Data Governance

I found this great data governance white paper via a press release. It surveyed many different companies working on data governance and compiled the findings into fascinating results. Take a look at the PDF here.


On another note, I haven’t been posting for a while because I’ve been super busy with a home construction project. I want to give a shoutout to a couple companies who have been doing a great job for us. Kempster Construction, Pendley Plumbers, and
Ausmalbilder have all been terrific, and without their help the house would still be a mess.

The last session that I wanted to write about was titled, “A Business Value-Driven Approach to Data Quality” and was presented by Richard Trapp from Avaya. For those of you don’t know of Avaya (I suspect most of you do, as you probably have one of their phones sitting right next to you), they were spun off from Lucent and are now a leading business communications technology provider. Richard started the DQ program at Avaya and went about doing it in a very unique way — every effort he makes is focused on the trackable dollar value it brings back to the business.
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