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AWS Glue for Handling Metadata

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction AWS Glue helps Data Engineers to prepare data for other data consumers through the Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) Process. The managed service offers a simple and cost-effective method of categorizing and managing big data in an enterprise. It provides organizations with […].

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The Missing Link in Enterprise Data Governance: Metadata

Octopai

In order to figure out why the numbers in the two reports didn’t match, Steve needed to understand everything about the data that made up those reports – when the report was created, who created it, any changes made to it, which system it was created in, etc. Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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SAP Datasphere Powers Business at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

We could further refine our opening statement to say that our business users are too often in a state of being data-rich, but insights-poor, and content-hungry. This is where we dispel an old “big data” notion (heard a decade ago) that was expressed like this: “we need our data to run at the speed of business.”

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How Eightfold AI implemented metadata security in a multi-tenant data analytics environment with Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Eightfold is a leader in AI products for enterprises to build on their talent’s existing skills. The Eightfold Talent Intelligence Platform integrates with Amazon Redshift metadata security to implement visibility of data catalog listing of names of databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, and functions in Amazon Redshift.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

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 in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.