Data governance
Data governance processes manage the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems. These processes rely on detailed internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Learn about the latest data governance processes and strategies to ensure data is consistent, trustworthy and properly protected.
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News
09 Apr 2025
Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents
Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient. Continue Reading
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08 Apr 2025
Snowflake embraces open source with full support for Iceberg
Three years after providing limited support for open data storage, the data platform vendor is signaling its embrace of open source with full support for the open table format. Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2021
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark
Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2021
Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding
Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2021
Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update
LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data. Continue Reading
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21 May 2021
Superconductive raises $21M for open source data quality
The open source Great Expectations project is becoming increasingly popular, as the commercial vendor seeks to build out a cloud service to expand the project's reach. Continue Reading
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04 May 2021
Syniti boosts DataOps chops with DMR merger
The CEO of an enterprise data management vendor explains why his firm is merging with Data Migration Resources to expand their reach and data quality offerings. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2021
Data quality for big data: Why it's a must and how to improve it
As data volumes increase exponentially, methods to improve and ensure big data quality are critical in making accurate, effective and trusted business decisions. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Apr 2021
Who belongs on a high-performance data governance team?
Putting together a high-quality data governance team can be a challenge. Explore the necessary team members and best practices for a high-performing team. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2021
Soda launches cloud service to improve data observability
Data quality vendor Soda has had a busy 2021, building out new services and raising funding to help organizations identify and remediate data quality problems. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2021
Bigeye raises $17M Series A funding to boost data quality
The former Uber product manager and current CEO and co-founder of a startup outlines the challenges and opportunities of enabling a new data trust platform with data quality at its foundation. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2021
Informatica pulls together cloud data management in the cloud
Informatica rolls out its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, as customers provide insight into cloud data management challenges and opportunities at Informatica World 2021. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2021
Alation brings data catalog technology to the public cloud
Alation's data intelligence technology is getting easier for organizations to use, with a new managed service that can help enterprises better use the data they have. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2021
Vaccination data poses data management challenges for firms
If companies are considering the use of vaccination credentials to reopen offices, IT teams should start planning now. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2021
Precisely looks to boost data integrity software platform
Precisely is getting an infusion of capital as it moves forward with its decades-long business mission to help organizations use data effectively to make key decisions. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2021
Alation 2021.1 data catalog improves data intelligence
Alation updated its platform with new features for data discovery and search, as well as more data governance capabilities to enhance data trust. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Feb 2021
Why your data story matters and how to tell it
Data storytelling isn't just for business analysts. Find out how to build a data management story and why you need to have one in the first place. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Feb 2021
Cloud data catalog benefits for the enterprise
Vendor cloud data catalog options are expanding and offering more automated tools to end users. Read on to find out how enterprises can benefit from these options. Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2021
Monte Carlo gets new funding to expand data observability
The CEO of data management startup Monte Carlo, which raised $25 million in Series B funding Tuesday, details her views on the key pillars of data reliability. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2021
Collibra acquires predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ
With OwlDQ, Collibra is bringing data quality capabilities to its data intelligence platform to help users better understand and evaluate the impact of different sources of data. Continue Reading
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News
07 Jan 2021
Quest Software adds data governance and DataOps with Erwin
With new data modeling, catalog and governance technology from an acquisition, Quest looks to build a broader data platform to help organizations optimize and benefit from data. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Jan 2021
How Alation builds on data catalog for data intelligence
Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) of Alation, provides insight into the evolution of his company's technology to embrace data governance that enables data intelligence for organizations to fully benefit from their data assets. Continue Reading
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Tip
29 Dec 2020
Data lineage documentation imperative to data quality
Understanding the detailed journey of data elements throughout the data pipeline can help an enterprise maintain data quality and improve trustworthiness. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Dec 2020
Collibra grows enterprise data governance for the cloud
Collibra CEO discusses the importance of data governance for enterprises and how to tie data governance to business terminology to go beyond simply controlling data. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Dec 2020
Top 5 U.S. open data use cases from federal data sets
The U.S. government has made data sets from many federal agencies available for public access to use and analyze. Check out some of the ways that data is being used. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2020
Ataccama automates data governance with Gen2 platform update
Data management vendor Ataccama adds new automation features to its Gen2 platform to help organizations automatically discover metadata and build an accurate business glossary for data. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Nov 2020
Healthcare data management challenges hold back adoption
The healthcare industry has had difficulty adopting data management best practices, but a few organizations have tackled the challenges successfully. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2020
The new normal for enterprise data governance
