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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erwin

MAY 20, 2020

Data governance (DG) as a an “emergency service” may be one critical lesson learned coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. Where crisis leads to vulnerability, data governance as an emergency service enables organization management to direct or redirect efforts to ensure activities continue and risks are mitigated.

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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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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

How can companies protect their enterprise data assets, while also ensuring their availability to stewards and consumers while minimizing costs and meeting data privacy requirements? Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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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). Five Steps to GDPR/CCPA Compliance. How erwin Can Help.

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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

As someone who is passionate about the transformative power of technology, it is fascinating to see intelligent computing – in all its various guises – bridge the schism between fantasy and reality. This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation.

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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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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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Alation

MARCH 2, 2023

Analysis, however, requires enterprises to find and collect metadata. This data about data is valuable. It tells users which assets are most popular, how they’re used, properly governed, powerfully combined, and much more. What Is Active Metadata Management?

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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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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

One of the first steps organizations take when preparing to deliver a data governance program is to determine where in the organization data governance should be placed. Or in other words, who should own data governance?

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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 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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Data Virtualization

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Reading Time: 2 minutes Data mesh is a modern, distributed data architecture in which different domain based data products are owned by different groups within an organization. And data fabric is a self-service data layer that is supported in an orchestrated fashion to serve.

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erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

With an automation framework, data professionals can meet these needs at a fraction of the cost of the traditional manual way. In data governance terms, an automation framework refers to a metadata-driven universal code generator that works hand in hand with enterprise data mapping for: Pre-ETL enterprise data mapping.

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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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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data is a key asset for businesses in the modern world. That’s why many organizations invest in technology to improve data processes, such as a machine learning data pipeline. However, data needs to be easily accessible, usable, and secure to be useful — yet the opposite is too often the case.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2020

We’re excited about our recognition as a March 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Metadata Management Solutions. This automation results in greater accuracy, faster analysis and better decision-making for data governance and digital transformation initiatives.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

With the arrival of the latest AI-powered technologies like large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI), there’s a vast amount of opportunities for innovation, growth, and improved business outcomes right around the corner. All of that technology, though, depends on data to be successful.

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Octopai

JUNE 24, 2019

There are a number of scenarios that necessitate data governance tools. Businesses operating within strict industry regulations, utilizing analytics software, and/or regularly consolidating data in key subject areas will find themselves looking into data governance tools to help them achieve their goals.

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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. As technology evolves, this function will allow for a company’s specific lexicon to be accounted for and processed through an AI platform.

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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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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

To do this, the consortium will need the ability to automatically scan and catalog the data sources and apply strict data governance and quality practices. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata. If you’ve been properly managing your metadata as part of a broader data governance policy, you can use metadata management explorers to reveal silos of dark data in your landscape.

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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. Creating a High-Quality Data Pipeline.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

We took this a step further by creating a blueprint to create smart recommendations by linking similar data products using graph technology and ML. In this post, we showed how an organization can augment a data catalog with additional metadata by using ML and Neptune with an automated process. His Amazon author page

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Not Documenting End-to-End Data Lineage Is Risky Busines – Understanding your data’s origins is key to successful data governance. Not everyone understands what end-to-end data lineage is or why it is important. Who are the data owners? Five Consequences of Ignoring Data Lineage.

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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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erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. 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 Governance.

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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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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 29, 2019

In 2018, we decided to run a follow-up survey to determine whether companies’ machine learning (ML) and AI initiatives are sustainable—the results of which are in our recently published report, “ Evolving Data Infrastructure.”.

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erwin

JULY 2, 2020

This matters because, as he said, “By placing the data and the metadata into a model, which is what the tool does, you gain the abilities for linkages between different objects in the model, linkages that you cannot get on paper or with Visio or PowerPoint.” Data Modeling with erwin Data Modeler. George H., For Rick D.,

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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