Bonnie O'Neil is a Principal Computer Scientist at The MITRE Corporation and is a well-known expert on all phases of data architecture including data catalogs, data quality, business metadata, and governance. She has assisted both Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in data management projects for over 30 years. She is a regular speaker and workshop/tutorial leader at many conferences, and the author of four books. Lowell Fryman is an independent consultant specializing in implementing data governance programs and data catalogs. He has been a speaker, practitioner, and industry leader in data governance, analytics, and data quality having hands-on experience with implementations across most industries.
O'Neil & Fryman...present a typology which ranges from products that focus on data lineage, curation and search, data governance, data preparation, and of course, the core capability of finding and understanding the data. The authors emphasize that machine learning is being adopted in many of these products, enabling a more elegant data democratization solution in the face of the burgeoning mountain of data that is engulfing organizations. Derek Strauss, Chairman/CEO, Gavroshe, and Former CDO, TD Ameritrade