CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Behind the flagship brand, though, he says data remained scattered in siloes across many legacy business units and applications, with limited automation, many glossaries, and complex data lineage, and stewardship making it hard to govern and audit. You know, good old DBAs, modelers, and analysts.”. Where do we store it?

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Octopai

MAY 5, 2020

Octopai and Dataversity collaborated to conduct The 2020 Business Glossary Automation Survey. They collected insights from 293 business and IT professionals across a wide range of industries, shining light on why automation metadata operations and the business glossary are priorities for organizations today.

Metadata 52

Metadata Reporting Data Warehouse Management 52

Octopai

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A crucial part of every company’s business intelligence (BI) is its data dictionary. The following is a common point of contention for many analysts: What makes a good data dictionary and how can it actually streamline your BI team’s workflow? Keep in mind that a data dictionary should not be confused with a business glossary.

Metadata 52

Metadata Enterprise Structured Data Business Intelligence 52

erwin

MAY 18, 2022

Industry analysts, data domain field experts and erwin Data Intelligence customer advisory board members have all shown positive early reactions to its new capabilities in several key areas. Data quality integration with erwin Data Intelligence will be a game changer for IT, data governance teams and business users alike.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

And close to 50 percent have deployed data catalogs and business glossaries. Unless data is well-governed, downstream data analysts and data scientists will not be able to generate significant value from it. Business-driven data movement and transformation specifications. Most have only data governance operations.

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Data Governance Metadata Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit 145

Alation

MAY 23, 2023

For one financial services organization, getting started took identifying key capabilities of their future data platform, tying those capabilities to business value, and working closely with the implementation team. Auto Titling Auto titling ensures standard names, conventions, business terms, and abbreviations are used consistently.

Business Objectives 52

Business Objectives Enterprise Data Governance Sales 52

Alation

JANUARY 10, 2023

From helping analysts search and find the data they need to promoting data as an asset, there are many ways data catalogs can add value to your organisation. These focuses do not imply polar opposite mindsets but rather a spectrum that reflects a business’ unique regulatory landscape, business functions, and goals.

ROI 52

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. It should make data available, maintain data consistency and accuracy, and support data security.

Data Strategy 52

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It synthesizes the information across your data ecosystem—from data lakes, data warehouses, and other data repositories—to empower authorized users to search for and access business-ready data for their projects and initiatives. So, Alex and other business analysts could complete their projects faster.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

business users can access trusted data natively in an expanded suite of beloved products, as Alation Connected Sheets now works with Microsoft Excel and Alation Anywhere will work with Microsoft Teams. For this reason, people often struggle to make vital business decisions as they face a complex data landscape.

Contextual Data 52

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Andrew White

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you follow my blog for any period of time you will know that for most years I have attended our annual Gartner IT Symposium I do a day-in-the-life blog of an analyst. Business/Consumer Services 5. Monetization/Link data to outcome (value pyramid) business value of data/business impact 20. Industry: 35 (alphabetical).

IT 52

IT Data Lake Strategy Data Science 52

Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. Now that you have empowered data scientists and analysts to access the Snowflake Data Cloud and speed their modeling and analysis, you need to bolster the effectiveness of your governance models.

Data Governance 59

Data Governance Risk Data Quality Dashboards 59

Alation

JUNE 30, 2021

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is a leader in this radar report because of its continued innovation,” said Andrew Brust, Analyst at GigaOm. Other top analyst firms, including IDC , Dresner Advisory Services , Gartner and Constellation , have as well. The company has recently raised $110M in Series D funding at a $1.2B

Reporting 52

Reporting Metadata Data-driven Marketing 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

No business wants to have the PR nightmare of a data leak or personal data being used without the correct permissions. While this sounds simple, this is where most businesses fall short. How do you go beyond checking basic governance boxes… and leverage governance as a true business enabler? So, how do you do that well?

Data Governance 52

Data Governance ROI Metrics Cost-Benefit 52

Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

From the humble database through to data warehouses , data stores have grown both in scale and complexity to keep pace with the businesses they serve, and the data analysis now required to remain competitive. Enterprise businesses run on a foundation of tools and functions that provide valuable data, but rarely in a standardized format.

Data Lake 73

Data Lake Data Warehouse Big Data Machine Learning 73

Alation

MARCH 11, 2022

to an external, compliance-focused perspective (“How do we ensure analysts use private data legally?”). Similarly, your data catalog is the foundation to a painless data governance program that scales across the business. Again, a data catalog can automate the tedium of compliance at scale.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance ROI Data Quality 52

erwin

JANUARY 11, 2019

Organizations have spent a lot of time and money trying to harmonize data across diverse platforms , including cleansing, uploading metadata, converting code, defining business glossaries, tracking data transformations and so on. But the attempts to standardize data across the entire enterprise haven’t produced the desired results.

Data Governance 40

Data Governance Risk Metadata Management 40

Alation

MAY 19, 2022

Leaders agree: Data needs to drive business results. How to use data to drive business results: 1. Further, automated insights are growing in popularity, and empower analysts to become “decision designers.” The business benefits of a data fabric are real. All that data was causing serious growing pains for the business.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Analytics Analytics Data Governance 52

Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

We discuss how they are running the business of IT and cover subjects like digital transformation, business/IT alignment, IT leadership, and leading innovation. Dan Kirsch, Analyst, Hurwitz Associates, agrees that CISOs must take responsibility, when he says that “data protection is absolutely part of the CISO’s job.

