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10 tips for building your data warehouse and data catalog together

by Jon Loyens | Aug 11, 2020 | Agile Data Governance, Data catalogs

What do you do first, build a data warehouse or catalog your data? It’s not quite the chicken and egg question, but it is a dilemma that many enterprise data leaders face. In this blog, we’ll explore why and how you should do both at the same time. Read on if you’re...

What is a data product manager?

by Juan Sequeda | Aug 4, 2020 | Agile Data Governance

You can often tell whether a company is going to be successful by the way it treats its data. Does it view data as a key asset that should be nurtured, questioned, and broadly adopted? Or does it see data as a security risk that must be tightly guarded and only...

Data technology and the human touch

by Shawn Syjueco | Jul 30, 2020 | Data-driven cultures

“We can take a rocket to space, make that land back on a platform in the middle of the ocean, but we still can’t say these two spreadsheets match,” Juan Sequeda recalls a speaker at Enterprise Data World saying. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The technology is...

How to Be a Successful Data Catalog Champion

by Stewart Coerver | Jul 21, 2020 | Agile Data Governance, Data catalogs

As a sales engineer, it’s my job to help companies start their data catalog journeys off on the right foot. Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of organizations that are excited about the prospects of what a data catalog can do. Many achieve success. Others...

Principles of Agile Data Governance

by Jon Loyens | Jul 9, 2020 | Agile Data Governance, Data-driven cultures

This is Part Four of a four-part series about Agile Data Governance. In Part One, we covered lessons learned from software development history and how they should guide us in today’s data challenges. Part Two profiles stakeholder types and explains the process at a...