Alation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This June, Snowflake recognized Alation as its data governance partner of the year for the second year in a row, and Eckerson , IDC , BARC , Dresner , and Constellation all released reports just this summer naming Alation a data catalog leader. Everything and Everyone: The Catalog is the platform for Data Intelligence.

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Alation

APRIL 6, 2023

Data governance is traditionally applied to structured data assets that are most often found in databases and information systems. This blog focuses on governing spreadsheets that contain data, information, and metadata, and must themselves be governed. Data catalogs and spreadsheets are related in many ways.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This week I was talking to a data practitioner at a global systems integrator. The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality.

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Alation

JUNE 9, 2021

According to a recent survey by Alation , 78% of enterprises have a strategic initiative to become more data-driven in their decision making. According to Gartner, data culture is a top priority for chief data officers (CDOs) and chief data & analytics officers (CDAOs). What is Data Search & Discovery?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 15, 2024

Data integration stands as a critical first step in constructing any artificial intelligence (AI) application. While various methods exist for starting this process, organizations accelerate the application development and deployment process through data virtualization. Why choose data virtualization?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The “data textile” wars continue! In our first blog in this series , we define the terms data fabric and data mesh. The second blog took a deeper dive into data fabric, examining its key pillars and the role of the data catalog in each. Data as a product.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

So at the end of my 10 Fundamental Web Analytics Truths blog post I requested readers who were interested in the scholarship to complete this simple task: Pick a site you love and tell me three things you would change about it, and why. You went and got some kind of data. We only see our slice of data. " See the difference?

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Alation

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Alation is pleased to be named a dbt Metrics Partner and to announce the start of a partnership with dbt, which will bring dbt data into the Alation data catalog. In the modern data stack, dbt is a key tool to make data ready for analysis. Data Transformation in the Modern Data Stack.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Given the cost of equipping a data center with high-end GPUs, they probably won’t attempt to build their own infrastructure. Few nonusers (2%) report that lack of data or data quality is an issue, and only 1.3%

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, modern travel and tourism thrive on data. For example, airlines have historically applied analytics to revenue management, while successful hospitality leaders make data-driven decisions around property allocation and workforce management. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry?

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Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Companies collect and analyze vast amounts of data to make informed business decisions. From product development to customer satisfaction, nearly every aspect of a business uses data and analytics to measure success and define strategies. When choosing between qualitative and quantitative data, think about what you want to learn.

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Cloudera

JUNE 25, 2019

Cloudera Unveils Industry’s First Enterprise Data Cloud in Webinar. On June 18th, Cloudera provided an exclusive preview of these capabilities, and more, with the introduction of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), the industry’s first enterprise data cloud. Cloudera Data Platform. First-of-its-kind enterprise data cloud.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If supported by "data" then it tends to be of the most fragile kind (usually the the fact that the CEO saw it during the Super Bowl and felt happy suffices as actionable data). The data in the above report shows how frequently during a time period do the website's visitors visit the website. Perhaps you?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

What do The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Data Radicals have in common? (No, All three programs completed their first seasons with audience appetites whetted for more stories — and we’ve got plenty of stories left to tell! That’s why I’m excited for the second season of Data Radicals , which launches on February 15.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Now here's another surprise: These rules/insights/mind shifts are not about data! Here's important context (before we get into the rules for revolutionaries)… The Fundamental Web Analytics Problem Is Not Data! Most companies are astonishingly blasé about data and possibilities of measurement.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

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Alation

JANUARY 19, 2022

This January, I’m launching my first podcast: Data Radicals. Data Radicals features conversations with leaders who drive the use of data in powerful and innovative ways. They are radical in the sense that they unabashedly drive change by leveraging data and scientific thinking. Why Listen to Data Radicals?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

We have more data than God wants anyone to have. But with all this data, talent, money and leadership support, we are not knocking the ball out of the park. But with all this data, talent, money and leadership support, we are not knocking the ball out of the park. That is where this blog post comes in. It is functional.

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Alation

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As pioneers in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) space, Lyngo has leveled the data playing field with tools that allow anyone to learn from data. Their product empowers users to take a truly data-driven approach for business-critical decisions. Talo: Who is Lyngo’s core audience? Let’s dive in.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.” Why do we have data?

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Similary, every touchpoint offers data that can help you improve that customer experience, from the number and duration of support interactions to the intuitiveness of your website. Analyzing this data can build your ability to anticipate a customer’s specific needs. But customers aren’t data; they’re people.

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Andrew White

MARCH 31, 2023

How would I sum up several days in Orlando at our 2023 Data and Analytics conference last week – March 19th-22nd, 2023: Confusion Hype Voice of the Business Fort of all it was a fun time. A workshop that helps diagnostically map specific data to specific business outcomes. Those are subsets of a much larger catalog.

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