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, 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...
by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
When designing an archiving service a key consideration is the level of access available to archived assets. Whilst there is no single solution that meets all needs I’ll focus on the best practice we have used, which is centralized records management...
by Colin Cecil | Sep 3, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
Just as real world garbagemen have restrictions on what can be thrown into the municipal waste dump there are rules on what the IT Garbagemen will accept into the corporate archive. Our basic rules: The owner of the application or data asset must have been identified....
