The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain

© Martin Treder 2020

M. TrederThe Chief Data Officer Management Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6115-6_19

19. Handling Data

Martin Treder¹ 

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Königswinter, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

 

Figure 19-1

Data handling in business is serious

The Virtual Single Source of Truth

What does a VSSoT look like?

Do you consider your organization’s data lake your Single Source of Truth? Or at least the target?

You shouldn’t.

“Single Source of Truth” should not be considered the bucket full of golden data at the end of the rainbow.

Instead, data is always on a journey, from creation or entry into the organization throughout modification up to consumption and ...