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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

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 in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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How Metadata Makes Data Meaningful

erwin

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 in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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SAP Datasphere review: turning data from a technical problem to a business data product.

Jen Stirrup

However, to turn data into a business problem, organizations need support to move away from technical issues to start getting value as quickly as possible. SAP Datasphere simplifies data integration, cataloging, semantic modeling, warehousing, federation, and virtualization through a unified interface. Why is this interesting?

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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.

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Please vote before May 11! 2022 DBTA Reader’s Choice Awards

erwin

In data warehousing, the data is extracted and transported from production database(s) into a data warehouse for reporting and analysis. Change Data Capture identifies and processes only the data that has changed and stores the changed data in a form so as to be of further use.

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Fivetran Modern Data Stack Conference 2023: Key Takeaways

Alation

Last week, the Alation team had the privilege of joining IT professionals, business leaders, and data analysts and scientists for the Modern Data Stack Conference in San Francisco. In “The modern data stack is dead, long live the modern data stack!” Cloud costs are growing prohibitive.

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Strategically Approaching Graph Technologies

Ontotext

Firstly, on the data maturity spectrum, the vast majority of organizations I’ve spoken with are stuck in the information stage. They have massive amounts of data they’re collecting and storing in their relational databases, document stores, data lakes, and data warehouses. Let’s summarize very quickly.