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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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Benefits of Data Dictionary Tools for Enterprise Metadata Management

Octopai

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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What Role Does Data Mining Play for Business Intelligence?

Jet Global

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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Visualize Amazon DynamoDB insights in Amazon QuickSight using the Amazon Athena DynamoDB connector and AWS Glue

AWS Big Data

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. To create an S3 bucket, refer to Creating a bucket.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

The zero-copy pattern helps customers map the data from external platforms into the Salesforce metadata model, providing a virtual object definition for that object. “It When released, this will extend zero-copy data access to any open data lake or lakehouse that stores data in Iceberg or can provide Iceberg metadata for its table.

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Metadata is Like Body Language

TDAN

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). The words you speak are a small fraction of communication. Think of it this way. When you […].

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How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

AWS Big Data

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.