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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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What is Data Lineage? Top 5 Benefits of Data Lineage

erwin

An understanding of the data’s origins and history helps answer questions about the origin of data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports, including: How the report tables and columns are defined in the metadata? Who are the data owners? What are the transformation rules? Data Governance.

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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.