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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

“The challenge that a lot of our customers have is that requires you to copy that data, store it in Salesforce; you have to create a place to store it; you have to create an object or field in which to store it; and then you have to maintain that pipeline of data synchronization and make sure that data is updated,” Carlson said.

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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

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Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

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What Is a Metadata Catalog? (And How it Can Dramatically Improve Your Data Accuracy)

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If you’re a mystery lover, I’m sure you’ve read that classic tale: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Deceptive Data, and you know how a metadata catalog was a key plot element. In The Case of the Deceptive Data, Holmes is approached by B.I. He goes on to explain: Reasons for inaccurate data. Big data is BIG.

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Four Use Cases Proving the Benefits of Metadata-Driven Automation

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Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. As such, traditional – and mostly manual – processes associated with data management and data governance have broken down.

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How Cargotec uses metadata replication to enable cross-account data sharing

AWS Big Data

For this, Cargotec built an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake and cataloged the data assets in AWS Glue Data Catalog. They chose AWS Glue as their preferred data integration tool due to its serverless nature, low maintenance, ability to control compute resources in advance, and scale when needed.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets.

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Why Establishing Data Context is the Key to Creating Competitive Advantage

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Context: The Key to Making Data Useful It goes without saying that data without meaning can yield incorrect insights, leading to potentially dangerous decisions. Beyond that, and without a way to visualize, connect, and utilize the data, it’s still just a bunch of random information. How to Get a Semantic Edge?