Alation

JULY 19, 2021

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow. Improve data discovery.

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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 are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Predictability.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Most have only data governance operations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Data is the new oil and organizations of all stripes are tapping this resource to fuel growth. However, data quality and consistency are one of the top barriers faced by organizations in their quest to become more data-driven. Unlock quality data with IBM. and its leading data observability offerings.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing?

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erwin

JULY 12, 2019

In light of recent, high-profile data breaches, it’s past-time we re-examined strategic data governance and its role in managing regulatory requirements. for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). How erwin Can Help.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

DataOps practices help organizations overcome challenges caused by fragmented teams and processes and delays in delivering data in consumable forms. So how does data governance relate to DataOps? Data governance is a key data management process. Continuous Improvement Applied to Data Governance.

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Alation

MARCH 2, 2023

By contrast, continuously analyzing data ensures consumers can find, understand, and appropriately use the right data. Analysis, however, requires enterprises to find and collect metadata. This data about data is valuable. What Is Active Metadata Management?

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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 are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Despite soundings on this from leading thinkers such as Andrew Ng , the AI community remains largely oblivious to the important data management capabilities, practices, and – importantly – the tools that ensure the success of AI development and deployment. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed.

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erwin

APRIL 15, 2020

On a business level, decisions based on bad external data may have the potential to cause business failures. In business, data is the food that feeds the body or enterprise. Better data makes the body stronger and provides a foundation for the use of analytics and data science tools to reduce errors in decision-making.

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erwin

MARCH 8, 2019

GDPR) and to ensure peak business performance, organizations often bring consultants on board to help take stock of their data assets. This sort of data governance “stock check” is important but can be arduous without the right approach and technology. That’s where data governance comes in ….

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Like any good puzzle, metadata management comes with a lot of complex variables. That’s why you need to use data dictionary tools, which can help organize your metadata into an archive that can be navigated with ease and from which you can derive good information to power informed decision-making. Why Have a Data Dictionary? #1

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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

However, data needs to be easily accessible, usable, and secure to be useful — yet the opposite is too often the case. What’s worse, just 3% of the data in a business enterprise meets quality standards. There’s also no denying that data management is becoming more important, especially to the public.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage. Ensuring data quality and access within an organization, while establishing and maintaining proper governance processes, is a major struggle for many organizations. Data quality.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

To marry the epidemiological data to the population data it will require a tremendous amount of data intelligence about the: Source of the data; Currency of the data; Quality of the data; and. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Data lineage to support impact analysis.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ultra Mobile recently shared how it uses erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI) as part of a modern, ongoing approach to data governance and therefore control versus chaos. Being able to integrate all data touchpoints, including erwin DM for data modeling, Denodo for data visualization, and Jira for ticketing, has been key.

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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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CDW Research Hub

MAY 29, 2019

Data governance helps organizations manage their information and answer questions about business performance, allowing them to better understand data, and govern it to mitigate compliance risks and empower information stakeholders. Checklist: Building an Enterprise Data Governance Program.

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erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Many large organizations, in their desire to modernize with technology, have acquired several different systems with various data entry points and transformation rules for data as it moves into and across the organization. Who are the data owners? Data lineage offers proof that the data provided is reflected accurately.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

Despite these benefits, the core problems that data centralization so often fails to address are the pragmatic realities of many enterprise data ecosystems. These domain data leaders often cite the diminishing returns and significant effort of central data team engagement.

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O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We suspected that data quality was a topic brimming with interest. The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality. Data quality might get worse before it gets better.

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Octopai

JUNE 19, 2023

This availability of accurate and timely data enables business users to make informed decisions, improving overall business strategies. Data Catalogs also allow for Improved Collaboration by serving as a central repository for enterprise data, a data catalog facilitates collaboration among different teams.

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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.

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Alation

MAY 20, 2021

Alation has upgraded search with ranking that weights valuable social signals, and a new view that shares metadata alongside results. Searchers can now hunt through data domains, with filters that help them spotlight the best asset more quickly. When it comes to enterprise search, Alation has always led the industry.

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Centralization of metadata. A decade ago, metadata was everywhere. Consequently, useful metadata was unfindable and unusable. Then Alation came along.

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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. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted. Data Quality Obstacles.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like the proverbial man looking for his keys under the streetlight , when it comes to enterprise data, if you only look at where the light is already shining, you can end up missing a lot. If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

December 2012: Alation forms and goes to work creating the first enterprise data catalog. Later, in its inaugural report on data catalogs, Forrester Research recognizes that “Alation started the MLDC trend.”. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.

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Alation

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Diby Malakar joins as our new Vice President of Product Management, Cloud & Technical Metadata Platform and Jonathan Bruce is our new Vice President of Product Management, Catalog, Governance & Data Exploration Apps & Logical Metadata Platform. Oversee the connectors and lineage product areas.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Clarifying what data mesh is and how it works is important, but even more so is starting with the why. Why Organizations Need A Data Mesh The data mesh paradigm aims to address some of the biggest pain points for most organizations. This becomes particularly problematic when dealing with veracity of data.

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Alation

MAY 19, 2022

Establish what data you have. Active metadata gives you crucial context around what data you have and how to use it wisely. Active metadata provides the who, what, where, and when of a given asset, showing you where it flows through your pipeline, how that data is used, and who uses it most often. Data Governance.

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