Over the last few month’s our local (South African) DAMA chapter has been running a number of sessions discussing data modelling. Even in these days of “unstructured data” it seems that data modelling is needed more than ever. Why do we need a data model? Strategically, a good data model will help us to determine…
When you search on Google for “Master Data Management” you’ll have to look hard for a search result that is not vendor related. Most search results will be from software vendors about tooling related to MDM. Master Data Management seems to become a synonym for the implementation of a master data hub. On a discussion forum, I…
Another brief post this week on an area that we do not focus on very often: data transformation. Data transformation is a relatively mundane yet fundamental data management capability – particularly when dealing with similar data from multiple sources. Three simple examples: System A represents Male and Female and 0 and 1, while System B…
Another post following #ITWebGDPR2018 earlier this month. In his talk on the cost and compliance obligations of the GDPR, governance specialist Peter Hill made the point that risk, as it is referred to in the regulation, refers to risk from the perspective of the data subject. In other words, companies implementing GDPR, and PoPIA, must…
Last week, we spoke about Data Governance as an enabler for GDPR Compliance at the 2018 ITWeb GDPR Update. Six months after GDPR was introduced many organisations are still not compliant, with data management implementation and automation listed as major concerns. A McKinsey survey suggests that many companies put stop gap measures in place to…
Global warming. Big data. Data governance. Three terms that have been well used over the last several years, but that are frequently misunderstood. Global warming How can we be having record cold temperatures and storms on (for example) the United States East coast? The planet is getting colder, not warmer. Global warming is one of…
Infrastructure is not realy a topic on which Masterdata focusses much attention However, I found the recent post by our partner, Syncsort to be really interesting as they explored strategies for optimizing data infrastructure in a multi-cloud architecture Many of our customers are exploring cloud options for managing data. yet, infrastructure, bandwidth and cost concerns…
There are two weeks to go before ITWeb’s 2018 GDPR update I will be speaking on the value of data governance as an enabler for GDPR compliance. Like the South African equivalent, PoPIA, GDPR is intended to protect the rights of the data subject by requiring companies to put measures in place to ensure that…
This week I am publishing the presentation that was delivered as the Customer Analytics conference last month In this presentation I talked about the challenges of delivering customer experience – including having to source new , unstructured data sets Data quality Building trust and questions around permission and data privacy Data governance answers these (and…
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are the new hot topics in data analytics. These topics define subsets of data science that are primarily characterized by mathematical and statistical processes applied to data. In machine learning, algorithms replace humans in interpreting data. The expectation is that the machine will make purely data-driven ( better ) decisions…
I am often asked for help in quantifying the value of data governance. This can be difficult to do! As the prominence of data as a business enabler becomes more obvious, more businesses are investing in data management – typically advanced analytics capabilities – such as the lates drive towards machine learning and artificial intelligence.…
In 2016 we asked – What is GDPR and why should South African’s care? The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018. Earlier this year, Liberty Life became one of the first global firms to suffer a major breach under GDPR – forcing the CEO onto television to limit…
