Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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TDAN

APRIL 5, 2022

Data Governance is defined as the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets.1 1 The terms “Data Mesh” and “Data Fabric” are the most recent examples of names being given to something that describes techniques to help organizations manage their data.

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Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2023

To learn the answer, we sat down with Karla Kirton , Data Architect at Blockdaemon, a blockchain company, to discuss data strategy , decentralization, and how implementing Alation has supported them. What is your data strategy and how did you begin to implement it? Here’s a recap of our discussion.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

We show how Ranger integrates with Hadoop components like Apache Hive, Spark, Trino, Yarn, and HDFS, providing secure and efficient data management in a cloud environment. Join us as we navigate these advanced security strategies in the context of Kubernetes and cloud computing.

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TDAN

JULY 2, 2019

The third and final part of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework details the breakdown of components by level, providing considerations for what must be included at the intersections. The squares are completed with nouns and verbs that provide direction for meaningful discussions about how the program will be set up and operate.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh is still in its infancy, and data personas and organizations are craving clarity and specificity. It is critical to be aware of the “why” and “what” and fully understand the role that knowledge graphs play when considering adopting a data mesh strategy. The debate on what constitutes a data mesh rages on.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 24, 2022

Remote runtime data integration as-a-service execution capabilities for on-premises and multi-cloud execution. Multi-directional data movement topology with high volume and low-latency integration. Support for data governance. Metadata exchange with third party metadata management and governance tools.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Independent data products often only have value if you can connect them, join them, and correlate them to create a higher order data product that creates additional insights. A modern data architecture is critical in order to become a data-driven organization.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

They enable transactions on top of data lakes and can simplify data storage, management, ingestion, and processing. These transactional data lakes combine features from both the data lake and the data warehouse. One important aspect to a successful data strategy for any organization is data governance.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The state of data governance is evolving as organizations recognize the significance of managing and protecting their data. With stricter regulations and greater demand for data-driven insights, effective data governance frameworks are critical. What is a data architect?

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but perhaps the Metadata wedge the most. Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I thought I’d spend a bit of time to reflect on the question and answer […].

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TDAN

MARCH 5, 2019

It seems like we’re so busy running that we no longer have time to think. We want to be faster and more responsive, but we aren’t even sure what we are trying to achieve. It’s like the person at your office that is always too busy, is working extra-long hours (and makes sure that everybody […].

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Cloudera

AUGUST 21, 2020

To find out more about how live-streaming data might impact the sector I sat down for a chat with Dinesh Chandrasekhar , Head of Product Marketing in Cloudera’s data-in-motion Business Unit. To start off, what are the advantages of a forward-looking data-in-motion strategy?

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data.

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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TDAN

JULY 19, 2022

In reference to the prior column on enterprise data management and high level lego framework, this column reviews in detail the foundational layer of Organization Mission, Level 1. These six lego blocks […].

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TDAN

MAY 3, 2022

The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data management strategy is one that generates value rapidly and unlocks new data-driven insights.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. This is why, when data moves, it’s imperative for organizations to prioritize data discovery. Data discovery is also critical for data governance , which, when ineffective, can actually hinder organizational growth.

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TDAN

AUGUST 17, 2021

It has been an incredible run. I hope it is just “see you soon” rather than “goodbye.” With this column, DAMA International’s streak of quarterly columns since mid-2001 is coming to an end. The columns have featured the activities and incredible work of DAMA International over the past two decades. Thank you, DAMA, and I […].

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Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

First off, this involves defining workflows for every business process within the enterprise: the what, how, why, who, when, and where aspects of data. These subsystems each play a vital part in your overall EDM program, but three that we’ll give special attention to are data governance, architecture, and warehousing.

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TDAN

JUNE 21, 2022

Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The journey starts with having a multimodal data governance framework that is underpinned by a robust data architecture like data fabric. What’s more, a data fabric can automate data governance and security by creating a governance layer across the lifecycle.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend countless hours trying to find the perfect suggested gift for your next birthday or holiday? In an Amazon and eBay world, thinking about old-school catalogs seems so quaint. Opening a paper volume to manually flip […].

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Wherever we go, we are overwhelmed by MORE: more sales, more discounts, more fun, more excitement, more features – the list goes on and on! What humans seem to be far less attuned to is reducing what we don’t need. Drive around any suburban neighborhood and see the many cars parked outside their garages! Believe […].

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

IBM Cloud Pak for Data Express solutions offer clients a simple on ramp to start realizing the business value of a modern architecture. Data governance. The data governance capability of a data fabric focuses on the collection, management and automation of an organization’s data. Start a trial.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.

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Alation

JULY 28, 2022

What Are the Biggest Drivers of Cloud Data Warehousing? It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. Those planning their migration to a cloud data warehouse would be wise to map out a strategy.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

What does a sound, intelligent data foundation give you? It can give business-oriented data strategy for business leaders to help drive better business decisions and ROI. It can also increase productivity by enabling the business to find the data they need when the business teams need it.

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Data Virtualization

APRIL 2, 2020

With so much valuable data potentially available, it can be frustrating for organizations to discover that they can’t easily work with it because it’s stuck in disconnected silos. Limited data access is a problem when organizations need timely, complete views.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale. Iceberg offers a Merge On Read strategy to enable fast writes.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

To drive a successful Data Analytics strategy do you think it is a multidisciplinary activity and if so, what additional roles would you expect to see involved. – A D&A leader of CDO or whoever will lead the development of the D&A strategy will of necessity work with business executives. This was from 2020.

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