erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

Data Governance 106

Data Governance Cost-Benefit Risk Metadata 106

erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches.

Data Governance 105

Data Governance Metadata Risk Data Lake 105

erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

Organizations are responsible for governing more data than ever before, making a strong automation framework a necessity. In most companies, an incredible amount of data flows from multiple sources in a variety of formats and is constantly being moved and federated across a changing system landscape. Governing metadata.

Data Governance 71

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Cost-Benefit 71

Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing?

Data Governance 96

Data Governance Strategy Data Quality Metrics 96

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

Data-driven 56

Data-driven Enterprise Data Governance Data Lake 56

AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog.

Metadata 75

Metadata Data Lake Data Processing Data-driven 75

Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

Metadata 52

Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 14, 2023

FinAuto has a unique position to look across FinOps and provide solutions that help satisfy multiple use cases with accurate, consistent, and governed delivery of data and related services. These datasets can then be used to power front end systems, ML pipelines, and data engineering teams.

Finance 83

Finance Metadata Big Data Recreation/Entertainment 83

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 52

erwin

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Defining Data Governance. to Data Governance 2.0

Data Governance 40

Data Governance ROI Risk Management Metadata 40

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers 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. Govern data access across organizational boundaries.

Metadata 100

Metadata Data Lake Publishing Data Governance 100

erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

Keeping up with new data protection regulations can be difficult, and the latest – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – isn’t the only new data protection regulation organizations should be aware of. A number of high-profile data breaches and scandals have increased public awareness of the issue.

Insurance 100

Insurance Data-driven Data Governance Metadata 100

AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

This is the second post of a three-part series detailing how Novo Nordisk , a large pharmaceutical enterprise, partnered with AWS Professional Services to build a scalable and secure data and analytics platform. The third post will show how end-users can consume data from their tool of choice, without compromising data governance.

Data Governance 65

Data Governance Management Data-driven Data Lake 65

AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

To transform Fujitsu from an IT company to a digital transformation (DX) company, and to become a world-leading DX partner, Fujitsu has declared a shift to data-driven management. The platform consists of approximately 370 dashboards, 360 tables registered in the data catalog, and 40 linked systems.

Dashboards 111

Dashboards Publishing Data-driven Cost-Benefit 111

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Data is the new oil and organizations of all stripes are tapping this resource to fuel growth. However, data quality and consistency are one of the top barriers faced by organizations in their quest to become more data-driven. Unlock quality data with IBM. and its leading data observability offerings.

Data Quality 56

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Data-driven 56

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges.

Data Strategy 68

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 68

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company uses AWS Cloud services to build data-driven products and scale engineering best practices. To ensure a sustainable data platform amid growth and profitability phases, their tech teams adopted a decentralized data mesh architecture. The solution Acast implemented is a data mesh, architected on AWS.

Data-driven 85

Data-driven Advertising Metadata Data Architecture 85

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

Data Lake 82

Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture Data Warehouse 82

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Architecture Strategy Data Lake 52

Alation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Most organisations are seeking to be data-driven because they believe in the value of data to inform key decisions at all levels, making data management absolutely critical. The aim is to harness the power of that data to deliver cost savings, enhanced efficiencies, an optimised customer experience, and more.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Governance Metrics 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As data drives more and more of the modern economy, data governance and data management are racing to keep up with an ever-expanding range of requirements, constraints and opportunities. And among these, we find data acquisition. DATA ACQUISITION DEFINED. What is data acquisition?

Metadata 52

Metadata IT Data Governance Data Warehouse 52

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

Strategy 86

Strategy Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Reporting 86

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. A schema describes the structure of data. Apache Kafka transfers data without validating the information in the messages. Kafka does not examine the metadata of your messages.

Data Quality 96

Data Quality Metadata Data-driven Optimization 96

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 24, 2022

The only question is, how do you ensure effective ways of breaking down data silos and bringing data together for self-service access? It starts by modernizing your data integration capabilities – ensuring disparate data sources and cloud environments can come together to deliver data in real time and fuel AI initiatives.

Data Integration 79

Data Integration Metadata Data-driven Data Architecture 79

Cloudera

AUGUST 3, 2021

In summary, predicting future supply chain demands using last year’s data, just doesn’t work. Accurate demand forecasting can’t rely upon last year’s data based upon dated consumer preferences, lifestyle and demand patterns that just don’t exist today – the world has changed. Leveraging data where it lies.

Analytics 111

Analytics Digital Transformation Forecasting Risk 111

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader.

Data Lake 89

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 89

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. Luckily, today’s data management approaches aren’t limited by traditional constraints like location or data patterns.

Data Strategy 56

Data Strategy Strategy Business Objectives Data-driven 56

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Data mesh is a new approach to data management. Companies across industries are using a data mesh to decentralize data management to improve data agility and get value from data. This is especially true in a large enterprise with thousands of data products.

Technology 82

Technology Data-driven Machine Learning Sales 82

erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of practical data mesh implementation (for an overview of data mesh, read the original whitepaper The data mesh shift ). Taken together, the posts in this series lay out some possible operating models for data mesh within an organization.

Management 79

Management Risk Measurement Optimization 79

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The former sees growing investment in data analytics to become data-driven (45% of organizations expect to increase their spending in this area) while the latter is fueled by disruptive technology and the adoption of AI (41% of organizations name it as their game changer).

Digital Transformation 57

Digital Transformation Data Governance Data Warehouse Data-driven 57

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Today’s data-literate users want governed and scalable self-service BI functions to answer critical business questions and to get the most out of their data assets. ML helps users prepare data to enhance reports and to select appropriate data visualizations in visual analysis and dashboards.

Reporting 59

Reporting Optimization Enterprise Data Quality 59

Domino Data Lab

AUGUST 8, 2019

Paco Nathan ‘s latest monthly article covers Sci Foo as well as why data science leaders should rethink hiring and training priorities for their data science teams. In this episode I’ll cover themes from Sci Foo and important takeaways that data science teams should be tracking. Introduction. Ever heard of it before?

Data Science 71

Data Science Machine Learning Data Governance Statistics 71

erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Regulations.

Data Governance 89

Data Governance Metadata Data Quality Risk Management 89

erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

Metadata 104

Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Today, we’re announcing that Alation has closed a $50 million Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and our existing investors Costanoa Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Harmony Partners and Icon Ventures. And, the data catalog market has had a year of incredible growth.

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Enterprise Data Lake Machine Learning Data-driven 52