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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

Rigid requirements to ensure the accuracy of data and veracity of scientific formulas as well as machine learning algorithms and data tools are common in modern laboratories. When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5

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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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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

Alation

It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise.