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Alation 2023.1: Empowering Business Users in Microsoft Office

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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?”

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What Is Data Literacy?

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It allows both IT and business users to discover the data available to them and understand what it means in common, standardized terms, and automates common data curation processes, such as name matching, categorization and association, to optimize governance of the data pipeline including preparation processes.

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Five benefits of a data catalog

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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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How to Build a Successful Metadata Management Framework

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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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If Curiosity Cabinets Were Knowledge Graphs

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Knowledge graph technology can walk us out of the lack of context (which is basically absence of proper interlinking) and towards enriching digital representation of collection with semantic data and further interlinking it into a meaningful constellation of items.

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Why Icon Ventures Invested in Alation

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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.