erwin

JANUARY 14, 2021

As we enter 2021, we will also be building off the events of 2020 – both positive and negative – including the acceleration of digital transformation as the next normal begins to be defined. When the pandemic first hit, there was some negative impact on big data and analytics spending. Now is the time.

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erwin

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost 70 percent of CEOs say they expect their companies to change their business models in the next three years, and 62 percent report they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their businesses more digital, according to Gartner. Data Intelligence: Speed and Quality Without Compromise.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So if you’re going to move from your data from on-premise legacy data stores and warehouse systems to the cloud, you should do it right the first time. And as you make this transition, you need to understand what data you have, know where it is located, and govern it along the way. Then you must bulk load the legacy data.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Not Documenting End-to-End Data Lineage Is Risky Busines – Understanding your data’s origins is key to successful data governance. Not everyone understands what end-to-end data lineage is or why it is important. Data Lineage Tells an Important Origin Story. Who are the data owners?

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erwin

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Digital Transformation. Data Security & Risk Management. Data Center Consolidation. Data Governance (knowing what data you have and where it is). Digital Transformation. The key driver of modern EA is the demand for digital transformation. Compliance/Legislation.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today’s best-performing organizations embrace data for strategic decision-making. Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. This is because accurate data is “table stakes” for finance teams.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ask a CIO where their focus lies and ‘digital transformation’ as well as ‘growth’ will come into the conversation quite quickly. Both rely virtually entirely on the enterprise leveraging of data. Governing digital transformation.

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erwin

MARCH 14, 2019

The need for data mapping tools in light of increasing volumes and varieties of data – as well as the velocity at which it must be processed – is growing. Data mapping tools have always been a key asset for any organization looking to leverage data for insights. Isolated units of data are essentially meaningless.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The goal: a data-driven organization Let’s zoom out for a bit. Every organization wants to be data-driven. The goal is to capture data, convert it into the right insights, and integrate those insights quickly and efficiently into your business decisions and processes. And this includes the AI space.

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erwin

AUGUST 28, 2020

Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed of modern business. In this post, the erwin Experts address: What Is Data Governance? Why Is Data Governance Important? What Is Good Data Governance? What Are the Key Benefits of Data Governance?

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, modern travel and tourism thrive on data. For example, airlines have historically applied analytics to revenue management, while successful hospitality leaders make data-driven decisions around property allocation and workforce management. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry?

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Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways Data Teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive. Employing Enterprise Data Management (EDM).

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The other day, it struck me how similar this is to how organizations digitally transform and become data-driven. Your raw material is data instead of wood, and you use multidisciplinary analytics rather than woodworking tools like a hammer, saw, and sander.

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge … Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy.

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge … Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

We live in a data-rich, insights-rich, and content-rich world. Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Plus, AI can also help find key insights encoded in data.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Probably not.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of practical data mesh implementation (for an overview of data mesh, read the original whitepaper The data mesh shift ). Taken together, the posts in this series lay out some possible operating models for data mesh within an organization.

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Alation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. Today, the rise of digital insurance companies and the changing risk landscape together drive the industry’s digital transformation. Further, compliance regulations like the GDPR and CCPA demand that organizations maintain data security and compliance.

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