CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business. Doing Data Lineage Right.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. It seems anyone can make an AI model these days.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . Not surprisingly, the respondents that shaped the 2018 report ranked regulatory compliance as the No.

Data Governance 145

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture. Don’t try to do everything at once!

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Juice Analytics

APRIL 6, 2021

With our book , resources and workshops, we’ve shared guidance about what it takes to become a data fluent organization. Most of all, it starts with cultural habits that get people focused on using data in their decision-making. Habit 2: Create a shared vocabulary for your data What is an “active user”?

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Ontotext

MAY 2, 2024

Data leaders today are faced with an almost impossible challenge. They are expected to understand the entire data landscape and generate business-moving insights while facing the voracious needs of different teams and the constraints of technology architecture and compliance.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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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Smart Data Collective

JULY 15, 2021

A data catalog serves the same purpose. By using metadata (or short descriptions), data catalogs help companies gather, organize, retrieve, and manage information. You can think of a data catalog as an enhanced Access database or library card catalog system. It helps you locate and discover data that fit your search criteria.

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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to analysts, data governance programs have not shown a high success rate. According to CIOs , historical data governance programs were invasive and suffered from one of two defects: They were either forced on the rank and file — who grew to dislike IT as a result. The Risks of Early Data Governance Programs.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing? Common data governance challenges.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

Alation

JULY 15, 2022

Data ethics is both an imperative and an opportunity. New regulations covering data privacy and other ethical concerns require that enterprises govern internal data processes according to these new laws. I asked attendees: How often do you think about data ethics? What does data ethics mean to you?

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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. But the attempts to standardize data across the entire enterprise haven’t produced the desired results.

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FineReport

APRIL 26, 2023

As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the amount of data being generated on a daily basis is growing at an unprecedented rate. This has led to the emergence of the field of Big Data, which refers to the collection, processing, and analysis of vast amounts of data. What is Big Data? What is Big Data?

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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CDW Research Hub

AUGUST 12, 2020

What is your organization doing to protect the value of your data? A strong data governance strategy helps ensure that your data is usable, accessible and protected, guaranteeing trust in the quality and consistency of the data. But creating a data governance program is not something you can do overnight.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

It’s often difficult for businesses without a mature data or machine learning practice to define and agree on metrics. Fair warning: if the business lacks metrics, it probably also lacks discipline about data infrastructure, collection, governance, and much more.) Agreeing on metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

Metadata is information about data. Folks who work closely with data, like analysts, data scientists, and IT teams, rely on metadata to give them crucial context for how to use a given asset. Today, metadata is extremely helpful in classifying, describing, and providing critical information about digital data.

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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. Use Case #1: Customer 360 / Enterprise 360 Customer data is typically spread across multiple applications, departments, and regions. Several factors are driving the adoption of knowledge graphs. million users.

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datapine

JANUARY 21, 2020

Big data plays a crucial role in online data analysis , business information, and intelligent reporting. Companies must adjust to the ambiguity of data, and act accordingly. So, what is BI reporting advancing in a business? Let’s get started by asking the question “ What is business intelligence reporting?”.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. But governance is a time-consuming process (for users and data stewards alike).

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The bulk of these uncertainties do not revolve around what software package to pick or whether to migrate to the cloud; they revolve around how exactly to apply these powerful technologies and data with precision and control to achieve meaningful improvements in the shortest time possible.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Be data driven?" Six Rules For Creating A Data Driven Boss! Be data driven?" Slay The Analytics Data Quality Dragon & Win Your HiPPO's Love! Web Data Quality: A 6 Step Process To Evolve Your Mental Model. The Ultimate Web Analytics Data Reconciliation Checklist.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As of November 2023: Two-thirds (67%) of our survey respondents report that their companies are using generative AI. AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Two-thirds of our survey’s respondents (67%) report that their companies are using generative AI. of nonusers, 5.4%

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s necessary to say that these processes are recurrent and require continuous evolution of reports, online data visualization , dashboards, and new functionalities to adapt current processes and develop new ones. Working software over comprehensive documentation. Discover the available data sources.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Understanding the company’s true purpose unlocks the business model and sheds light on what is useful to do with the data. Since I work in the AI space, people sometimes have a preconceived notion that I’ll only talk about data and models. How did you obtain your training data? Source: Shane.

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datapine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

3) The Link Between White Label BI & Embedded Analytics 4) An Embedded BI Workflow Example 5) White Labeled Embedded BI Examples In the modern world of business, data holds the key to success. That said, data and analytics are only valuable if you know how to use them to your advantage. million per year.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

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. Quite simply, metadata is data about data.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To support verification in these areas, a product manager must first ensure that the AI system is capable of reporting back to the product team about its performance and usefulness over time. From a technical perspective, it is entirely possible for ML systems to function on wildly different data. I/O validation.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Sources, like IoT.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There’s also the risk of various forms of data leakage, including intellectual property (IP) as well as personally identifiable information (PII) especially with commercial AI solutions. That said, Generative AI and LLMs appear to do all of these things, producing original, “creative” outputs by learning from input data.

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. They don’t know exactly what data they have or even where some of it is.

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Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

erwin

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As organizations deal with managing ever more data, the need to automate data management becomes clear. Last week erwin issued its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) Report. One piece of the research that stuck with me is that 70% of respondents spend 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Connecting AI models to a myriad of data sources across cloud and on-premises environments AI models rely on vast amounts of data for training. Once trained and deployed, models also need reliable access to historical and real-time data to generate content, make recommendations, detect errors, send proactive alerts, etc.

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erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

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