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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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Top 10 Metadata Management Influencers, Sites, and Blogs You Must Follow in 2021

Octopai

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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Informatica’s new data management clouds target health, finance services

CIO Business Intelligence

The new, industry-targeted data management platforms — Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Health and Life Sciences and the Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Financial Services — were announced at the company’s Informatica World conference Tuesday.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data.

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The state of data quality in 2020

O'Reilly on Data

We suspected that data quality was a topic brimming with interest. The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality. Data quality might get worse before it gets better.

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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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What is a Data Mesh?

DataKitchen

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt.