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RDF-Star: Metadata Complexity Simplified

Ontotext

And yeah, the real-world relationships among the entities represented in the data had to be fudged a bit to fit in the counterintuitive model of tabular data, but, in trade, you get reliability and speed. Ironically, relational databases only imply relationships between data points by whatever row or column they exist in.

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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Overcome these six data consumption challenges for a more data-driven enterprise

IBM Big Data Hub

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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A Look Back at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit

Cloudera

All of that technology, though, depends on data to be successful. In those discussions, it was clear that everyone understood the need to treat data estates more cohesively as a whole—that means bringing more attention to security, data governance, and metadata management, the latter of which has become increasingly popular.

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6 DataOps Best Practices to Increase Your Data Analytics Output AND Your Data Quality

Octopai

Data-driven organizations are a bad idea. Using data to drive your organization is wonderful. But data, at best, can only be a powerful vehicle, or a reliable GPS system. Except sometimes we call organizations “data-driven” when really the data is driving them up the wall. And it should be.

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Prioritizing Data: Why a Solid Data Management Strategy Will Be Critical in 2024

Ontotext

In 2023, data leaders and enthusiasts were enamored of — and often distracted by — initiatives such as generative AI and cloud migration. I expect to see the following data and knowledge management trends emerge in 2024. However, organizations need to be aware that these may be nothing more than bolted-on Band-Aids.

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What is a Data Mesh?

DataKitchen

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. DataOps helps the data mesh deliver greater business agility by enabling decentralized domains to work in concert. . But first, let’s define the data mesh design pattern.