Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to analysts, data governance programs have not shown a high success rate. According to CIOs , historical data governance programs were invasive and suffered from one of two defects: They were either forced on the rank and file — who grew to dislike IT as a result. The Risks of Early Data Governance Programs.

Data Governance 92

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Why is your data governance strategy failing?

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erwin

APRIL 15, 2020

During this coronavirus emergency, we are all being deluged by data from politicians, government agencies, news outlets, social media and websites, including valid facts but also opinions and rumors. Yay, data geeks! On a business level, decisions based on bad external data may have the potential to cause business failures.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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Data Governance Cost-Benefit Risk Metadata 106

Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

It’d be difficult to exaggerate the importance of data in today’s global marketplace, especially for firms which are going through digital transformation (DT). Using bad data, or the incorrect data can generate devastating results. Using bad data, or the incorrect data can generate devastating results.

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Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Several weeks ago (prior to the Omicron wave), I got to attend my first conference in roughly two years: Dataversity’s Data Quality and Information Quality Conference. Ryan Doupe, Chief Data Officer of American Fidelity, held a thought-provoking session that resonated with me. But what about governance rules that enforce quality?

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Data Quality Data Governance Metrics Statistics 94

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2023

In our last blog , we introduced Data Governance: what it is and why it is so important. In this blog, we will explore the challenges that organizations face as they start their governance journey. Organizations have long struggled with data management and understanding data in a complex and ever-growing data landscape.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Data governance is the process of ensuring the integrity, availability, usability, and security of an organization’s data. Due to the volume, velocity, and variety of data being ingested in data lakes, it can get challenging to develop and maintain policies and procedures to ensure data governance at scale for your data lake.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The importance of data governance is growing. Here at Alation, we’ve seen the demand for new robust governance capabilities skyrocket in the past year. With this change, we seek to better tailor our solution to the precise needs of each customer. Alation Data Governance App. Data Governance Service Offering.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

The construction of big data applications based on open source software has become increasingly uncomplicated since the advent of projects like Data on EKS , an open source project from AWS to provide blueprints for building data and machine learning (ML) applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

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Anmut

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Data governance - who's counting? The role of data governance. This large gap between reported figures raises tough questions on the reliability of COVID-19 tracking data. In dealing with situations like pandemic data, how important are aspects of data governance such as standardised definitions?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It was the bricks-and-mortar, merchandising experience versus the data-driven, near-limitless inventory and dynamic flexibility of e-commerce competitors. To meet this trend, retailers know that data is the key. The wide-open, greenfield opportunity presented by retail data in the early e-commerce days has also changed.

Data Governance 52

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually.

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Octopai

AUGUST 7, 2019

In the entire history of business, dealing with data has never been easier thanks to advances in computer processing, storage, and networking. – Storage: Data storage has become exponentially denser and cheaper over the years, and with cloud storage, companies don’t even need to invest in or maintain their own storage hardware.

Data Governance 49

Data Governance Metadata Reporting Enterprise 49

Octopai

JUNE 24, 2019

There are a number of scenarios that necessitate data governance tools. Businesses operating within strict industry regulations, utilizing analytics software, and/or regularly consolidating data in key subject areas will find themselves looking into data governance tools to help them achieve their goals.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Recent Government Initiatives on Public Sector AI Solutions In recent years, governments across the globe have recognized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and have embarked on initiatives to harness this technology to drive innovation and serve their citizens more effectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

For healthcare organizations, what’s below is data—vast amounts of data that LLMs will have to be trained on. This is where the healthcare industry has a distinct advantage because payers and providers are sitting on an enormous amount of existing data. In fact, the average hospital produces 50 petabytes of data a year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

After all, 41% of employees acquire, modify, or create technology outside of IT’s visibility , and 52% of respondents to EY’s Global Third-Party Risk Management Survey had an outage — and 38% reported a data breach — caused by third parties over the past two years.

