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What Is Data Modeling? Data Modeling Best Practices for Data-Driven Organizations

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Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. SQL or NoSQL?

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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. Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.

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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.

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The Year Enterprises Embraced the Data Catalog

Alation

Alation was the top-ranked data catalog in the Dresner Advisory Services’ 2017 Wisdom of Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study. We were also named a Leader in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions **. As strong as 2017 was, we are looking towards an even stronger 2018. Gartner Disclaimer.

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A CDO’s Guide to the Data Catalog

Alation

Between 2010 and 2018 the number of CDOs present in Fortune 1500 companies increased nearly 8-fold. Today, the modern CDO drives the data strategy for the entire organization. The CDO’s Role in Driving a Data Strategy. Beyond the concrete implementation of a data strategy, CDOs often have to foster a data culture.

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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 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).