Mastercard data exec highlights the foundational role of enterprise data governance during the pandemic era with more people working from home and new demands on businesses. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Oct 2020
Synthetic data in healthcare advances patient analytics
Learn how synthetic data in healthcare can be beneficial across the board. Plus, get a sneak peek at a new book on synthetic data generation from O'Reilly Media. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2020
Cloudera adds data engineering capability to enable DataOps
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to help data engineers use its platform with a new service that brings more power and management to running Spark for building data pipelines. Continue Reading
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24 Sep 2020
Talend evolves enterprise data integration efforts
The CTO of Talend outlines the path the data integration vendor has taken in recent years as the market for big data has evolved along with the need to treat data as an asset. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2020
Why you should consider a machine learning data catalog
A machine learning data catalog can benefit an enterprise in a variety of ways, from increasing access to necessary data to keeping your data sources up to date. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2020
How Riot Games upped its enterprise data governance game
Data governance product manager at Riot Games details how the game vendor dealt with data ownership challenges by embracing new processes and technologies for data management. Continue Reading
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29 Jul 2020
Key to data management in oil and gas is stability
Ensuring quality data management and analytics comes from following best practices, proper commitment from your organization and sticking with the plan. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2020
Data accuracy vendor boosts MDM data quality
Naveego's latest platform update introduces a new user interface that looks to make it easier for users to integrate different data sources while ensuring data quality. Continue Reading
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23 Jul 2020
Immuta adds automated data governance for Databricks
Immuta has extended its data governance with new features that help enterprises with data privacy compliance for Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform workloads. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jun 2020
Surprising insight on the data governance process
Many enterprise data governance processes have been around for a while. Read on for ways a modern approach can be beneficial, and preview a new book that can update your strategy. Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2020
Databricks debuts Delta Engine built on top of Spark 3.0
At the Spark + AI Summit 2020, Starbucks and health IT vendor Cerner Corp. outlined how they use Databricks' Data Lake architecture to accelerate data analytics. Continue Reading
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29 May 2020
GDPR, CCPA, cloud drive security management tool makeovers
As data protection and privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA take hold, data managers refine governance practices, while vendors enhance traditional big data security tools. Continue Reading
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29 May 2020
Improving enterprise data governance with data trust
Talend users from Covanta and AutoZone provide insight into data management challenges amid growing data complexity at the Talend Connect virtual conference. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
How a synthetic data approach is helping COVID-19 research
Israeli researchers are using a system developed by big data vendor MDClone to collaborate on COVID-19 data to help find ways to deal with the pandemic. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
Alternative data in finance holds potentials and risks
Alternative data sources, when verified as reliable and trustworthy, can be an essential tool for financial institutions when it comes to gathering information. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Apr 2020
Data governance and COVID-19 data security challenges
Maintaining data governance and data security best practices is essential now more than ever. But the increase in working from home can put a strain on those practices. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2020
Chief data officer role advances enterprise data governance
With organizations of all sizes coping with the impact of COVID-19, the importance of enterprise data governance and chief data officers is coming into sharper focus. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2020
Okera sees increasing demand for enterprise data governance
Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data governance and secure data access in the COVID-19 era. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2020
Ascend boosts enterprise data governance with data lineage
The new capabilities of Ascend Govern bring data lineage and enterprise data governance as well as the ability to try and figure out the financial cost of data efforts. Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2020
How data governance and data management work together
Data governance is an important part of data management. These recommendations will help build a strong complementary relationship between the two strategies. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2020
Alluxio brings data catalog to data orchestration platform
The newly released Alluxio 2.2 adds new data catalog and transformation capabilities to help organizations bridge the gap between data and analytics. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Feb 2020
Data governance metrics: Data quality, data literacy and more
Statistics on data quality are the most common metrics used to track data governance programs, but other types of data-related measurements also can be applied. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2020
GoodData says it is CCPA compliant
GoodData says it is complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Meanwhile, founder and CEO Roman Stanek talks about why complexity is a key challenge for data analytics. Continue Reading
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Tip
10 Feb 2020
6 best practices on data governance for big data environments
Efforts to govern big data must corral a mix of structured and unstructured data. That's a challenge for most organizations. These six action items will help. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Feb 2020
Data governance roles and responsibilities: What's needed
Data governance requires a team effort. Experts offer advice on how to structure and implement data governance roles that engage business users across the enterprise. Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2020
Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries
New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance. Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2020
Informatica data management sets a new direction
Five years after going private, Informatica has a new CEO and an updated data platform with new data management capabilities to better enable business users. Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2020
Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data
With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada Data Services and DataOps portfolio. Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2020
What are the main features of data catalog software?
