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 | 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 –...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management, Technical Debt
The process of archiving data can be expensive, from the movement and testing of data, the creation of reports and the documentation of the process. It is necessary when the data is subject to records retention and needs to preserved for a long period. Another option...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance
“We’ve got a backup of the database … that’s all we need as an archive” Err, no. A backup of a database is without doubt a complete and accurate copy of an application’s data. However: It has a limited shelf life. There will come a...
