Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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Alation

MARCH 28, 2023

With data becoming more prevalent in every industry, organisations have to determine how to not only manage it but also drive value from it. The MoD identify three key issues: firstly, that ‘Defence data operates in contractual, technical and behavioural silos’. Culturally, defence lacks recognition over the importance of data’.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 23, 2024

With in-place version upgrades, upgrading your application runtime version can be achieved simply, statefully, and without incurring data loss or adding additional orchestration to your workload. In the following sections, we share best practices and considerations while upgrading your applications.

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datapine

JUNE 3, 2019

“The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Despite the fact that there’s a wealth of talented job-seekers out there, connecting with the best possible candidates proves to be an exceptional challenge for most of today’s organizations. ” – Bill Gates. According to ManpowerGroup, around 72.8%

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erwin

AUGUST 1, 2023

Intro erwin ® Data Modeler 12.5 It requires many functional elements of an organization to come together in order to reach the ultimate stages of being able to identify, understand and fully leverage the power of its data. erwin Data Modeler 12.5 erwin Data Modeler 12.5 What can you do with erwin Data Modeler 12.5?

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI governance refers to the practice of directing, managing and monitoring an organization’s AI activities. It includes processes that trace and document the origin of data, models and associated metadata and pipelines for audits. But how trustworthy is that training data?

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Alation

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how organizations are pursuing data culture and why most are failing. But using the right tools can help them scale data-driven initiatives. Challenge #1: Ability to Find and Trust Data. Challenge #2: Ability to Meet Governance Requirements at Scale.

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datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data and all data-related artifacts. DataOps practices help organizations overcome challenges caused by fragmented teams and processes and delays in delivering data in consumable forms. So how does data governance relate to DataOps?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A core element of business today is the desire to become a data-driven organization. The key to data-driven success and maturity is data culture, and strong data culture begins with participation. A data catalog can be the catalyst that helps to break through the barrier with collaboration and crowdsourcing.

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Andrew White

APRIL 7, 2023

This was the title of a blog of mine from a couple of years ago: 2018: Won’t See a Massive Productivity Boost From AI – 2019 Might Show It. The last 30 years were challenging economically. Not All Data is Equal Let me explore the Expedia example, and even compare it to what Gartner does in its research business.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The word “data” is ubiquitous in narratives of the modern world. And data, the thing itself, is vital to the functioning of that world. This blog discusses quantifications, types, and implications of data. Quantifications of data. Quantifications of data. So data is big and growing.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This is the last of the 4-part blog series. In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. Meet Governance Requirements.

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datapine

MAY 21, 2019

“BI is about providing the right data at the right time to the right people so that they can take the right decisions” – Nic Smith. Data analytics isn’t just for the Big Guys anymore; it’s accessible to ventures, organizations, and businesses of all shapes, sizes, and sectors. And the success stories are seemingly endless.

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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. Understanding the Adoption Challenges. Figure 1 – Data Catalog Implementation. See figure 1.)

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The “data textile” wars continue! In our first blog in this series , we define the terms data fabric and data mesh. The second blog took a deeper dive into data fabric, examining its key pillars and the role of the data catalog in each. Data as a product. But why is such an inversion needed?

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TIBCO

MARCH 22, 2021

This year, embrace the spirit of spring at the TIBCO Analytics Forum (TAF) 2021 by learning about new analytics and data management technologies and approaches and how to foster growth in the coming years. And get a head start on upping your analytics knowledge by exploring the TIBCO Community Blog and Spotfire demo gallery.

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datapine

JULY 1, 2020

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, HP. Digital data is all around us. quintillion bytes of data every single day, with 90% of the world’s digital insights generated in the last two years alone, according to Forbes.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Effective data governance must extend beyond the IT organization.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Data Governance is growing essential. Data growth, shrinking talent pool, data silos – legacy & modern, hybrid & cloud, and multiple tools – add to their challenges. Hence, they are pursuing cloud transformation to help manage growth in data and cost. Protecting sensitive data is hard to scale.

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datapine

MARCH 18, 2020

What time is best to connect with them? A social media report offers a means of extracting value from data based on various social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) In the digital age, shooting in the dark and hoping for the best just won’t do. But how do you know where to target your audience?

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

Big data plays a crucial role in online data analysis , business information, and intelligent reporting. Companies must adjust to the ambiguity of data, and act accordingly. It provides the possibility to create smart reports with the help of modern BI reporting tools , and develop a comprehensive intelligent reporting practice.

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datapine

AUGUST 20, 2019

Businesses are going through a major change where business operations are becoming predominantly data-intensive. quintillions of bytes of data are being created each day. This pace suggests that 90% of the data in the world is generated over the past two years alone. Data has grown not only in terms of size but also variety.

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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. Business leaders already know about the importance of building a data culture in their organisation, and many have long since embarked on that journey.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this blog, I will demonstrate the value of Cloudera DataFlow (CDF) , the edge-to-cloud streaming data platform available on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) , as a Data integration and Democratization fabric. Introduction to the Data Mesh Architecture and its Required Capabilities. Introduction.

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Alation

JUNE 24, 2022

Last week the Alation team joined data leaders from all over the world for Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas. With over 10,000 people in attendance, it was truly an event for the entire data community. Attendees were focused on one key question: how can we put data into action and make it accessible to everyone? Let’s dive in!

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AWS Big Data

MAY 4, 2023

In this post, we share how Encored runs data engineering pipelines for containerized ML applications on AWS and how they use AWS Lambda to achieve performance improvement, cost reduction, and operational efficiency. It allows for efficient data storage and transmission, as well as easy manipulation of the data using specialized software.

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

How do businesses transform raw data into competitive insights? Data analytics. As an organization embraces digital transformation , more data is available to inform decisions. To use that data, decision-makers across the company will need to have access. It can also help prevent data misuse. Value and Challenges.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.” These questions are: Who is using what data?

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

For enterprise organizations, managing and operationalizing increasingly complex data across the business has presented a significant challenge for staying competitive in analytic and data science driven markets. CDP data lifecycle integration and SDX security and governance.

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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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Alation

JULY 30, 2021

6 Business Problems Data Catalogs Solve. The question I ask now is: What business problems does a data catalog solve for business customers? 1: Biz Problem – Making Data Accessible & Scalable in the Cloud. CIOs and CDOs are under the gun to deliver results faster, and this includes enabling a data-driven culture.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 23, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Ori Nakar from Imperva. Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. As part of their solution, they are using Amazon QuickSight to unlock insights from their data.

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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. This is challenging because access to data is managed differently by each of the tools.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, modern travel and tourism thrive on data. For example, airlines have historically applied analytics to revenue management, while successful hospitality leaders make data-driven decisions around property allocation and workforce management. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry?

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