Octopai

JUNE 26, 2020

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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Metadata Data Governance Enterprise Reporting 84

Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

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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Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

Strategy 90

Strategy Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Reporting 90

erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Data Management Association (DAMA) International defines it as the “planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources.” Such a framework provides your organization with a holistic approach to collecting, managing, securing, and storing data.

Data Governance 142

Data Governance Management Metadata Data Quality 142

O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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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Octopai

MAY 31, 2022

If your data management enables you to breathe a sigh of relief (as opposed to jumping for joy), that’s a good sign that it’s managing data as a liability. In contrast, data management for BI is asset management. Business intelligence is the primary place where your data becomes an asset.

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Management Metadata Business Intelligence ROI 52

TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past few months, my team in Castlebridge and I have been working with clients delivering training to business and IT teams on data management skills like data governance, data quality management, data modelling, and metadata management.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Management 52

Octopai

JANUARY 31, 2021

Data lineage is an essential tool that among other benefits, can transform insights, help BI teams understand the root cause of an issue, as well as help achieve and maintain compliance. Through the use of data lineage, companies can better understand their data and its journey. Agile Data. TDWI – Philip Russom.

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Data Governance Data Processing Data Quality Metadata 57

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Despite soundings on this from leading thinkers such as Andrew Ng , the AI community remains largely oblivious to the important data management capabilities, practices, and – importantly – the tools that ensure the success of AI development and deployment. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance IT Risk Data Lake 145

Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Metrics 98

Ontotext

JULY 6, 2023

This shift of both a technical and an outcome mindset allows them to establish a centralized metadata hub for their data assets and effortlessly access information from diverse systems that previously had limited interaction. There are four groups of data that are naturally siloed: Structured data (e.g.,

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Metadata Experimentation Risk 52

Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data is a key asset for businesses in the modern world. Used correctly, it can improve internal operations, power marketing strategies, and much more. That’s why many organizations invest in technology to improve data processes, such as a machine learning data pipeline. This is why data also needs to be compliant.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Strategy Data Quality Marketing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2022

. • You have data but don’t use it. Why does valuable data so often go unused? Lack of annotation with the right metadata is a contributing factor. Another is poor communication between projects or business units. An even larger issue is that people may not know how to see value in data. Reducing data waste.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Machine Learning Metadata Data Quality 52

TDAN

MARCH 17, 2020

Business has a fundamental problem with data quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s nearly catastrophic. Why is the problem so pervasive? Why does it never seem to get fixed? I believe we’ve been thinking about the problem wrong. It’s time for a fresh look.

Data Quality 59

Data Quality Data Architecture IT Metadata 59

AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog. Second, the data producer needs to consolidate the data asset’s metadata in the business catalog and enrich it with business metadata.

Metadata 77

Metadata Data Lake Data Processing Data-driven 77

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These layers help teams delineate different stages of data processing, storage, and access, offering a structured approach to data management. In the context of Data in Place, validating data quality automatically with Business Domain Tests is imperative for ensuring the trustworthiness of your data assets.

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Testing Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metrics 169

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 29, 2018

My role encompasses being the business driver for the data platform that we are rolling out across the organisation and its success in terms of the data going onto the platform and the curation of that data in a governed state, depending on the consumer requirements.

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Data-driven Cost-Benefit Metadata Technology 61

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day, organizations of every description are deluged with data from a variety of sources, and attempting to make sense of it all can be overwhelming. So a strong business intelligence (BI) strategy can help organize the flow and ensure business users have access to actionable business insights. “By

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IT Business Intelligence Sales Key Performance Indicator 131

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The course is intended as an introductory guide that covers the tools, methods, strategies, and processes of MDM. The Art of Service says professionals with this certification can help businesses reduce operational costs by implementing an effective data management strategy. for 180 days access.

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Management Data Governance Cost-Benefit Testing 115

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Birgit Fridrich, who joined Allianz as sustainability manager responsible for ESG reporting in late 2022, spends many hours validating data in the company’s Microsoft Sustainability Manager tool. Data quality is key, but if we’re doing it manually there’s the potential for mistakes.

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Reporting Data Quality Strategy Data-driven 110

TDAN

JUNE 21, 2022

Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].

