Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

And a data breach poses more than just a PR risk — by violating regulations like GDPR , a data leak can impact your bottom line, too. This is where successful data governance programs can act as a savior to many organizations. This begs the question: What makes data governance successful? Where do you start?

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erwin

MARCH 25, 2021

erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities. Led by Frank Pörschmann of iDIGMA GmbH, an IT industry veteran and data governance strategist, the second webinar focused on “ The Value of Data Governance & How to Quantify It.”.

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erwin

APRIL 15, 2020

In our businesses, it is vital that we work to develop a deeper understanding of the sources, methods and quality of incoming third-party data. This deeper understanding will help us make better decisions about the risks and rewards of using that external data. Data Governance Methods for Data Distancing.

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

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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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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

It covers how to use a conceptual, logical architecture for some of the most popular gaming industry use cases like event analysis, in-game purchase recommendations, measuring player satisfaction, telemetry data analysis, and more. A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

These measures are commonly referred to as guardrail metrics , and they ensure that the product analytics aren’t giving decision-makers the wrong signal about what’s actually important to the business. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure ( Goodhart’s Law ). Data Wrangling and Feature Engineering.

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Alation

MARCH 11, 2022

Tip 2: Let the data catalog do the heavy lifting. What data is useful? A data catalog with a Behavioral Analysis Engine will measure human behavior around data to locate your most valuable and actionable data. This data about data, AKA metadata , is an essential layer of your new meshy fabric.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

All critical data elements (CDEs) should be collated and inventoried with relevant metadata, then classified into relevant categories and curated as we further define below. Some business processes may need reviewing to include data analysis — even going as far as requiring specific data to make a business decision.

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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. Regulations.

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Octopai

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s also a critical trait for the data assets of your dreams. What is data with integrity? Data integrity is the extent to which you can rely on a given set of data for use in decision-making. Increased data quality, accessibility, alignment across systems, and context all contribute to increased data integrity.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

Overall, RDF graphs are much finer-grained and enable better data governance and flexibility, while LPGs have proven to be more efficient in some graph analytics tasks. As a start, such a platform would need to support two major design patterns: semantic knowledge hub and semantic data fabric. Still not sure how to start?

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

Currently, no standardized process exists for overcoming data ingestion’s challenges, but the model’s accuracy depends on it. Increased variance: Variance measures consistency. Insufficient data can lead to varying answers over time, or misleading outliers, particularly impacting smaller data sets.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They’re built on machine learning algorithms that create outputs based on an organization’s data or other third-party big data sources. And that makes sense.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

First, how we measure emissions and carbon footprint is about data design and policy. In other words, D&A plays a key role in the foundational measuring angle. Is there a good map that shows the connections between data, advanced analytics, digital, innovation, etc. – Yes and no. This was from 2020.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Data literacy, leadership and communication need a boost Data strategy, data governance and data access are the three data culture initiatives that survey participants consider to be the most relevant and commonly implemented. A lack of documentation is one of the main challenges to data access.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information. Data governance requires a system.

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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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datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This includes defining the main stakeholders, assessing the situation, defining the goals, and finding the KPIs that will measure your efforts to achieve these goals. A planned BI strategy will point your business in the right direction to meet its goals by making strategic decisions based on real-time data.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 23, 2023

Data lineage can also be used for compliance, auditing, and data governance purposes. DataOps Observability Five on data lineage: Data lineage traces data’s origin, history, and movement through various processing, storage, and analysis stages. What is missing in data lineage?

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the same way, overly restrictive data governance practices that either prevent data products from taking root at all, or pare them back too aggressively (deforestation), can over time create “data deserts” that drive both the producers and consumers of data within an organization to look elsewhere for their data needs.

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Andrew White

MARCH 22, 2019

This ties into the failure of data governance and MDM (see first item in this list). A data hub strategy should be economical, not perfected; and a data hub does not collect data like a data warehouses or data lake does – they are very different things. Strategy is Learning By Doing.

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Jet Global

MARCH 4, 2024

Data inconsistencies become commonplace, hindering visibility and inhibiting a holistic understanding of business operations. This lack of integration makes it difficult to track progress, measure performance, and identify potential issues. Data governance and compliance become a constant juggling act. Don’t believe us?

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