focuses on technical Data Management and controls. Holistic Data Governance combines both aspects, and a robust Data Architecture can be the “glue” that binds business and IT governance together. Join this webinar for practical tips and hands-on exercises for aligning Data Architecture and Data Governance for business and IT success.
DAS Slides: Building a Data Strategy - Practical Steps for Aligning with Busi...DATAVERSITY
Developing a Data Strategy for your organization can seem like a daunting task. The opportunity in getting it right can be significant, however, as data drives many of the key initiatives in today’s marketplace: digital transformation, marketing, customer centricity, and more. This webinar will help de-mystify Data Strategy and Data Architecture and will provide concrete, practical ways to get started.
DAS Slides: Cloud-Based Data Warehousing – What’s New and What Stays the SameDATAVERSITY
Data warehousing, after decades of widespread adoption, still holds a strong place in today’s organization. Cloud-based technologies have revolutionized the traditional world of data warehousing, offering transformational ways to support analytics and reporting. Join this webinar to understand what has changed in the world of data warehousing with the introduction of cloud-based technologies, and what has remained the same.
Business Intelligence & Data Analytics– An Architected ApproachDATAVERSITY
Business intelligence (BI) and data analytics are increasing in popularity as more organizations are looking to become more data-driven. Many tools have powerful visualization techniques that can create dynamic displays of critical information. To ensure that the data displayed on these visualizations is accurate and timely, a strong Data Architecture is needed. Join this webinar to understand how to create a robust Data Architecture for BI and data analytics that takes both business and technology needs into consideration.
Data Architecture Strategies Webinar: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – ...DATAVERSITY
A robust data architecture is at the core what’s driving today’s innovative, data-driven organizations. From AI to machine learning to Big Data – a strong data architecture is needed in order to be successful, and core fundamentals such as data quality, metadata management, and efficient data storage are more critical than ever.
With the vast array of new technologies available to support these trends, how do you make sense of it all? Our panel of experts will offer their perspectives on how the latest trends in data architecture can support your organization’s data-driven goals.
The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What Does It Mean for Your Career?DATAVERSITY
If you’re a data architect, you’ve heard it all—from ‘data management is the sexiest job of the 21st century’ to ‘data management is dead’. The truth almost certainly lies somewhere in the middle of the extremes, but how can you make sense of the true future of the data architect’s role in the rapidly-changing data landscape? The Data Architect holds a unique position as the translator between business value and technical implementation.
Join this webinar to learn how you can take advantage of the uniqueness of this role to catapult your career to the next level.
Similar to Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling – How Do They Fit Together? (20)
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.
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.
Enterprise data literacy. A worthy objective? Certainly! A realistic goal? That remains to be seen. As companies consider investing in data literacy education, questions arise about its value and purpose. While the destination – having a data-fluent workforce – is attractive, we wonder how (and if) we can get there.
Kicking off this webinar series, we begin with a panel discussion to explore the landscape of literacy, including expert positions and results from focus groups:
- why it matters,
- what it means,
- what gets in the way,
- who needs it (and how much they need),
- what companies believe it will accomplish.
In this engaging discussion about literacy, we will set the stage for future webinars to answer specific questions and feature successful literacy efforts.
The Data Trifecta – Privacy, Security & Governance Race from Reactivity to Re...DATAVERSITY
Change is hard, especially in response to negative stimuli or what is perceived as negative stimuli. So organizations need to reframe how they think about data privacy, security and governance, treating them as value centers to 1) ensure enterprise data can flow where it needs to, 2) prevent – not just react – to internal and external threats, and 3) comply with data privacy and security regulations.
Working together, these roles can accelerate faster access to approved, relevant and higher quality data – and that means more successful use cases, faster speed to insights, and better business outcomes. However, both new information and tools are required to make the shift from defense to offense, reducing data drama while increasing its value.
Join us for this panel discussion with experts in these fields as they discuss:
- Recent research about where data privacy, security and governance stand
- The most valuable enterprise data use cases
- The common obstacles to data value creation
- New approaches to data privacy, security and governance
- Their advice on how to shift from a reactive to resilient mindset/culture/organization
You’ll be educated, entertained and inspired by this panel and their expertise in using the data trifecta to innovate more often, operate more efficiently, and differentiate more strategically.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Data Governance Trends - A Look Backwards and ForwardsDATAVERSITY
As DATAVERSITY’s RWDG series hurdles into our 12th year, this webinar takes a quick look behind us, evaluates the present, and predicts the future of Data Governance. Based on webinar numbers, hot Data Governance topics have evolved over the years from policies and best practices, roles and tools, data catalogs and frameworks, to supporting data mesh and fabric, artificial intelligence, virtualization, literacy, and metadata governance.
