In a recent blog, I spoke about watch-list compliance and the difficulties of matching customers against suspect lists. I also spoke of the value of CDI for compliance, which provides a good method, if you will, for enhancing one’s ability to make necessary matches.
Well, here’s another non-matching technology that can help this kind of compliance – data profiling. - Read the rest of this entry »
The DataFlux CDI Executive Summit series — courtesy of DataFlux and our friends at the BI Network — has come to an end, and it was a great ride. We had previously engaged audiences in San Jose and Dallas in May, and the New York summit in June was the icing on the proverbial cheesecake. (Preferably Junior’s cheesecake.) - Read the rest of this entry »
CDI is great for a number of reasons. Because it offers a single, authoritative view of the customer, organizations can understand, serve and segregate their customers better. But not only that, CDI can also be an effective solution for regulatory compliance, specifically watch list compliance. A little background, please. - Read the rest of this entry »
Here is the issue: as your organization migrates from distributed data sets under workgroup administration (i.e., “owners”) to being clients of a centrally managed enterprise “master data” (i.e., “clients”), what governance policies need to be put in place to ensure that the quality of the data is not compromised for any of the application areas, that the master records remain consistent with any application’s view at any particular time, or that constraints of relying on a unified master don’t encourage rogue developers to create their own ungoverned data sets? - Read the rest of this entry »
In the June 12th edition of Newsweek, in an article titled “15 Ideas to Recharge America,” Francine Berman, the director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, highlights the burgeoning amount of data that America is generating. She also notes our inability to access all of it because it is so disorganized. She states that to get a handle on this data – to be able to access this data and to determine “what information to keep, and how” – “we need a national data management plan.” - Read the rest of this entry »
There’s an old joke about the biblical first man, Adam, giving names to animals in the Garden of Eden. When he gets to the hippopotamus, God asks him, “What shall we name this animal?” Adam answers, “Hippopotamus.” God questions this choice – “Why do you want to call this animal a hippopotamus?” Adam’s answer: “Because it looks more like a hippopotamus than any other animal.” - Read the rest of this entry »
The success of most data quality initiatives depends upon globalization. It’s relatively straightforward to improve the quality of data for a particular department or subsidiary or whatever, but this ultimately doesn’t resolve data quality issues that impact the broader entity or organization. That is, for the organization to get the greatest benefit out of its data, a broader, more comprehensive – that is, global — approach is necessary, one that considers all of the organization’s data sources. - Read the rest of this entry »
I spent a lot of my career focused on optimization. One of my early roles was to evaluate the performance of a compiler’s generated machine language, look for the performance bottlenecks, then figure out ways to make the compiler generate faster code. This is a mind set that I have carried along with me all of my career – I’m always looking for opportunities to do things better, faster and more efficiently. - Read the rest of this entry »
“Why does it take us so long to get all these emerging technologies right?” asked my friend and erstwhile client as we tucked into a hearty New York lunch at the Longwood Gourmet deli on 44th and Park Avenue.
“Maybe we’re supposed to learn it first,” I said, “before we do anything Big with it.”
“Don’t get all Zen on my ass,” he said, and bit into his Number 29 (grilled chicken with Mozzarella and basil on a hoagie). - Read the rest of this entry »
Not long ago, I attended a conference where there was a lot of talk about service oriented architectures, (SOAs). I should note that this was not a conference on SOAs, although the subject was certainly one of the major focuses of the conference.
Obviously, SOAs are not new and they have been getting a lot of attention in recent years. They have also been getting a substantial amount of uptake among large, heterogeneous enterprises. - Read the rest of this entry »
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