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BI Cubed: Data Lineage on OLAP Anyone?

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How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? BI groups spend more than 50% of their time and effort manually searching for metadata. In fact, BI projects used to take many months to complete and require huge numbers of IT professionals to extract data.

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A Data Analyst’s Guide to the Data Catalog

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An enterprise data catalog is one such key asset. The Data Analyst Workflow. The workflow of a data analyst consists of four key stages: Discovery. When a businessperson poses a question to an analyst, the analyst starts by trying to find the right data. 7 Steps that Benefit from a Data Catalog. Preparation.

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What Is a Metadata Management Tool?

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What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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What Is a Data Fabric and How Does a Data Catalog Support It?

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As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.