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…
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…