Join Bob Seiner as he reflects on the past and what has and has not worked, while sharing examples of enterprise successes and struggles. In this webinar, Bob will challenge the audience to stay a step ahead by learning from the past and blazing a new trail into the future of Data Governance.
In this webinar, Bob will focus on:
- Data Governance’s past, present, and future
- How trials and tribulations evolve to success
- Leveraging lessons learned to improve productivity
- The great Data Governance tool explosion
- The future of Data Governance
Data Governance Trends and Best Practices To Implement TodayDATAVERSITY
Would you share your bank account information on social media? How about shouting your social security number on the New York City subway? We didn’t think so either – that’s why data governance is consistently top of mind.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the common Cloud data governance best practices – and how to apply them today. Join us to uncover Google Cloud’s investment in data governance and learn practical and doable methods around key management and confidential computing. Hear real customer experiences and leave with insights that you can share with your team. Let’s get solving.
Topics that you will hear addressed in this webinar:
- Understanding the basics of Cloud Incident Response (IR) and anticipated data governance trends
- Best practices for key management and apply data governance to your day-to-day
- The next wave of Confidential Computing and how to get started, including a demo
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the enterprise mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and data architecture. William will kick off the fifth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
Too often I hear the question “Can you help me with our data strategy?” Unfortunately, for most, this is the wrong request because it focuses on the least valuable component: the data strategy itself. A more useful request is: “Can you help me apply data strategically?” Yes, at early maturity phases the process of developing strategic thinking about data is more important than the actual product! Trying to write a good (must less perfect) data strategy on the first attempt is generally not productive –particularly given the widespread acceptance of Mike Tyson’s truism: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” This program refocuses efforts on learning how to iteratively improve the way data is strategically applied. This will permit data-based strategy components to keep up with agile, evolving organizational strategies. It also contributes to three primary organizational data goals. Learn how to improve the following:
- Your organization’s data
- The way your people use data
- The way your people use data to achieve your organizational strategy
This will help in ways never imagined. Data are your sole non-depletable, non-degradable, durable strategic assets, and they are pervasively shared across every organizational area. Addressing existing challenges programmatically includes overcoming necessary but insufficient prerequisites and developing a disciplined, repeatable means of improving business objectives. This process (based on the theory of constraints) is where the strategic data work really occurs as organizations identify prioritized areas where better assets, literacy, and support (data strategy components) can help an organization better achieve specific strategic objectives. Then the process becomes lather, rinse, and repeat. Several complementary concepts are also covered, including:
- A cohesive argument for why data strategy is necessary for effective data governance
- An overview of prerequisites for effective strategic use of data strategy, as well as common pitfalls
- A repeatable process for identifying and removing data constraints
- The importance of balancing business operation and innovation
Who Should Own Data Governance – IT or Business?DATAVERSITY
The question is asked all the time: “What part of the organization should own your Data Governance program?” The typical answers are “the business” and “IT (information technology).” Another answer to that question is “Yes.” The program must be owned and reside somewhere in the organization. You may ask yourself if there is a correct answer to the question.
Join this new RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner where Bob will answer the question that is the title of this webinar. Determining ownership of Data Governance is a vital first step. Figuring out the appropriate part of the organization to manage the program is an important second step. This webinar will help you address these questions and more.
