Introduction In part 1 of my post on data governance fundamentals, I introduced the "5 Ws and 1 H" of problem-solving—"What”, “Why”, “Who”, “When”, “Where”, and “How”— and applied the first three to data governance. This part covers how you can apply the last three pieces and suggest some next steps. Let's get started! The "When" of Data Governance In 2001...

Introduction Among Talend’s blog posts are many outstanding ones on data governance, such as David Talaga’s “Life Might Be Like a Box of Chocolates, But Your Data Strategy Shouldn’t Be” which encourages us to know our data, and his two-part post on “...

We are in the era of the information economy. Now, more than ever, companies have the capabilities to optimize their process through the use of data and analytics. While there are endless possibilities to data analysis, there are still challenges with maintaining, integrating, cleaning it to ensure that it will empower the people to ta...

By now, you know that data is the lifeblood of digital transformation. But the true digital leaders have taken a step beyond by starting to understand the need to preserve this lifeblood with people, process and tools. That’s why data quality is so important in its ability to take control of the health of your data assets from diagnostic to treatment and monitoring with whistleblowers.    With this respect, we are especially proud that...

Recently, Databricks introduced Delta Lake, a new analytics platform that combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses in a paradigm it calls a “lakehouse.” Delta Lake expands the breadth and depth of use cases that Databricks customers can enjoy. Dat...

"My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” Even if everyone’s life remains full of surprises, the truth is that what applied to Forrest Gump in the 1994 movie by Robert Zemeckis, shouldn’t apply to your data strategy. As you’re making the very first steps into your data strategy, you need to first know what’s inside your data. And this part is critical.  To do ...

In my last post, I gave you the first six Do’s and Don’ts of Data Governance and promised to bring together an additional six to consider when making a data governance plan for your organization.  Here are six more dos and don'ts when building your data governance framework. Do: Consider the cloud on your route to trust...

This post was authored by Venkat Sundaram from Talend and Ramu Kalvakuntla from Clarity Insights. This is the second part in a series of blogs that discuss how to successfully build governed data lakes. To all those who have read...

Set clear expectations from the start One big mistake I see organizations make when starting out on their data governance journey is forgetting the rationale behind data. So don’t just govern to govern. Whether you need to minimize risks or maximize your benefits, link your data governance projects to clear and measurable outcomes. As data governance is a non-departmental init...

Remember how the Internet made it so easy and cheap to create content that everyone did it? Well, that’s where we are with the data economy today. The challenge with the web was not lack of fascinating content, but a way to find it. After two decades we know that winners in the web economy are those that created a single point of access to content in their category: Google, YouTube, Baidu, Amazon, Wikipedia. Now, we are faced with a similar data sprawl in our data-drive...