Data catalogs are curated data portals for self-service analytics users. Learn about the capabilities of data catalog tools, vendors that sell them and how catalogs work. Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Jan 2020
Evaluate your data governance and privacy best practices
GDPR and CCPA have put data governance in the news. With this increase in data legislation, now is a great time to review your company's data governance policies. Continue Reading
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Feature
26 Dec 2019
How to improve data governance for self-service analytics
Citizen data scientists and self-service analytics are on the rise as the data scientist shortage continues. Here are some data management best practices to support them. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2019
Data catalog management for analytics fraught with unique demands
Data catalogs for analytics applications demand detailed assessment of user needs, cross-functional teams, ready access, continuous improvement and a self-sustaining system. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Dec 2019
How to streamline feature engineering for machine learning
Structured data is necessary in machine learning, but sifting through data is time consuming. Streamlining the feature engineering process can help data scientists be more productive. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2019
How AI could save the enterprise data catalog
Enterprise data catalogs record all the databases and files in a corporation, but sometimes it can become out of date. Advances in AI are helping minimize the problem. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2019
Okera shines Spotlight on data lake insights
Data stored in a data lake can be an important asset, but understanding how the data is being used, or in some cases not used, is another challenge altogether. Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2019
How enterprises navigate GDPR data management rules
For businesses that operate in the EU, complying with GDPR has to be a top priority. And in many, much of the compliance burden falls on the data management staff. Continue Reading
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10 Oct 2019
DOD CDO shares 7 data management best practices
The DOD's first chief data officer, Michael Conlin, shares tips on how organizations can modernize their data management practices with the objective of matching private enterprise. Continue Reading
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04 Oct 2019
Align business and IT drivers through data quality best practices
Information management consultants talk about the importance of aligning business and IT drivers for a holistic architectural approach to ensuring strong data quality. Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2019
Immuta introduces new features to Automated Data Governance
The new updates also bring about native Hadoop distributed file system workspaces within Immuta and more ways to integrate Immuta with other applications and tools. Continue Reading
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16 Sep 2019
How big tech breakup would affect the tech industry
Breaking up the tech giants would be difficult and might create initial chaos in market, help smaller competitors and potentially raise prices for enterprises. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Aug 2019
What is data activation?
Data activation is a marketing approach that uses consumer information and data analytics to help companies gain real-time insight into target audience behavior and plan for future marketing initiatives. Continue Reading
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31 Jul 2019
Naveego launches tool for analyzing data quality and health
Naveego Accelerator enables users to check for inaccurate data, incomplete data or improperly formatted data to prevent inconsistencies that could cost businesses money. Continue Reading
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30 Jul 2019
Information Builders exec talks data management ethics
In this Q&A, James Cotton, director of the Data Management Centre of Excellence at Information Builders, offers advice on how organizations can carry out ethical data management. Continue Reading
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26 Jun 2019
Immuta Automated Data Governance Platform comes to AWS
Immuta's Automated Data Governance Platform, providing data visibility, accessibility and protection, is now available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace. Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 May 2019
GDPR privacy concerns still brewing on law's first birthday
The first year of the much-debated EU data protection rule was subdued. High-profile fines for privacy breaches have yet to come, but regulators are starting to take action. Continue Reading
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14 May 2019
Advice on enterprise data cleansing from an SAP VP
SAP's Kristin McMahon details data cleansing best practices and explains why a good data cleanse needs continual communication, collaboration and oversight. Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2019
Building a business glossary enhances data governance
Experts say data professionals should work to create a common vocabulary in organizations to help boost data governance and compliance with laws like GDPR. Continue Reading
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Tip
22 Mar 2019
Why data silos matter: Settling ownership of data issues
Data management is often still seen as an IT task, but that can lead to data silos. Find out why the business should be in charge of its data as part of a governance process. Continue Reading
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15 Mar 2019
Big data management practices gain attention amid risks
Many data professionals have yet to solidify traditional data management practices, but they have a new set of challenges to overcome to ensure data privacy and avoid misuse. Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2019
Data catalog software takes on data lakes, privacy laws
Data catalogs form a hub for managing enterprise data. New products focus on machine learning and AI add-ons that help automate aspects of data governance. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2019
IBM Weather Channel location data use spurs privacy concerns
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty pushed real-time weather data mining for travel and other uses, even as the Los Angeles city attorney is suing IBM's Weather Company unit over its sharing of location data with business partners. Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2018
Datawatch Swarm on path to combine data prep, analytics
Datawatch plans to add analytics and data visualization tools to its Swarm data preparation platform, starting with integration capabilities in a Swarm 2.2 release. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Nov 2018
How data duplication in healthcare is diagnosed
Electronic health record systems have helped reduce duplicate patient data in hospitals -- but they haven't cured the problem. Find out how organizations are addressing the issue. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Oct 2018
11 features to look for in data quality management tools
As the need for quality data has increased, so have the capabilities of data quality tools. Learn how collaboration, data lineage and other features enable data quality. Continue Reading
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Answer
27 Sep 2018
What is an enterprise data strategy?
