AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. You can analyze data or build applications from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and 30 data sources, including on-premises data sources or other cloud systems using SQL or Python.

Optimization 110

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Octopai

JUNE 27, 2022

Sit back and imagine how you would feel when…. This data catalog is helping boost our bottom line.”. Your data team spends more time doing high-level analysis than it does searching for relevant datasets. Data catalog SUCCESS! Pick a data catalog that matches your enterprise’s needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Steve Pimblett joined The Very Group in October 2020 as chief data officer, reporting to the conglomerate’s CIO, his task was to help the enterprise uncover value in its rich data heritage. Very grew from the successive mergers of a number of mail order catalog companies, the oldest dating back to the 1890s.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 29, 2024

QuickSight makes it straightforward for business users to visualize data in interactive dashboards and reports. You can slice data by different dimensions like job name, see anomalies, and share reports securely across your organization. With these insights, teams have the visibility to make data integration pipelines more efficient.

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Cloudera

MARCH 14, 2023

We just announced the general availability of Cloudera DataFlow Designer , bringing self-service data flow development to all CDP Public Cloud customers. In this blog post we will put these capabilities in context and dive deeper into how the built-in, end-to-end data flow life cycle enables self-service data pipeline development.

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Alation

JULY 26, 2021

How do you initiate change within a system containing many thousands of people and millions of bytes of data? During my time as a data specialist at American Family Insurance, it became clear that we had to move away from the way things had been done in the past. So you can probably imagine: The company manages a lot of data.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

It adds tables to compute engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, and Hive using a high-performance table format that works just like a SQL table. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback. AWS Glue 3.0

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BI-Survey

JUNE 30, 2023

dScribe data is an innovative start-up from Belgium that offers a data catalog focusing on easy implementation, maintenance and usage. dScribe sees lack of user adoption as the main reason for the failure of data catalog projects. When should I consider looking into the solution? Who is dScribe?

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Octopai

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Your CFO finally gave the okay to purchase data catalog software. When you’ve cleaned up the confetti and the cocktail glasses, it’s time to get down to business. How will you choose the best data catalog software for your company? Does it support automatic harvesting from your other data/BI software?

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Business Intelligence Software Cost-Benefit Metadata 84

Alation

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Digital transformation or a change in a company’s mindset to embrace data is an important step towards becoming a truly data intelligent and more efficient business. And a data catalog is an important part of this. Good news: You don’t need any prerequisites to implement Alation Data Catalog.

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Octopai

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Have you come across the data ‘buzzwords’ data dictionary, business glossary, and catalog? These tools refine data which helps you better understand trends, insights, and even locate errors. Creating a foolproof way to sift-through and derive insights from the mountains of data we acquire is truly an uphill battle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

After all, 41% of employees acquire, modify, or create technology outside of IT’s visibility , and 52% of respondents to EY’s Global Third-Party Risk Management Survey had an outage — and 38% reported a data breach — caused by third parties over the past two years. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1.

Metadata 52

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Alation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Most organisations are seeking to be data-driven because they believe in the value of data to inform key decisions at all levels, making data management absolutely critical. Business leaders already know about the importance of building a data culture in their organisation, and many have long since embarked on that journey.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

The cloud supports this new workforce, connecting remote workers to vital data, no matter their location. Data Cloud Migration Challenges and Solutions. Cloud migration is the process of moving enterprise data and infrastructure from on premise to off premise. However, cloud data migration can be difficult.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Recognizing the need to harness real-time data, businesses are increasingly turning to event-driven architecture (EDA) as a strategic approach to stay ahead of the curve. This trend grows stronger as organizations realize the benefits that come from the power of real-time data streaming.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

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Alation

JANUARY 10, 2023

When considering implementing any new tool or software, the first thing many organisations will ask is what is the value add. And implementing a data catalog is no different. But the actual value you can get out of a data catalog will depend somewhat on the reason you’re looking to implement one in the first place.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 25, 2024

In the era of data, organizations are increasingly using data lakes to store and analyze vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Data lakes provide a centralized repository for data from various sources, enabling organizations to unlock valuable insights and drive data-driven decision-making.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Among all the internal celebrations, I wanted to take this moment to reflect on our journey so far and ask a thought-provoking question: who is the GOAT of data catalogs ? While often a heavily debated topic, most would agree that just like every story needs a hero, every pursuit needs a GOAT. What Is a GOAT?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Marketing 52

Alation

JUNE 20, 2023

After its 2021 acquisition of Heights Finance Corporation, CURO needed to catalog and tag its legacy data while integrating Heights’ data — quickly. Bringing together companies — and their data Alation: For you guys in data, it sounds like the acquisition was the easy part. Then the real work began. Will: Right.

