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 are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

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Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

HPE Aruba Networking , formerly known as Aruba Networks, is a Santa Clara, California-based security and networking subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The data sources include 150+ files including 10-15 mandatory files per region ingested in various formats like xlxs, csv, and dat.

Data Architecture 111

Data Architecture Optimization Data Warehouse Metadata 111

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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Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

Employing Enterprise Data Management (EDM). What is enterprise data management? Companies looking to do more with data and insights need an effective EDM setup in place. The team in charge of your company’s EDM is focused on a set of processes, practices, and activities across the entire data lineage process.

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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.

Data Architecture 96

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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 are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

Metadata 52

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several factors determine the quality of your enterprise data like accuracy, completeness, consistency, to name a few. But there’s another factor of data quality that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: your data architecture. How the right data architecture improves data quality.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Those decentralization efforts appeared under different monikers through time, e.g., data marts versus data warehousing implementations (a popular architectural debate in the era of structured data) then enterprise-wide data lakes versus smaller, typically BU-Specific, “data ponds”.

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Metadata Cost-Benefit Enterprise Interactive 124

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Enterprises are dealing with a barrage of upcoming regulations concerning data privacy and data protection, not only at the state and federal level in the US, but also in a dizzying number of jurisdictions around the world. Think of a data fabric as a single pane of glass that creates visibility across an enterprise.

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Metadata Data Governance Enterprise Data Architecture 91

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Jurgen Mueller, SAP CTO and executive board member, called the innovations, which includes an expanded partnership with data governance specialist Collibra, a “quantum leap” in the company’s ability to help customers drive intelligent business transformation through data.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse provides an open data architecture that reduces data silos and unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, Redshift data warehouses, and third-party and federated data sources. connection testing, metadata retrieval, and data preview.

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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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Cloudera

MAY 2, 2022

from China to the UK , new data governance and protection rules are coming in on an almost daily basis. But increasingly at Cloudera, our clients are looking for a hybrid cloud architecture in order to manage compliance requirements.

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Data Architecture Metadata Digital Transformation Finance 104

Cloudera

MARCH 23, 2022

In fact, we recently announced the integration with our cloud ecosystem bringing the benefits of Iceberg to enterprises as they make their journey to the public cloud, and as they adopt more converged architectures like the Lakehouse. 4: Enterprise grade. 1: Multi-function analytics . 3: Open Performance.

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Metadata Data Architecture Machine Learning Cost-Benefit 92

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Data fabric and data mesh are emerging data management concepts that are meant to address the organizational change and complexities of understanding, governing and working with enterprise data in a hybrid multicloud ecosystem. The good news is that both data architecture concepts are complimentary.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

SAP helps to solve this search problem by offering ways to simplify business data with a solid data foundation that powers SAP Datasphere. It fits neatly with the renewed interest in data architecture, particularly data fabric architecture. They fail to get a grip on their data.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

Effective permission management helps tackle these challenges by controlling how data is accessed and used, providing data integrity and minimizing the risk of data breaches. Apache Ranger is a comprehensive framework designed for data governance and security in Hadoop ecosystems.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

This is the second post of a three-part series detailing how Novo Nordisk , a large pharmaceutical enterprise, partnered with AWS Professional Services to build a scalable and secure data and analytics platform. The third post will show how end-users can consume data from their tool of choice, without compromising data governance.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

The reason is that the inherent complexity of big enterprises is such that this is the simplest model that enables them to “connect the dots” across the different operational IT systems and turn the diversity of their business into a competitive advantage. This requires new tools and new systems, which results in diverse and siloed data.

Metadata 72

Metadata Slice and Dice Data Integration Enterprise 72

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Regardless of size, industry or geographical location, the sprawl of data across disparate environments, increase in velocity of data and the explosion of data volumes has resulted in complex data infrastructures for most enterprises. The solution is a data fabric. Data governance.

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Data-driven Enterprise Data Governance Data Science 56

TDAN

MARCH 5, 2019

It seems like we’re so busy running that we no longer have time to think. We want to be faster and more responsive, but we aren’t even sure what we are trying to achieve. It’s like the person at your office that is always too busy, is working extra-long hours (and makes sure that everybody […].

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Data Governance Enterprise Data Architecture IT 53

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

However, when a data producer shares data products on a data mesh self-serve web portal, it’s neither intuitive nor easy for a data consumer to know which data products they can join to create new insights. This is especially true in a large enterprise with thousands of data products.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Following a very successful year of growth in Alation’s business, this announcement marks a milestone for Alation and the enterprise data catalog market. What started six years ago as one startup trying to improve the way people work with data has become a full-blown market category – Machine Learning Data Catalogs.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

However, the sheer volume and complexity of today’s enterprise data can cause downstream headaches for data users. Semantics, context, and how data is tracked and used mean even more as you stretch to reach post-migration goals. This is why, when data moves, it’s imperative for organizations to prioritize data discovery.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2024

The data mesh framework In the dynamic landscape of data management, the search for agility, scalability, and efficiency has led organizations to explore new, innovative approaches. One such innovation gaining traction is the data mesh framework. This empowers individual teams to own and manage their data.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Data Governance Modeling 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Apache Iceberg overview Iceberg is an open-source table format that brings the power of SQL tables to big data files. It enables ACID transactions on tables, allowing for concurrent data ingestion, updates, and queries, all while using familiar SQL. Data can be organized into three different zones, as shown in the following figure.

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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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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Clarifying what data mesh is and how it works is important, but even more so is starting with the why. Why Organizations Need A Data Mesh The data mesh paradigm aims to address some of the biggest pain points for most organizations. This becomes particularly problematic when dealing with veracity of data.

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Metadata Data-driven Data Quality Data Architecture 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Since we launched the company, Alation has delivered a unique way to catalog data for the enterprise. to catalog enterprise data by observing analyst behaviors. Our approach was contrasted with the traditional manual wiki of notes and documentation and labeled as a modern data catalog. Can I trust this data?

Metadata 52

Metadata Enterprise Data Processing Data Architecture 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

As ecosystems transformed over the last few years and simultaneously increased the opportunities to improve results driven by data, a few main contributing factors drove major change in how you should think about your data strategy: The reality of hybrid multicloud and its accelerated adoption has created new possibilities and challenges.

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Alation

JULY 7, 2022

With Alation, students learn the critical skills they need to curate, govern, and discover data assets in the data-driven enterprises of today. Two data-driven careers. In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. For the uninitiated, metadata is “data about data” – and it’s everywhere.

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Metadata Data-driven Insurance Statistics 52

Alation

JULY 28, 2022

As enterprises migrate to the cloud, two key questions emerge: What’s driving this change? And what must organizations overcome to succeed at cloud data warehousing ? What Are the Biggest Drivers of Cloud Data Warehousing? What Are the Biggest Drivers of Cloud Data Warehousing?

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Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Governance 69

Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a reminder, here’s Gartner’s definition of data fabric: “A design concept that serves as an integrated layer (fabric) of data and connecting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the “integrated layer” part of this definition by examining each of the key layers of a comprehensive data fabric in more detail.

Metadata 52

Metadata IT Data-driven Metrics 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

Their fast adoption meant that customers soon lost track of what ended up in the data lake. And, just as challenging, they could not tell where the data came from, how it had been ingested nor how it had been transformed in the process. Data governance remains an unexplored frontier for this technology.

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