The 3 Artifacts to Manage Your and Reference

by George Firican Treat data as an asset George Firican

Profile: • Director, Data Governance & at UBC ‐ DAE • 12+ years Business/Technical Analysis & Project Management in education, software/web development and e‐commerce industries • 8+ years in Data Governance, Data Quality and Business Intelligence

Education: • Master of Management | BSc in Computer Science • Business Analysis Certification | Master Data Quality Manager (ISO 8000) • Data Steward Certification | CIMP in Data Governance

Speaker: • Speaker at international conferences, webinars, and podcasts since 2013 • Topics of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Management, and Big Data

Awards: • 2019‐Prix d'Excellence for Data Analytics Project‐GOLD‐by CCAE • 2018‐Quality & Productivity Award for Business Glossary‐BRONZE‐by CAUBO • 2017‐Circle of Excellence Awards for Business Glossary‐GOLD&PLATINUM‐by CASE • 2015‐Best Practices Award for Tracing Lost Contact Data program‐BRONZE‐by CASE • 2014‐Best Practices Award for Data Governance & Quality Program‐BRONZE‐by CASE • 2013‐Winston Award on Innovation for Data Governance

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Practical content to help you with your data governance and data management questions and challenges.

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Data Dictionary Business Glossary

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The BUSINESS GLOSSARY, DATA DICTIONARY & DATA CATALOG

BUSINESS DATA DATA CATALOG GLOSSARY DICTIONARY A repository of information about data that provides An enterprise‐wide asset providing a single reference the description of a and its metadata. source for the location of any data set required for varying needs https://www.lightsondata.com Business Glossary Data Vocabulary

Here are some Business Dictionary Business Semantics Terms we often encounter Data Catalog Technical Metadata

Data Dictionary Metadata Repository

Business Lexicon Business Catalog

Business Data Business Compendium Dictionary

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Here are some Data Catalog Terms we often encounter Data Dictionary

https://www.lightsondata.com A collection of business terms with their unique definitions and other useful related information.

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Can be found in documents, contracts, systems and , books and manuals, etc. THE BUSINESS GLOSSARY IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

https://www.lightsondata.com What is a Business Glossary

A collection of business terms with their unique definitions and other useful related information

BUSINESS ATTRIBUTES

Collection of business terms Extra information for better and concepts context and explanation

BUSINESS‐ OWNED ACCESSIBLE

Controlled and updated by Readily and accessible the business throughout the organization Improves Communication Consistent communication between business units and not only BENEFITS OF A BUSINESS GLOSSARY Establishes Ownership BENEFITS Owner assignment for specific terms There are a lot of benefits and reasons why an and business areas organization should invest in a Business Glossary. Here are a few of them.

Improves Productivity Enhances productivity and increases the timeliness of decision‐making processes

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BUSINESS DATA DATA CATALOG GLOSSARY DICTIONARY A collection of business terms with their unique A repository of information about data that provides An enterprise‐wide asset providing a single reference definitions and other useful related information. the description of a data element and its metadata. source for the location of any data set required for varying needs https://www.lightsondata.com What is a Data Dictionary

A repository of information about data that provides the description of a data element and its metadata.

SPECIFICATIONS DB‐ SPECIFIC

Data type, size, allowed List of tables and fields/ values, constraints, columns relations, etc.

TECH CENTRIC PASSIVE/ ACTIVE

Provides an application/ Non‐ integrated vs integrated technology centric of data dictionary the data https://www.lightsondata.com Clarifies Requirements Technical metadata of each data element

BENEFITS OF A DATA Accelerate Training BENEFITS DICTIONARY Expedite training of new and existing employees

There are a lot of benefits and reasons why an organization should invest in a Data Dictionary. Here are a few of them. Supports MDM Integrate data more efficiently

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The BUSINESS GLOSSARY, DATA DICTIONARY & DATA CATALOG

BUSINESS DATA DATA CATALOG GLOSSARY DICTIONARY A collection of business terms with their unique A Arepository repository of of information information about about data data that that provides provides An enterprise‐wide asset providing a single reference definitions and other useful related information. thethe description description of of a dataa data element element and and its its metadata. metadata. source for the location of any data set required for varying needs https://www.lightsondata.com What is a Data Catalog

An enterprise‐ wide asset providing a single reference source for the location of any data set required for varying needs.

DIRECTORY ENTERPRISE‐ WIDE

Of data sets, data lakes, data Inventory of data sets (some warehouses, any data stores merged), list of data dictionaries

CROWD‐ SOURCE SELF SERVICE

Shows how users perceive Find and select the data sets the data’s value one needs to work with What is a Data Catalog

An enterprise‐ wide asset providing a single reference source for the location of any data set required for varying needs.

DIRECTORY ENTERPRISE‐ WIDE

Of data sets, data lakes, data Inventory of data sets (some warehouses, any data stores merged), list of data dictionaries

CROWD‐ SOURCE SELF SERVICE

Shows how users perceive Find and select the data sets the data’s value one needs to work with

https://www.lightsondata.com Supports Regulatory Compliance Catalogs where certain data is stored and who uses it BENEFITS OF A Fosters a Data Culture BENEFITS Provides data and context for self‐ DATA CATALOG service analytics There are a lot of benefits and reasons why an organization should invest in a Data Catalog. Here are a few of them. Increases Trust Enables trust and confidence in data

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DATA DICTIONARY DATA CATALOG

DATA DICTIONARY

DATA DICTIONARY BUSINESS GLOSSARY

https://www.lightsondata.com MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BUSINESS GLOSSARY, DATA DICTIONARY & DATA CATALOG

BUSINESS DATA DATA CATALOG GLOSSARY DICTIONARY A collection of business terms with their unique A repository of information about data that provides An enterprise‐wide asset providing a single reference definitions and other useful related information. the description of a data element and its metadata. source for the location of any data set required for varying needs https://www.lightsondata.com THANK YOU

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