Business Drivers for a Data Lineage Initiative
A company should have strong drivers to start the data management, particularly data lineage initiative. These initiatives may bring many challenges associated with the resources required. Such drivers...
View ArticleData Lineage for Various Stakeholder Groups
Data lineage can be documented differently depending on a company’s needs. It is important to realize that a company as a whole cannot accurately define the needs for and benefits of data lineage...
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The Metamodel of Data Lineage
In this section, we combine and link all data lineage layers and components in a graphical format. Data lineage can be documented at different abstraction levels. We speak about four layers: business...
View ArticleKnowledge Graphs, Data Lineage, and Metadata Management
Knowledge graphs, metadata management, and data lineage are examples of new metadata capabilities that many companies have actively discussed and developed. There are some challenges associated with...
View ArticleData Lineage Types
Different business stakeholders have quite different expectations and requirements for data lineage. The common understanding of data lineage remains the same and describes the movement and...
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Data Lineage and Other Comparable Concepts
The analysis of different sources has delivered this list of concepts comparable to data lineage: · Data value chain · Data chain · Data flow · Integration architecture · Information value chain The...
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Challenges with Defining Data Management Trends
Recently, I delivered a Keynote about data management trends. While preparing it, I discovered we have challenges defining data management trends. Let me share my observations and propose a way out....
View ArticleData Management vs. Data Governance Operating Models: Are They Different?
Recently, I started analyzing the dependencies between data management operating models and various data architecture types (i.e., centralized and decentralized). In my practice, I use three types of...
View ArticleWhat is a Data Product?
The term “data product” originated from data science. At least, I first heard this term from data scientists. My latest investigations have demonstrated that no aligned definition of this term exists....
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A Data Strategy – Theory vs. Practice: Part 1
The idea to write this article was triggered by the remark of one of the participants of my strategy workshop last summer. He mentioned that it would be nice to include the consideration of real data...
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A Data Strategy: Theory vs. Practice. Part 2
This is Part 2 of the article “A Data Strategy: Theory vs. Practice.” In Part 2, we will continue the analysis of data strategy examples and discuss the following: A data (management) strategy content:...
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