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How Your Finance Team Can Lead Your Enterprise Data Transformation

Alation

Building a Data Culture Within a Finance Department. Our finance users tell us that their first exposure to the Alation Data Catalog often comes soon after the launch of organization-wide data transformation efforts. After all, finance is one of the greatest consumers of data within a business.

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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? What are the transformation rules? Data Governance.

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Top 6 Benefits of Automating End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

Business terms and data policies should be implemented through standardized and documented business rules. Compliance with these business rules can be tracked through data lineage, incorporating auditability and validation controls across data transformations and pipelines to generate alerts when there are non-compliant data instances.

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Data Preparation and Data Mapping: The Glue Between Data Management and Data Governance to Accelerate Insights and Reduce Risks

erwin

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. And there’s control of that landscape to facilitate insight and collaboration and limit risk.

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Enhance your analytics embedding experience with the new Amazon QuickSight JavaScript SDK

AWS Big Data

This can be done using the initiatePrint action: embeddedDashboard.initiatePrint(); The following code sample shows a loading animation, SDK code status, and dashboard interaction monitoring, along with initiating dashboard print from the application: Embedding demo $(document).ready(function()

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From Disparate Data to Visualized Knowledge Part I: Moving from Spreadsheets to an RDF Database

Ontotext

They’ve read some of the many available resources on the topic and seen Ontotext’s excellent product demos. OntoRefine is a data transformation tool that lets you unite plenty of data formats and get them into your triplestore. One of the core upsides of storing your data in that format is inference.

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Fabrics, Meshes & Stacks, oh my! Q&A with Sanjeev Mohan

Alation

We chatted about industry trends, why decentralization has become a hot topic in the data world, and how metadata drives many data-centric use cases. But, through it all, Mohan says it’s critical to view everything through the same lens: gaining business value from data. Data fabric is a technology architecture.