Industry Best Practices
Industry best practices are proven ideas, methods, techniques, and guidelines. In the Information Technology (IT) industry, there are many established best practices deemed as successful from lessons learned on what works and doesn’t. These experiences have revealed the best course of action on how to achieve data management at a high scale. A best practice achieves quality, greater productivity, lower cost, and increased profit. Gartner defines best practices as “a group of tasks that optimizes the efficiency (cost and risk) or effectiveness (service level) of the business discipline or process to which it contributes. It must be implementable, replicable, transferable and adaptable across industries.”
In this chapter, we’ll review the top 16 best practices for data management in the IT industry that focus on typical pain points such as data silos, data breaches, and data access bottlenecks. We will revisit many of the best practices...
