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The Future of Data Lineage and the Role of Metadata

Alation

It’s important to realize that we need visibility into lineage and relationships between all data and data-related assets, including business terms, metric definitions, policies, quality rules, access controls, algorithms, etc. Active metadata will play a critical role in automating such updates as they arise. Why Focus on Lineage?

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Modernize your ETL platform with AWS Glue Studio: A case study from BMS

AWS Big Data

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

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Automated Metadata Management Tools: Why Some Companies Struggle and Others Flourish During Corona

Octopai

Organizations are turning to the cloud and automated metadata management tools to successfully manage their business’s data. Hear real use cases of BI teams who are leveraging metadata management automation on the cloud while working remotely Check out our webinar "BI During COVID-19." One word for you: Cloud. Watch the Webinar.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. Programs must support proactive and reactive change management activities for reference data values and the structure/use of master data and metadata.

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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Through use of data analytics, data visualization, and data modeling techniques and technologies, BI analysts can identify trends that can help other departments, managers, and executives make business decisions to modernize and improve processes in the organization.

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5 Ways Data Modeling Is Critical to Data Governance

erwin

That’s because it’s the best way to visualize metadata , and metadata is now the heart of enterprise data management and data governance/ intelligence efforts. Data modeling provides visibility, management and full version control over the lifecycle for data design, definition and deployment.

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How HR&A uses Amazon Redshift spatial analytics on Amazon Redshift Serverless to measure digital equity in states across the US

AWS Big Data

This dynamic tool, powered by AWS and CARTO, provided robust visualizations of which regions and populations were interacting with our survey, enabling us to zoom in quickly and address gaps in coverage. Figure 1: Workflow illustrating data ingesting, transformation, and visualization using Redshift and CARTO.