Alation

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To be competitive, organizations are trying to create a data culture. But what IS a data culture ? A data culture empowers everyone in your organization with data-driven insights, which enable you to easily collaborate around shared goals to improve your organization. But creating a data culture is not easy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes. But with vastly different architectural worldviews.

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Cloudera

JUNE 18, 2022

Cloudera customers run some of the biggest data lakes on earth. These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. On data warehouses and data lakes. But with vastly different architectural worldviews.

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erwin

MAY 2, 2022

How to create a solid foundation for data modeling of OLTP systems. As you undertake a cloud database migration , a best practice is to perform data modeling as the foundation for well-designed OLTP databases. This makes mastering basic data modeling techniques and avoiding common pitfalls imperative. Data modeling basics.

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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2021

How data catalogs with search & discovery help users. To keep up, more businesses have shifted toward data-driven decision making. According to a NewVantage Partners Report , 96% of executives indicate that their organization aspires to a data-driven culture, while only 24% report success.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

Data is the fuel that drives government, enables transparency, and powers citizen services. That should be easy, but when agencies don’t share data or applications, they don’t have a unified view of people. Legacy data sharing involves proliferating copies of data, creating data management, and security challenges.

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erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. There were 80 or so questions or comments posted and I was not able to respond to all of them live in the webinar so here are the verbatim questions and an individual response to each on. I hope they are helpful.

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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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erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Sources, like IoT.

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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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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

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Ontotext

JULY 29, 2021

The Semantic Web, both as a research field and a technology stack, is seeing mainstream industry interest, especially with the knowledge graph concept emerging as a pillar for data well and efficiently managed. And what are the commercial implications of semantic technologies for enterprise data? Source: tag.ontotext.com.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s time to migrate your business data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. To answer this question, I recently joined Anthony Seraphim of Texas Mutual Insurance Company (TMIC) and David Stodder of TDWI on a webinar. The three of us talked migration strategy and the best way to move to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

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Alation

MAY 4, 2023

Are you an aspiring data scientist , or just want to understand the benefits of integrating data catalogs with visualization tools? In today’s ever-growing world of data, having an easy way to gain insights quickly is essential. It helps them effectively capture, store, manage, and share data assets.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 16, 2021

We just announced Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC), the first cloud-native runtime for Apache NiFi data flows. Apache Nifi is a powerful tool to build data movement pipelines using a visual flow designer. Implementing an automated scale up and scale down procedure for NiFi clusters is complex and time consuming.

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erwin

APRIL 4, 2019

A strong data governance framework is central to the success of any data-driven organization because it ensures this valuable asset is properly maintained, protected and maximized. But despite this fact, enterprises often face push back when implementing a new data governance initiative or trying to mature an existing one.

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Alation

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is the process of using trusted data and insights to drive tactical business decisions that support key goals. Data analysts , scientists , stewards , engineers , and business leaders are just some of the core user groups for DDDM. By contrast, ignoring data leads to grave mistakes.

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erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Q: Is data modeling cool again? In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. A: It always was and is getting cooler!!

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The way that I explained it to my data science students years ago was like this. They realized that the search results would probably not provide an answer to my question, but the results would simply list websites that included my words on the page or in the metadata tags: “Texas”, “Cows”, “How”, etc. What is a semantic layer?

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Natural Language Query (NLQ) has gained immense popularity due to its ability to empower non-technical individuals to extract data insights just by asking questions in plain language.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Following an unprecedented summer of accolades that have helped establish Alation as the leader in emerging data catalog category, we are in the midst of a nine-show tour. After a blockbuster premiere at the Strata Data Conference in New York, the tour will take us to six different states and across the pond to London.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

On January 4th I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar. It was titled, The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders. This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. The fill report is here: Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics. Ooo good question.

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Alation

MAY 27, 2021

For data-driven enterprises, data governance is no longer an option; it’s a necessity. Businesses are growing more dependent on data governance to manage data policies, compliance, and quality. For these reasons, a business’ data governance approach is essential. Data Democratization.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program? Establishing a solid vision and mission is key.

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Sisense

MAY 18, 2020

Every company is becoming a data company. In Data-Powered Businesses , we dive into the ways that companies of all kinds are digitally transforming to make smarter data-driven decisions, monetize their data, and create companies that will thrive in our current era of Big Data. That’s not always easy.

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Alation

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Data governance is growing in urgency and prominence. As regulations grow more complex (and compliance fines more onerous) organizations aren’t just adapting data governance frameworks to drive compliance – they’re leveraging governance to fuel a growing range of use cases, from collaboration to stewardship, discovery, and more.

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Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

By leveraging data analysis to solve high-value business problems, they will become more efficient. This is in contrast to traditional BI, which extracts insight from data outside of the app. that gathers data from many sources. These tools prep that data for analysis and then provide reporting on it from a central viewpoint.

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