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Metadata is Like Packaging: Seeing Beyond the Library Card Metaphor

Ontotext

way we package information has a lot to do with metadata. The somewhat conventional metaphor about metadata is the one of the library card. This metaphor has it that books are the data and library cards are the metadata helping us find what we need, want to know more about or even what we don’t know we were looking for.

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Best Practices for Data Catalog Implementation

Octopai

For business users Data Catalogs offer a number of benefits such as better decision-making; data catalogs provide business users with quick and easy access to high-quality data. This availability of accurate and timely data enables business users to make informed decisions, improving overall business strategies.

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Data Intelligence in the Next Normal; Why, Who and When?

erwin

These surveys helped IDC develop a model that describes the five stages of enterprise recovery , aligning business focus with the economic situation: When the COVID-19 crisis hit, organizations focused on business continuity. When we enter into the next normal, the future enterprise will emerge.

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Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions with Advanced Analytics

Cloudera

Advanced analytics and enterprise data are empowering several overarching initiatives in supply chain risk reduction – improved visibility and transparency into all aspects of the supply chain balanced with data governance and security. . Advanced analytics empower risk reduction . Improve Visibility within Supply Chains.

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Why I Joined Alation: A Former Customer’s Story

Alation

One of the first steps in any digital transformation journey is to understand what data assets exist in the organization. When we began, we had a very technical and archaic tool, an enterprise metadata management platform that cataloged our assets. The people behind the data are key. It was terribly complex.

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Why erwin Data Intelligence 12 led me to Quest

erwin

Built on the Gartner-recognized DQLabs augmented data quality platform, erwin Data Intelligence’s new data quality offering provides erwin Data Intelligence customers with the ability to leverage erwin Data Catalog metadata to initiate a need for data quality assessment.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

CIO Business Intelligence

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.