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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

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One of the first steps in any digital transformation journey is to understand what data assets exist in the organization. When we began, we had a very technical and archaic tool, an enterprise metadata management platform that cataloged our assets. AmFam first implemented the Alation Data Catalog in 2018.

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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. Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.

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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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The next stops on the MLDC World Tour include Data Transparency in Washington, Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Teradata Analytics Universe in Las Vegas, Tableau in New Orleans, Big Data LDN in London, TDWI in Orlando and Forrester Data Strategy & Insights in Orlando, again. Data Catalogs Are the New Black.