Tag: governance

Feed: Recent Announcements. With Service Catalog local launch constraints, administrators perform all governance setup in the hub account. They create a hub account local launch constraint, associate it to the portfolio that contains the products they want to distribute, and then share that portfolio to target spoke accounts. When end users provision products from the imported portfolio, they are provisioned in their spoke account ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Data Governance sounds like a candidate for the most boring topic in technology: something dreamed up by middle-managers to add friction to data scientists’ lives. The funny thing about governance, though, is that it’s closely related to data discovery. And data discovery is neither dull nor additional friction; it’s an exciting process that enables great data projects, ranging from traditional reporting to artificial intelligence and machine learning. The idea of data governance originated in regulation and compliance. Not that long ago, data was a “wild west”: there were few rules and regulations about how it ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Pamela Seaton; While Business Technologists are increasingly being recognized as changemakers in an organization, 91% of them are frustrated with their jobs. This could be due to the fact that despite being hired to drive organizational efficiency, they are often hampered by: The speed at which they can deliver projects to lines of business (HR, IT, Sales, etc.) (62%)The “time it takes to get things done using tools at my disposal” (44%)Stuck putting out fires rather than building systems (42%)Lack of alignment (37%)Given this changing landscape and the shifting needs of the lines of ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. In December, January, and February, I posted a short series of blogs on Flat file systems. The series of blogs focus on the continued use of flat files and why they are no longer viable for use in the future.The first installment focused on flat files and why embedded software application developers readily adopted them. Then in the second installment, I discussed why embedded developers are reluctant to use databases. The third installment looked at why developers cling to the flat file systems. The final installment provided a checklist for embedded developers migrating off flat files ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Many organizations start an enterprise architecture practice without a specialized enterprise architecture tool.Instead, they rely on a blend of spreadsheets, Visio diagrams, PowerPoint files and the like.Under normal circumstances, this approach is difficult. In times of rapid change or crisis, it isn’t viable.Four Compelling Reasons for An Enterprise Architecture ToolEnterprise architecture (EA) provides comprehensive documentation of systems, applications, people and processes.Prior research we conducted reveals four key drivers in the decision to adopt a dedicated enterprise architecture tool:1) Delay Increases Difficulty.The use of Visio, MS Office files and even ArchiMate ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kevin-oliver; Two of the greatest challenges faced by organizations today are the rising volume of data and the lack of  confidence to act on the insights this data reveals. Fortunately, there are AI-fueled data management solutions that directly address these two challenges to make data simple and accessible.Databases should be both powered by AI and built for AI, meaning they use embedded AI capabilities to improve their day-to-day functionality (powered by AI), while also being able to support AI initiatives throughout the entire business (built for AI). For example, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Amit Mukherjee. By Amit Mukherjee, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSBy Satyajit Das, Director, Digital Practice at CapgeminiBy Rohit Sinha, Director, Digital Practice at CapgeminiFinancial institutions possess and process data that are very sensitive and have immense business value. In recent years, regulations like open banking and data residency law have forced organizations to be even more adaptive to frequent challenges to systems storing and processing the data. In 2019, one of the central banks mandated a new data residency regulation for the payment industry. According to the regulation, all data containing end-to-transaction details—as ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Modern businesses don’t run on a single application – they leverage many IT systems to provide the capabilities to enable operational processes and users to be effective.  To ensure complex IT environments run smoothly, companies are placing increased focus on how systems are integrated, and the activities required to manage integrations across the ecosystem.  While system integration is a multi-layered challenge, the essential part to get right is your enterprise data integration strategy.An enterprise data integration strategy is a set of policies, processes, design guidelines, and governance controls that you put in place to ensure ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: APN Partner Guest Post. By Ravi Yadav, Director, Ecosystem, Corporate Development & Strategy at D2iQThough containers vastly simplify the distribution of applications, Kubernetes ecosystems are so powerful that they, in turn, can become complex. This is particularly true in hybrid cloud environments. D2iQ Kommander simplifies Kubernetes container management, including governance, workload configuration, and life cycles. This post explains how to take advantage of D2iQ Kommander’s capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS). To continuously innovate, many organizations are anchoring their infrastructure on container management solutions. The open source project Kubernetes is now the de facto ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Jim Harris. Read about the 5 D's of data preparation. Over the years, I've written many posts about data, analytics and humans and how all three combine to deliver significant business insights. In this post, I’ll recap some key points I've made about each of these (along with key points from others, too). Along the way, I'll show how the three work together to form what I call the insight equation. Data We love data. And we love putting words like master, big and meta before it – and adding words like management, quality and governance ... Read More