erwin

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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.

Metadata 135

Metadata Data Governance Management Cost-Benefit 135

DataKitchen

JANUARY 5, 2021

Remote working has revealed the inconsistency and fragility of workflow processes in many data organizations. The data teams share a common objective; to create analytics for the (internal or external) customer. Data Science Workflow – Kubeflow, Python, R. Data Engineering Workflow – Airflow, ETL.

Testing 147

Testing Data Governance Metadata Visualization 147

erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

Data intelligence has a critical role to play in the supercomputing battle against Covid-19. While leveraging supercomputing power is a tremendous asset in our fight to combat this global pandemic, in order to deliver life-saving insights, you really have to understand what data you have and where it came from.

Metadata 122

Metadata IT Data Governance Data Quality 122

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

AWS Data Pipeline helps customers automate the movement and transformation of data. With Data Pipeline, customers can define data-driven workflows, so that tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks. Some customers want a deeper level of control and specificity than possible using Data Pipeline.

Visualization 116

Visualization Management Data Integration Testing 116

erwin

MAY 20, 2020

Data governance (DG) as a an “emergency service” may be one critical lesson learned coming out of the COVID-19 crisis. Where crisis leads to vulnerability, data governance as an emergency service enables organization management to direct or redirect efforts to ensure activities continue and risks are mitigated.

Data Governance 144

Data Governance Metadata Risk Strategy 144

erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

I’m excited to share the results of our new study with Dataversity that examines how data governance attitudes and practices continue to evolve. Defining Data Governance: What Is Data Governance? . 1 reason to implement data governance. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital.

Data Governance 145

Data Governance Metadata Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation 145

Cloudera

JULY 15, 2021

The release of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base edition provides customers with a next generation hybrid cloud architecture. Traditional data clusters for workloads not ready for cloud. Introduction and Rationale. Private Cloud Base Overview. Further information and documentation [link] . Summary of major changes.

Data Processing 102

Data Processing Metadata Testing Management 102

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

This blog post is co-written with Raj Samineni from ATPCO. In today’s data-driven world, companies across industries recognize the immense value of data in making decisions, driving innovation, and building new products to serve their customers.

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Metadata Sales Publishing 116

Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story. Donna Burbank.

Metadata 59

Metadata Management Business Intelligence Data Governance 59

AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2024

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, efficiently managing and synchronizing data within these lakes presents a significant challenge.

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Marketing Data Processing Management 116

Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This week I was talking to a data practitioner at a global systems integrator. The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality.

Data Governance 94

Data Governance Metadata Data Quality Enterprise 94

erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. They don’t know exactly what data they have or even where some of it is.

Metadata 104

Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Capital Fund Management ( CFM ) is an alternative investment management company based in Paris with staff in New York City and London. CFM assets under management are now $13 billion. Using social network data has also often been cited as a potential source of data to improve short-term investment decisions.

Interactive 111

Interactive Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Governance 111

erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. A single source of data truth helps companies begin to leverage data as a strategic asset.

Modeling 98

Modeling Metadata Data Governance Visualization 98

Ontotext

JUNE 10, 2021

And yeah, the real-world relationships among the entities represented in the data had to be fudged a bit to fit in the counterintuitive model of tabular data, but, in trade, you get reliability and speed. Ironically, relational databases only imply relationships between data points by whatever row or column they exist in.

Metadata 119

Metadata Cost-Benefit OLAP Modeling 119

AWS Big Data

MARCH 18, 2024

Many organizations operate data lakes spanning multiple cloud data stores. In these cases, you may want an integrated query layer to seamlessly run analytical queries across these diverse cloud stores and streamline your data analytics processes. To achieve this, Oktank envisions a unified data query layer using Athena.

Data Lake 131

Data Lake Analytics Cost-Benefit Management 131

erwin

MAY 31, 2019

It’s time to consider data-driven enterprise architecture. The traditional approach to enterprise architecture – the analysis, design, planning and implementation of IT capabilities for the successful execution of enterprise strategy – seems to be missing something … data. Data-Driven Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Migration.

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Data-driven Enterprise Metadata Strategy 104

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 26, 2024

4xlarge instances, providing observable gains for data processing tasks. In this post, we explore the performance benefits of using the Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg compared to running the same workloads with open source Spark 3.5.1 on Iceberg tables. Additionally, the cost efficiency improves by 2.2 workloads 4.5

Cost-Benefit 111

Cost-Benefit Testing Optimization Metrics 111

Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data catalogs have quickly become a core component of modern data management. Organizations with successful data catalog implementations see remarkable changes in the speed and quality of data analysis, and in the engagement and enthusiasm of people who need to perform data analysis.

Metadata 64

Metadata Data Lake Recreation/Entertainment Big Data 64

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In this blog post, we will highlight how ZS Associates used multiple AWS services to build a highly scalable, highly performant, clinical document search platform. ZS is a management consulting and technology firm focused on transforming global healthcare.

