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Newsletter - "Best Practices in MDM" - Vol. 2, No. 2

 

Welcome to the February edition of "Best Practices in Master Data Management", published by Hub Solution Designs, Inc. We’re excited that spring officially begins in only 22 days!

 

In this issue, we’ve got:

 

    • Governing Unstructured Data Gets Easier
    • The “MDM and …” Series
    • New “Look and Feel” for Hub Designs’ Web Site and Blog
    • Upcoming Events

 

If you have any questions about MDM or data governance, please feel free to ask them via our web site, or call us at (781) 749-8910. 

 

Best regards --- Dan Power

 

I first discussed Varonis on the Hub Designs Blog last August in Governing Unstructured Data.

 

Varonis is a very interesting software company whose flagship product, the Varonis® Data Governance Suite, focuses on governing unstructured information.

 

Unstructured data (i.e. data that’s not stored in a structured form such as a database and which either doesn’t have a data model or has one that is not easily readable by a computer) accounts for as much as 80% of all business information. So governing and securing it properly is a huge challenge that is only made harder by the predicted annual growth rate of more than 60%, roughly three times faster than the growth rate for structured data.

 

And the security threat environment is getting more challenging, with examples like Heartland Payment Systems, a large credit card processing company, which was breached in an attack in late 2008 that may have compromised more than 100 million accounts.

 

And serious data breach incidents are increasing, according to a study by Enterprise Strategy Group, up from 30% of large organizations in 2005-2007, to 56% of large organizations in 2008.

 

So I was interested when Varonis let me know recently they’ve released version 4.0, a major new release of Varonis DatAdvantage and Varonis DataPrivilege. The increased automation and integration means that a business can get up and running with a framework for managing, protecting and monitoring their unstructured data within hours. The product can recommend and enforce permission revocations, taking the guesswork out of assigning and revoking permissions so companies can start controlling access with consistency and regularity.

 

What do you think? Are you including unstructured data in the scope of your efforts to govern, manage and secure your enterprise’s information? Please let us know by commenting on the blog or on the MDM Community.

 

 

We recently had a great series of guest posts on the blog by Joan Lawson, an enterprise architect whom I first met in 2003. I was impressed by her then and have stayed in touch.

 

Joan wrote a three part series called “MDM and …” which discusses the relationship between MDM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise architecture, and operational business intelligence. The series was very well received, receiving almost 1,000 views so far and a number of comments from engaged readers.

 

Here are the three articles in the series:

 

 

We hope that Joan will occasionally be able to contribute some new articles too.

 

If you’d like to write a guest post for the Hub Designs Blog, it’s a great way to get your thoughts in front of a fast growing audience. Please contact us via our web site.

 

 

We recently updated the “look and feel” of both our web site and blog.

 

For the web site, we switched to a new design with a cleaner, more professional appearance and easier navigation using a horizontal drop-down menu. Still on the “to do” list are creating more Service Offering pages describing the range of our Master Data Management (MDM) and data governance services, and creating new content based on our consulting engagements.

 

Some areas to check out: services, partners, news, events, articles & speaking engagements.

 

For the blog, we switched to a new WordPress theme called Vigilance, which is clean and elegant, coded to the latest web standards and includes a bunch of new features for readers. Readership continues to grow about 20% per month, and we recently exceeded 20,000 views.

 

 

Here are the events and conferences where we’ll be speaking or participating this year:

 

 

As always, thanks for your support in reading our blog and this newsletter, and we look forward to seeing you online in the MDM Community and the MDM Twitter Group!

 

 

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