In this session Bob will share:
- What is meant by “the business” when it comes to owning Data Governance
- Why some people say that Data Governance in IT is destined to fail
- Examples of IT positioned Data Governance success
- Considerations for answering the question in your organization
- The final answer to the question of who should own Data Governance
It is clear that Data Management best practices exist and so does a useful process for improving existing Data Management practices. The question arises: Since we understand the goal, how does one design a process for Data Management goal achievement? This program describes what must be done at the programmatic level to achieve better data use and a way to implement this as part of your data program. The approach combines DMBoK content and CMMI/DMM processes – permitting organizations with the opportunity to benefit from the best of both. It also permits organizations to understand:
- Their current Data Management practices
- Strengths that should be leveraged
- Remediation opportunities
MLOps – Applying DevOps to Competitive AdvantageDATAVERSITY
MLOps is a practice for collaboration between Data Science and operations to manage the production machine learning (ML) lifecycles. As an amalgamation of “machine learning” and “operations,” MLOps applies DevOps principles to ML delivery, enabling the delivery of ML-based innovation at scale to result in:
Faster time to market of ML-based solutions
More rapid rate of experimentation, driving innovation
Assurance of quality, trustworthiness, and ethical AI
MLOps is essential for scaling ML. Without it, enterprises risk struggling with costly overhead and stalled progress. Several vendors have emerged with offerings to support MLOps: the major offerings are Microsoft Azure ML and Google Vertex AI. We looked at these offerings from the perspective of enterprise features and time-to-value.
Keeping the Pulse of Your Data – Why You Need Data Observability to Improve D...DATAVERSITY
With the explosive growth of DataOps to drive faster and more confident business decisions, proactively understanding the quality and health of your data is more important than ever. Data observability is an emerging discipline within data quality used to expose anomalies in data by continuously monitoring and testing data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to trigger alerts when issues are discovered.
Join Julie Skeen and Shalaish Koul from Precisely, to learn how data observability can be used as part of a DataOps strategy to improve data quality and reliability and to prevent data issues from wreaking havoc on your analytics and ensure that your organization can confidently rely on the data used for advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Topics you will hear addressed in this webinar:
Data observability – what is it and how it can complement your data quality strategy
Why now is the time to incorporate data observability into your DataOps strategy
How data observability helps prevent data issues from impacting downstream analytics
Examples of how data observability can be used to prevent real-world issues
Empowering the Data Driven Business with Modern Business IntelligenceDATAVERSITY
By consolidating data engineering, data warehouse, and data science capabilities under a single fully-managed platform, BigQuery can accelerate computation, reduce data analysis costs, and streamline data management.
Following in-depth interviews with a security services provider and a telecommunications company, Nucleus Research found that customers moving to Google Cloud BigQuery from on-premises data warehouse solutions accelerate data processing by over 75 percent while reducing data ongoing administrative expenses by over 25 percent.
As BigQuery continues to optimize its platform architecture for compute efficiency and multicloud support, Nucleus expects the vendor to see rapid adoption and further penetrate the data warehouse market.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...
Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling – How Do They Fit Together?
1. Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging,
and Data Modeling - How Do They Fit Together?
Donna Burbank
Global Data Strategy Ltd.
Lessons in Data Modeling DATAVERSITY Series
June 22nd, 2017
2. Global Data Strategy, Ltd. 2017
Donna Burbank
Donna is a recognised industry expert in
information management with over 20
years of experience in data strategy,
information management, data modeling,
metadata management, and enterprise
architecture. Her background is multi-
faceted across consulting, product
development, product management, brand
strategy, marketing, and business
leadership.
She is currently the Managing Director at
Global Data Strategy, Ltd., an international
information management consulting
company that specializes in the alignment
of business drivers with data-centric
technology. In past roles, she has served in
key brand strategy and product
management roles at CA Technologies and
Embarcadero Technologies for several of
the leading data management products in
the market.
As an active contributor to the data
management community, she is a long
time DAMA International member, Past
President and Advisor to the DAMA Rocky
Mountain chapter, and was recently
awarded the Excellence in Data
Management Award from DAMA
International in 2016. She was on the
review committee for the Object
Management Group’s (OMG) Information
Management Metamodel (IMM) and the
Business Process Modeling Notation
(BPMN). Donna is also an analyst at the
Boulder BI Train Trust (BBBT) where she
provides advices and gains insight on the
latest BI and Analytics software in the
market.
She has worked with dozens of Fortune
500 companies worldwide in the Americas,
Europe, Asia, and Africa and speaks
regularly at industry conferences. She has
co-authored two books: Data Modeling for
the Business and Data Modeling Made
Simple with ERwin Data Modeler and is a
regular contributor to industry
publications. She can be reached at
donna.burbank@globaldatastrategy.com
Donna is based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Today’s hashtag: #LessonsDM
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Lessons in Data Modeling Series
• January 26th How Data Modeling Fits Into an Overall Enterprise Architecture
• February 23rd Data Modeling and Business Intelligence
• March Conceptual Data Modeling – How to Get the Attention of Business Users
• April The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What does it mean for your Career?