Unstructured Data 111

Unstructured Data Metadata Machine Learning Consulting 111

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 28, 2022

Data agility, the ability to store and access your data from wherever makes the most sense, has become a priority for enterprises in an increasingly distributed and complex environment. That’s where the data fabric comes in. Data fabric in action: Retail supply chain example. enterprises to minimize their time to value.

Data Warehouse 77

Data Warehouse Metadata Forecasting Predictive Modeling 77

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are going to talk about auditing, different security levels, security features of Data Catalog, and Client Considerations. Access audits are mastered centrally in Apache Ranger which provides comprehensive non-repudiable audit log for every access event to every resource with rich access event metadata such as: IP.

Data Lake 84

Data Lake Metadata IoT Enterprise 84

AWS Big Data

APRIL 5, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP), fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using existing business intelligence tools. A sample 256-bit data encryption key is generated and securely stored using AWS Secrets Manager.

Data Warehouse 98

Data Warehouse Management Business Intelligence Testing 98

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

Data Governance Risk Data-driven Measurement 92

Alation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalog growth are accelerating because organizations must integrate more systems, comply with privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns. What Is Master Data Management (MDM)? Data Catalog and Master Data Management.

Management 52

Management Data Quality Metadata Testing 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 9, 2023

Thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to build data warehouses to accelerate time to insights with fast, simple, and secure analytics at scale and analyze data from terabytes to petabytes by running complex analytical queries. The star schema is a popular data model for building data marts.

Slice and Dice 98

Slice and Dice Data Warehouse Metrics Metadata 98

Cloudera

MAY 1, 2023

Businesses everywhere have engaged in modernization projects with the goal of making their data and application infrastructure more nimble and dynamic. The newly introduced Environments feature allows you to export only the generic, reusable parts of code and resources, while managing environment-specific configuration separately.

Testing 79

Testing Management Data Processing IT 79

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Data is the new oil and organizations of all stripes are tapping this resource to fuel growth. However, data quality and consistency are one of the top barriers faced by organizations in their quest to become more data-driven. Unlock quality data with IBM. and its leading data observability offerings.

Data Quality 56

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Data-driven 56

Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

Included in the post are recommendations for measurement and data analysis. While I'm using the term Store here, it encompasses sales (or leads or catalog requests) driven to a retail store or company call center, people driven to donate blood via online campaigns, or essentially any offline outcome driven by the online channel.

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Modeling Advertising Marketing Measurement 154

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

This is a guest blog post co-written with Zack Rossman from Alcion. Alcion, a security-first, AI-driven backup-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, helps Microsoft 365 administrators quickly and intuitively protect data from cyber threats and accidental data loss. OpenSearch is an Apache-2.0-licensed, OpenSearch is an Apache-2.0-licensed,

Cost-Benefit 98

Cost-Benefit Modeling Management Optimization 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 25, 2022

Modern-day enterprises face a similar situation regarding data assets. On one side there is a need for data. Businesses ask: “Do we have this kind of data in the enterprise?” “How do we get that data?” “Can Can I trust that data?” This discussion is more relevant with the advent of data fabric.

Metadata 66

Metadata Enterprise Consulting Publishing 66

Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

And now, arguably the greatest rivalry the world (well, at least the data community) has ever witnessed: Data Fabric vs Data Mesh! Data fabric and data mesh are both having a moment. Gartner calls data fabric the Future of Data Management 1. Gartner on Data Fabric. Tyson vs Holyfield.

Data Lake 59

Data Lake Metadata Data-driven Data Governance 59

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Our recent blog discussed the four paths to get from legacy platforms to CDP Private Cloud Base. In this blog and accompanying video, we will deep dive into the mechanics of running an in-place upgrade from CDH5 or CDH6 to CDP Private Cloud Base. Zookeeper data. HDFS Master Node data directories. Hue dependencies.

Metadata 73

Metadata Testing Management Data-driven 73

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Data catalogs are here to stay. This week, two independent analyst reports validated what we’ve known for years – data catalogs are critical for self-service analytics.[1]. The Forrester Wave : Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q2 2018. This is Forrester’s inaugural Wave on data catalogs.

Machine Learning 52

Machine Learning Marketing Reporting Data-driven 52

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up. Ravaging data. Leverage Custom Alerts – Let Data Kick Your Butt Into Action. #3. In-Page Analytics – Re-imagine Traveling Through Data. #5. Exploit every possible button. Produce built-in visualization magic.

Analytics 146

Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 146

Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

Metadata 52

Metadata IT Data-driven Metrics 52

Andrew White

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you follow my blog for any period of time you will know that for most years I have attended our annual Gartner IT Symposium I do a day-in-the-life blog of an analyst. This time, since we were virtual I only managed to close out the week with the 1-1 summary. Data Hub Strategy 10. Data Integration tactics 4.

IT 52

IT Data Lake Data Science Strategy 52