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Best Practices for Metadata Management

Alation

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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Alation + Soda: Dynamic Data Quality with the Data Catalog

Alation

Alation and Soda are excited to announce a new partnership, which will bring powerful data-quality capabilities into the data catalog. Soda’s data observability platform empowers data teams to discover and collaboratively resolve data issues quickly. Do we have end-to-end data pipeline control?

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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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Erwin Data Intelligence: A Data Partner’s Perspective

erwin

While the essence of success in data governance is people and not technology, having the right tools at your fingertips is crucial. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool. Next to data governance, data architecture is really embedded in our DNA.

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From Chaos to Control with Data Intelligence

erwin

Being able to integrate all data touchpoints, including erwin DM for data modeling, Denodo for data visualization, and Jira for ticketing, has been key. Using erwin DI, customers are powering comprehensive data governance initiatives, cloud migration and other massive digital transformation projects.

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What is Data Lineage? Top 5 Benefits of Data Lineage

erwin

An understanding of the data’s origins and history helps answer questions about the origin of data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports, including: How the report tables and columns are defined in the metadata? Who are the data owners? Data lineage offers proof that the data provided is reflected accurately.

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