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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

Ontotext

way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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Data Intelligence in the Next Normal; Why, Who and When?

erwin

As we enter 2021, we will also be building off the events of 2020 – both positive and negative – including the acceleration of digital transformation as the next normal begins to be defined. But data without intelligence is just data, and this is WHY data intelligence is required.

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The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders Webinar Q&A

Andrew White

It was titled, The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders. This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. It is meant to be a desk-reference for that role for 2021. The fill report is here: Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

Cloudera

It provided the concept of a database, schemas, and tables for describing the structure of a data lake in a way that let BI tools traverse the data efficiently. This enables an open lakehouse: one that offers unlimited analytic flexibility for the future. How are we embracing Iceberg?

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Amazon Redshift announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 to enable analytics on all your data

AWS Big Data

These announcements drive forward the AWS Zero-ETL vision to unify all your data, enabling you to better maximize the value of your data with comprehensive analytics and ML capabilities, and innovate faster with secure data collaboration within and across organizations.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

CIO Business Intelligence

It provided the concept of a database, schemas, and tables for describing the structure of a data lake in a way that let BI tools traverse the data efficiently. This enables an open lakehouse: one that offers unlimited analytic flexibility for the future. How are we embracing Iceberg?

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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

Alation

One of the first steps in any digital transformation journey is to understand what data assets exist in the organization. When we began, we had a very technical and archaic tool, an enterprise metadata management platform that cataloged our assets. In May 2021, I joined Professional Services at Alation as a senior consultant.