• May Data Modeling & Metadata Management
• June Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling
• July Data Modeling & Metadata for Graph Databases
• August Data Modeling & Data Integration
• September Data Modeling & MDM
• October Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?
• December Data Modeling, Data Quality & Data Governance
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This Year’s Line Up
Related topic – Self Service BI
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Agenda
• What is Self Service Data Prep, “Data Munging” and “Data Wrangling”?
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Integrating the Data Warehouse & Data Lake
• Data Governance & Organizational Considerations
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What we’ll cover today
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What is Data Wrangling, Munging & Self-Service Data Prep?
Data wrangling (sometimes referred to as Data munging) is the process of transforming and
mapping data from one "raw" data form into another format with the intent of making it more
appropriate and valuable for a variety of downstream purposes such as analytics.
- Wikipedia, June 2017
Data munging … is sometimes used for vague data transformation steps that are not yet clear to
the speaker.
- Wikipedia, June 2017
As their name implies, the key ingredient of data preparation platforms is their ability to
provide self-service capabilities that allow knowledgeable users (but who are not IT experts) to
combine, transform and cleanse relevant data prior to analysis: to "prepare" it. Most tools in this
category are targeted at business analysts but there are products aimed more at data
scientists.
- Philip Howard, Bloor Research
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Aimed at Business Stakeholders & Data Scientists
• According to a recent DATAVERSITY survey on Emerging Trends in Data Architecture, new and
disparate roles are often involved in developing a data architecture.
• Below is a “sneak peak” of the results (due to be published in October).
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Answer Response Percent
Data Architect 90.0%
Data Modeler 65.3%
Enterprise Architect 66.5%
Business Architect 51.2%
Systems Developer 17.1%
Programmer 16.5%
Database Administrator (DBA) 37.6%
Data Scientist 27.6%
ETL or Database Developer 36.5%
Business Stakeholder(s) 32.9%
Program Manager 12.9%
Data Quality Administrator 30.0%
Data Governance Officer 50.0%
Don't know 2.4%
Other (please specify) 8.2%
What role(s) are typically responsible for creating a Data Architecture? [Select all that apply]
While Data Architects & related roles are still
responsible for the bulk of data architecture decisions,
often with traditional ETL techniques.
Business Stakeholders and Data Scientists also play a
significant role, often with self-service data prep tools.
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Sample Tools in the Self Service Data Prep
• The following list of products and vendors are commonly considered in the Self Service Data
Preparation category.
• This list is not inclusive and is not an endorsement of any product, but is meant to indicate the
type of product we’re talking about today.
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• Pure Play Vendors
• Alation
• Alteryx
• Paxata
• Tamr
• Trifacta
• Traditional data integration vendors
• Informatica
• Syncsort (Unify)
• Etc.
• BI vendors
• Pentaho
• Tableau
• Qlik
• Etc.
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Good Wrangling and Bad Wrangling
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Bad Wrangling Good Wrangling
• Performed because a
solid data architecture is
lacking – i.e. work-
arounds & cleanup.
• Done to avoid data
governance restrictions.
• Increases Confusion &
Decreases Time to
Insight
• Part of data exploration
& analysis
• Done within data
governance restrictions.
• Leverages defined
standards (e.g.
Reference Data)
• Produces Faster Time to
Insight
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The Reluctant Wrangler
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Raw data used in Self-Service Analytics and BI environments is
often so poor that many data scientists and BI professionals
spend an estimated 50 – 90% of their time cleaning and
reformatting data to make it fit for purpose.(4
Source: DataCenterJournal.com
Correcting poor data quality is a Data Scientist’s least favorite
task, consuming on average 80% of their working day
Source: Forbes 2016
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Reporting is Only as Good as the Underlying Architecture & Definitions
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• Modern tools make it easy to create visual reports & graphs from data.
• But without business context, or “metadata”, these reports are of little value.
What does ‘F2’ refer to?
Are there standard code sets?
Does this number represent a date?
Computing report…elapsed time
10 hours, 27 seconds…
Why does it take so long for the report to run?
• A robust data architecture provides data sets that have:
• Business context & definition
• Common structure & formatting
• Fast & easily-reportable data sets
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Today’s Reporting Data Sets are Complex
• Reporting today goes beyond traditional relational databases, which adds to the
complexity of preparing data to create effective and intuitive reports and analytics.
