Octopai

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Modern data processing depends on metadata management to power enhanced business intelligence. Metadata is of course the information about the data, and the process of managing it is mysterious to those not trained in advanced BI. In this article, you will learn: What does metadata management do?

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The Regulatory Rationale for Integrating Data Management & Data Governance. Now, as Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close – and ghosts and goblins roam the streets – we thought it a good time to resurrect some guidance on how data governance can make data security less scary.

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Cloudera

MARCH 9, 2021

In this blog, we’ll highlight the key CDP aspects that provide data governance and lineage and show how they can be extended to incorporate metadata for non-CDP systems from across the enterprise. The SDX layer of CDP leverages the full spectrum of Atlas to automatically track and control all data assets.

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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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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Fit for Purpose data has been a foundational concept of Data Governance for as long as I’ve been in the field…so that’s 10-15 years now. Most data quality definitions take Fit-for-Purpose as a given.

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Ontotext

AUGUST 19, 2020

Metadata used to be a secret shared between system programmers and the data. Metadata described the data in terms of cardinality, data types such as strings vs integers, and primary or foreign key relationships. Inevitably, the information that could and needed to be expressed by metadata increased in complexity.

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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

These data requirements could be satisfied with a strong data governance strategy. Governance can — and should — be the responsibility of every data user, though how that’s achieved will depend on the role within the organization. How can data engineers address these challenges directly?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Gartner predicts that “By 2020, 50% of information governance initiatives will be enacted with policies based on metadata alone.”. Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions , Guido de Simoni and Roxane Edjlali, August 10, 2017. Metadata management no longer refers to a static technical repository.

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TDAN

AUGUST 18, 2020

Standards exist for naming conventions, abbreviations and other pertinent metadata properties. Consistent business meaning is important because distinctions between business terms are not typically well defined or documented. What are the standards for writing […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

Without this important step, AI may produce inconsistent or inaccurate data that could put an organization in a risky gambit of leveraging insights that are not vetted. Setting and defining key terms A critical step for quality outputs is having data organized in a way that can be properly interpreted by an AI model.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A combined, interoperable suite of tools for data team productivity, governance, and security for large and small data teams. And the tools for acting on data are consolidating: Tableau does data prep, Altreyx does data science, Qlik joined with Talend, etc. Can that be done with minimal vendor tools?

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TDAN

APRIL 30, 2019

Roles and responsibilities are the backbone of a successful information or data governance program. To communicate effectively […].

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s no surprise that most organizations’ data is often fragmented and siloed across numerous sources (e.g., legacy systems, data warehouses, flat files stored on individual desktops and laptops, and modern, cloud-based repositories.). This also diminishes the value of data as an asset. Technical Metadata.

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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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TDAN

JANUARY 3, 2024

When looking at the world of IT and applied to the dichotomy of software and data, Deming’s quote applies to the software part of that pair. Edwards Deming, the father of statistical quality control, said: “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” The analogous […]

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Anmut

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Data governance - who's counting? The role of data governance. This large gap between reported figures raises tough questions on the reliability of COVID-19 tracking data. In dealing with situations like pandemic data, how important are aspects of data governance such as standardised definitions?

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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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TDAN

APRIL 2, 2019

If you are just starting out and feel overwhelmed by all the various definitions, explanations, and interpretations of data governance, don’t be alarmed. Even well-seasoned data governance veterans can struggle with the definition and explanation of what they do day to day.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice. Domain is the starting point of a customer’s journey with Amazon DataZone.

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erwin

JUNE 22, 2020

Earlier this year, erwin released its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) report. About 70 percent of the DGA report respondents – a combination of roles from data architects to executive managers – say they spend an average of 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.

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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

It also will come from HL7 hospital data, claims administration systems, care management systems, the Medicaid Management Information System, etc. These numerous data types and data sources most definitely weren’t designed to work together. As a result, the data may be compromised, rendering faulty analyses and insights.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool.

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Octopai

MAY 13, 2019

Many companies now struggle with their data because traditional approaches to managing it are increasingly inadequate. The Data Just Keeps on Coming…and Changing. In this situation, control of an organization’s data becomes nearly impossible. That something has to do with metadata management. First, the Bad News.

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erwin

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Defining Data Governance. to Data Governance 2.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2024

Harmonizing these data sets with centralized enterprise data faces increasing challenges as shifts to data definitions, schema, and architecture require constant central data team efforts. These domain data leaders often cite the diminishing returns and significant effort of central data team engagement.

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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. If you want more control over and more value from all your data, join us for a demo of erwin MM.

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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

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 7, 2021

Historically, moving legacy data to the cloud hasn’t been easy or fast. As businesses migrate from legacy systems to the cloud, data governance and data intelligence will become increasingly relevant to the C-suite and tools to automate and expedite the process will take center stage.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

With your employees connected and armed with data that paints a clear picture of the business, your organization is better prepared to turn its attention to whatever your strategic priority may be – i.e. digital transformation, customer experience, or withstanding this current (or future) crisis. So, what is data literacy?

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2023

By now, almost everyone across the tech landscape has heard of the Zero Trust (ZT) security model, which assumes that every device, application, or user attempting to access a network is not to be trusted (see NIST definitions below). Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX) is a core component of Cloudera Data Platform’s architecture.

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erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Application Logic: Application logic refers to the type of data processing, and can be anything from analytical or operational systems to data pipelines that ingest data inputs, apply transformations based on some business logic and produce data outputs.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 18, 2020

Whether it’s controlling for common risk factors—bias in model development, missing or poorly conditioned data, the tendency of models to degrade in production—or instantiating formal processes to promote data governance, adopters will have their work cut out for them as they work to establish reliable AI production lines.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

By providing a unified view of the data, the semantic layer helps ensure that different users and reports use consistent definitions and calculations, thereby helping to provide a single view of the customer.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Reporting being part of an effective DQM, we will also go through some data quality metrics examples you can use to assess your efforts in the matter. But first, let’s define what data quality actually is. What is the definition of data quality? 2 – Data profiling. This is definitely not in line with reality.

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Alation

MARCH 11, 2022

A data catalog with a Behavioral Analysis Engine will measure human behavior around data to locate your most valuable and actionable data. This data about data, AKA metadata , is an essential layer of your new meshy fabric. Tip 3: Never, ever skip data governance.

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