Archive for March, 2010
Step Right Up: Data Governance and Your Local Carnival
If you’re one of the first few people at the local carnival, it can seem lonely and exciting at the same time. All the opportunity is wonderful. Sometimes, it’s tough to know where to start. Starting a Data Governance program can be similar. Most people within an organization know the carnival is out there, but aren’t sure if it’s really worth going.
Is Information an Asset or a Resource?
Information-as-Asset and Information-as-Resource are two different organizational philosophies, and it is important to understand where your organization stands and where it needs to be. Larry Dubov helps differentiate the two.
Anchor Stores: How Hospitals & Health Systems Are the Foundation of a Sustainable HIE
It is still left to be seen which health information exchanges will survive and which won’t. Successful HIEs share three common characteristics: sustainability, adoptability and scalability. But what does that mean? David Cheng examines sustainability through the analogy of shopping mall.
The Peanut Butter and Chocolate of Data: MDM and SOA
In this response to a recent IT Business Edge column by Loraine Lawson, Marty discusses the affinity between SOA and MDM, including how MDM works best as a service, the role of data models, and why messaging is so important.
Data Governance and “Wallet Share”
Late last year, Ian Stahl sat in on a meeting between a partner who provides business data services and one of our customers, a large shipping company. They started talking about “wallet share,” and, after he learned what they meant, he started thinking about numerous applications to MDM and data governance.
What is the Economic Value of Information When Building the MDM Business Case?
It is always a challenge to put a dollar value on an intangible asset like information. Larry Dubov explains the Economic Value model that establishes a relationship between the market value of the enterprise and the value of enterprise information.
Webinar Preview: MDM-Powered Apps
MDM-powered applications are fully functional end user applications which constitute the next generation of master data management. Learn about the benefits of MDM-powered apps in Initiate’s upcoming webinar.
Building your Data Governance Board
One of the first steps to agile data governance is selecting a data governance board. Doing so requires asking a lot of questions from people across the organization, and then listening for the similarities in pain points and risks. Marty explains how to go about this to assemble a strong board that can lead your initiatives.
Webinar: Relationships are the Lines that Connect the Dots
What is your data trying to tell you? In intelligence gathering, there is great value in understanding non-obvious relationships to multiple degrees of separation. Detecting non-obvious relationships – such as when two people share an address but not other identifying details – can be extraordinarily beneficial to law enforcement and counter-terrorism efforts.
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