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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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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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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erwin

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Data has been the driving force of the decade. Digital pioneers like Amazon, Netflix and Uber account for some of the most extreme market disruption their respective industries have faced. Many organizations have tried and failed to become truly “data-driven,” and many organizations will continue to do so.

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erwin

JANUARY 14, 2021

As we enter 2021, we will also be building off the events of 2020 – both positive and negative – including the acceleration of digital transformation as the next normal begins to be defined. When the pandemic first hit, there was some negative impact on big data and analytics spending. Now is the time.

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge … Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years. Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy.

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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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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

MARCH 12, 2020

Almost 70 percent of CEOs say they expect their companies to change their business models in the next three years, and 62 percent report they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their businesses more digital, according to Gartner. Data Intelligence: Speed and Quality Without Compromise.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ask a CIO where their focus lies and ‘digital transformation’ as well as ‘growth’ will come into the conversation quite quickly. Both rely virtually entirely on the enterprise leveraging of data. Governing digital transformation.

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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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erwin

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Digital Transformation. Data Security & Risk Management. Data Center Consolidation. Data Governance (knowing what data you have and where it is). Digital Transformation. The key driver of modern EA is the demand for digital transformation. Compliance/Legislation.

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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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erwin

MARCH 4, 2021

Modern data governance is a strategic, ongoing and collaborative practice that enables organizations to discover and track their data, understand what it means within a business context, and maximize its security, quality and value. The What: Data Governance Defined. Data governance has no standard definition.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Data-driven insights are only as good as your data Imagine that each source of data in your organization—from spreadsheets to internet of things (IoT) sensor feeds—is a delegate set to attend a conference that will decide the future of your organization.

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Octopai

AUGUST 8, 2023

Battle Creek, Michigan — July 18, 2023 — Octopai, a global leader in data lineage and business intelligence automation, and Demand Chain AI, a pioneer in AI-driven demand forecasting and supply chain optimization, have today announced a strategic partnership.

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erwin

AUGUST 28, 2020

Organizations with a solid understanding of data governance (DG) are better equipped to keep pace with the speed of modern business. In this post, the erwin Experts address: What Is Data Governance? Why Is Data Governance Important? What Is Good Data Governance? What Are the Key Benefits of Data Governance?

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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erwin

MARCH 14, 2019

The need for data mapping tools in light of increasing volumes and varieties of data – as well as the velocity at which it must be processed – is growing. Data mapping tools have always been a key asset for any organization looking to leverage data for insights. Isolated units of data are essentially meaningless.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 3, 2021

Consider that e-commerce’s acceleration due to the pandemic saw retailers’ digital sales penetration realize 10 years of growth in just the first three months of 2020 alone. . In summary, predicting future supply chain demands using last year’s data, just doesn’t work. Digital Transformation is not without Risk.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Maturity Levels.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2020

We’re excited about our recognition as a March 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Metadata Management Solutions. The solutions work in tandem to automate the processes involved in harvesting, integrating, activating and governing enterprise data according to business requirements.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The right set of tools helps businesses utilize data to drive insights and value. But balancing a strong layer of security and governance with easy access to data for all users is no easy task. Another option — a more rewarding one — is to include centralized data management, security, and governance into data projects from the start.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist for GoDaddy, about data curation, data stewardship, and data catalogs. His focus is on business intelligence, analytics, big data, and data warehousing. What did that involve?

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

To transform Fujitsu from an IT company to a digital transformation (DX) company, and to become a world-leading DX partner, Fujitsu has declared a shift to data-driven management. The platform consists of approximately 370 dashboards, 360 tables registered in the data catalog, and 40 linked systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day, organizations of every description are deluged with data from a variety of sources, and attempting to make sense of it all can be overwhelming. By 2025, it’s estimated we’ll have 463 million terabytes of data created every day,” says Lisa Thee, data for good sector lead at Launch Consulting Group in Seattle. “For

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Sisense

MAY 18, 2020

Every company is becoming a data company. In Data-Powered Businesses , we dive into the ways that companies of all kinds are digitally transforming to make smarter data-driven decisions, monetize their data, and create companies that will thrive in our current era of Big Data.

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erwin

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It provides a holistic, top down view of structure and systems, making it invaluable in managing the complexities of data-driven business. In the era of rapidly evolving technology and rampant – often disruptive – digital transformation, the need for enterprise architecture tools is abundantly clear.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Due to the convergence of events in the data analytics and AI landscape, many organizations are at an inflection point. Furthermore, a global effort to create new data privacy laws, and the increased attention on biases in AI models, has resulted in convoluted business processes for getting data to users. Data governance.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 5, 2025

Data sharing has become a crucial aspect of driving innovation, contributing to growth, and fostering collaboration across industries. According to this Gartner study , organizations promoting data sharing outperform their peers on most business value metrics. Data publishers : Users in producer AWS accounts.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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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. In 2019, the U.K.’s

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 3, 2023

When global technology company Lenovo started utilizing data analytics, they helped identify a new market niche for its gaming laptops, and powered remote diagnostics so their customers got the most from their servers and other devices.

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