Many companies have invested millions in building a successful BI / EDW and are investing in advanced analytics for the future. But the mystery remains about the data quality. Though glaring DQ issues might be contained through constant backend data corrections or through exception handling, many organizations still faces the challenge of poor data quality. The reason Data […]
Posts Tagged ‘Information Governance’
Analytical Talent Gap
As new companies embark on the Digital Transformation leveraging Big Data, key concerns and challenges get amplified especially for the near term before the technology and talent pool supply adjusts to the demand. Looking at the earlier post Big Data Challenges, the top 3 concerns were: Identifying the Business value/Monetizing the Big Data Setting up the […]
Big Data Challenges
As companies start adapting to handle Big Data, the challenges still remains. Barring the obvious applications, the challenges of getting the value out of the new-found data continues to be on the top of the list. ROI’s and potential revenues are yet to be realized. As the technology and the usage becomes more sophisticated we will […]
Managing Data in the Digital Transformation Era
Managing data has been a challenge irrespective of the size of the company. Last couple of decades most of the companies invested in leveraging the Enterprise Data through variety of initiatives like Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. If we divide the enterprise information usage in the last 2 decades, primarily they fall into the […]
Data Quality – Don’t Fix It If It Ain’t Broke
What is broke? If I drive a pickup truck around that has a small, unobtrusive crack in the windshield and a few dings in the paint, it will still pull a boat and haul a bunch of lumber from Home Depot. Is the pickup broke if it still meets my needs? So, when is data […]
Big Data, Big Confusion
Everyone wants a piece of Big Data action whether you are part of Product Company, Solution provider, IT, or Business user. Like every new technology, Big Data is confusing, complex and intimidating. Though the idea is intriguing, the confusion begins when the techies start taking sides and tout the underlying tools rather than solution. […]
Big Data Changes Everything – Has Your Governance Changed?
A few years ago, Big Data/Hadoop systems were generally a side project for either storing bulk data or for analytics. But now as companies have pursued a data unification strategy, leveraging the Next Generation Data Architecture, Big Data and Hadoop systems are becoming a strategic necessity in the modern enterprise. Big Data and Hadoop are technologies […]
Information Governance Trends for 2015
The year 2014 just ended. 2015 is already looking like another year of data intensive initiatives. Looking at the initiatives and investments happened in 2014, Big Data will continue to be on the top, and so does the cloud. Enterprise Data investment continues to grow as the laggards in technology are warming up to the Information […]
Analytics in the Digital Transformation Era
Successful Enterprises compete on many capabilities ranging from product excellence, customer service and marketing to name a few. Increasingly the back office / Information Technology (IT) is becoming a strategic player in the Digital Business Model which supports these key capabilities. In other words back office/IT Capability itself is becoming a differentiator. All of the […]
Reference Architecture – Cloud MDM for Salesforce
In my earlier post Why MDM should be part of CRM Strategy I discussed the importance of having a MDM strategy along with the CRM initiative. Proliferation of cloud CRM solutions like Salesforce is a blessing and it can also be an IT nightmare, if it is not managed properly. In many companies Salesforce implementation […]
Cloud MDM – Reference Architecture for Public Cloud Platform
Moving the MDM deployment to a cloud platform involves several considerations ranging from technical gotchas to getting the internal buy-in. Getting the buy-in is a different topic of discussion – see my earlier posts on Data Governance. The advantages of moving to cloud eliminates some of the administrative and server farms related maintenance tasks but […]
Cloud MDM – are we getting closer?
As Master Data Management matures and becomes a standard application within the enterprise architecture landscape, variations of cloud offerings are slowly emerging. Many companies are not even aware of these solution offerings. You can broadly classify the types of cloud offerings into 3 categories. There are key advantages and disadvantages in pursuing these architectures. The […]