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Data Governance Makes Data Security Less Scary

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In July 2019, British Airways received the biggest GDPR fine to date ($229 million) because the data of more than 500,000 customers was compromised. percent of its global annual revenue, because 330 million hotel guests were affected by a breach in 2018. The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Data governance shows up as the fourth-most-popular kind of solution that enterprise teams were adopting or evaluating during 2019. That’s a lot of priorities – especially when you group together closely related items such as data lineage and metadata management which rank nearby. More Policies Emerged” (2010-2018).

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Our Next Phase of Growth: Enterprise Data Catalogs

Alation

The Alation Data Catalog is taking years of data lake and self-service analytics investments and driving them from investments to insights. 451 Research’s Matt Aslett has gone so far as to ask whether the data catalog could be “ the most important breakthrough in analytics to have emerged in the last decade.”

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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

CIO Business Intelligence

Rigid requirements to ensure the accuracy of data and veracity of scientific formulas as well as machine learning algorithms and data tools are common in modern laboratories. When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5

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Why We Started the Data Intelligence Project

Alation

In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. I had always been fascinated by how people find, organize, and access information, so a metadata management role after school was a natural choice. The use cases for metadata are boundless, offering opportunities for innovation in every sector. Our paths converge.

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A Guide to Data Analytics in the Travel Industry

Alation

When it embarked on a digital transformation and modernization initiative in 2018, the company migrated all its data to AWS S3 Data Lake and Snowflake Data Cloud to provide accessibility to data to all users. Using Alation, ARC automated the data curation and cataloging process. “So

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

I mention this here because there was a lot of overlap between current industry data governance needs and what the scientific community is working toward for scholarly infrastructure. The gist is, leveraging metadata about research datasets, projects, publications, etc., 2018 – Global reckoning about data governance, aka “Oops!…We