Data Management Explained

Data Management or Data Resource Management is the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise.  This is the definition according to Wikipedia. It encompasses a number of professions which may not have direct technical contact with lower-level aspects of Data Management.

Topics Included in Data Management

Data Governance including data asset, governance and steward.  Data Architecture, Analysis and Design including modeling. Database Management, maintenance, administration and management systems. Data Security Management including access, erasure, privacy and security. Data Quality Management including cleansing, integrity, quality and quality assurance. Reference and Master Data Management including integration, master data management and reference data.

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management including intelligence, mining, movement and wharehousing. Document, Record and Content Management including management systems and records management and finally Meta Data Management including discovery, publishing registry.

Issues in Data Management

Security of your data is obviously critical.  Ensuring your IT service provider or infrastructure is well secured and is double back up in important to the ease at which your business can operate if something goes wrong.  Privacy of your IP and files comes into the area of security as well.  How do you keep sensitive material away from the eyes of your entire staff?  This is where outsourcing to experts in their field can help you.

Make sure you have techniques to insure ease of access, comprehensive security and privacy for your company information is key in Data Management.

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