Data Governance

Data Governance
Author: John Ladley
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128158328

Managing data continues to grow as a necessity for modern organizations. There are seemingly infinite opportunities for organic growth, reduction of costs, and creation of new products and services. It has become apparent that none of these opportunities can happen smoothly without data governance. The cost of exponential data growth and privacy / security concerns are becoming burdensome. Organizations will encounter unexpected consequences in new sources of risk. The solution to these challenges is also data governance; ensuring balance between risk and opportunity. Data Governance, Second Edition, is for any executive, manager or data professional who needs to understand or implement a data governance program. It is required to ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organization. This book offers an overview of why data governance is needed, how to design, initiate, and execute a program and how to keep the program sustainable. This valuable resource provides comprehensive guidance to beginning professionals, managers or analysts looking to improve their processes, and advanced students in Data Management and related courses. With the provided framework and case studies all professionals in the data governance field will gain key insights into launching successful and money-saving data governance program. - Incorporates industry changes, lessons learned and new approaches - Explores various ways in which data analysts and managers can ensure consistent, accurate and reliable data across their organizations - Includes new case studies which detail real-world situations - Explores all of the capabilities an organization must adopt to become data driven - Provides guidance on various approaches to data governance, to determine whether an organization should be low profile, central controlled, agile, or traditional - Provides guidance on using technology and separating vendor hype from sincere delivery of necessary capabilities - Offers readers insights into how their organizations can improve the value of their data, through data quality, data strategy and data literacy - Provides up to 75% brand-new content compared to the first edition

Information Quality and Governance for Business Intelligence

Information Quality and Governance for Business Intelligence
Author: Yeoh, William
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466648937

Business intelligence initiatives have been dominating the technology priority list of many organizations. However, the lack of effective information quality and governance strategies and policies has been meeting these initiatives with some challenges. Information Quality and Governance for Business Intelligence presents the latest exchange of academic research on all aspects of practicing and managing information using a multidisciplinary approach that examines its quality for organizational growth. This book is an essential reference tool for researchers, practitioners, and university students specializing in business intelligence, information quality, and information systems.

The Data Governance Imperative

The Data Governance Imperative
Author: Steve Sarsfield
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2009-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849280134

This practical book covers both strategies and tactics around managing a data governance initiative to help make the most of your data.

Non-Invasive Data Governance

Non-Invasive Data Governance
Author: Robert S. Seiner
Publisher: Technics Publications
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1634620453

Data-governance programs focus on authority and accountability for the management of data as a valued organizational asset. Data Governance should not be about command-and-control, yet at times could become invasive or threatening to the work, people and culture of an organization. Non-Invasive Data Governance™ focuses on formalizing existing accountability for the management of data and improving formal communications, protection, and quality efforts through effective stewarding of data resources. Non-Invasive Data Governance will provide you with a complete set of tools to help you deliver a successful data governance program. Learn how: • Steward responsibilities can be identified and recognized, formalized, and engaged according to their existing responsibility rather than being assigned or handed to people as more work. • Governance of information can be applied to existing policies, standard operating procedures, practices, and methodologies, rather than being introduced or emphasized as new processes or methods. • Governance of information can support all data integration, risk management, business intelligence and master data management activities rather than imposing inconsistent rigor to these initiatives. • A practical and non-threatening approach can be applied to governing information and promoting stewardship of data as a cross-organization asset. • Best practices and key concepts of this non-threatening approach can be communicated effectively to leverage strengths and address opportunities to improve.

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement
Author: David Loshin
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2010-11-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080920349

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. It shares the fundamentals for understanding the impacts of poor data quality, and guides practitioners and managers alike in socializing, gaining sponsorship for, planning, and establishing a data quality program. It demonstrates how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics. It includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning. This book is recommended for data management practitioners, including database analysts, information analysts, data administrators, data architects, enterprise architects, data warehouse engineers, and systems analysts, and their managers. - Offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. - Shows how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintenance and ongoing metrics. - Includes an in-depth look at the use of data quality tools, including business case templates, and tools for analysis, reporting, and strategic planning.

