Reporting: Communicating Compliance to Data Policies
Having a means for measuring observance of the specific aspects of a data policy and instituting those measures so that their scores can be monitored positions the enterprise to take advantage of an...
View ArticlePractical Data Stewardship
In one of my previous posts, I suggested some guidelines for compliance with data policies. One recommendation was to define data governance roles and responsibilities. At the same time, I have worked...
View ArticleThe Role of Data Stewards in Monitoring Compliance to Data Policies
The data steward is on the front line of monitoring and ensuring compliance to data policies, which means actively implementing and then monitoring compliance with the specific details of those...
View ArticleThe Data Policy Lifecycle
There is a lot of talk about the need for data policies, but when a data governance committee sits down to the first meeting, the lack of organizational preparedness leads to the situation in which the...
View ArticleDetermination of Business Dependence for Data Policy Definition
The definition of a data policy can be motivated by business dependencies that originate with corporate value drivers such as increased revenue generation, decreased expenses, reduction in operational...
View ArticleDrafting a Policy
What goes into a data policy? First, I would suggest that any data policy have a description of the business justification, the data sets that are the focus of the policy, the enumeration of the data...
View ArticleReviewing and Approving a Policy
Defining a policy is one thing, but vetting it and garnering general approval from across the governance community is another. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of familiarity that the data...
View ArticleEnterprise Data Strategy: What It Means To You
The phrase “Enterprise Data Strategy” has earned many consultants a substantial amount in fees from those organizations that knew they needed one, but were unclear what it really meant to them....
View ArticleEnterprise Data – Risk and Reward
Access to large volumes of data should be a good thing, right? Right? I am old enough to remember being excited by the delivery of 200 pages of green bar reports, a week after my request was submitted...
View ArticleBuilding Tools for the “Enterprise Information Map”
Embarcadero’s products are deployed in 97% of the Global 2000 and our customers face some of the biggest challenges in data management. They consistently tell us about the growing complexity and...
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