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

APRIL 15, 2020

If we reflect on the coronavirus example, we can ask: How do individual countries report their data? Are asymptomatic infections reported? 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.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 12, 2020

What is your organization doing to protect the value of your data? A strong data governance strategy helps ensure that your data is usable, accessible and protected, guaranteeing trust in the quality and consistency of the data. But creating a data governance program is not something you can do overnight.

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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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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

APRIL 29, 2020

These tools range from enterprise service bus (ESB) products, data integration tools; extract, transform and load (ETL) tools, procedural code, application program interfaces (API)s, file transfer protocol (FTP) processes, and even business intelligence (BI) reports that further aggregate and transform data. Data Governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The analyst reports tell CIOs that generative AI should occupy the top slot on their digital transformation priorities in the coming year. Moreover, the CEOs and boards that CIOs report to don’t want to be left behind by generative AI, and many employees want to experiment with the latest generative AI capabilities in their workflows.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Source: [link] SAP also announced key partners that further enhance Datasphere as a powerful business data fabric.

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Octopai

JUNE 24, 2019

There are a number of scenarios that necessitate data governance tools. Businesses operating within strict industry regulations, utilizing analytics software, and/or regularly consolidating data in key subject areas will find themselves looking into data governance tools to help them achieve their goals.

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Octopai

MAY 15, 2023

Data lineage helps identify redundant or inefficient data integration steps, allowing organizations to streamline their processes and reduce development, maintenance, and operational costs associated with ETL. Data quality costs: Poor data quality can result in significant costs for organizations.

Data Quality 52

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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. Managing metadata should not be a sub-goal of data governance. The Role of Metadata in Data Governance.

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Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

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.

Data Governance 40

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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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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today.

IT 52

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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. Managing metadata should not be a sub-goal of data governance. The Role of Metadata in Data Governance.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

Alation

JULY 15, 2022

And, while change at large organisations is tough, data leaders would be wise to reframe such transformations as business opportunities rather than burdens. Data as an Insight: Operational Transformation. Under GDPR Article 30, the Record of Processing Activity (ROPA) document needs to be created and maintained. The mandate.

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Octopai

JANUARY 19, 2020

BCBS 239 is a document published by that committee entitled, Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting. The document, first published in 2013, outlines best practices for global and domestic banks to identify, manage, and report risks, including credit, market, liquidity, and operational risks.

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Jet Global

MARCH 4, 2024

Data inconsistencies become commonplace, hindering visibility and inhibiting a holistic understanding of business operations. Data governance and compliance become a constant juggling act. Here’s how it empowers you: Clean and Validated Data : Easy Workflow enforces data quality through automated validation rules.

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Jet Global

MARCH 14, 2024

Jet’s interface lets you handle data administration easily, without advanced coding skills. You don’t need technical skills to manage complex data workflows in the Fabric environment. Data Lineage and Documentation Jet Analytics simplifies the process of documenting data assets and tracking data lineage in Fabric.

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Jet Global

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The quick and dirty definition of data mapping is the process of connecting different types of data from various data sources. Data mapping is a crucial step in data modeling and can help organizations achieve their business goals by enabling data integration, migration, transformation, and quality.

Data Warehouse 52

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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)? Early on, analysts used data catalogs to find and understand data more quickly.

Management 52

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

This requires a metadata management solution to enable data search & discovery and data governance, both of which empower access to both the metadata and the underlying data to those who need it. In today’s world, metadata management best practices call for a data catalog. Administrative information.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

They can govern the implementation with a documented business case and be responsible for changes in scope. Find out what is working, as you don’t want to totally scrap an already essential report or process. On the flip side, document everything that isn’t working. Clean data in, clean analytics out.

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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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Sanjeev Mohan

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Then in the middle of 2017, a realization set in that we were one year away from GDPR and needed to focus on data governance. I ended up writing two documents on data governance. To address client questions about cloud, I wrote a document on GCP. That’s where the bulk of my time was spent.

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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.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Data Strategy Strategy 52

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.

Data Governance 89

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O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Given that the results produced by any model will reflect the data used to create the model, how do you ensure your data collection process is fair, representative, and unbiased? This isn’t surprising; if you’re collecting data from several weather stations and one of them malfunctions, you would expect to see anomalous data.

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Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

However, this information is typically stored in disparate locations, often hidden within departmental documents or applications. Which financial institutions are behind on their risk reporting and filings this year? Which financial institutions have filed similar risk compliance issues?

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

Many companies face a problem that’s even worse: no one knows which levers contribute to the metrics that impact business outcomes, or which metrics are important to the company (such as those reported to Wall Street by publicly-traded companies). Data Quality and Standardization. If the product isn’t “viable” (i.e.,

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Andrew White

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Data and analytics (or data, or information) governance is a shambles for many organizations, and a success for very few. See Data and Analytics Governance as a Business Capability: A Gartner Trend Insight Report. Catalog are useful in a small number of data governance programs only.

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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. Where the CDO reports.

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Grooper

AUGUST 19, 2019

Traditional data sources like end of month statements and quarterly reports are no longer enough. It includes the reports, charts, dashboards, and terminology unique to your organization. ISL helps today's business leaders understand how data answers business questions. Master data management. Data governance.

Analytics 54

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A strong data management strategy and supporting technology enables the data quality the business requires, including data cataloging (integration of data sets from various sources), mapping, versioning, business rules and glossaries maintenance and metadata management (associations and lineage).

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

First, how we measure emissions and carbon footprint is about data design and policy. For example I would argue that most organizations that report their carbon footrest are not doing it consistently and nor are they doing it correctly. We have a lot of data literacy material published and we annually update our must-have roles work.

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