Alation

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Digital transformation or a change in a company’s mindset to embrace data is an important step towards becoming a truly data intelligent and more efficient business. And a data catalog is an important part of this. Good news: You don’t need any prerequisites to implement Alation Data Catalog.

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Cloudera

MARCH 22, 2023

Over the past handful of years, systems architecture has evolved from monolithic approaches to applications and platforms that leverage containers, schedulers, lambda functions, and more across heterogeneous infrastructures. And, crucial for a hybrid data platform, it does so across hybrid cloud. as they use CDP.

Metrics 85

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 8, 2024

As a result, organizations that become more event-driven are able to better differentiate themselves from competitors and ultimately impact their top and bottom lines. They often use Apache Kafka as an open technology and the de facto standard for accessing events from a various core systems and applications.

Data-driven 81

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Alation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The product collected an impressive amount of metadata, from the user interface to the database structure. That was my earliest taste of data lineage. It was a telling introduction, as the complexity of interpreting the captured metadata posed an obstacle too vast for most people to overcome, lessening the product’s value.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Warehouse Visualization Data Quality 52

Alation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

From podcast planning to email sequencing and public sector messaging, it was the perfect chance to continue my journey along the B2B trail. I wrote blog posts, but my mentors also encouraged me to study the performance analytics to inform the direction of future blog content. 3 Key Takeaways from the Alation Internship Program.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this day and age, regardless of industry, keeping data protected and its uses understood is vital. No business wants to have the PR nightmare of a data leak or personal data being used without the correct permissions. This is where successful data governance programs can act as a savior to many organizations.

Data Governance 52

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erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 2, 2023

Existing systems simply are not able to provide the capabilities needed to realize this family-centered approach of service delivery and need to be modernized, immediately. improved document management capabilities, web portals, mobile applications, data warehouses, enhanced location services, etc.)

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Cloudera

JANUARY 13, 2021

Read the first blog here. Using Catalogs. I used the same exact catalog in order to load the table. . from pyspark.sql import SparkSession. options( catalog =tableCatalog). .option( For example, if you only needed “key” and “empName” columns of the ‘tblEmployee’ table, then you can create a catalog below.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Data Science Modeling IT 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For the third consecutive year, Alation has been named the top-ranked data catalog in the Dresner Advisory Services Wisdom of the Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study. In their Wisdom of Crowds® Data Catalog Market Study, Dresner assessed data catalog solutions from the perspective of business intelligence (BI).

Business Intelligence 52

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erwin

MAY 18, 2022

Last week, Quest released erwin Data Intelligence by Quest version 12.0, a pivotal release for erwin Data Intelligence customers. Industry analysts, data domain field experts and erwin Data Intelligence customer advisory board members have all shown positive early reactions to its new capabilities in several key areas.

Data Quality 52

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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%.

Enterprise 52

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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

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 1, 2023

Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink is a fully managed service that enables you to use an Apache Flink application to process streaming data.

Deep Learning 61

Deep Learning Data Analytics Analytics Machine Learning 61

Cloudera

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Apache Impala is a massively parallel in-memory SQL engine supported by Cloudera designed for Analytics and ad hoc queries against data stored in Apache Hive, Apache HBase and Apache Kudu tables. This blog post will endeavour to: Explain Impala’s admission control mechanism; . Introduction.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

However, as the data warehousing world shifts into a fast-paced, digital, and agile era, the demands to quickly generate reports and help guide data-driven decisions are constantly increasing. Consider the following: More data types to be queried, but increasingly the data resides in separate silos.

Data Warehouse 53

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This week I was talking to a data practitioner at a global systems integrator. The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality.

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Cloudera

JULY 13, 2023

Several compute engines such as Impala, Hive, Spark, and Trino have supported querying data in Iceberg table format by adopting this Java Library provided by the Apache Iceberg project. Different query engines such as Impala, Hive, and Spark can immediately benefit from using Apache Iceberg Java Library.

