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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

erwin

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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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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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations.

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Four Topics That Should Be Top of Mind for SAP Partners

Timo Elliott

With SAP Signavio, you can use Business Process Insights to see whether opportunities for these new composable applications, and then accompany any kind of digital transformation project. The next area is data. There’s a huge disruption around data. It works, but it’s a lot of hard work.

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AI at Scale isn’t Magic, it’s Data – Hybrid Data

Cloudera

Let this sink in a while – AI at scale isn’t magic, it’s data. What these data leaders are saying is that if you can’t do data at scale , you can’t possibly do AI at scale. Which means no digital transformation. Data and AI projects cost more and take longer. Data needs to be prepared and analyzed.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

June 2017: Dresner Advisory Services names Alation the #1 data catalog in its inaugural Data Catalog End-User Market Study. August 2017: Alation debuts as a leader in the Gartner MQ for Metadata Management Solutions. August 2018: Gartner names Alation a 2X Leader in the MQ for Metadata Management Solutions.