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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

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AmFam first implemented the Alation Data Catalog in 2018. Back then, our focus was three-fold, focused on: Taking inventory of our data assets, Building out a more formal data governance program , and. At this time, I worked in the Data Enablement Team and my primary focus was data catalog adoption and training.

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And the winners are…. Congratulations to the Sixth Annual Data Impact Awards winners

Cloudera

. — Mike Barlow, author of “Learning to Love Data Science” (O’Reilly Media). And now, without further delay, we are excited to announce the winners of the 2018 Data Impact Awards, listed by award theme and category: Business Impact. Two weeks ago, we announced the finalists. The post And the winners are….

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera

Cybersecurity and data privacy: As news of data breaches become increasingly common, resulting in elevated privacy concerns, regulatory and compliance standards are becoming more stringent. The post Back to the Financial Regulatory Future appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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7 famous analytics and AI disasters

CIO Business Intelligence

CNN reported that Zillow bought 27,000 homes through Zillow Offers since its launch in April 2018 but sold only 17,000 through the end of September 2021. In 2018, Reuters broke the news that Amazon had scrapped the project. It mashed that data up with demographic data and third-party data it purchased.

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The year of the data catalog

Alation

billion merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks, the widely scrutinized GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), or the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked Facebook. Amid the headline grabbing news, 2018 will also be remembered as the year of the data catalog. Be it the surprising $5.2 Below are some of our other favorites.

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Data Catalogs: A Category of Their Own

Alation

While this requires technology – AI, machine learning, log parsing, natural language processing,metadata management, this technology must be surfaced in a form accessible to business users – the data catalog. The Forrester Wave : Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q2 2018. Subscribe to Alation's Blog.

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Introducing Agile Data Governance – Alation TrustCheck

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there has to be a business context, and the increasing realization of this context explains the rise of information stewardship applications.” – May 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Information Stewardship Applications. The rise of data lakes, IOT analytics, and big data pipelines has introduced a new world of fast, big data.