by Irene Polikoff | Jan 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
After a string of rainy December days in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, the sun finally came out. However, none of the Data Governance Winter 2015 (DGW 2015) attendees rushed outside to enjoy the beach. Rain or shine, conference halls and sessions were buzzing with...
by Irene Polikoff | Aug 11, 2015 | Reference Data Management
Sometimes when people think of reference data, they presume that all one needs to capture is a code and its name—a human readable label, and possibly, some standard metadata such as its status, effective date, source and person responsible. In reality, however, every...
by Irene Polikoff | Jul 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
In part 3 of this blog series we’ll look at two different types of reference data – external and internal, and how the ability to capture metadata about reference data is critical to the understanding and use of reference data. Increasingly, organizations prefer to...
by Irene Polikoff | May 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
In part 2 of this blog series we will explore another frequently asked question: How can we capture and maintain relationships between reference data? A related question may also be “Why do we need to do this?”. Reference datasets don’t exist in a complete...
by Irene Polikoff | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the last few months we have been collecting the most commonly asked questions and concerns about reference data management – those posed by our recent webinar attendees, those raised during the conferences we attend, speak or exhibit at (such as Enterprise Data...