Are you struggling to really track lineage?
Date lineage is increasing important to business users looking to understand and trust data. Yet tradtional solutions provide incomplete and inaccurate results
Stop worrying about the what of metadata
It may sound counter-intuitive but the “what” of metadata is probably the least important thing. Why do I say that? We, let’s start by looking at what metadata is. Metadata is information about other data that gives it context. Two common examples are the data dictionary and the business glossary. The “what” of the data…
Is it ok to have duplicate business terms?
At a practical level, the goal of a business glossary should be to eliminate confusion caused by using the same term/word to mean different things. The business glossary creates a common language and understanding about business term in use in the business. This seems simple until one tries to do it! For example. let’s assume that…
4 benefits of a business glossary
In its most basic form a business glossary is a set of definitions for commonly used business terms, aggregations, etc Many organisations may start with a spreadsheet of terms. However, over time, the need to provide context to the business glossary will in most cases require the implementation of a tool, like Collibra’s Data Governance…
Do you measure the quality of your data model?
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…
MDM tooling comes last
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…
Approaches for selecting Critical Data Elements
Last week, we talked about critical data elements – data elements that help us to achieve our priorities. Given this definition, critical data elements will vary from time to time based on the selection criteria. So what are some approaches that can be used to define critical data elements? A common approach used to categorise…
