Alation

JULY 19, 2021

What Is Metadata? Metadata is information about data. A clothing catalog or dictionary are both examples of metadata repositories. Indeed, a popular online catalog, like Amazon, offers rich metadata around products to guide shoppers: ratings, reviews, and product details are all examples of metadata.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

If you include the title of this blog, you were just presented with 13 examples of heteronyms in the preceding paragraphs. Specifically, in the modern era of massive data collections and exploding content repositories, we can no longer simply rely on keyword searches to be sufficient. Data catalogs are very useful and important.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

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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.

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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. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. The results showed that (among those surveyed) approximately 90% of enterprise analytics applications are being built on tabular data.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. So it’s safe to say that organizations can’t reap the rewards of their data without automation.

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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. That’s right. This is what we call the Mezzo.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. Download Free GDPR Guide | Step By Step Guide to Data Governance for GDPR?. IDC Technology Spotlight, Data Intelligence in Context: Get the report (… it’s free).

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Third, any commitment to a disruptive technology (including data-intensive and AI implementations) must start with a business strategy. These changes may include requirements drift, data drift, model drift, or concept drift. I suggest that the simplest business strategy starts with answering three basic questions: What?

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. DataOps helps the data mesh deliver greater business agility by enabling decentralized domains to work in concert. . But first, let’s define the data mesh design pattern.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Open table formats are emerging in the rapidly evolving domain of big data management, fundamentally altering the landscape of data storage and analysis. By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale.

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With the growing emphasis on data, organizations are constantly seeking more efficient and agile ways to integrate their data, especially from a wide variety of applications. In addition, organizations rely on an increasingly diverse array of digital systems, data fragmentation has become a significant challenge.

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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.

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erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Q: Is data modeling cool again? In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. A: It always was and is getting cooler!!

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Organizational data is often fragmented across multiple lines of business, leading to inconsistent and sometimes duplicate datasets. This fragmentation can delay decision-making and erode trust in available data. This solution enhances governance and simplifies access to unstructured data assets across the organization.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog.

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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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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So if you’re going to move from your data from on-premise legacy data stores and warehouse systems to the cloud, you should do it right the first time. And as you make this transition, you need to understand what data you have, know where it is located, and govern it along the way. Then you must bulk load the legacy data.

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

Enterprises are trying to manage data chaos. They also face increasing regulatory pressure because of global data regulations , such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that went into effect last week on Jan. GDPR: Key Differences.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical. EA also enables a better understanding of change, or impact analysis – which is essential considering the agile, data-driven landscape and its state of flux. Related content: 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication supports through the Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow. Improve data discovery.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Part Two of the Digital Transformation Journey … In our last blog on driving digital transformation , we explored how enterprise architecture (EA) and business process (BP) modeling are pivotal factors in a viable digital transformation strategy. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Probably not.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to using AI and machine learning across your organization, there are many good reasons to provide your data and analytics community with an intelligent data foundation. For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured. Lets give a for instance.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The need to integrate diverse data sources has grown exponentially, but there are several common challenges when integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources, services, and applications. First, you need to create and maintain independent connections to the same data source for different services.

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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.

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datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

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datapine

MAY 29, 2019

That’s a fact in today’s competitive business environment that requires agile access to a data storage warehouse , organized in a manner that will improve business performance, deliver fast, accurate, and relevant data insights. One of the BI architecture components is data warehousing. Data integration. Storage of data.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Enterprises and organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. However, throughout history, data services have held dominion over their customers’ data.

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erwin

JANUARY 14, 2021

When the pandemic first hit, there was some negative impact on big data and analytics spending. Digital transformation was accelerated, and budgets for spending on big data and analytics increased. But data without intelligence is just data, and this is WHY data intelligence is required. Now is the time.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Not Documenting End-to-End Data Lineage Is Risky Busines – Understanding your data’s origins is key to successful data governance. Not everyone understands what end-to-end data lineage is or why it is important. Data Lineage Tells an Important Origin Story. Who are the data owners?

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erwin

MARCH 12, 2020

With metadata-driven automation, many DevOps processes can be automated, adding more “horsepower” to increase their speed and accuracy. Data lineage and impact analysis views for ‘data in motion’ also stay up to date with no additional effort. Data Intelligence: Speed and Quality Without Compromise.

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erwin

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In the data-driven era, CIO’s need a solid understanding of data governance 2.0 … Data governance (DG) is no longer about just compliance or relegated to the confines of IT. Today, data governance needs to be a ubiquitous part of your organization’s culture. Creating a Culture of Data Governance.

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