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AWS Lake Formation 2022 year in review

AWS Big Data

Data governance is increasingly top-of-mind for customers as they recognize data as one of their most important assets. Effective data governance enables better decision-making by improving data quality, reducing data management costs, and ensuring secure access to data for stakeholders.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

March 2015: Alation emerges from stealth mode to launch the first official data catalog to empower people in enterprises to easily find, understand, govern and use data for informed decision making that supports the business. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO Business Intelligence

External data sharing gets strategic Data sharing between business partners is becoming far easier and much more cooperative, observes Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. CIOs should first understand the different approaches to observing data and how it differs from quality management,” he notes.

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Demystifying Modern Data Platforms

Cloudera

July brings summer vacations, holiday gatherings, and for the first time in two years, the return of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Chief Data Officer symposium as an in-person event. A key area of focus for the symposium this year was the design and deployment of modern data platforms. What is a data fabric?

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Take Your SQL Skills To The Next Level With These Popular SQL Books

datapine

Originally published in 2018, the book has a second edition that was released in January of 2022. The new version includes details on the latest SQL features such as techniques for wrangling data, as well as two new chapters, one dedicated to setting up your own system, and another for using PostgreSQL and JSON. Viescas, Douglas J.

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Better, faster decisions: Why businesses thrive on real-time data

CIO Business Intelligence

In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data.

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Why Invest Now? Three Investors Share the Story Behind Alation’s Series E

Alation

And that’s even in the midst of 2022, which has been a tumultuous year from a macro perspective. We had not seen that in the broader intelligence & data governance market.”. Right now, it’s probably not a secret that the amount and the pace of financings – if you compare 2022 to 2021 – is night and day,” he continues.