by Colin Cecil | Jan 16, 2025 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Technical Debt
Archiving an application’s data to a data vault takes time, effort and is a costly undertaking. The data migration must be planned, executed, tested and documented. Decisions have to be taken on which reports are required, then these also have to be built,...
by Colin Cecil | Jan 16, 2025 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management
The archived data – frozen in time. Immutable. Preserved. Unchanging … until a new data privacy regulation takes effect. Meeting Data Compliance Regulations For many years data retention policies focused on the minimum amount of time that data needed to be...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 22, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, SaaS
I have already discussed the challenges of retrieving your data at the end of a SaaS contact, but wanted to take a look at this from the perspective of how to build data governance into a contract when it is being negotiated. A few key points to keep in mind: You have...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Delivering Value, Service Delivery, Technical Debt
There is a common misconception that savings from an application retirement are realized at the time of retirement. In reality a large portion of the savings can be realized at the time of decommissioning, and with good planning savings can be realized earlier in the...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Technical Debt
As I’ve noted elsewhere in this blog we are data governance experts masquerading as IT garbagemen. We have spent far too much time and money cleaning up data from legacy applications rather than investing that effort into delivering value. Bottom line –...