Metadata 70

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Alation

APRIL 6, 2023

Data governance is traditionally applied to structured data assets that are most often found in databases and information systems. This blog focuses on governing spreadsheets that contain data, information, and metadata, and must themselves be governed. a spreadsheet. It’s easy to see why these errors occur.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Metadata Cost-Benefit Structured Data 52

AWS Big Data

MAY 24, 2023

When you build your transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg to solve your functional use cases, you need to focus on operational use cases for your S3 data lake to optimize the production environment. Amazon S3 uses object tagging to categorize storage where each tag is a key-value pair. When the catalog property s3.delete-enabled

Data Lake 80

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Alation

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Modern data users face an explosion of data sources and tools – and working across a broad range of tools presents unique challenges. It’s tough to keep track of what data is available, and even harder to know what that data means or how to use it. Users can also watch or save Alation objects directly from Slack.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Dashboards Sales 52

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.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Enterprise Metadata Cost-Benefit 52

Alation

APRIL 11, 2023

Image Sourced from verint.com What’s worse, negative customer experience can do real damage to your brand. And one crucial way to improve your CX is through data. Collating this information gives you solid insight from which to improve as a business. For businesses, creating a positive customer experience is crucial.

Sales 52

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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.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data practitioners are at the top of the list of employees who are now able to put more focus on innovation. . Cloudera has seen a lot of opportunity to extend even more time saving benefits specifically to data scientists with the debut of Applied Machine Learning Prototypes (AMPs). What are AMPs and why do they help?

Machine Learning 76

Machine Learning Deep Learning Cost-Benefit Forecasting 76

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I loved the I'm a PC ads from Microsoft (and I am a proud PC!). I loved the Wario Land: Shake It ad from Nintendo on YouTube (now that's creative!). They will come, they will be wowed by our glory, they will immediately convert." Outcome #2: To share your business value proposition. A fairly low bar.

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Measurement Metrics Analytics Marketing 128

Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Leaders in healthcare seek to improve patient outcomes, meet changing business models (including value-based care ), and ensure compliance while creating better experiences. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Measurement Modeling Metrics 52

Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

Do you need faster time to value? Does your organization’s success depend on immediate delivery of new reports, applications, or projects? While cloud-native, point-solution data warehouse services may serve your immediate business needs, there are dangers to the corporation as a whole when you do your own IT this way.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Data Warehouse IT Analytics 93

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Data sharing is becoming an important element of an enterprise data strategy. AWS services like AWS Data Exchange provide an avenue for companies to share or monetize their value-added data with other companies. They also need to ensure that data is of high quality.

Enterprise 82

Enterprise Publishing Data Lake Management 82

DataRobot Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Working from datasets you already have, a Time Series Forecasting model can help you better understand seasonality and cyclical behavior and make future-facing decisions, such as reducing inventory or staff planning. Let’s run through the process and see exactly how you can go from data to predictions.

Forecasting 81

Forecasting Modeling ROI Machine Learning 81

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This is part of our series of blog posts on recent enhancements to Impala. Apache Impala is synonymous with high-performance processing of extremely large datasets, but what if our data isn’t huge? It turns out that Apache Impala scales down with data just as well as it scales up. The entire collection is available here.

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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. Meanwhile, data scientists and analysts need access to data.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Insurance Risk Data-driven 52

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The impact on the data side of the ecosystem is that massive amounts of data is being generated and much of what goes for measurement in "social media tools" is profoundly sub optimal (I'm being polite). We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?) Google Plus.

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Metrics Measurement Advertising Key Performance Indicator 165

Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

Included in the post are recommendations for measurement and data analysis. Multi-Channel Attribution, Online to Store: This is the attempt by Marketers and Analysts to try and understand the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. This is going to be a lot of fun.

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Modeling Advertising Marketing Measurement 152

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With TrustCheck, data analysts see color-coded visual cues whenever they use a questionable source, right in their natural workflow in real-time, whether they’re working in Alation Compose, in Tableau or in SalesForce Einstein Analytics. Alation’s TrustCheck technology enables a new and modern approach to agile data governance.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Data-driven Visualization Data Quality 52

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

This is a guest blog post co-written with Zack Rossman from Alcion. Alcion, a security-first, AI-driven backup-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, helps Microsoft 365 administrators quickly and intuitively protect data from cyber threats and accidental data loss.

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