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Insights on data engineering, governance, and building data-driven organizations.
AI-Powered Permissioning: From One Week to One Hour for Healthcare Data Access
How Narona Data deployed an agentic permissioning system that scanned thousands of data assets, reduced credentialing from one week to one hour, and cut overprovisioning by 80%.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-04-27
The Future of Data Governance is Automated
Manual data governance processes are a ticking time bomb for growing organizations. Here's how automation changes the game.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-02-28
Why Your Data Recommendation Didn't Land (And How to Fix It)
You can be prepared, practiced, and genuinely knowledgeable, and still lose a room — not because your material was bad, but because you made the audience work too hard to extract what matters.
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-02-20
The Four Modes of Communication Every Data Professional Should Master
Most people approach every conversation the same way. They prepare their content, rehearse their points, and walk in ready to deliver. What they rarely ask is: what is this conversation actually for?
Tony Zeljkovic
2026-01-30
Smart Scaling: How a Healthcare Provider Governed 100K+ Columns of Sensitive Data in Two Weeks — at 10x Less Than SaaS
How Narona Data helped a U.S. healthcare provider automate data governance across 100K+ columns in Snowflake, achieving 24/7 HIPAA/HITECH compliance at a fraction of SaaS pricing.
Tony Zeljkovic
2025-03-10