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. So why are organizations not able to scale governance? Meet Governance Requirements.

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TDAN

MAY 16, 2023

Data quality management (DQM) has advanced considerably over the years. The full extent of the problem was first recognized during the data warehouse movement in the 1980s.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool.

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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. But the attempts to standardize data across the entire enterprise haven’t produced the desired results.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

However, a foundational step in evolving into a data-driven organization requires trusted, readily available, and easily accessible data for users within the organization; thus, an effective data governance program is key. Here are a few common data management challenges: Regulatory compliance on data use.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Analytics reference architecture for gaming organizations In this section, we discuss how gaming organizations can use a data hub architecture to address the analytical needs of an enterprise, which requires the same data at multiple levels of granularity and different formats, and is standardized for faster consumption.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance. It uses metadata and data management tools to organize all data assets within your organization. Ensuring data quality is made easier as a result.

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TDAN

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this blog, we will discuss a common problem for data warehouses that are designed to maintain data quality and provide evidence of accuracy. Without verification, the data can’t be trusted. Enter the mundane, but necessary, task of data reconciliation. This is often a time-consuming and wasteful process.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

we are introducing Alation Anywhere, extending data intelligence directly to the tools in your modern data stack, starting with Tableau. We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Data governance at scale.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. If you’ve been properly managing your metadata as part of a broader data governance policy, you can use metadata management explorers to reveal silos of dark data in your landscape. Data sense-making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

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Laminar Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

They offer a comprehensive solution to enhance your cloud security posture and effectively manage your data. The primary focus of discovery is to find all the places where data exists and identify the assets it resides in. One of the primary challenges is data quality. However, it’s not without its challenges.

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Jet Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s hard to answer that question because, truth be told, you don’t know you’re using bad data until it’s too late. . states that about 40 percent of enterprise data is either inaccurate, incomplete, or unavailable. Because bad data is the reason behind poor analytics. . Top 5 Warning Signs of Bad Data. Ted Friedman.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh solves this by promoting data autonomy, allowing users to make decisions about domains without a centralized gatekeeper. It also improves development velocity with better data governance and access with improved data quality aligned with business needs.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

March 2015: Alation emerges from stealth mode to launch the first official data catalog to empower people in enterprises to easily find, understand, govern and use data for informed decision making that supports the business. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.

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Alation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalog growth are accelerating because organizations must integrate more systems, comply with privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns. What Is Master Data Management (MDM)? Data Catalog and Master Data Management. Assess Data Quality.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The consumption of the data should be supported through an elastic delivery layer that aligns with demand, but also provides the flexibility to present the data in a physical format that aligns with the analytic application, ranging from the more traditional data warehouse view to a graph view in support of relationship analysis.

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Alation

JULY 28, 2022

It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. However, CIOs declare that agility, innovation, security, adopting new capabilities, and time to value — never cost — are the top drivers for cloud data warehousing.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We had not seen that in the broader intelligence & data governance market.”. At Databricks, we’re focused on enabling customers to adopt the data lakehouse, and that’s an open data architecture that combines the best of the data warehouse and the data lake into one platform,” Ferguson says. “[The

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Alation

APRIL 27, 2023

Article reposted with permission from Eckerson ABSTRACT: Data mesh is giving many of us from the data warehouse generation a serious case of agita. But, my fellow old-school data tamers, it’s going to be ok. It’s a subject that’s giving many of us from the data warehouse generation a serious case of agita.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

The sheer scale of data being captured by the modern enterprise has necessitated a monumental shift in how that data is stored. From the humble database through to data warehouses , data stores have grown both in scale and complexity to keep pace with the businesses they serve, and the data analysis now required to remain competitive.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I argued that one vendors’ book on data quality was really about data governance; I argued that another vendors’ marketing message was totally upside down; and I argued that some approaches to achieving single source of truth were different from traditional approaches.

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Ontotext

MARCH 18, 2020

The many data warehouse systems designed in the last 30 years present significant difficulties in that respect. When designing a system’s architecture, it’s impossible to know from the start all the ways data will be used. The third challenge is how to combine data management with analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

CDP Data Analyst The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Analyst certification verifies the Cloudera skills and knowledge required for data analysts using CDP. Candidates show facility with data concepts and environments; data mining; data analysis; data governance, quality, and controls; and visualization.

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Alation

APRIL 27, 2023

Article reposted with permission from Eckerson ABSTRACT: Data mesh is giving many of us from the data warehouse generation a serious case of agita. But, my fellow old-school data tamers, it’s going to be ok. It’s a subject that’s giving many of us from the data warehouse generation a serious case of agita.

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Cloudera

MAY 16, 2019

The traditional Data Warehouse ETL process has splintered into many smaller components. Ingest is now focused data capture and real-time trend analysis where possible. Once data is brought under control in a system like Cloudera, then the work of Data Preparation, Quality begins.

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Wise Analytics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The goal of governed data access to support self-service and data discovery applications is to solve data related challenges and support validated data access. Achieving this on a systematic level requires developing a strategy and taking data governance seriously.

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FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

Finance and accounting teams often deal with data residing in multiple systems, such as accounting software, ERP systems, spreadsheets, and data warehouses. Ensuring seamless data integration and accuracy across these sources can be complex and time-consuming.

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Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

As such, most large financial organizations have moved their data to a data lake or a data warehouse to understand and manage financial risk in one place. Yet, the biggest challenge for risk analysis continues to suffer from lack of a scalable way of understanding how data is interrelated.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

. – Text descriptions of data objects that allow for greater interpretation and application of data than a basic label. Having a data dictionary means any potential user will be able to understand the data in a data warehouse.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

From operational systems to support “smart processes”, to the data warehouse for enterprise management, to exploring new use cases through advanced analytics : all of these environments incorporate disparate systems, each containing data fragments optimized for their own specific task. .

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Important evaluation features include capabilities to preview a dataset, see all associated metadata, see user ratings, read user reviews and curator annotations, and view data quality information. Benefits of a Data Catalog. Improved data efficiency. Improved data context. Improved data analysis.

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