erwin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Data governance isn’t a one-off project with a defined endpoint. Data governance, today, comes back to the ability to understand critical enterprise data within a business context, track its physical existence and lineage, and maximize its value while ensuring quality and security. Passing the Data Governance Ball.

Data Governance 108

Data Governance Cost-Benefit Enterprise Modeling 108

erwin

MAY 13, 2020

The role of data modeling (DM) has expanded to support enterprise data management, including data governance and intelligence efforts. After all, you can’t manage or govern what you can’t see, much less use it to make smart decisions. DM uncovers the connections between disparate data elements.

Data Governance 93

Data Governance Enterprise Modeling Management 93

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Aruba offers networking hardware like access points, switches, routers, software, security devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) products. This post describes how HPE Aruba automated their Supply Chain management pipeline, and re-architected and deployed their data solution by adopting a modern data architecture on AWS.

Data Architecture 96

Data Architecture Optimization Data Warehouse Metadata 96

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architecture is a complex and varied field and different organizations and industries have unique needs when it comes to their data architects. Solutions data architect: These individuals design and implement data solutions for specific business needs, including data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes.

Data Architecture 132

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erwin

JUNE 19, 2020

Despite the similarities in name, there are a number of key differences between an enterprise architecture and solutions architecture. Much like the differences between enterprise architecture (EA) and data architecture, EA’s holistic view of the enterprise will often see enterprise and solution architects collaborate.

Enterprise 130

Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy Data Governance 130

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Yet, while businesses increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making, the role of chief data officers (CDOs) in sustainability remains underdeveloped and underutilized. Additionally, 97% of CDOs struggle to demonstrate business value from sustainability-focused AI initiatives.

IT 59

IT Data Governance Data-driven Metrics 59

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.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Metadata Reporting 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

A big part of preparing data to be shared is an exercise in data normalization, says Juan Orlandini, chief architect and distinguished engineer at Insight Enterprises. Data formats and data architectures are often inconsistent, and data might even be incomplete.

Data Lake 135

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

SAP announced today a host of new AI copilot and AI governance features for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). The company is expanding its partnership with Collibra to integrate Collibra’s AI Governance platform with SAP data assets to facilitate data governance for non-SAP data assets in customer environments. “We

Unstructured Data 129

Unstructured Data Dashboards Business Intelligence Data Governance 129

BI-Survey

AUGUST 21, 2020

It is noteworthy that business users in particular consider the inability to provide required data and the lack of user acceptance as even more important than enhanced self-service. In particular executives (31 percent) and business intelligence/analytics teams (30 percent) agree that software licenses are too expensive in general.

Data Warehouse 98

Data Warehouse Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture 98

erwin

JUNE 19, 2020

Despite the similarities in name, there are a number of key differences between an enterprise architecture and solutions architecture. Much like the differences between enterprise architecture (EA) and data architecture, EA’s holistic view of the enterprise will often see enterprise and solution architects collaborate.

Enterprise 94

Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy Data Governance 94

Sisense

JULY 6, 2020

Like any complex system, your company’s EDM system is made up of a multitude of smaller subsystems, each of which has a specific role in creating the final data products. These subsystems each play a vital part in your overall EDM program, but three that we’ll give special attention to are data governance, architecture, and warehousing.

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Management Data Architecture Data-driven 98

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This modernization involved transitioning to a software as a service (SaaS) based loan origination and core lending platforms. Because these new systems produced vast amounts of data, the challenge of ensuring a single source of truth for all data consumers emerged.

Data-driven 106

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

The third post will show how end-users can consume data from their tool of choice, without compromising data governance. When building a scalable data architecture on AWS, giving autonomy and ownership to the data domains are crucial for the success of the platform.

Data Governance 72

Data Governance Management Data-driven Analytics 72

DataKitchen

JUNE 12, 2023

Software engineers have adopted a similar idea and called it a User Journey. We continue to over-invest, as an industry, in the tools that run within our data estate. There are dozens of orchestrators, ETL Tools, databases, data science tools, data visualization tools, and data governance tools.

Testing 130

Testing Dashboards Data Lake Data Science 130

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They were using R and Python, with NoSQL and other open source ad hoc data stores, running on small dedicated servers and occasionally for small jobs in the public cloud. Data governance was completely balkanized, if it existed at all. The Well-Governed Hybrid Data Cloud: 2018-today.

Analytics 96

Analytics IoT Cost-Benefit Big Data 96

Cloudera

JUNE 14, 2021

How to optimize an enterprise data architecture with private cloud and multiple public cloud options? Hybrid Data Cloud and Data Governance. Having established the need for a hybrid data cloud strategy, the question becomes how to manage that environment. Cloudera: The Telco Data Cloud.

Data Architecture 97

Data Architecture Enterprise Finance Strategy 97

Cloudera

OCTOBER 19, 2023

While navigating so many simultaneous data-dependent transformations, they must balance the need to level up their data management practices—accelerating the rate at which they ingest, manage, prepare, and analyze data—with that of governing this data.

