AWS Big Data

AUGUST 13, 2024

Amazon DataZone has announced a set of new data governance capabilities—domain units and authorization policies—that enable you to create business unit-level or team-level organization and manage policies according to your business needs. Data domains form a foundational pillar in data governance frameworks.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Regulations.

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Cloudera

MARCH 3, 2022

Whether the enterprise uses dozens or hundreds of data sources for multi-function analytics, all organizations can run into data governance issues. Bad data governance practices lead to data breaches, lawsuits, and regulatory fines — and no enterprise is immune. . Everyone Fails Data Governance.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI.

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Octopai

DECEMBER 22, 2019

As 2019 comes to a close, we think it’s the perfect time to review trends in metadata management as well as look at some of Octopai’s own highlights. What a flashback to see all that we’ve achieved this year in data governance, risk and compliance, data analysis and reporting. View more news from 2019 and beyond here.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Not only is it critical to protect data, but data governance is also the foundation for data-driven businesses and maximizing value from data analytics. But it’s still not easy.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 5, 2021

The data teams share a common objective; to create analytics for the (internal or external) customer. Execution of this mission requires the contribution of several groups: data center/IT, data engineering, data science, data visualization, and data governance.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A combined, interoperable suite of tools for data team productivity, governance, and security for large and small data teams. And the tools for acting on data are consolidating: Tableau does data prep, Altreyx does data science, Qlik joined with Talend, etc. And their business customers want more data trust.

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Alation

JUNE 28, 2022

This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable.

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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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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In this post, we walk you through the top analytics announcements from re:Invent 2024 and explore how these innovations can help you unlock the full potential of your data. S3 Metadata is designed to automatically capture metadata from objects as they are uploaded into a bucket, and to make that metadata queryable in a read-only table.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

More Businesses Are Taking a Holistic Approach to Data Strategy One of the more common trends we saw coming up through conversations during the summit was the need for a reframing of how we approach data strategy—taking a much more holistic viewpoint to it than organizations otherwise would have in past years.

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Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice.

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Alation

MAY 19, 2022

Establish what data you have. Active metadata gives you crucial context around what data you have and how to use it wisely. Active metadata provides the who, what, where, and when of a given asset, showing you where it flows through your pipeline, how that data is used, and who uses it most often. Data Governance.

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Alation

MARCH 31, 2023

Ehtisham Zaidi, Gartner’s VP of data management, and Robert Thanaraj, Gartner’s director of data management, gave an update on the fabric versus mesh debate in light of what they call the “active metadata era” we’re currently in. The foundations of successful data governance The state of data governance was also top of mind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A 2024 survey by Monte Carlo and Wakefield Research found that 100% of data leaders feel pressured to move forward with AI implementations even though two out of three doubt their data is AI-ready. Those organizations are sailing into the AI storm without a proper compass – a solid enterprise-wide data governance strategy.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 8, 2024

Introduction to OpenLineage compatible data lineage The need to capture data lineage consistently across various analytical services and combine them into a unified object model is key in uncovering insights from the lineage artifact. Now let’s harvest the lineage metadata using CloudShell. Choose Run. We use version 1.9.1,

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Why is data analytics important for travel organizations? With data analytics , travel organizations can gain real-time insights about customers to make strategic decisions and improve their travel experience. What are common data challenges for the travel industry? Travel can be stressful and emotionally fraught.

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Sanjeev Mohan

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Is Google Cloud Platform Ready to Run Your Data Analytics Pipeline? I saw the winds change and the inquiry requests shifted towards advanced analytics involving machine learning (ML) questions. Then in the middle of 2017, a realization set in that we were one year away from GDPR and needed to focus on data governance.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 14, 2023

In this post, we discuss how the Amazon Finance Automation team used AWS Lake Formation and the AWS Glue Data Catalog to build a data mesh architecture that simplified data governance at scale and provided seamless data access for analytics, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Gartner defines a data fabric as “a design concept that serves as an integrated layer of data and connecting processes. The data fabric architectural approach can simplify data access in an organization and facilitate self-service data consumption at scale. 2 “Exposing The Data Mesh Blind Side ” Forrester.

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Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

Data in customers’ data lakes is used to fulfil a multitude of use cases, from real-time fraud detection for financial services companies, inventory and real-time marketing campaigns for retailers, or flight and hotel room availability for the hospitality industry.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

By leveraging Google-like smart search to find data assets; using automation and self-learning instead of burdening people with the need to manually update metadata in multiple places; and ensuring that metadata is maintained by the whole data community and is not dependent on a centralized IT team.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The post will include details on how to perform read/write data operations against Amazon S3 tables with AWS Lake Formation managing metadata and underlying data access using temporary credential vending. Create a user defined IAM role following the instructions in Requirements for roles used to register locations.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. Amazon DataZone natively supports data sharing for Amazon Redshift data assets. In the post_dq_results_to_datazone.py

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Source systems Aruba’s source repository includes data from three different operating regions in AMER, EMEA, and APJ, along with one worldwide (WW) data pipeline from varied sources like SAP S/4 HANA, Salesforce, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Enterprise Analytics Platform (EAP) SharePoint, and more.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The outline of the call went as follows: I was taking to a central state agency who was organizing a data governance initiative (in their words) across three other state agencies. All four agencies had reported an independent but identical experience with data governance in the past. Information (processed data).

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Centralization of metadata. A decade ago, metadata was everywhere. Consequently, useful metadata was unfindable and unusable. Then Alation came along.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Essential components of a data lakehouse architecture and what makes an open data lakehouse. At the core of a data lakehouse architecture includes the storage, metadata service and the query engine, and typically a data governance component made up of a policy engine and a data dictionary.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Among the tasks necessary for internal and external compliance is the ability to report on the metadata of an AI model. Metadata includes details specific to an AI model such as: The AI model’s creation (when it was created, who created it, etc.) And that makes sense.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

Excel-based data utilization Microsoft Excel is available on almost everyone’s PC in the company, and it helps lower the hurdles when starting to utilize data. However, Excel is mainly designed for spreadsheets; it’s not designed for large-scale data analytics and automation.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

Under Data Selection, enter the schema name where your data is located (for example, public ) and then specify a table selection criterion (for example, *). On the next page, automated metadata generation is enabled. Review all settings and choose Create data source. Choose Next. Choose Next.

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