Carl Gerber: Best Practices in Enterprise Data Governance

Jun 21, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and Henry H. Eckerson in Secrets of Data & Analytics Leaders

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In this podcast, Carl Gerber and Wayne Eckerson discuss Gerber’s top five data governance best practices: Motivation, Assessment, Data Assets Catalog, CxO Alliance, and Data Quality. Listeners will learn to build and sustain a data governance program, create a governance council, employ a data...

The Business Case for a Data Catalog

Jun 20, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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This paper quantifies the value of a data catalog to help estimate return on investment for a data catalog. Starting from a single analytics use case, it illustrates the revenue creating and cost saving potential of data catalogs. Revenue and cost are important—making and saving money—and are the...

How To Plan Your Embedded Analytics Project

Jun 19, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and Kevin Smith in Data Strategy Insider

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Although choosing the vendor to power your analytics is critical, it shouldn’t be the first milestone you tackle.

Modern Data Warehousing without the Burden of ETL

Jun 15, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Incorta’s innovative approach of Direct Data Mapping meets the challenges of modern data warehousing with the right techniques and tools to deliver high-speed data integration and aggregation with all of the advantages of a semantic layer and without the burden of a 1990s-style data warehouse. 

A Tale of Two Analysts: Data Catalogs Unlock the Power of Modern Analytics

Jun 15, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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The value and benefits of data cataloging are often described as the ability for analysts to find the data that they need quickly and efficiently. Without cataloging, it is said, analysts spend 80% of their time finding and preparing data and only 20% obtaining insights. The data catalog reverses...