Posts tagged: rules

Key Date-Time Stamps and Why They Matter

Have you ever considered how important the mundane time-stamp is to your BI operations? Think about it, every report includes the element of time in it. The report is a snapshot in time, or covers a range of time. Accurate and timely business intelligence requires good records of the history within your business processes. The [...]

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Where to Govern Data – Control Points in Information Flows

My last entry suggested that data governance is not a new problem. While exploring data governance, we are revisiting the issues encountered as society built out roads, and developed modern manufacturing processes. The only difference is what we are governing this time is data content instead of a physical thing. With that in mind, it [...]

Data Governance and The Laws of Physics

As much as developers would like to believe that they have total creative license, they really are bound to some degree by the underpinnings of their development software. No matter the language, platform, or technology, somewhere along the line there are limiters on what a developer can do that govern their efforts. Solution developers will [...]

Someone has to be the Mom

Last week I was talking with one of my brothers and he commented that there are a lot of parallels between large families and business organizations. We both have good frames of reference having worked in IT and being 2 of 11 kids, so we started comparing family stories to data governance lessons learned. It [...]

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