Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. So it’s safe to say that organizations can’t reap the rewards of their data without automation.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) is happening soon — and we’ll be onsite in San Diego from June 5-9. If you’re not familiar with DGIQ, it’s the world’s most comprehensive event dedicated to, you guessed it, data governance and information quality. The best part?

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing?

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Alation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. As the volume, veracity, variety, and volume of data expands, insurance companies need a stable framework to govern data and democratize access. Further, compliance regulations like the GDPR and CCPA demand that organizations maintain data security and compliance.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Gartner predicts that “By 2020, 50% of information governance initiatives will be enacted with policies based on metadata alone.”. Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions , Guido de Simoni and Roxane Edjlali, August 10, 2017. Metadata management no longer refers to a static technical repository.

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erwin

APRIL 4, 2019

A strong data governance framework is central to the success of any data-driven organization because it ensures this valuable asset is properly maintained, protected and maximized. Let’s assume you have some form of data governance operation with some strengths to build on and some weaknesses to correct.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As the amount of data grows exponentially, organizations turn to data intelligence to reach deeper conclusions about driving revenue, achieving regulatory compliance and accomplishing other strategic objectives. It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5 New products and services.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2022

Or, rather, every successful company these days is run with a bias toward technology and data, especially in the manufacturing industry. technologies, manufacturers must deploy the right technologies and, most importantly, leverage the resulting data to make better, faster decisions. All personas access and use data appropriately, and.

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Anmut

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Data governance - who's counting? The role of data governance. This large gap between reported figures raises tough questions on the reliability of COVID-19 tracking data. In dealing with situations like pandemic data, how important are aspects of data governance such as standardised definitions?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. Govern data access across organizational boundaries.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 4, 2022

“We are a data-driven company,” is a familiar refrain we hear from business leaders and managers. This is evidence of a fundamental shift in mindset, reflecting the fact that leaders have now understood and internalized the concept of the data-driven enterprise.

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erwin

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What is Microsoft’s Common Data Model (CDM), and why is it so powerful? The same is true for data, with a number of vendors creating data models by vertical industry (financial services, healthcare, etc.) and making them commercially available to improve how organizations understand and work with their data assets.

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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. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Once you’ve determined what part(s) of your business you’ll be innovating — the next step in a digital transformation strategy is using data to get there. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Many organizations prioritize data collection as part of their digital transformation strategy.

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

And now, arguably the greatest rivalry the world (well, at least the data community) has ever witnessed: Data Fabric vs Data Mesh! Data fabric and data mesh are both having a moment. Gartner calls data fabric the Future of Data Management 1. Gartner on Data Fabric. Thoughtworks on Data Mesh.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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erwin

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Defining Data Governance. to Data Governance 2.0

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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. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted. Data Quality Obstacles.

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erwin

JANUARY 7, 2021

Our predictions for 2021 are rooted in what we’ve learned from the past year and the relevance of data in getting us to where we are and where we need to go. Historically, moving legacy data to the cloud hasn’t been easy or fast. However, that definition is too narrow in terms of AI’s relation to data governance.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical. As the IEAI’s definition indicates, enterprise architecture tools are key drivers in ensuring such alignment because they help organizations understand their systems, applications and assets from a holistic, top-down perspective. Retain organizational knowledge.

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erwin

MARCH 14, 2019

The need for data mapping tools in light of increasing volumes and varieties of data – as well as the velocity at which it must be processed – is growing. Data mapping tools have always been a key asset for any organization looking to leverage data for insights. Isolated units of data are essentially meaningless.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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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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erwin

APRIL 18, 2019

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance shares many of the same requirements in the European Unions’ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data governance , thankfully, provides a framework for compliance with either or both – in addition to other regulatory mandates your organization may be subject to.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how organizations are pursuing data culture and why most are failing. But using the right tools can help them scale data-driven initiatives. Ability to meet governance requirement at scale. Challenge #1: Ability to Find and Trust Data. Do they have permission to use the data?

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When we work with data, we know where we are starting from, often with a destination in mind, but the path we take is not always the fastest because we may not have all the necessary intelligence to optimize our route. Not only is the data distributed, diverse, and dynamic, but so are the people working with data.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

Moving data to the cloud can bring immense operational benefits. However, the sheer volume and complexity of today’s enterprise data can cause downstream headaches for data users. Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. Data pipeline orchestration.

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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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erwin

JUNE 27, 2019

The need for an effective data modeling tool is more significant than ever. For decades, data modeling has provided the optimal way to design and deploy new relational databases with high-quality data sources and support application development. Evaluating a Data Modeling Tool – Key Features.

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today’s best-performing organizations embrace data for strategic decision-making. Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. This is because accurate data is “table stakes” for finance teams.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 3, 2021

In summary, predicting future supply chain demands using last year’s data, just doesn’t work. Accurate demand forecasting can’t rely upon last year’s data based upon dated consumer preferences, lifestyle and demand patterns that just don’t exist today – the world has changed. Leveraging data where it lies.

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