Data-driven 76

Data-driven Data Architecture Predictive Modeling Digital Transformation 76

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And not only do companies have to get all the basics in place to build for analytics and MLOps, but they also need to build new data structures and pipelines specifically for gen AI. Prior to gen AI, software was deterministic, he says. You’d design, build, test, and iterate until the software behaved as expected,” he says. “If

IT 131

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The complexities of metadata management can be addressed with a strong data management strategy coupled with metadata management software to enable the data quality the business requires. Organizations then can take a data-driven approach to business transformation , speed to insights, and risk management.

Metadata 104

Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

erwin

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Come listen to data veterans in customer organizations as well as data best practices experts from IDC, Global Data Strategy, Ltd. Learn how to maximize the business impact of your data. The Importance of Data Intelligence to the Data-Driven Business.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data-driven Data Architecture Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

Launching a data-first transformation means more than simply putting new hardware, software, and services into operation. True transformation can emerge only when an organization learns how to optimally acquire and act on data and use that data to architect new processes.

Digital Transformation 132

Digital Transformation Data-driven Strategy Data Strategy 132

AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

The construction of big data applications based on open source software has become increasingly uncomplicated since the advent of projects like Data on EKS , an open source project from AWS to provide blueprints for building data and machine learning (ML) applications on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

Management 109

Management Big Data Data Warehouse Metadata 109

Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This leading software investment firm has partnered with the who’s-who of data-centric companies, including Qlik and Starburst, to help them drive sustainable, long-term growth. We had not seen that in the broader intelligence & data governance market.”. And data governance is critical to driving adoption.”.

Data Governance 98

Data Governance Marketing Finance Data Lake 98

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Overview of solution As a data-driven company, smava relies on the AWS Cloud to power their analytics use cases. smava ingests data from various external and internal data sources into a landing stage on the data lake based on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Data Lake 103

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 103

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.

Finance 90

Finance Metadata Big Data Recreation/Entertainment 90

Cloudera

AUGUST 22, 2024

Established in 2014, this center has become a cornerstone of Cloudera’s global strategy, playing a pivotal role in driving the company’s three growth pillars: accelerating enterprise AI, delivering a truly hybrid platform, and enabling modern data architectures.

Machine Learning 67

Machine Learning Testing Data-driven Enterprise 67

AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Independent data products often only have value if you can connect them, join them, and correlate them to create a higher order data product that creates additional insights. A modern data architecture is critical in order to become a data-driven organization. Mike is the author of two books and numerous articles.

Technology 93

Technology Data-driven Machine Learning Sales 93

Jim Harris

JANUARY 1, 2016

The business folks usually own the data, or at least the business processes that create it, so they understand its meaning and daily use. The technical folks usually own the hardware and software comprising your data architecture. Six blog posts related to Inebriate : Why isn’t our data quality worse?

Data Quality 61

Data Quality Data Governance Cost-Benefit ROI 61

Alation

MARCH 31, 2023

Actually, with Solomon-like wisdom, Zaidi and Thanaraj suggest a scenario where data fabric and data mesh work together — a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of data architecture, representing a “meshy fabric” scenario I presented last year. Data governance. “I He compared governance to the U.S.

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Metadata Data Governance 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2023

Essential data is not being captured or analyzed—an IDC report estimates that up to 68% of business data goes unleveraged—and estimates that only 15% of employees in an organization use business intelligence (BI) software.

Business Intelligence 62

Business Intelligence Enterprise Dashboards Forecasting 62

Alation

APRIL 14, 2022

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. Data discovery is also critical for data governance , which, when ineffective, can actually hinder organizational growth.

Metadata 59

Metadata Data Governance Data-driven Modeling 59

TDAN

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The concept of technical debt was first proposed in the early 1990s by Ward Cunningham to describe the impact of poor-quality code on your overall software development […].

Software 94

Software Data Architecture IT Data Quality 94

erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. Technology is an enabler, and for data governance this is essentially having an excellent metadata management tool.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Technology 52

Alation

JULY 28, 2022

What Are the Biggest Drivers of Cloud Data Warehousing? It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. What Are the Biggest Business Risks to Cloud Data Migration? Clearly, moving data isn’t free.

Data Warehouse 69

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Governance 69

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

Discussions with users showed they were happier to have faster access to data in a simpler way, a more structured data organization, and a clear mapping of who the producer is. A lot of progress has been made to advance their data-driven culture (data literacy, data sharing, and collaboration across business units).

Data-driven 99

Data-driven Advertising Metadata Data Architecture 99

Anmut

APRIL 6, 2023

By regularly conducting data maturity assessments, you can catch potential issues early and make proactive changes to supercharge your business’s success. Cost savings By identifying areas where data management processes can be optimised, organisations can reduce costs associated with data management and analysis.

Cost-Benefit 52

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