I am currently sitting in Bonnie O’Neil’s and Lowell Fryman’s workshop on starting a metadata program at the 2008 DAMA/Meta Data conference in San Diego. A topic that continues to emerge is the challenge of convincing the business client of the value of metadata. - Read the rest of this entry »
Today was our local DAMA chapter meeting. I presented on what I call Actionable Data Governance, while DataFlux presented information on the business rules engine and the future of data governance. It was well attended (with the right people). - Read the rest of this entry »
I just reviewed a handful of case studies on master data management, and I had the distinct feeling of deja vu. Many of the MDM programs in the case studies centered (of course) on customer data, and even more pointedly, on the matching and linkage aspects of customer data integration. Considering that five years ago (prior to the creation of the term “master data management”), these case studies would have been touted as best practices in data quality. - Read the rest of this entry »
At our next DAMA meeting in Denver, we will be discussing how to make data governance actionable. What I mean by that is what do we, as a company, need to do to get to the TOP of the maturity model for data governance (That is where you want to be – right?) - Read the rest of this entry »
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