Organisations have wrestled with the challenges of managing, maintaining and protecting data across systems and between departments for as long as they have used computers.
Often, they have turned to technology to help them do it. But as every new generation of data management technology passes without having resolved the issue once and for all, it becomes ever clearer that making data secure, compliant, accurate and timely is not simply a matter of deploying one tool or another.
Instead, it is now apparent, it takes careful data stewardship, well-managed data creation and curation processes and an organisational culture... read more...
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