Alation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back then, visualizing impact analysis seemed futuristic with great promise. That was my earliest taste of data lineage. It wouldn’t be until 2013 that the topic of data lineage would surface again – this time while working on a data warehouse project. We finally had a useful tool. Or so I thought.

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Alation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalog growth are accelerating because organizations must integrate more systems, comply with privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns. What Is Master Data Management (MDM)? Data Catalog and Master Data Management. Identify Resources.

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Laminar Security

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cloud data security is one of the most critical, yet most challenging aspects of doing business in the age of cloud. As more organizations migrate their data to the cloud, they face an increasing range of risks and threats, including data breaches, data leakage, data loss, data misuse, data compliance violations, shadow data and more.

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Alation

JUNE 22, 2021

Of the three pillars of data culture, data literacy is the most challenging to achieve, since it requires broad up-skilling across the organization and, sometimes, fighting human nature itself. According to Gartner, poor data literacy is ranked as the second-biggest internal roadblock to the success of the chief data officer (CDO).

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Alation

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To be competitive, organizations are trying to create a data culture. But what IS a data culture ? A data culture empowers everyone in your organization with data-driven insights, which enable you to easily collaborate around shared goals to improve your organization. But creating a data culture is not easy.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In a recent blog, titled Collaboration and Crowdsourcing with Data Cataloging , I discussed the importance of participation by all data stakeholders as a key to getting maximum value from your data catalog. This build-it-and-they-will-come approach fails to engage people to actively use the catalog.

Metadata 52

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau make it easy for business users to quickly turn raw data into visualizations and reports. But before you can even start, you have to find a relevant data set, understand it, and trust it. Alation Data Explorer – A Self-Service, Embedded Data Catalog Browser.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

That means you should leave that old legacy system in the dust and migrate to a brand-spanking-new cloud-based data system as soon as possible, right? There’s no denying the immense benefits that cloud computing can bring to data management: easier scalability, reduced cost of IT operations, improved performance… the list goes on.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2023

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. However, many use cases, like performing change data capture (CDC) from an upstream relational database to an Amazon S3-based data lake, require handling data at a record level.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

Enterprises are trying to manage data chaos. They also face increasing regulatory pressure because of global data regulations , such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that went into effect last week on Jan. GDPR: Key Differences.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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erwin

JULY 22, 2020

Fostering organizational support for a data-driven culture might require a change in the organization’s culture. Recently, I co-hosted a webinar with our client E.ON , a global energy company that reinvented how it conducts business from branding to customer engagement – with data as the conduit. As an example, E.ON Avoiding Hurdles.

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Alation

JULY 13, 2021

Yet increasing complexity of data makes the old “lift-and-shift” model not just unrealistic, but risky. Businesses with complex data environments need a migration method that takes that complexity into account. The Data Race to the Cloud. This recent cloud migration applies to all who use data. Fern Halper, Ph.D.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In a recent global intelligence survey of 1,300 IT, business and executive leaders, more than half estimated that “dark data” comprised 55% or more of their organization’s data – that’s data that is uncaptured, unknown and unused within the organization. IDC has stated the reality could be as high as 90%.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2022

A confluence of events in the data management and AI landscape is bearing down on companies, no matter their size, industry or geographical location. Some of these, such as the continued sprawl of data across multicloud environments have been looming for years, if not decades. That solution is the data fabric.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The term has been used a lot more of late, especially in the data analytics industry, as we’ve seen it expand over the past few years to keep pace with new regulations, like the GDPR and CCPA. In essence, DataOps is a practice that helps organizations manage and govern data more effectively. What Is DataOps? Agile development.

Cost-Benefit 52

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The legacy IT infrastructure to run the business operations — mainly data centers — has a deadline to shift to cloud-based services. The public cloud is increasingly becoming the preferred platform to host data analytics – related projects, such as business intelligence, machine learning (ML), and AI applications.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In a prior blog post on challenges beyond the 3V’s of working with data , I discussed some issues which hindered the efficiency of data analysts besides drastically raising the bar on their motivation to begin working with new data. How do I Find and Understand Data? How do I Find and Understand Data?

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I like to think that I inherited my dad’s travel memory, but I will also be the first to admit that even if I know where I am going, I will use the navigation app for the benefit of route optimization based on current traffic conditions. Not only is the data distributed, diverse, and dynamic, but so are the people working with data.