IT 137

IT Risk Cost-Benefit Risk Management 137

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

You can innovate and protect your corporate data by running a private GenAI instance that affords you greater control over total cost of ownership, performance, security, and other critical factors. Plan the orchestration of people, processes, and technology within IT and be sure to incorporate governance policies and guardrails.

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Data Lake Consulting Uncertainty Risk 142

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

Data Lake 78

Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture Machine Learning 78

AWS Big Data

APRIL 25, 2024

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud at scale. By isolating workloads with specific security requirements or compliance needs, organizations can maintain the highest levels of data privacy and security.

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Metadata Data Processing Management Testing 101

Laminar Security

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In the age of cloud computing, data security and cost management are paramount for businesses. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) serves as a critical tool in this landscape, offering businesses a way to keep their data secure while also managing their cloud storage costs effectively.

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Octopai

APRIL 20, 2023

Octopai has recently expanded its offerings by introducing unique and comprehensive DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) coverage support for Power BI, SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services), and Tabular Analysis Services. To compute the sales performance metrics, DAX expressions are needed to aggregate the sales data based on different criteria.

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Sales Data Governance Reporting Optimization 78

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Data architects are frequently part of a data science team and tasked with leading data system projects.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2021

Metadata is information about data. Folks who work closely with data, like analysts, data scientists, and IT teams, rely on metadata to give them crucial context for how to use a given asset. Today, metadata is extremely helpful in classifying, describing, and providing critical information about digital data.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

erwin has once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner “2020 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.”. The post erwin Positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions for Second Year in a Row appeared first on erwin, Inc.

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Metadata Management Digital Transformation Data Governance 98

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Enterprise data management vendor Informatica on Wednesday said that it has acquired London-based startup Privitar for an undisclosed sum in order to boost the data access management capabilities of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Enterprise Applications

Management 52

Management Data Governance Enterprise IT 52

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like the proverbial man looking for his keys under the streetlight , when it comes to enterprise data, if you only look at where the light is already shining, you can end up missing a lot. Remember that dark data is the data you have but don’t understand. So how do you find your dark data? Analyze your metadata.

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IT Metadata Data-driven Data Governance 133

FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Understanding Healthcare BI Tools The Role of Healthcare BI Tools Healthcare BI tools are instrumental in revolutionizing decision-making processes and patient care through the utilization of advanced data analysis and technology.

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Digital Transformation Business Intelligence Data-driven Visualization 52

erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

At Sparkle, we’re a holistic data partner helping organizations increase their data maturity in a strategic yet pragmatic way. One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Technology 52

Laminar Security

JULY 19, 2023

Laminar Launches Two New Solutions to Become First Full Data Security Platform for Multi-Cloud and SaaS Environments In today’s data-driven world, cloud computing has become the backbone of innovation and growth for enterprises across all industries. Laminar’s forward-thinking approach addresses these requirements.

Data Warehouse 91

Data Warehouse Data-driven Data Governance Risk 91

Octopai

JUNE 22, 2023

In the era of big data, organizations are grappling with the challenge of effectively managing and leveraging vast amounts of data. Two prominent approaches have emerged: self-service data management and centralized data management. This approach offers greater control and reduces the risk of data inconsistencies.

Management 52

Management Data-driven Data Quality Data Governance 52

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says.

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IT Metadata Data-driven Management 143

Andrew White

JULY 5, 2023

I blogged recently about the high level of hype and confusion across Data and Analytics just a few months ago. Here is the original blog from March 2023: Summing Up Three Days at Gartner’s Data and Analytics Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA. The fact that there are different names is one thing. Too often they are conflated.

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Metrics Metadata Modeling Data Quality 52

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2 billion fine in 2023.

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Measurement Risk Data Collection Data Processing 83

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. The data is protected but it is also accessible by the people who need it. How does Cloudera support the evolution to optimal?

Metadata 78

Metadata Data Lake Optimization Modeling 78

Alation

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to the cloud, you want verifiable value — not a data diaspora. By now, the advantages of moving data to the cloud are obvious. Yet there’s more to a cloud migration strategy than, well, simply choosing to moving data to the cloud: How long will migration take? Amazon EMR. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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