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How Contextual Data is Driving the Future of Telehealth

TDAN

The expansion of big data applications has created opportunities across economic sectors. In healthcare, however, the potential of big data applications goes far beyond the financial. The contextual data gleaned from big data can drive healthcare solutions and accessibility to new heights.

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Alation 2023.1: Empowering Business Users in Microsoft Office

Alation

For this reason, people often struggle to make vital business decisions as they face a complex data landscape. Metadata is the information about data that gives it meaning and context. It helps to answer basic, yet important questions like: “What does this data mean?”, “Which data is used the most?”, “Where did it come from?”,

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Five benefits of a data catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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What Is Data Literacy?

erwin

Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? Collaborate more effectively with their partners in data (management and governance) for greater efficiency and higher quality outcomes. Good Data = Good Decisions.

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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.

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AI recommendations for descriptions in Amazon DataZone for enhanced business data cataloging and discovery is now generally available

AWS Big Data

Data consumers need detailed descriptions of the business context of a data asset and documentation about its recommended use cases to quickly identify the relevant data for their intended use case. Data consumers have more contextualized data at their fingertips to inform their analysis.

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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

CIO Business Intelligence

In that capacity, he knew that, in addition to having the right team and technical building blocks in place, data was the key to Regeneron’s future success. “It It is all about the data. Everything we do is data-driven, and at that time, we were very datacenter-driven but the technology had lots of limitations” says McCowan. “It

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