Data governance roundtable: Practitioners give program and best practices advice (podcast)

Each of the panelists had unique goals and situations to consider when designing and implementing their data governance programs:

• Mark Allen, senior program manager with Santa Clara, Calif.-based Sun Microsystems, focuses on business support, quality management, integrity and enterprise-wide policies and standards related to all of Sun's customer data, which amounts to millions of records. He helped develop and lead a phased migration of all of Sun's legacy customer identity information into one integrated registry and data model.
• Patrick Pelley, principal analyst, information quality with Detroit-based DTE Energy, helped update the companies' data management infrastructure and processes after a string of mergers and acquisitions left DTE Energy with many disparate systems, without a single, consistent view of business data. He's been a key leader in a major project to standardize data from multiple ERP systems onto a single SAP application.
• Gary Rosteck, manager of data quality with Southfield, Mich.-based R.L. Polk, was a data architect and project manager during a corporate initiative that created a real-time data processing architecture, a new "enterprise information factory" and the associated data governance processes. The company successfully implemented a data quality engine that enables it to expose business rules for data quality via a service-oriented architecture. This ensures that data integrated from hundreds of sources meet corporate quality standards.

In this 36-minute podcast, appropriate for both business and IT professionals, listeners will get valuable advice from practitioners with hands-on experience implementing data governance and data quality programs.

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Data governance roundtable program highlights

00:20 Find out more about successful data governance projects and learn the panelists' backgrounds and responsibilities

11:00 Hear how data governance is structured and managed at each organization -- and learn how long its taken them to implement a successful program

17:54 Learn how business rules are developed, collected and managed at each of the companies

21:18 Find out how the organizations built a business case for their programs and justified the costs involved with data quality and data governance

24:50 Get more background on the greatest challenges the panelists encountered when implementing data governance

28:25 Listen to the panelists' advice and best practices, learned through developing and managing these programs

31:44 Learn the results of these data governance programs -- and find out what metrics the panelists are using to measure success

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