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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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What is Metadata Management?

Octopai

Modern data processing depends on metadata management to power enhanced business intelligence. Metadata is of course the information about the data, and the process of managing it is mysterious to those not trained in advanced BI. In this article, you will learn: What does metadata management do?

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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. Donna Burbank. IRM UK Connects.

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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. Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Health and Life Sciences.

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How Automation is Changing the Face of Business Intelligence: An Interview with Octopai’s CEO

Octopai

The interesting thing about Octopai is that the data management and business intelligence world has reached such great complexity that automation evolved from “a nice to have” to a “must have.” I believe that metadata automation improves the organization, thereby improving each individual employee. The next ten years?

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How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives

O'Reilly on Data

In 2017, we published “ How Companies Are Putting AI to Work Through Deep Learning ,” a report based on a survey we ran aiming to help leaders better understand how organizations are applying AI through deep learning. We found companies were planning to use deep learning over the next 12-18 months.

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Collibra Brings Effective Data Governance to Line-of-Business

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Collibra is a data governance software company that offers tools for metadata management and data cataloging. Line-of-business workers can use it to create, review and update the organization's policies on different data assets. The software enables organizations to find data quickly, identify its source and assure its integrity.