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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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Domain teams should continually monitor for data errors with data validation checks and incorporate data lineage to track usage. Establish and enforce data governance by ensuring all data used is accurate, complete, and compliant with regulations. For instance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Data mesh solves this by promoting data autonomy, allowing users to make decisions about domains without a centralized gatekeeper. It also improves development velocity with better data governance and access with improved data quality aligned with business needs.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is increasingly top-of-mind for customers as they recognize data as one of their most important assets. Effective data governance enables better decision-making by improving data quality, reducing data management costs, and ensuring secure access to data for stakeholders.

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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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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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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Cloudera Contributor: Mark Ramsey, PhD ~ Globally Recognized Chief Data Officer. July brings summer vacations, holiday gatherings, and for the first time in two years, the return of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Chief Data Officer symposium as an in-person event.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

However, a foundational step in evolving into a data-driven organization requires trusted, readily available, and easily accessible data for users within the organization; thus, an effective data governance program is key. Here are a few common data management challenges: Regulatory compliance on data use.

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Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

As the latest iteration in this pursuit of high-quality data sharing, DataOps combines a range of disciplines. It synthesizes all we’ve learned about agile, data quality , and ETL/ELT. In fact, DataOps places an outsized burden on data management teams. DataOps has emerged as an exciting solution.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of leveling the playing field for small businesses. Unless, of course, the rest of their data also resides in the Google Cloud. AWS Glue gave us a cost-efficient option to migrate the data and we further optimized storage cost by pruning cold data.

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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. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted. Data Quality Obstacles.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 18, 2018

That was the Science, here comes the Technology… A Brief Hydrology of Data Lakes. Overlapping with the above, from around 2012, I began to get involved in also designing and implementing Big Data Architectures; initially for narrow purposes and later Data Lakes spanning entire enterprises.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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Alation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s impossible for data teams to assure the data quality of such spreadsheets and govern them all effectively. If unaddressed, this chaos can lead to data quality, compliance, and security issues. I worked with financial analysts, data analysts, and business users.

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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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Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

The Role of Catalog in Data Security. As the facilitator of the #CIOChat, I get to have fascinating conversations with CIOs and other technology leaders. Recently, I dug in with CIOs on the topic of data security. Indeed, automation is a key element to data catalog features, which enhance data security.

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Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

Gartner predicts that graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations by 2025, up from 10% in 2021. As such, most large financial organizations have moved their data to a data lake or a data warehouse to understand and manage financial risk in one place. million users.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They have massive amounts of data they’re collecting and storing in their relational databases, document stores, data lakes, and data warehouses. But until they connect the dots across their data, they will stay in this stage. This is where graph technologies come in. We call this the “bad data tax.”

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 29, 2018

I have since run and driven transformation in Reference Data, Master Data , KYC [3] , Customer Data, Data Warehousing and more recently Data Lakes and Analytics , constantly building experience and capability in the Data Governance , Quality and data services domains, both inside banks, as a consultant and as a vendor.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

A data lakehouse is an emerging data management architecture that improves efficiency and converges data warehouse and data lake capabilities driven by a need to improve efficiency and obtain critical insights faster. Let’s start with why data lakehouses are becoming increasingly important.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. You can visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

However, they do contain effective data management, organization, and integrity capabilities. As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. On the other hand, they don’t support transactions or enforce data quality.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Although the enterprise data landscape is littered with new data technology and offerings, the most pressing problem data teams face today isn’t a lack of technology or skills; it’s not knowing how to create a modern data experience. They cover the utilization of data and specify the required data quality.

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

Thoughtworks says data mesh is key to moving beyond a monolithic data lake. Spoiler alert: data fabric and data mesh are independent design concepts that are, in fact, quite complementary. Thoughtworks says data mesh is key to moving beyond a monolithic data lake 2. Gartner on Data Fabric.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 15, 2022

You can leverage Kubernetes (K8s) and containerization technologies to consistently deploy your applications across multiple clouds including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with portability to write once, run anywhere, and move from cloud to cloud with ease. Only metadata will be regenerated. Data quality using table rollback.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the technology industry, even the most incremental trends often get framed in next-generation terminology. DataOps sprung up to connect data sources to data consumers. The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. Tools became stacks.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 30, 2022

For state and local agencies, data silos create compounding problems: Inaccessible or hard-to-access data creates barriers to data-driven decision making. Legacy data sharing involves proliferating copies of data, creating data management, and security challenges. Deploying modern data architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

What companies need more than anything is good data for ESG reporting. That means ensuring ESG data is available, transparent, and actionable, says Ivneet Kaur, EVP and chief information technology officer at identity services provider Sterling. There are several things you need to report attached to that number.”

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AWS Step Functions is a fully managed visual workflow service that enables you to build complex data processing pipelines involving a diverse set of extract, transform, and load (ETL) technologies such as AWS Glue , Amazon EMR , and Amazon Redshift. There are multiple tables related to customers and order data in the RDS database.

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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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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

Data governance has always required a combination of people, processes and technology to work. The good news is that technology has evolved significantly, offering new advantages to companies that commit to data governance best practices. Availability: Make the right data available only to the right users.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

Businesses face significant hurdles when preparing data for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The existence of data silos and duplication, alongside apprehensions regarding data quality, presents a multifaceted environment for organizations to manage.

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Alation

JUNE 21, 2022

Analysts didn’t just want to catalog data sources, they wanted to include dashboards, reports, and visualizations. Why start with a data source and build a visualization, if you can just find a visualization that already exists, complete with metadata about it? Data engineers want to catalog data pipelines.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Data security The travel industry collects, transmits, processes, and stores a wide range of personally identifiable information (PII) from customers, which are of interest to bad actors, as cybercriminals target this valuable data. Using Alation, ARC automated the data curation and cataloging process. “So

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 18, 2024

AWS Lake Formation and the AWS Glue Data Catalog form an integral part of a data governance solution for data lakes built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with multiple AWS analytics services integrating with them. In 2022 , we talked about the enhancements we had done to these services. Bien intégré!

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Ontotext

AUGUST 4, 2023

Working across data islands leads to siloed thinking and the inability to implement critical business initiatives such as Customer, Product, or Asset 360. As data is generated, stored, and used across data centers, edge, and cloud providers, managing a distributed storage environment is complex with no map to guide technology professionals.

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