Ontotext

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2023, data leaders and enthusiasts were enamored of — and often distracted by — initiatives such as generative AI and cloud migration. Without this, organizations will continue to pay a “bad data tax” as AI/ML models will struggle to get past a proof of concept and ultimately fail to deliver on the hype.

Strategy 52

Strategy Management Metadata Data-driven 52

Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

More Businesses Are Taking a Holistic Approach to Data Strategy One of the more common trends we saw coming up through conversations during the summit was the need for a reframing of how we approach data strategy—taking a much more holistic viewpoint to it than organizations otherwise would have in past years.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I delivered this series of questions focused on relating their need for an over-arching data strategy with the […]. The purpose of the Q&A was to assist her with determining the most appropriate messaging to share across the company.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At the recent InfoGovWorld conference, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the future of Data Governance. Common themes were the growing importance of governance metadata, especially in the areas of business value, success measurement and reduction in operational and data risk.

Metadata 52

Metadata Management Data Governance Measurement 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Monitor and identify data quality issues closer to the source to mitigate the potential impact on downstream processes or workloads. Efficiently adopt data platforms and new technologies for effective data management. Apply metadata to contextualize existing and new data to make it searchable and discoverable.

Data Quality 52

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

Metadata 52

Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 52

Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and strategy for growth. The first step towards a successful data governance strategy is setting appropriate goals and milestones. Yet, so many companies today are still failing miserably in implementing data strategy and governance protocols.

Data Governance 96

Data Governance Strategy Data Quality Metrics 96

TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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TDAN

JULY 20, 2021

They use data better. How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates value for their users by providing a more personalized experience.

Metadata 119

Metadata Machine Learning Data Architecture Data Strategy 119

TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

Metadata 98

Metadata Enterprise IT Data Architecture 98

TDAN

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and growth strategy. But what […].

Data Governance 115

Data Governance Strategy Measurement IT 115

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

The data you’ve collected and saved over the years isn’t free. If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata. If you’ve yet to implement data governance, this is another great reason to get moving quickly.

IT 133

IT Metadata Data-driven Data Governance 133

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data discoverability Unlike structured data, which is managed in well-defined rows and columns, unstructured data is stored as objects.

Data Governance 93

Data Governance Unstructured Data Metadata Data Lake 93

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

Data Architecture 131

Data Architecture Data Warehouse Statistics Visualization 131

erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. SQL or NoSQL?

Data-driven 138

Data-driven Modeling Metadata Data Governance 138

TDAN

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever before. The importance of quality data cannot be overstated.

Data Quality 90

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Management 90

TDAN

JANUARY 5, 2021

In this age, data management has become a necessary routine. Organizations have started to uncover large sets of data in the form of Assets typically used for analysis and decision making. Understandably, Data Catalogs […].

Metadata 52

Metadata Management IT Data Governance 52

TDAN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In my last article I suggested that many organizations have approached Data Governance incorrectly using only centralize data governance teams and that approach is not working for many.

Data Governance 76

Data Governance Metadata Data Strategy Strategy 76

AWS Big Data

APRIL 26, 2023

Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more. This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron.

Metadata 52

Metadata Dashboards Visualization Consulting 52

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2023

The revised ZTMM is organized by five categories or pillars: identity, devices, networks, applications and workloads, and data, and four levels of maturity: traditional, initial, advanced, and optimal. Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX) is a core component of Cloudera Data Platform’s architecture.

Metadata 79

Metadata Data Lake Optimization Modeling 79

TDAN

MAY 2, 2023

Achieving Enterprise Data Awareness is a natural maturity progression within the governance domain. At this stage, companies rightly see Data Governance and Information Governance as a large metadata puzzle.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Metadata Data Governance Data Strategy 52

TDAN

MAY 17, 2022

There is… but one… Data Governance. Maybe you are one who believes that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0, or maybe even that […].