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COBOL
Legacy Systems
JCL
Spreadsheets
Media
Social
Media
IoTOpen Data
Databases
Data Models
Documents
Data
In Motion
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Disparate Data Sources
• The 2016 DATAVERSITY Emerging Trends in Metadata survey revealed some interesting findings
about what types of data & metadata organizations will be managing now and in the future.
• Not all are easily managed in traditional data modeling tools (although many are…)
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= Supported by most data modeling tools
Now Future
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Paradigm Shift in the Way We Look at “Reporting”
Traditional
• Top-Down, Hierarchical
• Design, then Implement
• “Passive”, Push technology
• “Manageable” volumes of information
• “Stable” rate of change
• Business Intelligence
“Big Data” / Exploration
• Distributed, Democratic
• Discover and Analyze
• Collaborative, Interactive
• Massive volumes of information
• Rapid and Exponential rate of growth
• Data Science
Design Implement Discover Analyze
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“Traditional” way of Looking at the World: Hierarchies
• Carolus Linnaeus in 1735 established a hierarchy/taxonomy for organizing and identifying
biological systems.
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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“New” Way of Looking at the World - Emergence
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is
the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a
multiplicity of relatively simple interactions.
- Wikipedia
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Levis jeans.
Is Levi coming
to my party?
Sale #LEVIS
20% at Macys.
LOL. TTYL.
Leving soon.
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Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake
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Data Warehouse Data Lake
A Data Lake is a storage repository that holds a vast
amount of raw data in its native format, including
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
The data structure & requirements are not defined until
the data is needed.
A Data Warehouse is a storage repository that holds current
and historical data used for creating analytical reports. Data
structures & requirements are pre-defined, and data is
organized & stored according to these definitions.
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Integrating the Data Lake & Traditional Data Sources
• The Data Lake has a different architecture & purpose than traditional data sources
such as data warehouses.
• But the two environments can co-exist to share relevant information.
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Data Analysis & Discovery – Data Lake Enterprise Systems of Record
Data Governance & Collaboration
Master &
Reference Data
Data Warehouse
Data MartsOperational Data
Security & Privacy
Sandbox
Lightly Modeled
Data
Data
Exploration
Reporting & Analytics
Advanced
Analytics
Self-Service BI
Standard BI
Reports
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Combining DW & Big Data Can Provide Valuable Information
• There are numerous ways to gain value from data
• Relational Database and Data Warehouse systems are one key source of value
• Customer information
• Product information
• Big Data can offer new insights from data
• From new data sources (e.g. social media, IoT)
• By correlating multiple new and existing data sources (e.g. network patterns & customer data)
• Integrating DW and Big Data can provide valuable new insights.
• Examples include:
• Customer Experience Optimization
• Churn Management
• Products & Services Innovation
New
InsightsData
Warehouse
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Organizational Siloes
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Data Lake & Data
Scientist
• Exploratory projects
• Quick wins
• Often Little documentation &
governance
Data Warehouse & Data
Architects
• Enterprise reporting
• Long-term projects
• Data Standards
• Metadata & Governance
Data
Warehouse
• Too often, there are organizational & cultural silos that limit the sharing between the
Data Lake and Data Warehouse
Data Lake
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Organizational Siloes
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Self-Service Data
Prep & BI Reporting
• Exploratory projects
• Quick wins
• Little documentation &
governance
Data Warehouse &
Traditional BI Reporting
• Enterprise reporting
• Long-term projects
• Data Standards
• Metadata & Governance
Data
Warehouse
• Unfortunately, these siloes often also exist between business users and traditional
data warehouse & BI architects
Report requirements thrown
‘over the wall’….and wait…
Departmental
Database
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Reducing Time to Insight is a Key Driver for
Self Service Data Prep
• According to a TDWI’s Best Practices Report on “Improving Data Preparation for
Business Analytics” from Q3 2016, the following are key drivers for Self-Service
Data Preparation
• 81% Shorten time to business insight
• 76% Increase data-driven decision making
• 53% Improve reaction time to business conditions
• 49% Operational efficiency for frontline works
• 43% Gain a single, complete view of relevant data
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• The most popular sources include traditional ones:
• 87% Relational databases
• 83% Data warehouse
• 79% Spreadsheet or desktop database
Departmental
Database
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Finding Balance – Model What Matters
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• It’s important to find a balance between
• Managing & modeling “trusted data sets”
• Giving users the flexibility to explore.
