Last week, we looked at why we need a business glossary. This week we will discuss what we capture in a business glossary. First, and most obviously, we capture business terms. Business terms A business term is a word or phrase that describes a concept that is used in a particular branch of business. Examples…
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…
It is traditional at this time of the year to look forward at trends that will shape the year. From a data perspective I believe that 2019 will be a year of finding balance between three conflicting requirements 1. Business’ continuing need for self service – particularly to support analytics. Business stakeholders looking for insights…
Today is Christmas day – I thought i would share a collection of Christmas related posts from around the Internet. Happy Christmas everyone! The 12 days of data – some interesting stats on the well known Christmas song Christmas in numbers – 10 of the best uses of Christmas visualization The relativity of Einstein, Elephants,…
As the year winds down I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the data around one of the stand-out events of this year. A dead whale that washed ashore in eastern Indonesia was found to have over 1000 pieces of plastic in its stomach – and drew global attention to the…
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…
