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How to Implement the DPDP Act 2023, India’s Landmark Data Protection Act
In August 2023, the Government of India enacted its landmark data protection regulation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act)....
data-compliance
Data Governance : Cost of Inaction
Some business decisions—like implementing an ERP system—will boost productivity, but the worst that will happen if you fail to act on them is losing...
data-governance
Data Governance in the Insurance Industry
Choosing a company to insure them when the worst-case scenario happens is one of the most important decisions a person can make. The trust customers...
data-governance
Data Lineage | Drivers and Techniques
Data lineage, tracking, and recording the various processes and changes data has been through since its inception is one of the core aspects of data...
data-lineage
Business Glossary | Challenges and Solutions
Many data teams may believe the hard work is over once they have collected and curated the terms required to create a business glossary....
business-glossary
Data Governance in Banking
Guest author Dr. Sujatha (Su) Rayburn is Vice President of Information Management and Analytics at Delta Community.
data-governance
What is Data Curation?
In a museum, the curator collects, organizes, manages, and preserves valuable art and artifacts. And without them, museums would just be big rooms...
data-governance
How OvalEdge Provides AI-Powered Access Management in Snowflake
When you opt for a data management or storage solution, you always consider the security implications. You want to ensure your data is always safe,...
data-security data-access
4 Steps to AI-Ready Data
Those in the know have long been aware of the potential of AI technologies. However, it wasn't until the public unveiling of generative AI at the...
data-governance
How to Become and Deliver as a Chief Data Officer
The role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) is inextricably linked with data governance. Without experience managing data governance programs,...
data-governance
Finding the Right Data Governance Tool
During a recent conversation, a CDO told me he had just hired a Data Governance Lead who wanted to begin drafting data access policies. "You...
data-governance
What is Data Quality? Dimensions & Their Measurement
When I was a kid, I remember going to the store to buy a new hard drive. When I asked the store manager how big it would be, he told me it would be...
data-quality
What is a Business Glossary? Definition, Examples, Template
Before I dive into what a business glossary is and how best you can develop one for your organization, I want to use a famous example that shows the...
business-glossary
Data Catalog vs Data Dictionary - Differences & Use Cases
In the modern age, companies are responsible for a mind-bogglingly huge amount of data. If you imagine as much data as possible, it wouldn’t even...
data-catalog
Data Dictionary: What is it and how do you create your own?
At this point, it’s cliche to emphasize the importance of data nowadays. Nearly every business relies heavily on data, and people are increasingly...
The Importance of Data Governance in Financial Services
According to the 1966 musical Cabaret, ‘money makes the world go around’. But in 2023, it could be argued that data is just as pivotal to the earth's...
data-governance finance
What is Data Obfuscation and why is it important to your business?
In today's digital world, data is a valuable asset that businesses rely on for decision-making, operations, and competitive advantage. But with the...
data-obfuscation
What is Active Metadata Management? Definition & Benefits
By adopting aggressive metadata analysis across your complete data management environment, you can reduce the time-to-delivery of new data assets to...
Data Governance: What, Why, Who & How. A practical guide with examples
Digital transformations are sweeping the business world at every level. From global enterprises trading legacy systems for multi-cloud architecture...
data-governance
The Importance of Data Governance in Healthcare
It gets clearer each year that data is at the heart of most businesses, which makes it vital to maintain high-quality standards.
data-governance healthcare
What is Data Fabric? Definition & Architecture
With the increased importance of data to businesses, it’s no surprise that there are more and more ways to organize and store data.
data-fabric
How to Manage Data Quality
You're a pilot whose navigation system is fed with inaccurate data. You may fly in the wrong direction or, worse, crash. Similarly, poor data quality...
data-quality
How OvalEdge and Dremio Support Data Agility
In today's data-driven business landscape, organizations are becoming increasingly aware of how crucial data governance is in maintaining the...
3 Data Privacy Compliance Challenges that can be solved with OvalEdge
When you manage large amounts of data, privacy will always be front of mind. The most obvious reason is to avoid falling foul of rules and...
gdpr data-compliance
5 Core Benefits of Data Lineage
One thing all data-driven organizations are aware of is the fluidity of data. Far from being a static resource, data is constantly moved from one...
data-lineage
Data Security in Snowflake Via OvalEdge
OvalEdge has completed the Snowflake Ready Validation Program. This third-party technical validation process confirms that OvalEdge integration is...
Data Observability: What it is and Why it is important for your Business
It’s pretty much a cliché to say these days, but data really is the foundation of modern business. Not only is there an eye-watering amount of it,...
data-observability
What is Data Mesh? Principles & Architecture
Until recently, data lakes were the hot thing in data architecture, but more and more companies are turning away from this approach in search of an...
data-mesh
Data Governance and Data Quality: Working Together
Data Quality is the degree to which data is accurate, complete, timely, and consistent with your business’s requirements; whereas Data Governance is...
data-quality
What's new in OvalEdge 6.0?
The latest version of OvalEdge is about to be released in a month, and there's much to be excited about. OvalEdge 6.0 is packed with new features and...
data-governance
Top 5 Data Governance Use Cases
It’s almost impossible to emphasize how important data is to both people and industry. Not only is data at the heart of most business operations, but...
data-governance
Making a Roadmap for Successful Data Governance
A Data Governance (DG) roadmap will bring together your drivers, priorities, team members, and capacity and determine how governance will work to...
