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Data Governance

This week we welcome NetApp IT to the show again to discuss data governance and how they’re applying security policies to data inside our own organization. Ensuring that your data is not just protected, but also secure, is an important, but often overlooked, aspect of any deployment.  But, Operational Point Objectives (OPO) take things a step further by defining the business impact associated with data. The methodology used helps IT to quickly assess the needs of the infrastructure for backup and recovery by categorizing the data according to its impact. Not only that, but the OPO data significantly improves the recovery plan in the event of a disaster by providing a clearly defined priority for services.

Episode 49: Data Governance & Operational Point Objectives

Dewayne Washington is back this week for part II of his Secrets of Data Analytics Leaders podcast with Eckerson Group. In part I, Dewayne and I discussed the role of the CIO. In this episode we discuss the keys to IT success.

Washington is a senior consultant with 20+ years of experience in BI and Analytics in over two dozen verticals. He is the former BI manager at Dallas/Fortworth International Airport and the current CIO at The Business of Intelligence. He is also the author of the book Get In The Stream, the ultimate guide to customer adoption, and his Data Warehousing and Mobile Solutions implementations have been featured in CIO Magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Washington is also a sought-after speaker and mentor for organizations striving to leverage BI and Analytics to meet business goals, thus earning him the title, BI Pharaoh.

Dewayne Washington: Part II - Keys to IT Success

In this podcast, Wayne Eckerson and Joe Caserta discuss what constitutes a modern data platform. Caserta is President of a New York City-based consulting firm he founded in 2001 and a longtime data guy. In 2004, Joe teamed up with data warehousing legend, Ralph Kimball to write to write the book The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit. Today he’s now one of the leading authorities on big data implementations. This makes Joe one of the few individuals with in-the-trenches experience on both sides of the data divide, traditional data warehousing on relational databases and big data implementations on Hadoop and the cloud. His perspectives are always insightful.

Joe Caserta: Exploring Modern Data Platforms

In this episode, Mike Masciandaro and Wayne Eckerson discuss how to partner with the business and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption. 

Mike is a veteran business intelligence practitioner who recently retired from an illustrious career at Dow Chemical. Mike has seen and done just about everything there is to do in the world of BI, data, and analytics. He is now intent on sharing his hard-won knowledge with others.

Mike Masciandaro: Part II - BI Customer Satisfaction and Adoption

In this podcast, Henry Eckerson and Stephen Smith discuss the movement to operationalize data science.

Smith is a well-respected expert in the fields of data science, predictive analytics and their application in the education, pharmaceutical, healthcare, telecom and finance industries. He co-founded and served as CEO of G7 Research LLC and the Optas Corporation which provided the leading CRM / Marketing Automation solution in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Smith has published journal articles in the fields of data mining, machine learning, parallel supercomputing, text understanding, and simulated evolution. He has published two books through McGraw-Hill on big data and analytics and holds several patents in the fields of educational technology, big data analytics, and machine learning.  He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MS in Applied Sciences from Harvard University. He is currently the research director of data science at Eckerson Group.

Stephen Smith: Operationalizing Data Science

In this episode, Wayne Eckerson and Lenin Gali discuss the past and future of the cloud and big data.

Gali is a data analytics practitioner who has always been on the leading edge of where business and technology intersect. He was one of the first to move data analytics to the cloud when he was BI director at ShareThis, a social media based services provider. He was instrumental in defining an enterprise analytics strategy, developing a data platform that brought games and business data together to enable thousands of data users to build better games and services by using Hadoop & Teradata while at Ubisoft. He is now spearheading the creation of a Hadoop-based data analytics platform at Quotient, a digital marketing technology firm in the retail industry.

Lenin Gali: Past and Future of the Cloud and Big Data

In this podcast, Carl Gerber and Wayne Eckerson discuss Gerber’s top five data governance best practices: Motivation, Assessment, Data Assets Catalog, CxO Alliance, and Data Quality.
 
Gerber is a long-time chief data officer and data leader at several large, diverse financial services and manufacturing firms, who is now an independent consultant and an Eckerson Group partner. 

He helps large organizations develop data strategies, modernize analytics, and establish enterprise data governance programs that ensure data quality, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and business outcomes. He also mentors and coaches Chief Data Officers and fills that role on an interim basis.

Carl Gerber: Best Practices in Enterprise Data Governance

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Carl Gerber: Best Practices in Enterprise Data Governance

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