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. Steve needed a robust and automated metadata management solution as part of his organization’s data governance strategy. Metadata in data governance.

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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. Donna Burbank.

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TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A robust data governance policy ensures compliance and security and improves the quality of Business […] Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations, and as such, it must be carefully managed and protected.

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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.

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Octopai

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data catalog tools that utilize automation will routinely review all metadata within your BI landscape and update your data catalog accordingly. We hope that this detailed guide can smooth the path to selecting the right data catalog software for your business intelligence. Making Smart Choices.

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Jet Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Data drives everything in the business world, from manufacturing to supply chain logistics to retail sales to customer experience to post-sale marketing and beyond, data holds the secrets to making processes more efficient, production costs cheaper, profit margins higher and marketing campaigns more effective. READ BLOG POST.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Like any good puzzle, metadata management comes with a lot of complex variables. That’s why you need to use data dictionary tools, which can help organize your metadata into an archive that can be navigated with ease and from which you can derive good information to power informed decision-making. Download Now.

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Octopai

JULY 15, 2020

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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Octopai

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Business Intelligence & Analytics: It’s a hard knock life for these guys. This is why a data lineage tool, namely an automated data lineage tool, is king for Business Intelligence teams. . Business Intelligence + data lineage helps companies win . The job description sounds great, right?

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Octopai

MAY 13, 2019

These processes often rely on humans performing manual discovery and documentation tasks for: – Metadata management – ETL specifications – Report definitions – Reporting errors – Changes to calculations …and many other aspects of the data environment. That something has to do with metadata management.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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.

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Octopai

AUGUST 8, 2023

Battle Creek, Michigan — July 18, 2023 — Octopai, a global leader in data lineage and business intelligence automation, and Demand Chain AI, a pioneer in AI-driven demand forecasting and supply chain optimization, have today announced a strategic partnership.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

Organizations with particularly deep data stores might need a data catalog with advanced capabilities, such as automated metadata harvesting to speed up the data preparation process. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. The metadata provides information about the asset that makes it easier to locate, understand and evaluate.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Amazon S3 allows you to access diverse data sets, build business intelligence dashboards, and accelerate the consumption of data by adopting a modern data architecture or data mesh pattern on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this method, the metadata are recreated in an isolated environment and colocated with the existing data files.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The Nonverbal Dilemma Nonverbal communication is composed of body gestures and vocal inflections. The words you speak are a small fraction of communication. In a 1971 book titled, “Silent Messages,” by Albert Mehrabian, the combination of non-verbal and spoken words is referred to as the 7%-38%-55% rule (source). Think of it this way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

The company said that IDMC for Financial Services has built-in metadata scanners that can help extract lineage, technical, business, operational, and usage metadata from over 50,000 systems (including data warehouses and data lakes) and applications including business intelligence, data science, CRM, and ERP software.

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Octopai

MARCH 31, 2021

Look for the Metadata. This metadata (read: data about your data) is key to tracking your data. In other words, kind of like Hansel and Gretel in the forest, your data leaves a trail of breadcrumbs – the metadata – to record where it came from and who it really is. Let’s Get Mapping.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

That’s because it’s the best way to visualize metadata , and metadata is now the heart of enterprise data management and data governance/ intelligence efforts. Data modeling captures how the business uses data and provides context to the data source. So here’s why data modeling is so critical to data governance.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These include internet-scale web and mobile applications, low-latency metadata stores, high-traffic retail websites, Internet of Things (IoT) and time series data, online gaming, and more. Data stored in DynamoDB is the basis for valuable business intelligence (BI) insights. You don’t need to write any code. Choose Next.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

Programs must support proactive and reactive change management activities for reference data values and the structure/use of master data and metadata. erwin Data Intelligence (DI) for Data Governance erwin DI combines data catalog and data literacy capabilities to provide awareness of and access to available data assets.

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Octopai

MAY 31, 2022

Business intelligence is the primary place where your data becomes an asset. But the data needs to be managed so that it can be leveraged as an asset, driving your business forward and creating positive ROI. Bonus tool: active metadata management. If you want your data to be a business asset, treat it like one.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 26, 2023

Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more. This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron.

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 29, 2019

In other words, could we see a roadmap for transitioning from legacy cases (perhaps some business intelligence) toward data science practices, and from there into the tooling required for more substantial AI adoption? On the other hand, we wanted to measure the sophistication of their use of these components.

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Octopai

JANUARY 19, 2020

Metadata Management is the Key to Successful Data Governance Learn more in the webinar, "Metadata Management Automation for the Governance Minded" Watch the Webinar! BCBS 239 and Automated Metadata Management Tools. You may recognize the common thread running through all of these principles: Metadata.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

These tools range from enterprise service bus (ESB) products, data integration tools; extract, transform and load (ETL) tools, procedural code, application program interfaces (APIs), file transfer protocol (FTP) processes, and even business intelligence (BI) reports that further aggregate and transform data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Additionally, if any user makes changes to the information, the metadata should be configured to identify the user or computer resource that made those changes. This label or identifier should be able to identify the intermediary’s computer resource that has been used to create, generate, or modify such information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

Through data governance practices, such as accurately labeled metadata and trusted parameters for ownership, definitions, calculations, and use, organizations can ensure they are able to organize and maintain their data in a way that can be useable for AI initiatives.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The product collected an impressive amount of metadata, from the user interface to the database structure. It then translated all that metadata into an image resembling a spider’s web. Data warehouses obfuscate data’s origin In 2013, I was a Business Intelligence Engineer at a financial services company.

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Octopai

APRIL 16, 2020

Businesses around the globe have been forced to reassess the way they conduct their operations, even if their methods have been in place for decades. Some business intelligence professionals are not only contributing to their organization’s survival during these difficult times; they are actually helping it thrive.

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Octopai

MARCH 24, 2020

Business Intelligence has a lot depending on it. But, with the amount of time it takes for BI to deliver and the amount of manual data mapping and tracing required to enable accurate delivery, you have to question if maybe BI could be made more intelligent. So, what is BI Intelligence you ask? Business Glossary.

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erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

Often these enterprises are heavily regulated, so they need a well-defined data integration model that helps avoid data discrepancies and removes barriers to enterprise business intelligence and other meaningful use. Governing metadata. Data lineage, impact analysis and business rules repositories.

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Octopai

MAY 13, 2020

Talent retention isn’t the only result of good onboarding, especially in the complex world of business intelligence. Automated metadata management tools are key to putting these tools at new employees’ fingertips. The advantages of Octopai’s automated metadata onboarding and process improvement tools don’t stop at orientation.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While some businesses suffer from “data translation” issues, others are lacking in discovery methods and still do metadata discovery manually. The solution is a comprehensive automated metadata platform. Data lineage is incomplete without the business layer provided by an Automated Business Glossary.

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TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

Is adoption by the business an issue for you? Data Governance occurs best when done in conjunction with the business processes and not as a “bolt on”/additional activity. Many organizations have attempted to implement Data Governance and their business glossary with a very limited […].

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. Bringing data to the business and making it easy to access and understand increases the value of data assets, providing a return-on-investment and a return-on-opportunity. SQL or NoSQL? The Advantages of NoSQL Data Modeling.

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