• Most users will find these trusted data sets a welcome asset, but don’t want to be restricted from
doing data exploration when appropriate.
IoT
Log Files
Data Warehouse
Master Data
Reference Data
Structure Flexibility & Exploration
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Find a Balance in Implementing Data Architecture
• Find the Right Balance
• Data Architecture projects can have the reputation for being overly “academic”, long, expensive, etc.
• No architecture at all can cause chaos.
• When done correctly, Data Architecture helps improve efficiency and better align with business priorities
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Focus on Business Value
Business Value
Too Academic, nothing
gets done
Too “Wild West”, nothing
gets done - chaos
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Implement Fit-for-Purpose Data Modeling & Governance
• The data modeling & governance rigor depends on the usage and purpose of data
• As a general rule, the more the data is shared across & beyond the organization, the more formal governance needs to be
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Core Enterprise
Data
Functional & Operational
Data
Exploratory Data
Reference &
Master Data
Core Enterprise Data
• Common data elements used by multiple
stakeholders across Bus, LOBs, functional areas,
applications, etc.
• Highly governed
• Highly published & shared
Functional & Operational Data
• Lightly modeled & prepared data for
limited sharing & reuse
• Collaboration-based governance
• May be future candidates for core data
Exploratory Data
• Raw or lightly prepped data for
exploratory analysis
• Mainly ad hoc, one-off analysis
• Light touch governance
Examples
• Operational Reporting
• Non-productionized analytical model data
• Ad hoc reporting & discovery
Examples
• Raw data sets for exploratory analytics
• External & Open data sources
Examples
• Common Financial Metrics: for Financial & Regulatory Reporting
• Common Attributes: Core attributes reused across multiple areas
(e.g. Customer name, Account ID, Address)
Master & Reference Data
• Common data elements used by multiple stakeholders
across functional areas, applications, etc.
• Highly governed
• Highly published & shared
Examples
• Reference Data: Procedure codes, Country Codes, etc
• Master Data: Location, Customer, Product
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Summary
• As more business stakeholders see the value of data, Self Service Data Preparation is on the rise
• Common users include data scientists and business stakeholders
• While the use cases for these two stakeholder categories are different, both are driven by the need for:
• Time to Value
• Freedom to Explore
• Create a Data Governance Framework that provides “just enough” governance
• Allowing flexibility where appropriate
• Applying rigor and structure where necessary
• Providing trusted data sets for all
• Data Modeling used correctly will:
• Increase time to insight
• Increase collaboration
• Increase business value
• Happy Wrangling!
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About Global Data Strategy, Ltd
• Global Data Strategy is an international information management consulting company that specializes
in the alignment of business drivers with data-centric technology.
• Our passion is data, and helping organizations enrich their business opportunities through data and
information.
• Our core values center around providing solutions that are:
• Business-Driven: We put the needs of your business first, before we look at any technology solution.
• Clear & Relevant: We provide clear explanations using real-world examples.
• Customized & Right-Sized: Our implementations are based on the unique needs of your organization’s
size, corporate culture, and geography.
• High Quality & Technically Precise: We pride ourselves in excellence of execution, with years of
technical expertise in the industry.
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Data-Driven Business Transformation
Business Strategy
Aligned With
Data Strategy
Visit www.globaldatastrategy.com for more information
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Contact Info
• Email: donna.burbank@globaldatastrategy.com
• Twitter: @donnaburbank
@GlobalDataStrat
• Website: www.globaldatastrategy.com
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White Paper: Emerging Trends in Metadata Management
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Lessons in Data Modeling Series
• January 26th How Data Modeling Fits Into an Overall Enterprise Architecture
• February 23rd Data Modeling and Business Intelligence
• March Conceptual Data Modeling – How to Get the Attention of Business Users
• April The Evolving Role of the Data Architect – What does it mean for your Career?
• May Data Modeling & Metadata Management
• June Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling
• July Data Modeling & Metadata for Graph Databases
• August Data Modeling & Data Integration
• September Data Modeling & MDM
• October Agile & Data Modeling – How Can They Work Together?
• December Data Modeling, Data Quality & Data Governance
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This Year’s Line Up