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What Is Data Governance and Why It Matters?

Astera

Data governance refers to the strategic management of data within an organization. It involves developing and enforcing policies, procedures, and standards to ensure data is consistently available, accurate, secure, and compliant throughout its lifecycle.

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The Case for Moving to a Business-centric Data Architecture

Domo

As someone whose role at Domo is to provide data governance advice to the company’s largest customers, I have lots of conversations with IT leaders about data lakes. At its core, a data lake is a centralized repository that stores all of an organization’s data. Overcoming data lake disadvantages.

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Data Catalog vs. Data Dictionary vs. Business Glossary: Key Differences

Astera

This quickness eliminates time wasted searching through siloed data sources. Improved Data Governance It specifies the data origin and the potential impact of changes to the data by facilitating data lineage tracking, impact analysis, and enforcement of data governance policies.

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How to meet the challenges unique to enterprise scale

Domo

Users can easily change data permissions—down to individual users—update permission policies, manage external data storage, and more. And with automated security protocols and processes, data governance is easier than ever. Big data is on the rise. What’s left? Nothing but opportunity. Ready, set … grow.

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Information Marts: Enabling Agile, Scalable, and Accurate BI

Astera

Businesses need scalable, agile, and accurate data to derive business intelligence (BI) and make informed decisions. Their data architecture should be able to handle growing data volumes and user demands, deliver insights swiftly and iteratively. Why are Data Vaults and Information Marts Crucial in the BI Ecosystem?

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The Best Data Pipeline Tools List for 2023 

Astera

The best data pipeline tools offer the necessary infrastructure to automate data workflows, ensuring impeccable data quality, reliability, and timely availability. Empowering data engineers and analysts, these tools streamline data processing, integrate diverse sources, and establish robust data governance practices.

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Why CIOs Should Weave Data Fabrics Into Their Orgs

Domo

Creating a data fabric is an essential component to any modern data architecture, and is a promising vision for driving business value in the future.