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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Metadata Management, Data Governance and Automation

erwin

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. They need their data mappings to fall under governance and audit controls, with instant access to dynamic impact analysis and data lineage.

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The Missing Link in Enterprise Data Governance: Metadata

Octopai

Steve, the Head of Business Intelligence at a leading insurance company, pushed back in his office chair and stood up, waving his fists at the screen. We’re dealing with data day in and day out, but if isn’t accurate then it’s all for nothing!” Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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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.

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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.

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Migrate an existing data lake to a transactional data lake using Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Over the years, data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) have become the default repository for enterprise data and are a common choice for a large set of users who query data for a variety of analytics and machine leaning use cases. Analytics use cases on data lakes are always evolving.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data. Programs must support proactive and reactive change management activities for reference data values and the structure/use of master data and metadata.