Data governance is a set of processes that ensures that important data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise. It ensures that trusted information is used for critical business processes, decision-making, and accounting. xDM is the only software solution that enables policy definition and enforcement in a single platform. Solve Data Governance in parallel with […]

What does data governance do for the bottom line? 3 reasons why data governance is key to your business, and why it will become more necessary in the future.

By Kevin Petrie, Vice President of Research, Eckerson Group The first and second blogs of this series examined the vision, tradeoffs, and evaluation criteria of the data hub. Suppose you weighed the pros and cons and decided your environment needs this type of platform. What now? To recap, business managers and BI analysts use the data hub to play […]

By Kevin Petrie, Vice President of Research, Eckerson Group The first blog in this series explored the vision of the data hub as a converged platform that enables business managers and BI analysts to become part-time data managers and data governors. They can use the data hub to integrate, refine and explore data, and contribute to data […]

By Kevin Petrie, Vice President of Research, Eckerson Group In good times, data silos cause problems. In times of massive uncertainty, like now, silos kill companies. Without integrated data, retailers cannot predict customer choices about in-store shopping. Manufacturers cannot plug holes in their supply chain, and healthcare providers cannot design COVID-19-resistant operations. This is why […]

I had an interesting discussion with some friends about Master Data Management, and one of them had the following claim: With a data quality tool, a data integration product, and a database, I can build an MDM hub from scratch. Needless to say that this friend is a very good one, and he is a […]

About the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), was enacted in 2018 and went into effect on January 1, 2020. This landmark piece of legislation secures new privacy rights for California consumers relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses.  *Source: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa […]

Compare the enricher and the validation rule. If your goal is to increase data quality, it might seem obvious to use a validation rule to block poor-quality data from entering your trusted MDM system. However, we’ve seen more and more enrichers deployed to perform data quality checks that are traditionally reserved for validation rules. Let’s […]

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Featured content – CDO Infographic More and more organizations have named a CDO – Chief Data Officer – to lead the effort to protect data and turn it into an asset. Learn more about our Master Data Management Software, the Semarchy Unified Data Platform. Sample infographic content Success percentages of big data initiatives for large […]

For businesses, one of the most tantalizing promises of the digital revolution is the ability to use data to create value—to generate ROI from the raw information streaming in from professional networks as much as from actual “things.” Beyond buzzwords and analyst-speak, putting data into practice This post originally appeared in InfoWorld* Yet businesses have struggled to articulate how […]