Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

we are introducing Alation Anywhere, extending data intelligence directly to the tools in your modern data stack, starting with Tableau. We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Then Alation came along.

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Alation

APRIL 5, 2022

Data Management Meets Human Management. A well-oiled data governance machine comprises many parts, but what’s the most vital component? You and anyone else at your organization who uses data. Not everyone has to be a data expert — leave that to the actual experts. The Data Management Pizza Pie.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data curation is a term that has recently become a common part of data management vocabulary. Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. Curating data involves much more than storing data in a shared database.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. Govern data access across organizational boundaries.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

A core element of business today is the desire to become a data-driven organization. The key to data-driven success and maturity is data culture, and strong data culture begins with participation. A data catalog can be the catalyst that helps to break through the barrier with collaboration and crowdsourcing.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The same could be said about data governance : ask ten experts to define the term, and you’ll get eleven definitions and perhaps twelve frameworks. However it’s defined, data governance is among the hottest topics in data management. This is the final post in a four-part series discussing data culture.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

What Is Data Governance In The Public Sector? Effective data governance for the public sector enables entities to ensure data quality, enhance security, protect privacy, and meet compliance requirements. With so much focus on compliance, democratizing data for self-service analytics can present a challenge.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s time to migrate your business data to the Snowflake Data Cloud. The three of us talked migration strategy and the best way to move to the Snowflake Data Cloud. As Vice President of Data Governance at TMIC, Anthony has robust experience leading cloud migration as part of a larger data strategy.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Data Governance is growing essential. Data growth, shrinking talent pool, data silos – legacy & modern, hybrid & cloud, and multiple tools – add to their challenges. Hence, they are pursuing cloud transformation to help manage growth in data and cost. Alation and Snowflake Help You Scale Governance.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In this day and age, regardless of industry, keeping data protected and its uses understood is vital. No business wants to have the PR nightmare of a data leak or personal data being used without the correct permissions. This is where successful data governance programs can act as a savior to many organizations.

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erwin

JUNE 17, 2021

erwin by Quest just released the “ 2021 State of Data Governance and Empowerment” report. Today, data needs to fuel rapid decisions that make an organization more effective, customer-centric and competitive. Additionally, 85% monitor their databases and other data systems as part of their data governance programs.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Modern business is built on a foundation of trusted data. Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information.

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Alation

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As Santa and his advisors gathered in their post-beach recap of the 2021 holiday season, one thing grew clear: After a couple of “sleepy” years where everyone stayed home, 2022 was shaping up to be a full-on, in-person holiday — with two years of backed-up expectations on top! Trust flags tell me whether the data’s been naughty or nice!”.

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Cloudera

MARCH 4, 2024

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. In a good data governance strategy, it is important to define roles that allow the business to limit the level of access that users can have to their strategic data assets.

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Alation

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week, IDC released its second IDC MarketScape for Data Catalogs report, and we’re excited to share that Alation was recognized as a leader for the second consecutive time. But do they empower many user types to quickly find trusted data for a business decision or data model? You can download a copy of the report here.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist for GoDaddy, about data curation, data stewardship, and data catalogs. His focus is on business intelligence, analytics, big data, and data warehousing. What did that involve?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Organizations are looking for products that let them spend less time managing data and more time on core business functions. Data security is one of the key functions in managing a data warehouse. With Immuta integration with Amazon Redshift , user and data security operations are managed using an intuitive user interface.

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