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Data Governance vs Data Catalog - What's the Difference

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | November 16, 2023
The Role of Data Lineage Tools in Business

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | November 8, 2023
What is a Data Catalog and Why You (Definitely) Need it

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | September 8, 2023
How to Cleanse and Enrich Data for Better Analytics and Decision-Making

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Integrity | June 5, 2023
How to Govern and Monitor Data for Greater Accuracy and Reduced Costs

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Integrity | May 8, 2023
How to Quickly and Easily Access Data Across the Business

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Integrity | April 11, 2023
Creating a Data Governance Business Glossary

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....

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | November 17, 2022
Why You Need a Data Catalog

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | August 8, 2022
What is Data Lineage and Why is it Important

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...

Authors Photo Precisely Editor | Data Governance | July 25, 2022
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