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).

Data Governance 59

Data Governance Risk Data Quality Dashboards 59

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

At Vanguard, “data and analytics enable us to fulfill on our mission to provide investors with the best chance for investment success by enabling us to glean actionable insights to drive personalized client experiences, scale advice, optimize investment and business operations, and reduce risk,” Swann says.

Data Strategy 136

Data Strategy Strategy Unstructured Data Data Governance 136

Octopai

MAY 15, 2023

Here are some common cost areas where data lineage can be beneficial: Infrastructure and storage costs: Data lineage allows organizations to understand data usage patterns, access frequencies, and data dependencies. Data quality costs: Poor data quality can result in significant costs for organizations.

Data Quality 52

Data Quality Data Governance Data Integration Risk 52

Timo Elliott

MAY 19, 2023

With a workforce of approximately 33,900 employees, the company faced challenges managing data across its divisions, which led to inefficiencies and sub-optimal data hygiene. The need for a unified data system was pressing, and the journey to a data-driven culture started in 2017. It’s always about people!

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Data-driven Digital Transformation Data Quality Optimization 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

That’s where we currently are from a literacy perspective, showing people a multivariate data capability, how they can work with each other, and what data literacy means to the overall system. But what are we doing to optimize your experience and make sure you’re being billed in one place?

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Data Architecture Reporting 98

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Ensure that data is cleansed, consistent, and centrally stored, ideally in a data lake. Data preparation, including anonymizing, labeling, and normalizing data across sources, is key. You’ll also institute guardrails for data governance, data quality, data integrity, and data security.

Data Lake 142

Data Lake Consulting Uncertainty Risk 142

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Optimize your Kafka environment by using a schema registry. A schema registry is essentially an agreement of the structure of your data within your Kafka environment. A schema registry also validates evolution of schemas. What’s next? Event Streams on IBM Cloud provides a Schema Registry as part of its Enterprise plan.

Data Quality 105

Data Quality Metadata Data-driven Optimization 105

Jim Harris

JUNE 30, 2016

In a recent interview, Jill Dyché explained a common misconception, namely that a data governance framework is not a strategy. Unlike other strategic initiatives that involve IT,” Jill explained, “data governance needs to be designed. Or how the puzzle pieces will fit together within your unique corporate culture?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2023

They’re spending a lot of time on things like data quality, data management, things that might be tactical, helping with operational aspects of IT. Organizations are still investing in data and analytics functions. million, and 44% said their data and analytics teams increased in size over the past year.

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Data-driven Data Quality Strategy Reporting 145

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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Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 52

Cloudera

MARCH 22, 2023

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is no different: it’s a hybrid data platform that meets organizations’ needs to get to grips with complex data anywhere, turning it into actionable insight quickly and easily. And, crucial for a hybrid data platform, it does so across hybrid cloud. As observability evolves, so will CDP.

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Metrics Data Governance Cost-Benefit Dashboards 85

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

However, as data volumes continue to grow, manual approaches to metadata management are sub-optimal and can result in missed opportunities. Suppose that a new data asset becomes available but remains hidden from your data consumers because of improper or inadequate tagging. Improve data discovery.

Metadata 57

Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 57

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Key elements of this foundation are data strategy, data governance, and data engineering. A healthcare payer or provider must establish a data strategy to define its vision, goals, and roadmap for the organization to manage its data. This is the overarching guidance that drives digital transformation.

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Unstructured Data Digital Transformation Data Strategy Modeling 98

FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Benefits of Utilizing BI Tools The utilization of data analysis tools such as business intelligence software offers numerous benefits for organizations seeking to gain a competitive edge in today’s dynamic market landscape. This results in optimized resource utilization and cost efficiencies while enhancing overall productivity.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Software Data-driven Predictive Modeling 52

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Third, in the CDO Agenda: 2024: Navigating Data and Generative AI Frontiers , 57% of respondents haven’t changed their data environments to support generative AI. For example, McKinsey estimates enterprises can cut 15% to 20% of cloud costs through optimizations, and implementing finops practices is one opportunity.

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Digital Transformation Unstructured Data Machine Learning Risk Management 143

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 10, 2023

To further the above, organizations should have the right foundation that consists of a modern data governance approach and data architecture. It’s becoming critical that organizations should adopt a data architecture that supports AI governance.

Strategy 93

Strategy Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Reporting 93

erwin

MAY 6, 2020

However, as we have seen with data surrounding the COVID situation itself, incorrect, incomplete or misunderstood data turn these “what-if” exercises into “WTF” solutions. Automate data management, data intelligence and data governance practices. Create always-available and always-transparent data pipelines.

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Cost-Benefit Data Governance Uncertainty Data-driven 94

Anmut

MARCH 22, 2023

Anmut’s own clients estimate that poor data quality and availability causes at least 16% additional cost per year. Worse still, these organisations’ competitors are actually pouring twice as many resources into creating value from their data assets, giving them a massive advantage.

