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Improve Data Governance with These Data Modeling Tips

The Data Administration Newsletter

Data Governance describes the practices and processes organizations use to manage the access, use, quality and security of an organizations data assets. The data-driven business era has seen a rapid rise in the value of organization’s data resources.

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The Key Role of the Data Governance Partner

The Data Administration Newsletter

A question was raised in a recent webinar about the role of the Data Architect and Data Modelers in a Data Governance program. My webinar with Dataversity was focused on Data Governance Roles as the Backbone of Your Program.

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What Every Business Leader Needs to Know About Data Modeling

Dataversity

But decisions made without proper data foundations, such as well-constructed and updated data models, can lead to potentially disastrous results. For example, the Imperial College London epidemiology data model was used by the U.K. Government in 2020 […].

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Who Needs A Data Model Anyway?

The Data Administration Newsletter

These days, there is much conversation about the necessity of the data model. The data model has been around for several decades now and can be classified as an artifact of an earlier day and age. But is the data model really out of date? And exactly why do we need a data model, anyway? […]

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Dark Data: How to Find It and What to Do with It

Timo Elliott

If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. If you’ve been properly managing your metadata as part of a broader data governance policy, you can use metadata management explorers to reveal silos of dark data in your landscape. Storing data isn’t enough.

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Data is Risky Business: Data is a Communications Skill

The Data Administration Newsletter

Over the past few months, my team in Castlebridge and I have been working with clients delivering training to business and IT teams on data management skills like data governance, data quality management, data modelling, and metadata management.

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The Book Look: Quick Retrospect

The Data Administration Newsletter

Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since 2016, and his The Data Modeling Addict column years before that.