CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

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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?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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Alation

JUNE 1, 2023

So it’s fitting that Snowflake Summit , the premier event for data cloud strategy, will occur at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas on June 26–29 (togas not required). As a 2-time Snowflake Data Governance Partner of the Year , Alation knows how important this event is to the Snowflake community. The data governance team’s solution?

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

To transform Fujitsu from an IT company to a digital transformation (DX) company, and to become a world-leading DX partner, Fujitsu has declared a shift to data-driven management. The platform consists of approximately 370 dashboards, 360 tables registered in the data catalog, and 40 linked systems.

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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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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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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

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day, organizations of every description are deluged with data from a variety of sources, and attempting to make sense of it all can be overwhelming. By 2025, it’s estimated we’ll have 463 million terabytes of data created every day,” says Lisa Thee, data for good sector lead at Launch Consulting Group in Seattle. “For

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.” Why do we have data?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. The following figure shows some of the metrics derived from the study. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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Alation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Most organisations are seeking to be data-driven because they believe in the value of data to inform key decisions at all levels, making data management absolutely critical. The aim is to harness the power of that data to deliver cost savings, enhanced efficiencies, an optimised customer experience, and more.

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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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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

These metrics are a testament to our global expansion in EMEA and APAC. Stay tuned for more information on what’s sure to be another educational, memorable, and enlightening gathering of the data community. Under Pimblett’s leadership, 130 people at Very use Alation to drive excellence in data across all parts of the business.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 23, 2023

What is data lineage? Data lineage traces data’s origin, history, and movement through various processing, storage, and analysis stages. It is used to understand the provenance of data and how it is transformed and to identify potential errors or issues. What about DataOps Observability? How does it compare?

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 2, 2019

A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see “Related resources” at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. So, why is this new open source project resonating with data scientists and machine learning engineers?

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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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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 12, 2022

In 2002, Capital One became the first company to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO). Early CDOs largely sought to ensure compliance with regulations around financial data, taking a defensive posture to guard company and customer information. Today, the modern CDO drives the data strategy for the entire organization.

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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

These metrics are a testament to our global expansion in EMEA and APAC. Stay tuned for more information on what’s sure to be another educational, memorable, and enlightening gathering of the data community. Under Pimblett’s leadership, 130 people at Very use Alation to drive excellence in data across all parts of the business.

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Alation

JUNE 30, 2022

As important as the responsibilities of a data curator are to self-service analytics, data curation best practices are still in their infancy. Where people previously were given data in the form of a packaged report, today they’re free to discover and explore their own data. Exploring the New World of Data Curation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What Is a Data Catalog? A data catalog is a centralized storage bank of metadata on information sources from across the enterprise, such as: Datasets. The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset. Governance.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Data Governance is growing essential. Data growth, shrinking talent pool, data silos – legacy & modern, hybrid & cloud, and multiple tools – add to their challenges. Hence, they are pursuing cloud transformation to help manage growth in data and cost. Protecting sensitive data is hard to scale.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The “data textile” wars continue! In our first blog in this series , we define the terms data fabric and data mesh. The second blog took a deeper dive into data fabric, examining its key pillars and the role of the data catalog in each. Because those closest to the data are best equipped to manage it capably.

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Grooper

OCTOBER 23, 2019

With the increasing value of data and more tools to process and analyze information than ever before, companies with information governance and master data model programs are outpacing their peers. Simply storing information without a detailed road map for how the data can and should be used is not enough.

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Similary, every touchpoint offers data that can help you improve that customer experience, from the number and duration of support interactions to the intuitiveness of your website. Analyzing this data can build your ability to anticipate a customer’s specific needs. But customers aren’t data; they’re people.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

Paco Nathan presented, “Data Science, Past & Future” , at Rev. At Rev’s “ Data Science, Past & Future” , Paco Nathan covered contextual insight into some common impactful themes over the decades that also provided a “lens” help data scientists, researchers, and leaders consider the future.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Which industry, sector moves fast and successful with data-driven?

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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. – In the webinar and Leadership Vision deck for Data and Analytics we called out AI engineering as a big trend. I would take a look at our Top Trends for Data and Analytics 2021 for additional AI, ML and related trends.

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