Capturing Business Value with Enterprise Metadata Management
As data itself has become currency, the metadata describing it — and what happens to it — has also emerged as a core asset of modern business. Read More
An Introduction to Mashups
The concept of mashups is a simple one: combining separate, typically heterogeneous elements into a single, compound, and useful system. A stick, some rope, and a sharp rock all have their worthy independent uses; but, when combined, they become a spear to make hunting and survival easier. Read More
How to Mask Data in Web Logs
This article is third in a 3-part series on CLF and ELF web log data. We first introduced CLF and ELF web log formats, then introduced IRI solutions for processing web log data, and here we conclude by masking private data in web log files. Read More
Breached But Still Protected
Data Privacy on Fire We’re still seeing data breach headlines burning across news outlets and social media, fast and hot:
The Equifax Breach was Entirely Preventable – Wired States Investigate Experian Data Breach – Krebs on Security ‘Heartbleed’ Bug in OpenSSL Exposes Millions of Online Passwords – Reuters Millions of Target Customers’ Credit, Debit Card Accounts May Be Hit by Data Breach – NBC News Neiman Marcus Data Breach Worse Than First Said – New York Times Retailers Hit by Credit-Data Breach Smaller Than Target’s – Bloomberg NewsAnd the fire burns on. Read More
Bothersome Buzzwords
The other day, two different companies selling me services asked if their offering were in my wheelhouse. Since I didn’t know I had a wheelhouse, I couldn’t answer them.I Read More
Working Towards Data Quality
Introduction
In this article, I suggest ways to move your company’s data towards a higher state of quality. The highest quality occurs when the data meets the needs of your company. Read More
Test Data Management: Test Data Needs Assessment (Step 2…
This article is part of a 4-step series introduced here. Navigation between articles is below.
Step 2: Test Data Needs Assessment
Once the questions of who needs test data for what — and who will be dealing with it along its lifecycle are answered (see Step 1) — a deeper dive is needed into the specific technical aspects of the data itself. Read More
7 Headline Hacks to Grab a Big Audience
Imagine it’s time to write a headline for your blog article. You just spent hours drafting, in your opinion, a masterpiece. You selected a great keyword or two as the basis of your subject and compiled some great content to make that keyword shine. Read More
MDM Thoughts
Master Data Management (MDM) is a discipline designed to make data more dependable, sharable and accessible. Here are some of IRI’s philosophies around MDM:
Most developers believe that data are, or should be, application-independent.
New Features in CoSort 9.5.3
Editors note: CoSort Version 10 was released in mid-2018. Please see this article for links to its features and upgrade details.
What’s New in CoSort 9.5.3
Along with the new website, there is a new release of IRI’s flagship CoSort package for data management and data protection. Read More
ETL vs ELT: We Posit, You Judge
Full disclosure: As this article is authored by an ETL-centric company with its strong suit in manipulating big data outside of databases, what follows will not seem objective to many. Read More