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Lifecycle of your data

We have been seeing the latest surge in discussing the lifecycle of data and how to manage the same. Bill Inmon discussed it years ago and more recently has authored the DW2.0 methodology, one part of which is data lifecycle management. We have database vendors talking about data and different types of data and how they are proposing solutions to manage the same.

Well all of this is great, but how do we measure the value of data in your business and thus determine its lifecycle and manage the same? data warehouse and ODS data have different requirements for lifecycle from transactional systems.

Data management from a lifecycle perspective requires input from all data consumers and their needs. It involves data governance and organization alignment to be champions of the process.

Once you have organizational alignment on the data value and its lifecycle, then you have to implement a program to manage that data and its associated metadata. This phase will require more involvement from the IS and IT teams to make it a successful program.

An article on this subject in greater detail will be published in my channel later this month.

  Posted by kkrishnan on February 7, 2008 7:19 PM |

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