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The importance of data ingestion and integration for enterprise AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Companies still often accept the risk of using internal data when exploring large language models (LLMs) because this contextual data is what enables LLMs to change from general-purpose to domain-specific knowledge. In the generative AI or traditional AI development cycle, data ingestion serves as the entry point.

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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

Alation

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.