Category Archives: Data management
Data Governance Goals Explained with Examples
Data governance is an important element of any organization’s data management strategy. It provides a framework for creating, managing and monitoring data within an organization. This ensures that the data is accurate, consistent, secure, and compliant with all relevant regulations. It also allows organizations to make informed decisions based on quality data. In this blog post, we will explore the goals and objectives of good data governance and provide some examples to help you implement it in your organization. Here is the picture representing the most important goals of data governance: Protect the needs of data stakeholders Data governance helps protect the needs of data stakeholders by ensuring that the …
Data Catalog Concepts, Tools & Examples
A data catalog is a comprehensive collection of information about an organization’s data assets, and it serves as the foundation for making informed decisions about how to manage and use data. This includes all types of data, structured or unstructured, spread across multiple sources including databases, websites, stored documents, and more. A good data catalog should provide users with the ability to quickly identify what types of data are available within the organization, where they are located, and who owns them. In this blog, we will learn basic concepts of data catalog along with some examples. What is Data Catalog? A data catalog is a comprehensive inventory of all the …
ETL & Data Quality Test Cases & Tools: Examples
Testing the data that is being processed from Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes is a critical step in ensuring the accuracy of data contained in destination systems and databases. This blog post will provide an overview of ETL & Data Quality testing including tools, test cases and examples. What is ETL? ETL stands for extract, transform, and load. ETL is a three-step process that is used to collect data from various sources, prepare the data for analysis, and then load it into a target database. The extract phase involves extracting data from its original source, such as a database or file system. The transform phase involves transforming this data …
Data Lineage Concepts, Examples & Tools
Data lineage can be a complex and confusing topic. It’s hard to know where your data comes from, how it’s been changed, and what the impact of those changes has been. Data lineage tools make tracing data easy and straightforward. By understanding your data’s history you can more effectively troubleshoot issues, optimize processes, and make better decisions. In this blog, you will learn about data lineage concepts, examples, and tools. As a data professional, you must have a strong understanding of data lineage. What is Data Lineage and why is it important? Data lineage is a term used in data management to describe the path that data takes from its …
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