Data Governance 98

Data Governance Metadata Big Data Data Strategy 98

Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

With a good plan and a modern data catalog, you can minimize the time and cost of cloud migration. Source: Webinar with data expert Ibby Rahmani: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture: What’s the Next Big Thing? Alation & Global Data Strategy). Creating A Cloud Migration Strategy. Manage Costs.

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Cost-Benefit Strategy Enterprise Data Strategy 111

Ontotext

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

‘Data Fabric’ has reached where ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Grid Computing’ once trod. Data Fabric hit the Gartner top ten in 2019. The Data Fabric paradigm combines design principles and methodologies for building efficient, flexible and reliable data management ecosystems.

Metadata 69

Metadata Knowledge Discovery Data Quality Strategy 69

Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

In our very own Enterprise Data Maturity research surveying over 3,000 IT and senior business leaders, we found that 40% of organizations are currently running hybrid but mostly on-premises, and 36% of respondents expect to shift to hybrid multi-cloud in the next 18 months. Where data flows, ideas follow.

IT 108

IT Data Architecture Unstructured Data Big Data 108

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

In our very own Enterprise Data Maturity research surveying over 3,000 IT and senior business leaders, we found that 40% of organizations are currently running hybrid but mostly on-premises, and 36% of respondents expect to shift to hybrid multi-cloud in the next 18 months. Where data flows, ideas follow.

IT 97

IT Data Architecture Unstructured Data Big Data 97

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These included metadata design and development, quantitative analysis, regression analysis, continuous integration, data analytics, data strategy, identity and access management, machine learning, natural language processing, and more.

Testing 98

Testing Metadata Data Processing Machine Learning 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. Why you should automate data governance and how a data fabric architecture helps.

Data-driven 58

Data-driven Enterprise Data Governance Data Lake 58

Cloudera

JANUARY 5, 2023

Data contains valuable insights for critical business decision-making, and the most innovative and successful organizations recognize data as a strategic resource that demands its own strategy. How this strategy looks depends on the organization’s unique business needs as one affects the other.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Business Objectives Machine Learning Data Architecture 52

TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

Is your organization struggling to succeed with your Data Governance program? Data Governance occurs best when done in conjunction with the business processes and not as a “bolt on”/additional activity. Many organizations have attempted to implement Data Governance and their business glossary with a very limited […].

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Data Governance Metadata Data Strategy Business Intelligence 56

Data Virtualization

AUGUST 4, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month, IDC announced that LeasePlan, a car-as-a-service company, was the winner of IDC’s European Data Strategy and Innovation awards, in the category of Data Management Excellence, for LeasePlan’s logical data fabric. This is a testament to the maturity of.

Data Strategy 52

Data Strategy Data Integration Strategy Management 52

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Conclusion Data-driven organizations are transitioning to a data product way of thinking. Utilizing strategies like data mesh generates value on a large scale. We took this a step further by creating a blueprint to create smart recommendations by linking similar data products using graph technology and ML.

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Technology Data-driven Machine Learning Sales 80

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

Data Strategy 67

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 67

TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but perhaps the Metadata wedge the most. Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I thought I’d spend a bit of time to reflect on the question and answer […].

Metadata 88

Metadata Data Architecture IT Data Strategy 88

TDAN

JANUARY 19, 2021

It’s been a while since I’ve written about the goals and objectives of an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Program and how organizations achieve and sustain significant improvements in fundamental data management disciplines in their journey to Great Data. In this series of columns, we’re going to explore “What Good Looks Like.”

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Strategy Management Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

They enable transactions on top of data lakes and can simplify data storage, management, ingestion, and processing. These transactional data lakes combine features from both the data lake and the data warehouse. One important aspect to a successful data strategy for any organization is data governance.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past few months, my team in Castlebridge and I have been working with clients delivering training to business and IT teams on data management skills like data governance, data quality management, data modelling, and metadata management.

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Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Management 52