Data engineering
Don’t do data management just because you have to
Lately more and more organizations are doing data management. Suddenly there are data owners, data stewards and metadata repositories (in whatever form) everywhere. We all seem to do this mainly because we have to. Because of the GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Or because other institutions demand we can explain where our data comes from.
But in my oppinion there is one important reason that mostly is overlooked. One that nevertheless has an important positive impact on business results, but also doesn’t seem to end up in the KPI’s. And that is how much time it takes to find the right data when building data products. (more…)