Metadata 52

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 11, 2023

The advancement of computing power over recent decades has led to an explosion of digital data, from traffic cameras monitoring commuter habits to smart refrigerators revealing how and when the average family eats. Both computer scientists and business leaders have taken note of the potential of the data.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Today’s customers have a growing need for a faster end to end data ingestion to meet the expected speed of insights and overall business demand. This ‘need for speed’ drives a rethink on building a more modern data warehouse solution, one that balances speed with platform cost management, performance, and reliability.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. The answer is data lineage. We’ve compiled six key reasons why financial organizations are turning to lineage platforms like MANTA to get control of their data. Data lineage helps during these investigations.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Data integration is the foundation of robust data analytics. It encompasses the discovery, preparation, and composition of data from diverse sources. In the modern data landscape, accessing, integrating, and transforming data from diverse sources is a vital process for data-driven decision-making.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 7, 2023

This is a guest blog post co-written with Sumesh M R from Cargotec and Tero Karttunen from Knowit Finland. Cargotec captures terabytes of IoT telemetry data from their machinery operated by numerous customers across the globe. Cargotec’s use cases also required them to create views that span tables and views across catalogs.

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Alation

MAY 20, 2021

Can you tell us more about what Alation Analytics is and it’s connection to data culture? These include catalog adoption, governance, curation, and asset tracking. These include catalog adoption, governance, curation, and asset tracking. With Alation Analytics, we’re giving you tools to monitor catalog adoption and health.

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Alation

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Bindu Chandramohan, Lead, Data Analytics, Alation : Thanks, Jason! Happy to chat.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Alation takes big steps to further accelerate onboarding and adoption, expanding the catalog to welcome more classes of users, and lowering their barrier to entry with more organized information. Categorize data by domain. As a data consumer, sometimes you just want data in a single category. With Alation 2021.1,

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Alation

JUNE 9, 2021

According to a recent survey by Alation , 78% of enterprises have a strategic initiative to become more data-driven in their decision making. According to Gartner, data culture is a top priority for chief data officers (CDOs) and chief data & analytics officers (CDAOs). What is Data Search & Discovery?

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chances are, you’ve heard of the term “modern data stack” before. In actual fact, it isn’t all that confusing at all, and understanding what it means can have huge benefits for your organization. In this article, I will explain the modern data stack in detail, list some benefits, and discuss what the future holds.

Data Warehouse 52

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Cloudera

AUGUST 20, 2021

How CDP Enables and Accelerates Data Product Ecosystems. A multi-purpose platform focused on diverse value propositions for data products. As a result, CDP-enabled data products can meet multiple and varying functional and non-functional requirements that correspond to product attributes, each fulfilling specific customer needs.

Strategy 94

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

Moving data to the cloud can bring immense operational benefits. However, the sheer volume and complexity of today’s enterprise data can cause downstream headaches for data users. Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. Visual Profiling.

Metadata 59

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 17, 2023

In this blog, I will cover: What is watsonx.ai? IBM software products are embedding watsonx capabilities across digital labor, IT automation, security, sustainability, and application modernization to help unlock new levels of business value for clients. What capabilities are included in watsonx.ai? What is watsonx.data?

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Among the top benefits of ML, 59% of decision makers cite time savings, 54% cite cost savings, and 42% believe ML enables employees to focus on innovation as opposed to manual tasks. Data practitioners are at the top of the list of employees who are now able to put more focus on innovation. . What are AMPs and why do they help?

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. And so will your data. You know the story well: you have a ton of data and need fast access to the right data. Building an efficient solution for data storage and processing is becoming more than just a back-office or IT challenge. Benefits of a Data Lake.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The tasks behind efficient, responsible AI lifecycle management The continuous application of AI and the ability to benefit from its ongoing use require the persistent management of a dynamic and intricate AI lifecycle—and doing so efficiently and responsibly. But the implementation of AI is only one piece of the puzzle.

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Alation

APRIL 7, 2021

In the newest offering, Alation Cloud Service , Alation delivers the most comprehensive cloud-based data intelligence platform on the market. It provides users with the simplest and fastest way to drive data intelligence across hybrid environments. Enterprises can use the data catalog without any administrative overhead.

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