Do you find yourself lacking the lingo to speak with data-savvy peers? Want to learn more about corporate data management terms?
Enterprise data is a foundational corporate data management term. Understanding the different forms of enterprise data will help you gain skills for a data analytics career.
What is Enterprise Data?
What distinguishes enterprise data from the personal data on our phones?
Enterprise data are company assets that are essential to a company's financial success.
Let's break down these two terms: data and enterprise.
Data include:
Raw forms of unanalyzed facts
Variety of formats
The term "enterprise" implies:
Organizational purposes rather than individual purposes
Complexity and collaboration because it takes a team of skilled professionals to manage enterprise data
Examples of Enterprise Data
Enterprise data are organizational assets that support business objectives, such as:
Improving customer service
Determining a company's most profitable product
Analyzing customer behavior
Enterprise data inform all of these.
Enterprise data can be in multiple forms and can be combined to create other forms of data. Enterprise data are included in corporate database tables but have other forms such as:
Financial statements
Company emails
Business flow diagrams
Social media content
Public geographical data
Quiz
Which of the following statements about enterprise data are true? Select all that apply:
Examples of Enterprise Systems
Given the many uses of enterprise data, there is a need for multiple types of enterprise information systems.
These systems can include:
Transaction processing — Online banking, order-entry systems
Collects data from routine transactions
Helps businesses manage the present
Customer relationship management — Salesforce& Microsoft Dynamics 365
Centralizes data related to customers
Provide analytics on customer behavior
Helps businesses prepare for their future
Metadata management — Informatica Metadata Manager
A specialized data governance information system
Collects data about an organization's data
Helps organizations make better use of their enterprise data
These systems help make up an organization's enterprise architecture.
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Now that you know more enterprise data and where it lives, what are the next steps to increase your awareness of enterprise data management?
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