IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Data is the new oil and organizations of all stripes are tapping this resource to fuel growth. However, data quality and consistency are one of the top barriers faced by organizations in their quest to become more data-driven. Unlock quality data with IBM. and its leading data observability offerings.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Most have only data governance operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Govern PII “at rest”. Govern PII “in motion”. Complexity.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Effective data governance must extend beyond the IT organization.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It was the bricks-and-mortar, merchandising experience versus the data-driven, near-limitless inventory and dynamic flexibility of e-commerce competitors. To meet this trend, retailers know that data is the key. The wide-open, greenfield opportunity presented by retail data in the early e-commerce days has also changed.

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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. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. But governance is a time-consuming process (for users and data stewards alike).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Chief data officers have a lot to think about these days. Chief among them, they must ensure responsible, compliant use of their organizations’ data in the face of increasingly complex regulatory environments across the globe. At the end of the day, it’s all the company’s data or the consumer’s data,” he adds.

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Anmut

MARCH 22, 2023

Data maturity models are a crucial step for any organisation looking to improve their data, informing if your current data practices are helping, or holding back, your business. ? Click the links below to navigate to different sections What are data maturity models? Why do we need data maturity models?

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Anmut

JULY 20, 2021

Does your organisation have a data driven culture? The amount of data has exploded in the last decade. Ever more organisations have started their journey to becoming data-driven and utilising data to make better decisions more often. Today, every organisation is a data company. What does this mean?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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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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Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

We live in a data-rich, insights-rich, and content-rich world. Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Plus, AI can also help find key insights encoded in data.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

To transform Fujitsu from an IT company to a digital transformation (DX) company, and to become a world-leading DX partner, Fujitsu has declared a shift to data-driven management. The platform consists of approximately 370 dashboards, 360 tables registered in the data catalog, and 40 linked systems.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After all, every department is pressured to drive efficiencies and is clamoring for automation, data capabilities, and improvements in employee experiences, some of which could be addressed with generative AI. As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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Laminar Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the importance of data discovery and classification can’t be overstated. As we generate and interact with unprecedented volumes of data, the task of accurately identifying, categorizing, and utilizing this information becomes increasingly difficult.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Part one of this three-part series discussed the concept of data mesh and explored what it is and why an organization should care. Here, part two provides best practices for data mesh, including practical guidance, challenges, and limitations. Enterprises should identify and adopt specific data mesh elements to achieve velocity.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Altron is a pioneer of providing data-driven solutions for their customers by combining technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide highly differentiated technology solutions. This is a guest post co-authored by Jacques Steyn, Senior Manager Professional Services at Altron Group.

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Alation

JUNE 9, 2023

We were thrilled to attend Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2023 , on May 22–24 in London. D&A leaders from around the world gathered to discuss and find ways to overcome the latest challenges through strategies and innovations backed by data, analytics, and data science. How can leaders respond?

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 23, 2023

What is data lineage? Data lineage traces data’s origin, history, and movement through various processing, storage, and analysis stages. It is used to understand the provenance of data and how it is transformed and to identify potential errors or issues. What about DataOps Observability? How does it compare?

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FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Evolving BI Tools in 2024 Significance of Business Intelligence In 2024, the role of business intelligence software tools is more crucial than ever, with businesses increasingly relying on data analysis for informed decision-making.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like the proverbial man looking for his keys under the streetlight , when it comes to enterprise data, if you only look at where the light is already shining, you can end up missing a lot. Remember that dark data is the data you have but don’t understand. So how do you find your dark data? Analyze your metadata.

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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. But the attempts to standardize data across the entire enterprise haven’t produced the desired results.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. A schema describes the structure of data. Apache Kafka transfers data without validating the information in the messages. Kafka does not examine the metadata of your messages.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh is still in its infancy, and data personas and organizations are craving clarity and specificity. It is critical to be aware of the “why” and “what” and fully understand the role that knowledge graphs play when considering adopting a data mesh strategy. The debate on what constitutes a data mesh rages on.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges.

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erwin

MAY 6, 2020

In these times of great uncertainty and massive disruption, is your enterprise data helping you drive better business outcomes? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to tactically adjust their business models, work practices and revenue projections for the short term. Turning Data Into a Source of Truth & Regeneration.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

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BI-Survey

AUGUST 24, 2022

These new usage trends are most prevalent among leading adopters of data & analytics (e.g., In addition, new self-service tools, such as GUI-based authoring and data preparation tools, are making it easier for businesspeople to service their own data needs without IT assistance. Global survey. Technical drivers.

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Cloudera

JULY 17, 2023

What We’ve Covered Throughout the One Big Cluster Stuck series we’ve explored impactful best practices to gain control of your Cloudera Data platform (CDP) environment and significantly improve its health and performance. Our data and analytics leaders meet monthly to evaluate our health improvement and log subjective measures.

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