Defining a data strategy can help focus an organization's data management initiatives -- but it isn't the same as data governance. Expert Anne Marie Smith explains why. Continue Reading
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Answer
12 Sep 2018
What is the best structure for data governance programs?
The optimal approach to a data governance framework includes a program team, a data governance council and stewards. Expert Anne Marie Smith explains what role each group plays. Continue Reading
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30 Aug 2018
5 to-dos for your GDPR compliance checklist
It's never too late to fine-tune your GDPR strategy. Expert Anne Marie Smith suggests a current state analysis of your PII protections, drafting a data privacy policy and more. Continue Reading
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Tip
15 Aug 2018
Why data quality tools matter in today's organizations
Data is everywhere -- but is it good? Data quality tools could answer that question and help save time and money. So why don't more organizations use the technology? Continue Reading
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Tip
09 Aug 2018
GDPR checklist items data managers might have overlooked
Now that the General Data Protection Regulation has been implemented, it's a good time for organizations to make sure they haven't missed any GDPR best practices. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Jul 2018
How to manage data and the GDPR right to be forgotten
The General Data Protection Regulation requires organizations to delete personally identifiable information if customers ask -- which can be a challenge. Experts offer four tips. Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2018
Focus, scope and spotting opportunity are key to role of CDO
Chief data officers and experts see the CDO role as changing to a more strategic orientation -- especially finding key opportunities in vast troves of data. Continue Reading
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Tip
19 Jul 2018
Good data quality for machine learning is an analytics must
As companies add machine learning applications, they need to really understand -- and be able to improve -- their data. That's where data quality initiatives come in. Continue Reading
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News
16 Jul 2018
Chief data officer role: Searching for consensus
The chief data officer role is about many things -- regulations, innovation, AI and more. Consultant Randy Bean discussed the matter ahead of an MIT symposium on the topic. Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 May 2018
GDPR compliance requirements drive new winds of data privacy
Hello, GDPR. May 25 is the witching hour for enforcement of the EU's much-discussed GDPR compliance requirements -- and it's a harbinger of more changes to come. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 May 2018
Six data risk management steps for GDPR compliance
By layering data risk management processes into your data governance framework, you can ensure the personally identifiable information your company stores meets GDPR compliance rules. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 May 2018
AP uses data.world platform to spread data journalism
Data journalism reporters need tools that deliver quick context for stories on deadline. A data collaboration platform from data.world helps the Associated Press meet such needs. Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Apr 2018
GDPR rules can spur broader steps to protect sensitive data
Companies need to make compliance with GDPR's requirements on managing personal data a priority, but they should also work to implement wider data protection efforts in the future. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Apr 2018
Data integrity protection spurs greater security spending
As hacking, ransomware and malware attacks mount, companies place big data protection and integrity among the primary reasons for increased spending on security software. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Apr 2018
GDPR requirements put focus on data ethics, governance
The General Data Protection Regulation makes privacy paramount and reinforces the practice of good data governance. Will a new focus on data ethics be an important side effect? Continue Reading
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Opinion
09 Apr 2018
U.S. data protection laws fall short in the age of big data
Data breaches and a history of data abuse led the EU to adopt GDPR, but it might take massive scale data security crises for the U.S. to legislate similar data protection laws. Continue Reading
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Tip
30 Mar 2018
GDPR mandates push data quality improvement into IT spotlight
Data quality issues cost companies significant amounts of money in lost revenue and added expenses, and their impact will only get bigger when the EU starts enforcing its GDPR law. Continue Reading
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Podcast
21 Mar 2018
IT, others focus efforts as GDPR implementation date looms
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is meant to bring better data privacy to bear in the age of big data. How GDPR implementation will proceed remains to be seen. Continue Reading
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Answer
14 Mar 2018
What does the GDPR definition of personal data include?
The definition of personal data in the EU's GDPR data protection rules is broad enough to include any type of data that can be used to directly or indirectly identify a person. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Feb 2018
Data expert: GDPR deadline is an opportunity, not a burden
There is stress as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation compliance deadline nears, but the GDPR privacy movement is a good thing for data policies, advises consultant Daragh O Brien. Continue Reading
