Data Governance vs Data Catalog: What’s the Difference?
The umbrella term data management covers distinct tasks, enabling a business to preserve, sustain, and extract value from data. With various disciplines comprising data management, there is often confusion on what many deem as interchangeable terms. Some examples include: data quality vs data integrity, data governance vs data catalog, metadata management vs master data management, […]
The Role of Data Lineage Tools in Business
Struggling to know how data enters the organization, where it exists or transforms as it travels through different processes and systems, data leaders coined the data lineage term to visualize data’s heritage from a dependency perspective (order). Data lineage tools documents data’s origins, movement, uses, and any changes during its journey. Data lineage allows organizations […]
What is a Data Catalog and Why You (Definitely) Need it?
Turning enterprise data into a competitive advantage requires business users to quickly locate, understand, and adequately utilize data. If key decision-makers across departments can’t trust the data, if they can’t understand it, and if they can’t find it, then they can’t leverage data to optimize their business, and the company’s approach to data management is […]
How to Cleanse and Enrich Data for Better Analytics and Decision-Making
Manual data cleanup can be time-consuming and error-prone – and yet clean, ready-to-use data is essential to the success of strategic initiatives across industries and use cases. As more organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making, the pressure mounts for data teams to provide the highest quality data possible for the business. Reach new levels of data quality […]
How to Govern and Monitor Data for Greater Accuracy and Reduced Costs
In any strategic undertaking, trusted data is key to making better decisions that unlock new opportunities for your organization. One of the first steps in the process is to access and replicate the data you need to the cloud for robust analytics and reporting. But the process doesn’t end there. Next, it’s time for the […]
How to Quickly and Easily Access Data Across the Business
It’s a common scenario across industries: a new strategic initiative is launching, and you need trustworthy, relevant data to analyze and support the best outcomes for the business. Your mission is straightforward enough in theory, but you may hit a few roadblocks once you get started. Let’s explore some of the questions you must ask […]
Creating a Data Governance Business Glossary
Often organizations create quick fix solutions to tackle the business glossary challenge including, “we have an Excel-based solution”, and often it does effectively inventory and define terms. But soon it becomes apparent that this is an overly simplistic view of data beyond a simple cataloging of terms with limited ability to capture the important relationships […]
The Roadmap to Data Success: Embracing a Data Catalog
Data governance is important so business users can leverage data assets. An important tool to help them organize and use data is a data catalog. When seeking a competitive advantage, organizations must turn big data into actionable insights. However, as data being collected, shared, and deployed at today’s rapid pace, IT is often the only organizational […]
What is Data Lineage and Why is it Important?
If you work with data, you’ve likely found yourself asking questions about where that data comes from and whether it’s accurate and up to date. Data lineage metrics is your roadmap that answers those questions, and protects data quality. Why is that so important? Enterprise data is in constant motion. As soon as an organization […]
Business Glossary vs Data Catalog: What’s the Difference?
Today, data fuels good business decisions. That, in turn, can positively impact customer experience, revenue, and competitive advantage. If you don’t have the right data quality and data governance mechanisms in place, your business users will lose confidence. Data catalogs play a critical role in your organization’s ability to establish and maintain trust in your […]
Frustrated Over Data Disorganization? Why You Need a Data Catalog Now
Data contains the keys to managing your company’s most valuable assets. Businesses use data catalog tools to make crucial decisions, monitor systems, overcome challenges, solve problems and the list goes on. With the mountains of data and materials data users must sift through to find the information they need, it’s not surprising Gartner says that […]