Ontotext

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s fast changing environment, enterprises that have transitioned from being focused on applications to becoming data-driven gain a significant competitive edge. There are four groups of data that are naturally siloed: Structured data (e.g., internal metadata, industry ontologies, etc.)

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

At Alation, one of our core values is to measure success through customer impact. Why Our Customers Say Alation Is Top Rated Alation is the proven leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions. Why Our Customers Say Alation Is Top Rated Alation is the proven leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Enhanced : Data managed equally.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

A well-designed data architecture should support business intelligence and analysis, automation, and AI—all of which can help organizations to quickly seize market opportunities, build customer value, drive major efficiencies, and respond to risks such as supply chain disruptions.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Performance is one of the key, if not the most important deciding criterion, in choosing a Cloud Data Warehouse service. In today’s fast changing world, enterprises have to make data driven decisions quickly and for that they rely heavily on their data warehouse service. . Cloudera Data Warehouse vs HDInsight.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

Data people face a challenge. They must put high-quality data into the hands of users as efficiently as possible. As the latest iteration in this pursuit of high-quality data sharing, DataOps combines a range of disciplines. It synthesizes all we’ve learned about agile, data quality , and ETL/ELT.

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erwin

JANUARY 11, 2019

Organizations have spent a lot of time and money trying to harmonize data across diverse platforms , including cleansing, uploading metadata, converting code, defining business glossaries, tracking data transformations and so on. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted. Data Quality Obstacles.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How long would it take you to find the data you need to even begin to come up with a data-driven response? Some are returning errors that are difficult to find—and if you’re missing KPIs you have to fix, optimize, and measure every bit of code, which can take a considerable amount of time and trial and error.

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Sisense

MAY 28, 2020

In the Clouds is where we explore the ways cloud-native architecture, cloud data storage, and cloud analytics are changing key industries and business practices, with anecdotes from experts, how-to’s, and more to help your company excel in the cloud era. The world of data is constantly changing and speeding up every day.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing? Common data governance challenges.

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Rita Sallam

APRIL 2, 2023

We explored these questions and more at our Bake-Offs and Show Floor Showdowns at our Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando with 4,000 of our closest D&A friends and family. The first featured analytics and BI platform Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders while the other showcased high interest data science and machine learning platforms.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 16, 2024

Apache Airflow is a popular platform for enterprises looking to orchestrate complex data pipelines and workflows. In this post, we’re excited to introduce two new features that address common customer challenges and unlock new possibilities for building robust, scalable, and flexible data orchestration solutions using Amazon MWAA.

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CDW Research Hub

APRIL 17, 2019

Splunk recently released a security eBook to help companies understand the challenges and action steps to a security program that utilizes data to stay ahead of attacks. Here is a breakdown of the suggested six stages of the Analytics-Driven Security Journey, so you can get started on your voyage. Stage 1: Collection.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 5, 2021

We recently talked about the benefits of using big data in marketing. We even discussed some tools that leverage big data to get more value out of marketing strategies. These are all great reasons to use big data in marketing. But for accurate modeling, you need lots of reliable data. What is Social Media Data?

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erwin

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Defining Data Governance. The evolution from Data Governance 1.0

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Organizations with legacy, on-premises, near-real-time analytics solutions typically rely on self-managed relational databases as their data store for analytics workloads. Near-real-time streaming analytics captures the value of operational data and metrics to provide new insights to create business opportunities.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. But governance is a time-consuming process (for users and data stewards alike).

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. First, you figure out what you want to improve; then you create an experiment; then you run the experiment; then you measure the results and decide what to do.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

Next, I will explain how knowledge graphs help them to get a unified view to data derived from multiple sources and get richer insights in less time. This requires new tools and new systems, which results in diverse and siloed data. And each of these gains requires data integration across business lines and divisions.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

One of our core values here at Alation is to measure our success through customer impact. Since we launched, Alation has made it easier for data consumers to find, understand, and trust relevant datasets. Secondly, the catalog was increasingly adding value after data was used by making analytical work discoverable and reusable.

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erwin

JUNE 27, 2019

The need for an effective data modeling tool is more significant than ever. For decades, data modeling has provided the optimal way to design and deploy new relational databases with high-quality data sources and support application development. There’s an expression: measure twice, cut once.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist for GoDaddy, about data curation, data stewardship, and data catalogs. His focus is on business intelligence, analytics, big data, and data warehousing. What did that involve?

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When we talk about expenses for generating new data assets, we typically focus only on the planned and immediately visible costs. These include ETL processes, searching, accessing, data cleansing, data creation, semantic data integration , and the IT infrastructure to support it. But that’s not true.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company uses AWS Cloud services to build data-driven products and scale engineering best practices. To ensure a sustainable data platform amid growth and profitability phases, their tech teams adopted a decentralized data mesh architecture. The solution Acast implemented is a data mesh, architected on AWS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The hype around generative AI since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022 has driven some software vendors to rush to incorporate the technology into their applications. Despite being an early adopter of AI in general, Salesforce has taken a more measured approach to generative AI.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 13, 2023

When we talk about data integrity, we’re referring to the overarching completeness, accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and security of an organization’s data. Together, these factors determine the reliability of the organization’s data. In short, yes.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is part of Ontotext’s AI-in-Action initiative aimed at enabling data scientists and engineers to benefit from the AI capabilities of our products. RED’s focus on news content serves a pivotal function: identifying, extracting, and structuring data on events, parties involved, and subsequent impacts.

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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

Moving data to the cloud can bring immense operational benefits. However, the sheer volume and complexity of today’s enterprise data can cause downstream headaches for data users. Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. Data pipeline orchestration.

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

And now, arguably the greatest rivalry the world (well, at least the data community) has ever witnessed: Data Fabric vs Data Mesh! Data fabric and data mesh are both having a moment. Gartner calls data fabric the Future of Data Management 1. Gartner on Data Fabric. Thoughtworks on Data Mesh.

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 2, 2019

Co-chair Paco Nathan provides highlights of Rev 2 , a data science leaders summit. We held Rev 2 May 23-24 in NYC, as the place where “data science leaders and their teams come to learn from each other.” Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab. First item on our checklist: did Rev 2 address how to lead data teams?

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Connecting AI models to a myriad of data sources across cloud and on-premises environments AI models rely on vast amounts of data for training. Once trained and deployed, models also need reliable access to historical and real-time data to generate content, make recommendations, detect errors, send proactive alerts, etc.

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Alation

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week, IDC released its second IDC MarketScape for Data Catalogs report, and we’re excited to share that Alation was recognized as a leader for the second consecutive time. But do they empower many user types to quickly find trusted data for a business decision or data model? You can download a copy of the report here.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This is a guest post by Miguel Chin, Data Engineering Manager at OLX Group and David Greenshtein, Specialist Solutions Architect for Analytics, AWS. We live in a data-producing world, and as companies want to become data driven, there is the need to analyze more and more data.

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