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Andrew White

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Too many firms have been sold a catalog or marketplace in support of a governance program. As a result those firms are turning off the catalogs and struggling to get control of the program. The State of Play with Data and Analytics Governance. Many organizations are doing just that. To Catalog or Not to Catalog?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We Leveraging expertise at software developer Palantir Technologies, Redmond’s team developed a model that consolidated and cleansed the data from those systems, then analyzed it to provide insights — and fairly sophisticated recommendations — to decision makers.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

That means you should leave that old legacy system in the dust and migrate to a brand-spanking-new cloud-based data system as soon as possible, right? There’s no denying the immense benefits that cloud computing can bring to data management: easier scalability, reduced cost of IT operations, improved performance… the list goes on.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

Apache Hive is a SQL-based data warehouse system for processing highly distributed datasets on the Apache Hadoop platform. The Hive metastore is a repository of metadata about the SQL tables, such as database names, table names, schema, serialization and deserialization information, data location, and partition details of each table.

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Data Lake Metadata Data Processing Big Data 78

Octopai

MARCH 23, 2022

I just opened a can of corned beef produced by the well-known Armour meatpacking plant in Chicago. If you just ran away clutching your stomach, with visions of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle filling your mind, I don’t blame you. Dirty Meat… and Dirty Data. Cleaning Up Dirty Data. It’s 1902. Can I offer you some?

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

we are introducing Alation Anywhere, extending data intelligence directly to the tools in your modern data stack, starting with Tableau. We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Then Alation came along.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

Instead of putting salespeople on the ground, we pioneered a business model built around mail-order catalog sales. For example, previously, when a customer in Hong Kong clicked on Digi-Key.com, the total process for the request to reach our Minnesota data center and for Digi-Key to return a response took 7.1 It just happened.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 12, 2023

Companies rely heavily on data and analytics to find and retain talent, drive engagement, improve productivity and more across enterprise talent management. However, analytics are only as good as the quality of the data, which must be error-free, trustworthy and transparent. What is data quality? million each year.

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Alation

MAY 17, 2022

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.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Machine Learning Reporting 52

Alation

JUNE 23, 2022

Alation has been named the #1 data catalog in Dresner’s 2022 Wisdom of Crowds report for the sixth consecutive year! To arrive at a ranking, report authors interviewed and surveyed real data catalog users. In this way, report authors have furnished a useful buyer’s guide for prospective data catalog users.

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Octopai

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

And, of course, selecting which data catalog software to invest in. While we can’t relieve your analysis paralysis when it comes to Netflix, frozen desserts or your wardrobe, we’d love to help you out when it comes to data catalog analysis. The average company has over 100K data assets.

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Metadata Reporting Software Enterprise 53

Alation

MAY 23, 2023

For leaders tasked with rolling out a new data governance program, getting started can feel like a daunting task. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

When it comes to cloud native application platforms, we’re at an important evolutionary point: will the best practice for platforms be to build or to buy? In a large organization with thousands of developers and applications, teams don’t get the benefits of scale when they have a bunch of different platforms. Is Kubernetes a platform?

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Alation

APRIL 27, 2022

They all prioritize a data culture. In fact, 90% of organizations with top-tier data cultures either met or exceeded their revenue targets over the last 12 months. This was a key finding in the quarterly Alation State of Data Culture Report , which provides an assessment of the progress enterprises have made in creating a data culture.

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Alation

JUNE 22, 2021

Of the three pillars of data culture, data literacy is the most challenging to achieve, since it requires broad up-skilling across the organization and, sometimes, fighting human nature itself. According to Gartner, poor data literacy is ranked as the second-biggest internal roadblock to the success of the chief data officer (CDO).

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

That’s the data dream, right? Deciding to migrate your data from legacy, on-prem databases to a cloud-based data warehouse like Snowflake is often a step in the right direction. But just a step in the right direction won’t get you to the finish line. Your legacy systems are, more often than not, unplanned data cities.

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