Three Most Important Legs of Information Management

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Episode Title : Three Most Important Legs of Information Management

Episode Summary: The episode starts with a focus on the 3 legs of information management which are data quality, data sensitivity, and master data management. Later, the discussion focuses on advice to aspiring data management and data governance professionals about most resourceful web sites, conferences and certifications. The episode concludes with a discussion on data governance best practices which start by identifying top 10 reports.

3 legs of Information Management (02:28): There are 3 legs of Information management and they are (1) Data quality (2) Data sensitivity (3) Master Data Management. On top of 3 legs are data governance and data stewardship.

Data Governance in the cloud (06:45): Data governance in the cloud has not been resolved yet. Companies are still struggling with the concept of putting data in the cloud and managing metadata while doing so.

Resources for data management/data governance (08:48): (1) Dataversity courses (2) Data Management Book Of Knowledge (DMBOK) has a great framework (3) Open source data management are great resources. CDMP is a great certification. Enterprise Data World (EDW) is a great conference as well.

Data Governance best practices (16:23): (1) Start with Top 10 reports (2) Focus then on data sources, data integrity that make up those reports. (3) Start governing the critical data that drives these reports. And keep going to the next level of reports.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Dataversity.Net

Dama.Org