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Publishing Data Quality Data Architecture IT 78

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Data is processed to generate information, which can be later used for creating better business strategies and increasing the company’s competitive edge. It’s obvious that you’ll want to use big data, but it’s not so obvious how you’re going to work with it. Preserve information: Keep your raw data raw.

Metadata 98

Metadata Visualization Unstructured Data Data mining 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

They conveniently store data in a flat architecture that can be queried in aggregate and offer the speed and lower cost required for big data analytics. On the other hand, they don’t support transactions or enforce data quality. Each ETL step risks introducing failures or bugs that reduce data quality. .

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Data Lake Unstructured Data Data Warehouse Data Quality 112

TDAN

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.[1] 1] Introduction Opportunity While most people don’t think about it very often, common language is essential to day-in, day-out commerce.

Data Quality 83

Data Quality IT Metadata Data Strategy 83

Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data lakes also support the growing thirst for analysis by data scientists and data analysts, as well as the critical role of data governance. But setting up a data lake takes a thoughtful approach to ensure it’s positioned to prevent it from becoming a data swamp. Lack of metadata. Ungoverned data.

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Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Governance 52

TDAN

MARCH 3, 2020

This is surely the case with the “new” products that call themselves data catalogs. But before talking about the rise of the data catalog, I will take […]. If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas come and go—and sometimes even come back again.

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Technology Data Quality IT Metadata 78

Alation

MAY 31, 2023

American Family Insurance: Governance by Design – Not as an Afterthought Who: Anil Kumar Kunden , Information Standards, Governance and Quality Specialist at AmFam Group When: Wednesday, June 7, at 2:45 PM Why attend: Learn how to automate and accelerate data pipeline creation and maintenance with data governance, AKA metadata normalization.

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Data Governance Insurance Metadata Data-driven 52

TDAN

APRIL 16, 2019

The secret lies with Data Governance. The Chief Data Officer (or whoever the Data Czar is at your organization) needs to get past, and I mean way past, the “Why is Data Governance important?” or “Why do we need Data Governance?” questions if they are ever going to be successful czar-ing the data.

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Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Data Strategy 84

TDAN

JANUARY 14, 2020

The stories you hear on the news often mention how this person or that person was battling their demons. Alcoholism, drug addiction, compulsive behaviors like gambling … Demons take many forms. Demons almost never result in good things happening. The word “demon” does not describe something that inspires you to do something good – and […].

Data Quality 64

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Data Strategy 64

TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To operate an efficient and effective program and hold people formally accountable for doing the “right” thing at the “right” time, it requires the definition and deployment of roles that are appropriate for the culture of the organization.

Data Governance 79

Data Governance Data Quality IT Metadata 79

TDAN

JULY 2, 2019

The third and final part of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework details the breakdown of components by level, providing considerations for what must be included at the intersections. The squares are completed with nouns and verbs that provide direction for meaningful discussions about how the program will be set up and operate.

Data Governance 74

Data Governance Data Quality Data Architecture Metadata 74

Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

As an industry with tight margins, travel and tourism companies can use analytics to detect trends that help them reduce costs, decide future product and service offerings, and develop successful business strategies. What are common data challenges for the travel industry?

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Data-driven Big Data 52

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Businesses face significant hurdles when preparing data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The existence of data silos and duplication, alongside apprehensions regarding data quality, presents a multifaceted environment for organizations to manage.

Cost-Benefit 80

Cost-Benefit Metadata Optimization Management 80

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Data culture eats data strategy for breakfast” has become a popular saying among data and analytics managers and executives. Even the best data strategy cannot fulfill its potential if the data culture in the company does not match it. These include tools for metadata management (e.g.,

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Strategy Strategy 52

TDAN

MAY 14, 2019

To own data or not to own data, that is the question. This question comes up often when I am speaking with clients or groups of people during my Data Governance webinars and conference presentations. To the disgust of some (there are some that choke every time the term “data owner” is used) using the […].

Data Governance 51

Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Data Strategy 51

TDAN

JULY 16, 2019

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply put structure around how your organization governs your data without throwing a lot of money and resources at the problem? It’s all in the data. The truth is you can.

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