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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

Perhaps a more direct way to say this in the context of economic value creation is that companies such as Amazon and Google and Facebook had developed a set of remarkable advances in networked and data-enabled market coordination. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.”

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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

Alation

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

Cloudera

While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance challenges financial (and to some degree insurance) institutions face and how data plays a role in mitigating and managing risk. It’s a future state worth investing in.

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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. Modern Data Warehousing: Barclays (nominated together with BlueData ).

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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. A New Market Category.

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Join the Alation MLDC World Tour!

Alation

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.