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The Power of Active Metadata

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes As the volume, variety, and velocity of data continue to surge, organizations still struggle to gain meaningful insights. This is where active metadata comes in. Listen to “Why is Active Metadata Management Essential?” What is Active Metadata? ” on Spreaker.

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Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.

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How companies are building sustainable AI and ML initiatives

O'Reilly on Data

In other words, could we see a roadmap for transitioning from legacy cases (perhaps some business intelligence) toward data science practices, and from there into the tooling required for more substantial AI adoption? Data scientists and data engineers are in demand.

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Simplify and Improve Analytics with Self-Serve Data Prep!

Smarten

Business users cannot even hope to prepare data for analytics – at least not without the right tools. Gartner predicts that, ‘data preparation will be utilized in more than 70% of new data integration projects for analytics and data science.’ It’s simple.

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Are You Content with Your Organization’s Content Strategy?

Rocket-Powered Data Science

This is accomplished through tags, annotations, and metadata (TAM). granules) of the data collection for fast search, access, and retrieval is also important for efficient orchestration and delivery of the data that fuels AI, automation, and machine learning operations. Collect, curate, and catalog (i.e.,

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data. Programs must support proactive and reactive change management activities for reference data values and the structure/use of master data and metadata.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

March 2015: Alation emerges from stealth mode to launch the first official data catalog to empower people in enterprises to easily find, understand, govern and use data for informed decision making that supports the business. May 2016: Alation named a Gartner Cool Vendor in their Data Integration and Data Quality, 2016 report.