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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

January 2015: Alation acquires its first customer. March 2015: Alation emerges from stealth mode to launch the first official data catalog to empower people in enterprises to easily find, understand, govern and use data for informed decision making that supports the business. June 2017: Yahoo Japan Corp.

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A Few 2016 Technology Predictions

In(tegrate) the Clouds

Merv Adrian (@merv) December 19, 2015. What is the most important news item about a software company that occurred in 2015 that belongs in the capsule, and why? The resurgence of Microsoft as a cloud company was big news in 2015. Who was the biggest tech disruptor in 2015? platform.twitter.com/widgets.js.

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Turning Streams Into Data Products

Cloudera

Every large enterprise organization is attempting to accelerate their digital transformation strategies to engage with their customers in a more personalized, relevant, and dynamic way. For governance and security teams, the questions revolve around chain of custody, audit, metadata, access control, and lineage.