Whitepaper : ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition

Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries, and Data Governance for Customer BI Enablement

Author: David Loshin

For more than three decades, organizations have relied on data warehouses to support business information consumers’ needs for descriptive analytics to help inform about the current state and to help influence ongoing business decisions. And although organizational analytics programs are increasingly augmented with machine learning and advanced algorithms for predictive and prescriptive analytics, the ongoing need for business intelligence (BI) supporting descriptive and operational analytics applications will remain. What has changed over time, though, is the increasing sophistication of the data consumers and their growing awareness of the breadth and depth of corporate data assets.

Business BI consumers are no longer the “customers” of the data warehouse team – they are their partners. And this suggests that the best way to empower business information consumers is to provide accessibility to organizational data configured in ways that both simplify the production of analytics and speed time to knowledge.

In this paper, we consider the historical approaches to developing data warehouses and how growing end-user sophistication has increased the criticality of ensuring data clarity and consistency of the semantics across a variety of data sources. The paper then discusses the concept of enterprise data intelligence, and how that is facilitated through the use of a data catalog. Finally, we provide some recommendations associated with the characteristics of data intelligence tools and look at ways that data models, data governance tools, and data catalogs should interoperate to help re-envision the ways that data governance can drive business intelligence solutions.

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David Loshin is the President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., a consulting and development company focusing on customized information management solutions including information quality solutions consulting, information quality training and business rules solutions. David is a recognized thought leader and expert consultant in the areas of analytics, big data, data governance, data quality, master data management, and business intelligence. Along with consulting on numerous data management projects over the past 20 years, David is also a prolific author regarding business intelligence best practices, with numerous books and papers on data management.

Topics : Data Governance,Data Modeling,Metadata,

Products : ER/Studio Data Architect,ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition,ER/Studio Team Server Core,

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