We are pleased to introduce the third edition of our research report focusing on Master Data Management (MDM). Master data is “data about the business entities that provide context for business transactions.” Alternatively, master data represents the business objects most…
This latest edition of the Data Catalog Study Report serves as a companion report to our larger and more comprehensive Data and Analytics Governance Report. Included in this report are sections focused upon the importance of data catalogs, catalog feature…
This expanded edition of the Data and Analytics Governance Study Report includes in-depth sections on crucial topics such as the relative importance of governance in technologies and initiatives, the difficulty in finding data and analytic content, and organization and practices…
Master data management (MDM) represents a perennial issue for many organizations that want to establish and maintain a common frame of reference (some use the phrase “single source of truth”) within key organizational data and analytics. For many and for…
A minority of organizations use data catalogs (23 percent), and more than 60 percent of organizations also report users encounter difficulty finding analytic content. Of the five data governance organization activities we track, those associated with cataloging rank highest. Together,…
by Mohammed Aaser, Robin Chhetri, Mike Moran
Enterprise data has two broad contexts: operations and analytics. The operations context supports organizational operational activities such as sales, marketing, operations, finance, and customer service. The analytic context supports organizational analytic and data-science requirements—within and outside operational business processes—regardless of…
With the declaration that “dashboards are dead,” we see another example of vendors strongly suggesting that all new is “good” and all “old” quickly approaches obsolescence. Declaration of such obsolescence does not make it so. Dresner Advisory Services survey data…
