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How Your Finance Team Can Lead Your Enterprise Data Transformation

Alation

Building a Data Culture Within a Finance Department. Our finance users tell us that their first exposure to the Alation Data Catalog often comes soon after the launch of organization-wide data transformation efforts. After all, finance is one of the greatest consumers of data within a business.

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Data Preparation and Data Mapping: The Glue Between Data Management and Data Governance to Accelerate Insights and Reduce Risks

erwin

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. Creating a High-Quality Data Pipeline.

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What is Data Lineage? Top 5 Benefits of Data Lineage

erwin

Business terms and data policies should be implemented through standardized and documented business rules. Compliance with these business rules can be tracked through data lineage, incorporating auditability and validation controls across data transformations and pipelines to generate alerts when there are non-compliant data instances.

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Top 6 Benefits of Automating End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

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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The What & Why of Data Governance

erwin

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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Tackling AI’s data challenges with IBM databases on AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

  Request a live demo or start a proof of concept with Amazon RDS for Db2 Db2 Warehouse SaaS on AWS The cloud-native Db2 Warehouse fulfills your price and performance objectives for mission-critical operational analytics, business intelligence (BI) and mixed workloads.

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Fabrics, Meshes & Stacks, oh my! Q&A with Sanjeev Mohan

Alation

But there are only so many data engineers available in the market today; there’s a big skills shortage. So to get away from that lack of data engineers, what data mesh says is, ‘Take those business logic data transformation capabilities and move that to the domains.’ Subscribe to Alation's Blog.