New Year’s Resolutions for your Data Management Strategy

Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies are driving major changes in how organizations think about business intelligence and analytics. Rather than be limited to querying and reporting on just what is in traditional BI systems or data warehouses, many business users and analysts want to tap a fuller range of data in systems running Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, or on cloud data platforms and storage. At the same time, AI practices and technologies (in particular machine learning and natural language processing) are changing how users explore, analyze, and interact with data and the types of insights they can generate.

Cloud data management CDM is simply data management that involves clouds. For example, when focused on data persistence, CDM provides cloud-native data storage and optimized processing for the burgeoning volumes of enterprise data, big data, and data from new sources that users are choosing to manage and use on clouds. When focused on integration, CDM provides data integration infrastructure (with related functions for quality and semantics) to unify multicloud and hybrid on-premises/cloud environments.

Metadata is more relevant than ever. It continues to be a powerful enabler for high-value data-driven business activities across operations, analytics, and compliance. However, to maintain this relevance, metadata management must deal with the increasing complexity of today’s business use cases and hybrid data environments. Metadata management is notoriously manual which makes it slow in development and error-prone in maintenance. Metadata management needs better tool automation. Metadata management is typically siloed due to users managing metadata per tool or platform. Metadata management needs a unified solution that is suited to sharing, reuse, governance, and comprehensive views of distributed data.

What does it mean to activate a Data Governance policy? Can an inactive policy be effective? Data Governance policies can address different things depending on the organization. Some policies are very general and introduce the awareness of formal Data Governance to the organization. Other policies address specific needs like Data Quality, data documentation, and data protection. Join Bob Seiner and a special guest for this RWDG webinar where they will tackle of the subject of how to develop and deploy an active Data Governance policy. Bob and his guest will provide specific examples of policy components and examples of how organizations use policies to govern their data.