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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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What Is Data Literacy?

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Data Literacy Definition. Gartner defines data literacy as the ability to read, write and communicate data in context, including an understanding of data sources and constructs, analytical methods and techniques applied — and the ability to describe the use case, application and resulting value.

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Alation 2023.1: Empowering Business Users in Microsoft Office

Alation

For this reason, people often struggle to make vital business decisions as they face a complex data landscape. Metadata is the information about data that gives it meaning and context. It helps to answer basic, yet important questions like: “What does this data mean?”, “Which data is used the most?”

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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

Alation

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.

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AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone for enhanced business data cataloging and discovery is now generally available

AWS Big Data

Amazon DataZone enables you to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. Data consumers have more contextualized data at their fingertips to inform their analysis.

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The importance of data ingestion and integration for enterprise AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Companies still often accept the risk of using internal data when exploring large language models (LLMs) because this contextual data is what enables LLMs to change from general-purpose to domain-specific knowledge. In the generative AI or traditional AI development cycle, data ingestion serves as the entry point.

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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

Alation

It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise.