Establishing Sound Data Governance: A Data Catalog Story
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
04:45 PM - 05:30 PM
All Levels
How do you enable thousands of users to intelligently access, use, and understand data? Establishing and maintaining sound governance practices requires more than just the right tools and framework; people must be willing and able to adopt them.
Hear how Thermo Fisher Scientific was able to successfully sell their data catalog vision internally, implement data intelligent practices, and see immediate value. In this session, you will learn:
- How corralling your metadata in a data catalog is the essential starting point for governance
- How having a user-friendly data catalog is critical for adoption
- What best practices were implemented to boost catalog adoption
- How having a crack support team and built-in educational resources boosted catalog usage and smoothed the path for great governance
John Moran leads the Data Governance Enablement team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with more than 100,000 employees operating in over 150 countries. The Data Governance Enablement team is a center of excellence that provides tools and methodologies that enable the business to drive improvements to their data and processes so that they can protect and trust their data, improve their productivity, and make better decisions to deliver on the expectations of both internal and external customers.
In his 17 years at Thermo Fisher, John had held many roles in process improvement and data governance, including over 10 years leading a 70+ member global Product Data Management organization that was responsible for maintaining the data on close to one million products and supported over 20 acquisitions and product portfolio integrations.