Data Governance 97

Data Governance Recreation/Entertainment Data Lake Digital Transformation 97

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With Amazon DataZone, data users like data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts can share and access data across AWS accounts using a unified data portal, allowing them to discover, use, and collaborate on this data across their teams and organizations. Connect data people through shared data and tools to drive business insights.

Metadata 98

Metadata Data Lake Publishing Data Governance 98

Octopai

MAY 30, 2019

If the point of Business Intelligence (BI) data governance is to leverage your datasets to support information transparency and decision-making, then it’s fair to say that the data catalog is key for your BI strategy. At least, as far as data analysis is concerned. The Benefits of Structured Data Catalogs. Scalability.

Metadata 40

Metadata Data Governance Data Lake IoT 40

Alation

MARCH 29, 2023

I got to experience the agnostic partner approach where you’re working with folks as an advisor, guiding them to the right decisions based on their history, appetite for risk, business goals, et cetera. But in my experience, budget is not a roadblock if you can make the right business case. We can even help them take it a step further.

Data Strategy 52

Data Strategy Strategy Data Governance Sales 52

Alation

MAY 24, 2022

Faster data-backed decisions result in better business decisions. It is advantageous to data consumers, such as data analysts and data scientists , to connect data quality context into their workflow in Alation. For instance, via lineage, analysts can understand if upstream data dependencies have reliable data quality.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Metrics 98

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this section, we explore the most common data security needs within the raw and business data vaults and the Amazon Redshift features that help achieve those needs. However, what about datasets that are shared across multiple Redshift warehouses, as might be done between raw data vaults and business data vaults?

Enterprise 82

Enterprise Data Warehouse Snapshot Cost-Benefit 82

Octopai

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Let’s take “data dictionary” and “business glossary” for example. It is important to note when differentiating between the two that they are mainly silo – or project-based, and therefore the value they provide across the multi-system business intelligence infrastructure is limited. What is a Business Glossary?

Metadata 40

Metadata Data Governance Cost-Benefit Reporting 40

Octopai

JANUARY 12, 2020

From Data Analysts, BI Architects, Developers, and Data Governance Leaders to IT and BI Managers. If you’re in the Business Intelligence world, there is a chance that you and I had a brief chat about metadata. These reporting errors often go unnoticed, leaving the organizations to make poor business decisions based on poor data. “We

Metadata 57

Metadata Management Data Governance Business Intelligence 57

Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For analysts, the catalog relieved them of the growing backlog of requests from end users for data. Analysts also saw an unquantified impact regarding the time to make a business decision. In other words, for data leaders, installing a data catalog first can establish the business value of data governance.

Data Governance 94

Data Governance Metadata Data Quality Enterprise 94

erwin

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And unless your data is well-governed, downstream data analysts and data scientists will not be able to generate significant value from it. 4) Use Integrated Impact Analysis to Automate Data Due Diligence: This helps IT deliver operational intelligence to the business. Business-driven data movement and transformation specifications.

Management 144

Management Data Governance Cost-Benefit Metadata 144

erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. Connect physical metadata to specific data models, business terms, definitions and reusable design standards. What Is Metadata? Metadata Answers Key Questions. Analyze metadata.

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

Alation

MAY 31, 2023

To run an effective governance program, partnerships or collaborations between business and technical parts of the organization need to be made. This means that specialized roles such as data architects, which focus on modernizing data architecture to help meet business goals, are increasingly important to support data governance.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Metadata Data Architecture Data Quality 52

erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. Create database designs from visual models.

Modeling 98

Modeling Metadata Data Governance Visualization 98

Alation

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Alation is the leading platform for data intelligence , delivering critical context about data to empower smarter use; to this end, it centralizes technical, operational, business, and behavioral metadata from a broad variety of sources. Imagine two data analysts are discussing a database table in Slack.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Dashboards Sales 52

Alation

JUNE 28, 2022

Collecting and using data to make informed decisions is the new foundation for businesses. Document type: describes creation, storage, and use during business processes. By organizing the metadata, people will be able to obtain the data they need in an accessible and manageable way in order to improve business outcomes.

Metadata 52

Metadata Management Data Governance Machine Learning 52

Alation

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this blog, we will discuss how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis with speed. Your data scientists and analysts will need access if they’re to conduct modeling and analysis at speed. However, data scientists and analysts face the challenge of finding data easily.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Analysts spend countless hours searching for trustworthy data to create dashboards and perform analysis. Yet today, business users confront a high volume of dashboards. Basically, organizations need the right tools so business users can easily find, understand and trust datasets and dashboards. Find and Trust Data with Ease.

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Octopai

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Business glossaries. A business glossary is an exhaustive list of all metadata terms used across the organization with definitions and how they relate to each other. Business glossaries are important for: reducing redundancies. It has to go somewhere, after all!

Metadata 93

Metadata Management Data Quality Data Governance 93

erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. So what’s holding organizations back from fully using their data to make better, smarter business decisions? Data Governance Bottlenecks.

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