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Measurement Modeling Data Quality Data Governance 52

Alation

MARCH 2, 2023

It does feel, however, as if we need jet-like speed to analyze and understand our data, who is using it, how it is used, and if it is being used to drive value. With lots of data comes yet more calls for automation, optimization, and productivity initiatives to put that data to good use.

Metadata 52

Metadata Marketing IT Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

We wanted to know if the line was optimized. We got some real savings from moving operational data about the deboning machines into the data lake. Use your governance structures to pick a business case that’s very important to the business, nail it, and then go get the next two or three. It will mushroom from there.

Data Lake 135

Data Lake Data-driven Dashboards Risk 135

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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Unstructured Data Data Lake Prescriptive Analytics Digital Transformation 105

Alation

JUNE 2, 2022

In part one of this series, I discussed how data management challenges have evolved and how data governance and security have to play in such challenges, with an eye to cloud migration and drift over time. All Machine Learning uses “algorithms,” many of which are no different from those used by statisticians and data scientists.

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Modeling Data Governance Statistics Unstructured Data 52

bridgei2i

MARCH 11, 2021

Easily understandable, highly curated, and reliable data helps Machine Learning (ML) tools evolve. As long as small businesses don’t have efficient data governance strategies, they can’t properly use AI and ML-powered tools. What is a Data Governance Strategy? They have access to large amounts of data.

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Key Performance Indicator Data Governance Data Lake Metadata 52

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Whether it’s deeper data analysis, optimization of business processes or improved customer experiences , having a well-defined purpose and plan will ensure that the adoption of AI aligns with the broader business goals. Establish a data governance framework to manage data effectively. What is an AI strategy?

Strategy 78

Strategy Business Objectives Cost-Benefit Consulting 78

AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Flexible and easy to use – The solutions should provide less restrictive, easy-to-access, and ready-to-use data. They should also provide optimal performance with low or no tuning. A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated.

Analytics 74

Analytics Data Warehouse Data Lake Metadata 74

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

CompTIA Data+ The CompTIA Data+ certification is an early-career data analytics certification that validates the skills required to facilitate data-driven business decision-making. They know how to assess data quality and understand data security, including row-level security and data sensitivity.

Big Data 126

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Predictive Modeling 126

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2023

All of this renewed attention on data and AI, however, brings greater potential risks for those companies that have less advanced data strategies. As these trends continue to evolve, building your data strategy around the principles of openness and governance assures trust in the data.

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Internet of Things Strategy Data Strategy Risk 104

O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

If this sounds fanciful, it’s not hard to find AI systems that took inappropriate actions because they optimized a poorly thought-out metric. CTRs are easy to measure, but if you build a system designed to optimize these kinds of metrics, you might find that the system sacrifices actual usefulness and user satisfaction.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Data intelligence transforms the way industries operate by enabling businesses to hasten the process of analyzing and understanding the derived information with its more understandable models and aggregated trends. UPS employed the Orion route optimization system and was able to cut down 364 million miles from its routes globally.

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Key Performance Indicator KPI Data-driven Machine Learning 103

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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Data Governance Metadata Data Quality Risk Management 89

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Harness data for ESG transparency As a recent Deloitte Insights article points out: “Investors, regulators, customers, and supply chain partners are demanding greater transparency into climate and sustainability reporting and results. Data management, automation, analytics is critical to reviewing our progress in ESG,” she says. “As

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IT Internet of Things Reporting Cost-Benefit 131

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Launching a data-first transformation means more than simply putting new hardware, software, and services into operation. True transformation can emerge only when an organization learns how to optimally acquire and act on data and use that data to architect new processes.

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Digital Transformation Strategy Data-driven Data Strategy 132

Alation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Leveraging human activity alongside machine learning is the key to building out data intelligence solutions. Indeed, this is how we built the market-leading data governance application : by learning from the human signals around the data and automating key processes with AI and machine learning. Data Privacy.

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Machine Learning Data Governance Software Metadata 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 8, 2024

They can optimize their supply chains, create delightful, personalized experiences for their customers, proactively identify quality issues or intercept customer churn before it occurs.  It includes a built-in schema registry to validate event data from applications as expected, improving data quality and reducing errors.

Data-driven 79

Data-driven Management Advertising Enterprise 79

Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare leaders face a quandary: how to use data to support innovation in a way that’s secure and compliant? Data governance in healthcare has emerged as a solution to these challenges. Uncover intelligence from data. Protect data at the source. What is Data Governance in Healthcare?

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Data Governance Measurement Metrics Modeling 52

FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

Contemporary dashboards surpass basic visualization and reporting by utilizing financial analytics to amalgamate diverse financial and accounting data, empowering analysts to delve further into the data and uncover valuable insights that can optimize cost-efficiency and enhance profitability.

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Dashboards Key Performance Indicator Metrics Visualization 52

Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Not only is it critical to protect data, but data governance is also the foundation for data-driven businesses and maximizing value from data analytics. But it’s still not easy. But it’s still not easy.

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