Tag Archives: Governance
Asset in, Garbage Out: Measuring data degradation
Following up on the discussion I started on GovernYourData.com (thanks to all who provided great feedback), here’s my full proposal on this topic:
We all know about the “Garbage In/Garbage Out” reality that data quality and data governance practitioners have been fighting against for decades. If you don’t trust data when it’s initially captured, how can you trust it when it’s time to consume or analyze it? But I’m also looking at the tougher problem of data degradation. The data comes into your environment just fine, but any number of actions, events – or inactions – turns that “good” data “bad”.
So far I’ve been able to hypothesize eight root causes of data degradation. I’d really love your feedback on both the validity and completeness of these categories. I’ve used similar examples across a number of these to simplify. (more…)
Enterprise Data Archiving Is White Hot
Informatica recently hosted a webinar on Enterprise Data Archiving Best Practices with guest speakers, Tony Baer from Ovum and Murali Rathnam from Symantec IT. With over 600 registrations, I would say that enterprise data archiving is not hot, it is white hot. At least for Informatica. With Big Data entering the data center, organizations are looking for ways to make room – either in the budget or in the data center itself. Archiving is a proven approach that achieves both. Given the complexities and interconnections of enterprise applications, Enterprise Data Archive solutions based on market leading technologies such as Informatica Data Archive, can deliver on the value proposition while meeting tough requirements. (more…)
Learn How Ochsner Health System is Unlocking the Potential of Data in Booth 5005
Nothing tells a more compelling story than a happy customer. This is why we are excited to have Ochsner Health System join us during HIMSS. Jonathan Stevenson, Director of Analytics and Data Management, will be in Informatica booth 5005 sharing the Ochsner Health System accountable care plans, the analytics vision, success to date and lessons learned.
Ochsner Health System is Southeast Louisiana’s largest healthcare delivery network with eight hospitals, thirty eight health centers, over twelve-thousand employees and hundreds of applications. This data resides in disparate clinical and operational data silos. This is a challenge for an organization that has been chosen to be one of the early shared savings program participants. The requirements for success include knowing what’s happening with patients outside of the four doors of Ochsner, forming community best practices and knowing where patients are seeking care. (more…)
Data Governance: How Immature Can You Be?
No organization begins to implement a data governance program from an entirely blank slate; every organization likely has some capabilities to leverage. Determining an organization’s current level of data governance maturity is a useful and necessary first step in developing a customized plan that is both relevant and executable. So how do you assess your maturity? Well throw a rock in any direction and you’re likely to hit a software vendor, consulting company or industry analyst that offers a maturity model and assessment tool to support your data management and data governance efforts. Actually don’t throw rocks, you could hurt somebody. (Yes, we offer one too – more on that below). (more…)
Introducing GovernYourData.com!
I’m excited to officially announce the public launch of www.GovernYourData.com, a new one-stop data governance resource center and online community hosted and sponsored by Informatica. This vendor-neutral site is open to all data governance stakeholders, solution providers and thought leaders (no relationship with Informatica is required) and we welcome any non-promotional content and contributions that share best practices, tips and tricks that aim to help data governance evangelists succeed. (more…)
2013 Cloud Data Management Predictions
Ok, I know it’s a little late to post 2013 technology predictions, but with so many good ones published already, I figured I’d sandbag a little and not only post a few of my own but also share a few of my favorites so far. For me, it starts with Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation. 2013 is going to be a year of “re-imagining” enterprise software, from social, to mobile, to cloud, to Big Data and Analytics.
I summarized my 2012 predictions in an earlier post and Informatica already posted some great predictions from the world of data. Here are my 2013 cloud data management predictions. (more…)
The Carrot and Stick Are Must-Haves in the Data Governance Toolbox
The next facet of our Data Governance Framework recognizes the key dependency any data governance-related effort has on change management. No matter how compelling the vision and business case, making data a trusted corporate asset on par with your financial and people assets is a major culture shift for most organizations.
The Process Stages of Data Governance
To truly manage data as a valued enterprise asset, data governance must be managed as a business function like finance or human resources. A finance function is comprised of multiple core business processes such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and financial planning. So to manage data governance as a function, what are the core business processes that comprise data governance? (more…)
Data Governance Policies Shape Organizational Behaviors
Continuing the tour of our Data Governance Framework, it’s time to discuss the corporate policies that must be documented to form the foundation of your data governance efforts. When defined, approved, evangelized and enforced appropriately, these policies have the power to accomplish a feat that grassroots data governance efforts fail at repeatedly: Evolving your corporate culture to one that actually does manage data as an asset.
Data Governance Framework Walkthrough: By The People, For The People
The next stop on the tour of our data governance framework focuses on the people investments that your organization must make to build out data governance capabilities. The right people are required to support, sponsor, steward, operationalize and ultimately deliver a positive return on your data assets. As you can imagine, the challenge of defining the right roles and responsibilities, job descriptions, career paths, and incentive plans for the people needed to make data governance a success will not be solved in a short blog post. So my goal here is to share my thoughts and open the discussion to identify the most relevant areas for consideration. (more…)