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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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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

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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.

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Introducing Agile Data Governance – Alation TrustCheck

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“The key point is that no organization governs information simply because it can. 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. How Data Catalogs Can Help.

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The year of the data catalog

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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

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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. A New Market Category.

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Join the Alation MLDC World Tour!

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Enterprises are… turning to data catalogs to democratize access to data, enable tribal data knowledge to curate information, apply data policies, and activate all data for business value quickly.”. In a recent webinar,“ Ready for a Machine Learning Data Catalog? appeared first on Alation.