erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. IDC Technology Spotlight, Data Intelligence in Context: Get the report (… it’s free). Can the 80/20 Rule Be Reversed? Click here to take the brief survey.

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Metadata Data Governance Management Cost-Benefit 102

Octopai

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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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Octopai

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Machine learning also plays a role in automated enterprise metadata management. In this article, we’re going to examine the relationship between machine learning and metadata management, how machine learning improves the quality of Business Intelligence (BI), and the ways in which you can apply these learnings to your own organization.

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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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Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

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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Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

One vehicle might be an annual report, one similar to those that have been published for years by public companies—10ks and 10qs and all those other filings by which stakeholders judge a company’s performance, posture, and potential. Such a report has a legacy already, if only a short one. And don’t just rattle off project metadata.

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Octopai

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As you may have experienced, one of the many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is that on-premises metadata management may no longer be a feasible way to connect BI teams. Further, although key stakeholders may be physically away from the workplace, they still need to access metadata information to produce reports.

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Metadata Management Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 52

Octopai

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you’re in the market for a data catalog, you likely have at least one tool each for your ETL, database, analysis, and analytics/reporting functions. An automated data catalog solution will automatically extract the data assets from across the different software in your BI landscape, including ETLs, databases, and reporting tools.

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Business Intelligence Software Cost-Benefit Metadata 84

Octopai

MARCH 16, 2020

Access all your business intelligence processes and information from wherever you are, on a single centralized cloud metadata platform. Well before this coronavirus pandemic, zero-touch or remote work had already been revolutionizing the way businesses operate.

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Business Intelligence Metadata Data Processing Reporting 52

Jet Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Business intelligence (BI) software can help by combining online analytical processing (OLAP), location intelligence, enterprise reporting, and more. So how does a leading-edge business find a way to marry their wealth of data with the opportunity to utilize it effectively via BI software?

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Data mining Business Intelligence OLAP Key Performance Indicator 75

Octopai

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Data is processing, information is moving through various systems, and reports are generating valuable insights for the decision-makers down the line. Then a BI reporting nightmare crops up – a significant mistake has been discovered in a data field. Further, 50% reported that manual error detection could take months.

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Reporting Metadata Uncertainty Business Intelligence 85

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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Metadata Enterprise Management Data Warehouse 54

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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Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Dashboards Reporting 52

Octopai

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As 2019 ends, business intelligence specialists around the world are working to gather as much data as possible from the past year to prepare end-of-year reports. But how can you do that when your data is scattered throughout multiple BI systems such as ETL tools, databases and reporting tools? EOY Reporting Use Case.

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Reporting Metadata Business Intelligence Management 54

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. Metadata Management Automation.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

These include the basics, such as metadata creation and management, data provenance, data lineage, and other essentials. They’re still struggling with the basics: tagging and labeling data, creating (and managing) metadata, managing unstructured data, etc. They don’t have the resources they need to clean up data quality problems.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

AWS offers services such as Amazon QuickSight, a serverless business intelligence (BI) service that lets you centralize this view and even ask natural language questions of your data, using Amazon QuickSight Q. We parse this data to check for jobs that have succeeded, stopped, or failed in the past hour, as well as any streaming jobs.

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Metrics Dashboards Metadata Visualization 91

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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Metadata Cost-Benefit Measurement Data-driven 132

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Modernizing and optimizing enterprise reporting – or classical BI – has not been such a priority for many of today’s organizations, even though it constitutes the backbone of information supply for decision support. Technological innovations and their increasing proliferation are shaping enterprise reporting and BI.

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Reporting Optimization Enterprise Data Quality 59

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Datasets used for generating insights are curated using materialized views inside the database and published for business intelligence (BI) reporting. The second streaming data source constitutes metadata information about the call center organization and agents that gets refreshed throughout the day.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

So a strong business intelligence (BI) strategy can help organize the flow and ensure business users have access to actionable business insights. “By BI software helps companies do just that by shepherding the right data into analytical reports and visualizations so that users can make informed decisions.

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IT Business Intelligence Sales Key Performance Indicator 130

Alation

JUNE 16, 2021

“In rating the data catalog vendors, we considered all data catalog, collaborative, and governance features as reported by vendors and weighted by users. The report shows vendors with the strongest (or most complete) capabilities. business intelligence) solution. Key Takeaways. Other key findings include….

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Reporting Business Intelligence Data Governance Metadata 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

We have cataloging inside Datasphere: It allows you to catalog, manage metadata, all the SAP data assets we’re seeing,” said JG Chirapurath, chief marketing and solutions officer for SAP. “We We are also seeing customers bringing in other data assets from other apps or data sources.

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Unstructured Data Dashboards Business Intelligence Data Governance 117

O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 29, 2019

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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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. Data Lineage by Parsing.

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Metadata Data Transformation Business Intelligence Reporting 130

Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

Data as a product as well as a foundation The data foundation is critical for all types of reporting and analytics. SAP Datasphere helps eliminate hidden data debt within organizations, enabling customers to build a business data fabric architecture that quickly delivers meaningful data with business context and logic intact.

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Metadata Data Warehouse Data Integration Business Intelligence 121

erwin

MAY 27, 2020

What, then, should users look for in a data modeling product to support their governance/intelligence requirements in the data-driven enterprise? Provide metadata and schema visualization regardless of where data is stored. Have a process and mechanism to capture, document and integrate business and semantic metadata for data sources.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The delays impact delivery of the reports to senior management, who are responsible for making business decisions based on the dashboard. All the code, Talend job, and the BI report are version controlled using Git. Based on business rules, additional data quality tests check the dimensional model after the ETL job completes.

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Testing Metadata Dashboards Statistics 152

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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Data Governance Modeling Metadata Unstructured Data 144

Octopai

JANUARY 19, 2020

BCBS 239 is a document published by that committee entitled, Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting. The document, first published in 2013, outlines best practices for global and domestic banks to identify, manage, and report risks, including credit, market, liquidity, and operational risks.

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Metadata Risk Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 61

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bridging the Gap: How ‘Data in Place’ and ‘Data in Use’ Define Complete Data Observability In a world where 97% of data engineers report burnout and crisis mode seems to be the default setting for data teams, a Zen-like calm feels like an unattainable dream. What is Data in Use?

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Testing Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metrics 169

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. In contrast, data management for BI is asset management.

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Management Metadata Business Intelligence ROI 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2019, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) released a report based on a series of interviews with scientists that made it clear those scientists needed a centralized search capability to help them find the data they needed. Her team spent about a year trying to understand the information landscape, the data, and the metadata schemas.

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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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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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Octopai

AUGUST 19, 2020

Businesses across the globe have been forced to adapt their business models, technologies, and strategies to address the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Business intelligence (BI) is no exception. This ensures that business can continue as usual – even during a pandemic.

Metadata 98

Metadata Digital Transformation Management Business Intelligence 98

Octopai

MAY 18, 2020

The finance team is behind on the year-end accounting, and it’s shutting the window you have to generate business review materials. Finally, the accounting close is completed and the data is loaded to the data warehouse from which you generate the reports. An hour before the business review, you pick the one with the higher amount.

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