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How effective is your data governance program


Measurement and accountability drive process efficiency

In this, the conclusion of my blog series on “Measuring data governance programs,” I’ll be exploring the need to measure data governance process performance and techniques you can use to ensure that those processes are operating optimally. The last few posts expressed the need to measure data governance programs from various perspectives to ensure that [...]

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Teradata Pyramid

Forget Multi-Domain; Integrated Master Data Is the Prize


Over just a couple of short years, every MDM product in the universe has become multi-domain, the enterprise software edition of Extreme Makeover. Let’s not even get into data governance… Why is multi-domain important? Because in the beginning of MDM, companies started with a single domain — in almost all cases either customer master or [...]

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Work Done by a Spring

Physics of Information Management: Work Done by a Spring


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The Pendulum

Physics of Information Management: The Pendulum


   

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The need for speed is real


A few years ago when I worked at PeopleSoft, we were marketing the concept of “real time” applications, the theory being that customers who could deliver in real time would have an edge on their competitors. The reality is that most applications still had some batch process, and that the real-time components only affected a [...]

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