Empower your Data Governance Policy with Matillion ETL and OvalEdge
Data governance is a hot topic right now. For companies today, ensuring proper data asset management and curating a culture of accountability over...
A Complete Guide to Data Access Governance
Imagine a coworker logs in to the company’s HR portal to see his benefits and can see your salary!! What? Don’t worry, that won’t happen as these...
data-access
How Chief Data Officers overcome three key challenges they face
The role of a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is relatively new and hence laden with many new challenges. But knowing these issues beforehand can help you...
data-governance
How End-to-End Data Governance in Snowflake Supports Business Agility
Data governance is a comprehensive, collaborative process that brings business, compliance, and IT teams together. Collectively, they can ensure data...
data-governance
Data Access Management Basics & Implementation Strategy
Regulating access to data is one of the most important aspects of data governance. As a result, data access management has evolved into an...
data-access
Building an Effective Data Governance Framework
A data governance framework enables you to define and document your data governance policies and compartmentalize the steps required to provide...
data-governance data-catalog
Data Governance & Data Stewardship Explained
Data governance and data stewardship are two crucial terms that you can’t afford to forget if you want to derive the maximum value from your...
data-governance
Data Governance & Metadata Management: Better Together
Metadata management is a critical element of data governance that enables users to derive value from the data they have at their disposal. Beyond...
Data Governance Maturity Models and How to Measure It?
Summary: A data governance maturity model is a tool and methodology used to measure your organization's data governance initiatives and communicate...
data-governance
Building a Business Glossary - Why and How
A data governance business glossary is an essential data literacy tool and crucial for understanding the data in your organization and undertaking...
business-glossary
How Cross-Team Collaborative Analytics Benefits an Organization
In the past decade, advanced analytics has come a long way. Beyond simple call insights, companies can now track how teams from every sector work...
data-governance
Best Practices for Improving Data Quality
Data is often described as the new oil, but ensuring data quality is better compared to growing a delicate fruit. Just as with a fruit tree, data...
data-quality
How to build a business case for data governance
Summary: The key steps to building a business case for data governance are:
data-governance business-case
Data Privacy Compliance: How to Ensure it and How it Can Benefit Your Business
Compliance in a data governance context refers to the measures taken by a data governance team, specifically data protection officers, to ensure an...
data-compliance
Data Literacy: What it is and How it Benefits Your Business
Data literacy ensures all data users within an organization are educated to a level that enables them to consume data with confidence within a...
data-governance
Data Discovery: What it is, Why it’s Important for Data Governance
An essential business intelligence (BI) process, effective data discovery provisions make an organization’s data easy to locate, regardless of where...
data-governance
Data Governance Tools: Capabilities To Look For
Organizations are investing heavily in data governance initiatives to help ensure their data delivers business value. A successful data governance...
data-governance
Framework of Data Governance
If there’s anything that’s defining thriving businesses today, it’s a strong understanding and strategizing the use of a company’s data.
data-governance
Data Governance: What It Means and What Are Its Drivers
If there’s anything that’s defining thriving businesses today, it’s a strong understanding and strategizing the use of a company’s data.
data-governance
Getting Started with OvalEdge Data Catalog
This guide helps you to navigate through various features and functionality of OvalEdge. It will help you to get started with OvalEdge quickly.
data-catalog
How to Start Doing Data-driven Supply Chain Optimization
What is Supply Chain Optimization (SCO)? A supply chain is the sequence of processes and activities involved in the production and distribution of a...
data-analytics
A step-by-step guide to build a data catalog
What is a data catalog? A data catalog is a systematic list of all data assets in the form of tables, files, reports, etc. that exist in a company's...
data-analytics data-catalog
Data Analytics unravels the secret of Oleg’s popularity on LinkedIn
Q. What is the secret of Oleg’s popularity on LinkedIn? LinkedIners would surely like to know the answer to this question. Oleg Vishnepolsky is a ...
data-analytics
Get GDPR ready
For multinational companies, today is the time to act on GDPR. WHY? There is an adage which holds true here – A stitch in time saves thine! You don’t...
gdpr data-compliance
A Step-by-Step Guide to Metadata Management
“For me, context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything.” – Kenneth Noland, American painter Effective metadata management in...
big-data
Benefits of a Data lake
The key benefit of a data lake is that you can store any and all data in one place incurring a low cost, pulling it as analytical needs arise. But...
big-data
Hadoop Best Practices for Data Ingestion
Hadoop Data ingestion is the beginning of your data pipeline in a data lake. It means taking data from various silo databases and files and putting...
hadoop
What is Unstructured Data and How to Process it on Hadoop?
Hadoop was invented to process unstructured data. First at Google, then at Yahoo and Bing, it was used to create page rank based on keywords from the...
hadoop unstructured-data
Equifax and the Curious Case of Data Breach. How to Dodge that Bullet?
Equifax is the recent addition to the ever-increasing list of a data breach. Companies are scampering to bolster their defenses with piecemeal...
data-security
Hadoop best practices for ETL
Hadoop, an open-source framework has been around for quite some time in the industry. You would see a multitude of articles on how to use Hadoop for...
hadoop big-data
Can data-driven curiosity cure our cognitive biases?
Cognitive Biases and our brain Does the fact that having biases is an inherent part of the human brain, surprise you? Don’t be surprised as this is...
big-data
big-data
BI, Analytics, and Discovery? Know the difference in the big data era
Before starting from home for the airport, you put your flight number – DL28 on Google search. It shows you the current flight status from Atlanta to...
hadoop big-data
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