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Who Wants to Understand Data
2022-02-17
Piotr Kononow
Everyone in organization can have different understanding of the same data. So Phone a Friend might not solve the problem.
ETL, Mr President
2021-07-08
Is there effective communication between IT & Business within your organization?
Translator Needed
2021-05-06
Does your IT and business communicate effectively or do you need a translator?
Business and IT in One Room
2021-03-18
Do your business and IT teams get along or do they bring their own attorneys to meetings?
Just use this table...
2021-02-11
Business users don't always have to take a back seat to IT when it comes to data.
Build data literacy and democratization in your organization with Data Catalog and data documentation.
IT Queue
2021-01-28
How many people are in front of you in a queue when you raise a ticket with IT?
Pick your version of reality
2020-12-22
Did you ever see different reports or charts showing same metric (or called the same) that showed completely different values or even trends? I did, quite often. Why is that so? Well, there are many reasons but let me narrow it down to 2:
Lack of common understanding of business concepts - you can solve it with a Business Glossary, a common vocabulary with precise definitions,
Lack of understanding of data and its logic (calculations, relationships, etc.) - and you can solve it with a Data Dictionary.
You can build both artifacts in one catalog and share in one UI - using Dataedo.
Disruptive technology
2020-11-17
Be careful when putting “disruptive technology” into the tender for the new software.
Just a small system update
2020-11-10
Do you know this that feeling of guilt that after phase of the extensive analysis, design, and implementation, you apply last minute changes or fixes without a trace in the documentation?
Team spent countless hours on documentation of requirements and the design, and just like that it becomes out of date and loses its value. And only because there was no time, budget, processes in place, or someone was just lazy.
Do you know that feeling that after a while of the release you have no idea how this system is supposed to work?
Well, the solution is quite simple, and yet so hard: keep your documentation up to date whenever system changes. Easier said than done.
I'm affraid you can't go inside (database)
2020-09-22
Do you feel that data is locked out somewhere in your organization for the selected few? That is normal. That is how things were historically. Only a few architects, developers, admins and analysts had the access to the data. Now, things are changing with the advent of Data Democratization, Self-Service Analytics, Data Catalogs that help open that closed doors and make data clubs more inclusive.
Integrated self-service cloud ecosystem
2020-08-11
Sometimes IT can lose themselves in buzzwords, the latest-cool-technology and forget about bringing value. The thing they were hired for.
Your report is my priority
2020-05-05
Is IT a bottleneck in your reporting and analytics? Do you need to wait in line before you could get this data or report? If so, then your organization cannot utilize data fully for insights and efficiency.
A solution is building of data literacy and promotion of use of data in a business community so they do not need help to access and get value out of data. You can do this with self-service BI or analytics tools, providing access to databases and promotion of SQL, and implementation of data catalogs – an inventory and documentation of your data.
No retreat, no surrender
2020-04-23
Is your data in your organization guarded against business users by the IT? No worries, there’s always a secret path in the mountains. That path has many names - data catalog, metadata repository, data dictionary or database documentation. What ever you call it – give your business a map to the data.
It's perfect, but...
2020-01-27
Ever worked months on a project just to learn completely new vision or requirements at delivery? If you are ever frustrated, remember that you’re not alone and that probably the great ones went through something similar.
No such thing as a 'Department'?
2018-10-18
Does your IT and business speak the same language?
Documentation included
2018-10-15
Customers ordering software don't see this as a separate item that requires work that they need to pay for separately. They often require it as a given.