Master Data Management

Master Data Management
Author: David Loshin
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0080921213

The key to a successful MDM initiative isn't technology or methods, it's people: the stakeholders in the organization and their complex ownership of the data that the initiative will affect.Master Data Management equips you with a deeply practical, business-focused way of thinking about MDM—an understanding that will greatly enhance your ability to communicate with stakeholders and win their support. Moreover, it will help you deserve their support: you'll master all the details involved in planning and executing an MDM project that leads to measurable improvements in business productivity and effectiveness. - Presents a comprehensive roadmap that you can adapt to any MDM project - Emphasizes the critical goal of maintaining and improving data quality - Provides guidelines for determining which data to "master. - Examines special issues relating to master data metadata - Considers a range of MDM architectural styles - Covers the synchronization of master data across the application infrastructure

Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence Systems for Information Quality

Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence Systems for Information Quality
Author: Carlo Caserio
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-04-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319776797

This book analyses the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems in improving information quality through an empirical analysis carried out in Italy. The study begins with a detailed examination of ERP features that highlights the advantages and disadvantages of ERP adoption. Critical success factors for ERP implementation and post-implementation are then discussed, along with the capabilities of ERP in driving the alignment between management accounting and financial accounting information.The study goes on to illustrate the features of BI systems and to summarize companies’ needs for BI. Critical success factors for BI implementation are then presented, along with the BI maturity model and lifecycle. The focus of the research entails a detailed empirical analysis in the Italian setting designed to investigate the role played by ERP and BI systems in reducing information overload/underload and improving information quality by influencing the features of information flow. The practical and theoretical implications of the study are discussed and future avenues of research are suggested. This book will be of value for all those who have an interest in the capacities of ERP and BI systems to enhance business information quality.

Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings

Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings
Author: Miah, Shah J.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2018-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522557199

Data analysis is an important part of modern business administration, as efficient compilation of information allows managers and business leaders to make the best decisions for the financial solvency of their organizations. Understanding the use of analytics, reporting, and data mining in everyday business environments is imperative to the success of modern businesses. Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings incorporates emerging concepts, methods, models, and relevant applications of business intelligence systems within problem contexts of healthcare and other organizational boundaries. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rise of embedded analytics, competitive advantage, and strategic capability, this book is ideally designed for business analysts, investors, corporate managers, and entrepreneurs seeking to advance their understanding and practice of business intelligence.

Sustaining Competitive Advantage via Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and System Dynamics

Sustaining Competitive Advantage via Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and System Dynamics
Author: Mohammed Quaddus
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2015-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1784417637

Volume 22 includes two main chapters in both Part A and B. It appears in two parts because all chapters offer great depth in coverage of core issues senior executives must address for long-term survival of the firm: business intelligence, knowledge management, and understanding of the systems dynamics of interfirm behavior.

Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Author: Lila Rao-Graham
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000063879

Business intelligence (BI) has evolved over several years as organizations have extended their online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities and applications to support their routine operations. With online analytical processing (OLAP), organizations have also established the capability to extract internal and external data from a variety of sources to specifically obtain intelligence about non-routine and often less-structured arrangements. BI therefore refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about the operations of an organization. It has the capability of providing comprehensive insight into the more volatile factors affecting the business and its operations, thereby facilitating enhanced decision-making quality and contributing to the creation of business value. Larger and more sophisticated organizations have long been exploiting these capabilities. Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) guides SMEs in replicating this experience to provide an agile roadmap toward business sustainability. The book points out that successful BI implementations have generated significant increases in revenue and cost savings, however, the failure rates are also very high. More importantly, it emphasizes that a full range of BI capabilities is not the exclusive purview of large organizations. It shows how SMEs make extensive use of BI techniques to develop the kind of agility endowing them with the organizational capability to sense and respond to opportunities and threats in an increasingly dynamic business environment. It points to the way to a market environment in which smaller organizations could have a larger role. In particular, the book explains that by establishing the agility to leverage internal and external data and information assets, SMEs can enhance their competitiveness by having a comprehensive understanding of the key to an agile roadmap for business sustainability.