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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Why do we need a data catalog? What does a data catalog do? These are all good questions and a logical place to start your data cataloging journey. Data catalogs have become the standard for metadata management in the age of big data and self-service analytics. Figure 1 – Data Catalog Metadata Subjects.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

We discuss how they are running the business of IT and cover subjects like digital transformation, business/IT alignment, IT leadership, and leading innovation. Recently, I dug in with CIOs on the topic of data security. What came as no surprise was the importance CIOs place on taking a broader approach to data protection.

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jim Hare, distinguished VP and analyst at Gartner, says that some people think they need to take all the data siloed in systems in various business units and dump it into a data lake. But what they really need to do is fundamentally rethink how data is managed and accessed,” he says.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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.

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