So You Want to be a Data Manager?

However, for the company to be successful, this area must be integrated within the company, and for this to succeed it is necessary first to define the policies and culture of a business.” Another challenge develops when businesses gather data and organize it without considering the questions they will be using when processing the data. […]
Read More →Evolution, Not Revolution: Tips for Transitioning to a Federated Database System

Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. As enterprises scale, they develop data inefficiencies. Sometimes these inefficiencies arise internally, between departments or branches, while others emerge as the parent company acquires smaller companies, each with their own databases and IT departments. In either case, communication issues ensue as siloed databases and IT redundancies begin […]
Read More →A Brief History of Data Management

Data Management is the organization of data, the steps used to achieve efficiency, and gather intelligence from that data. Data Management, as a concept, began in the 1960s, with ADAPSO (the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations) forwarding Data Management advice, with an emphasis on professional training and quality assurance metrics. Data Management should not […]
Read More →TopQuadrant Launches TopBraid Reference Data Manager

by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “TopQuadrant™, a leading enterprise metadata and semantic data integration company, today announced the release of TopBraid Reference Data Manager™ (TopBraid RDM). With a simple point-and-click, forms-based interface TopBraid RDM makes it easy to bring consistency and accuracy to reference data management. As a Silver […]
Read More →Data Job of the Day: Data Manager

by Angela Guess Standard & Poor’s is searching for a Data Manager in New York, NY. According to the post, “Standard & Poor’s Data Strategy & Operations (DSO) group is currently seeking to hire a Data Manager focused on Regulatory & Compliance Reporting. The Data Strategy Operations group leverages data management best practice to improve […]
Read More →Data Job of the Day: Data Manager

by Angela Guess Harvard Medical School is looking for a Data Manager in Boston, MA. According to the post, “The Data Manager works closely with the principal investigator and data analysts to establish the appropriate format for large databases from multiple sources. Responsible for writing programmatic procedures for organization of systems to document databases and […]
Read More →NoSQL Job of the Day: Data Manager

by Angela Guess The Walt Disney Company is looking for a Data Manager in Celebration, FL. Responsibilities of the position include: “Enable activities essential to the continued stability and growth of the CMR data environment through management of global business processes and general workflow into IT teams. Responsible for non-line of business data management activities […]
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