Master Data Management–Aligning Data, Process, and Governance

TDWI research has found that organizations are increasingly modernizing their data warehouse environments. Often the current environment is not sufficient to support new analytics initiatives or they need to support new data types for analytics. Many enterprises are moving to the cloud as part of this journey. In fact, cloud data warehouses and cloud data lakes are already mainstream. The popularity of automated tools is growing as environments become more complex.

In this 50-minute overview and product demo, Founder and CTO, Thomas Bolt, will show you how you get a strategic and automated concept for quality assurance in your data-driven development project. You’ll learn why hundreds of data analytics projects fail with too less or inadequate testing and how to implement a strong testing concept easily by using BiG EVAL's test automation software for data-driven projects.

If your organization is in a highly-regulated industry or relies on data for competitive advantage data governance is undoubtedly a top priority. Whether you’re focused on “defensive” data governance (supporting regulatory compliance and risk management) or “offensive” data governance (extracting the maximum value from your data assets, and minimizing the cost of bad data), data quality plays a critical role in ensuring success.

At its core, Data Governance (DG) is all about managing data with guidance. This immediately provokes the question: Would you tolerate any of your assets to be managed without guidance? (In all likelihood, your organization has been managing data without adequate guidance and this accounts for its current, less-than-optimal state.) This program provides a practical guide to implementing DG or recharging your existing program. It provides an understanding of what Data Governance functions are required and how they fit with other Data Management disciplines. Understanding these aspects is a prerequisite to eliminate the ambiguity that often surrounds initial discussions and implement effective Data Governance/Stewardship programs that manage data in support of organizational strategy. Delegates will understand why Data Governance can be tricky for organizations due to data’s confounding characteristics.