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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

I have long stated that data is the lifeblood of digital transformation, and if the pandemic really has accelerated digital transformation, then the trends reported in IDC’s worldwide surveys make sense. But data without intelligence is just data, and this is WHY data intelligence is required.

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The Power of Graph Databases, Linked Data, and Graph Algorithms

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The training data and feature sets that feed machine learning algorithms can now be immensely enriched with tags, labels, annotations, and metadata that were inferred and/or provided naturally through the transformation of your repository of data into a graph of data.

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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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Minimizing Supply Chain Disruptions with Advanced Analytics

Cloudera

Advanced analytics and enterprise data empower companies to not only have a completely transparent view of movement of materials and products within their line of sight, but also leverage data from their suppliers to have a holistic view 2-3 tiers deep in the supply chain.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

CIO Business Intelligence

It provided the concept of a database, schemas, and tables for describing the structure of a data lake in a way that let BI tools traverse the data efficiently. The second generation of the Hive Metastore added support for transactional updates with Hive ACID.