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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

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The Top Three Entangled Trends in Data Architectures: Data Mesh, Data Fabric, and Hybrid Architectures

Cloudera

Each of these trends claim to be complete models for their data architectures to solve the “everything everywhere all at once” problem. Data teams are confused as to whether they should get on the bandwagon of just one of these trends or pick a combination. First, we describe how data mesh and data fabric could be related.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architecture is a complex and varied field and different organizations and industries have unique needs when it comes to their data architects. Solutions data architect: These individuals design and implement data solutions for specific business needs, including data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

It must be clear to all participants and auditors how and when data-related decisions and controls were introduced into the processes. Data-related decisions, processes, and controls subject to data governance must be auditable. The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data.

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Top 6 Benefits of Automating End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

For example, automatically importing mappings from developers’ Excel sheets, flat files, Access and ETL tools into a comprehensive mappings inventory, complete with auto generated and meaningful documentation of the mappings, is a powerful way to support overall data governance. Data quality is crucial to every organization.

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Modern Data Modeling: The Foundation of Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance

erwin

The role of data modeling (DM) has expanded to support enterprise data management, including data governance and intelligence efforts. Metadata management is the key to managing and governing your data and drawing intelligence from it. Types of Data Models: Conceptual, Logical and Physical.