erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

What is Data Modeling? Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise.

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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.

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

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Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

Metadata 126

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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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Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

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.

Metadata 105

Metadata Management Data Governance Machine Learning 105

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.

Metadata 119

Metadata Cost-Benefit OLAP Modeling 119

O'Reilly on Data

JUNE 14, 2024

Miso’s cofounders, Lucky Gunasekara and Andy Hsieh, are veterans of the Small Data Lab at Cornell Tech, which is devoted to private AI approaches for immersive personalization and content-centric explorations. The platform required a more effective way to connect learners directly to the key information that they sought.

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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).

Metadata 102

Metadata Data Governance Management Cost-Benefit 102

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? Where is it now?

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Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

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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Metadata Management Digital Transformation Data Governance 98

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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Strategy Experimentation Uncertainty Machine Learning 290

Rocket-Powered Data Science

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The way that I explained it to my data science students years ago was like this. They realized that the search results would probably not provide an answer to my question, but the results would simply list websites that included my words on the page or in the metadata tags: “Texas”, “Cows”, “How”, etc. What is a semantic layer?

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Data Science Forecasting Business Intelligence Sales 286

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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Metadata Cost-Benefit Measurement Data-driven 132

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Enterprises must reimagine their data and document management to meet the increasing regulatory challenges emerging as part of the digitization era. Commonly, businesses face three major challenges with regard to data and data management: Data volumes. One particular challenge lies in managing “dark data” (i.e.,

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Data-driven Management Cost-Benefit Risk 106

O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We need to do more than automate model building with autoML; we need to automate tasks at every stage of the data pipeline. In a previous post , we talked about applications of machine learning (ML) to software development, which included a tour through sample tools in data science and for managing data infrastructure.

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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. Such automation can save close to 100 percent of the time usually spent on this type of documentation. Human errors are eliminated, leading to higher quality documentation and output.

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Metadata Digital Transformation Data-driven Enterprise 140

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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Data Governance Metadata Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation 145

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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Data Governance Metadata Testing Data Lake 145

erwin

MARCH 17, 2020

Teams need to urgently respond to everything from massive changes in workforce access and management to what-if planning for a variety of grim scenarios, in addition to building and documenting new applications and providing fast, accurate access to data for smart decision-making. Data Modeling. Data Governance.

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Data Governance Enterprise Modeling Metadata 138

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. Doing Data Lineage Right.

Cost-Benefit 143

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Metadata Reporting 143

erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? Data governance provides time-sensitive, current-state architecture information with a high level of quality. Data governance provides time-sensitive, current-state architecture information with a high level of quality.

Data Governance 144

Data Governance Enterprise Risk Data Lake 144

Smart Data Collective

JULY 15, 2021

A data catalog serves the same purpose. By using metadata (or short descriptions), data catalogs help companies gather, organize, retrieve, and manage information. You can think of a data catalog as an enhanced Access database or library card catalog system. What Does a Data Catalog Do?

Metadata 133

Metadata IT Data-driven Data Quality 133

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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Analytics Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse 61

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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Visualization Data Lake Testing Data Governance 119

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.

Data Governance 139

Data Governance Digital Transformation IoT Metadata 139

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.

Digital Transformation 143

Digital Transformation Metadata Big Data Data-driven 143

AWS Big Data

APRIL 2, 2024

In March 2024, we announced the general availability of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) generated data descriptions in Amazon DataZone. In this post, we share what we heard from our customers that led us to add the AI-generated data descriptions and discuss specific customer use cases addressed by this capability.

Metadata 111

Metadata Metrics Data-driven Contextual Data 111

erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Data lineage is the journey data takes from its creation through its transformations over time. Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. With all these diverse data sources, and if systems are integrated, it is difficult to understand the complicated data web they form much less get a simple visual flow.

Key Performance Indicator 111

Key Performance Indicator Metadata Data Governance Data Quality 111

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?

Data Governance 131

Data Governance Key Performance Indicator Metadata Digital Transformation 131

erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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Enterprise Data-driven Data Governance Metadata 145

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While some enterprises are already reporting AI-driven growth, the complexities of data strategy are proving a big stumbling block for many other businesses. So, what can businesses do to maximize the value of their data, and ensure their genAI projects are delivering return on investment?

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ROI Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Metadata 110

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? Where is it now?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In this blog post, we will highlight how ZS Associates used multiple AWS services to build a highly scalable, highly performant, clinical document search platform. We use leading-edge analytics, data, and science to help clients make intelligent decisions. The document processing layer supports document ingestion and orchestration.

Unstructured Data 111

Unstructured Data Metadata Machine Learning Consulting 111

erwin

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As organizations deal with managing ever more data, the need to automate data management becomes clear. Last week erwin issued its 2020 State of Data Governance and Automation (DGA) Report. One piece of the research that stuck with me is that 70% of respondents spend 10 or more hours per week on data-related activities.

Management 144

Management Data Governance Cost-Benefit Metadata 144

AWS Big Data

APRIL 17, 2024

With this new instance family, OpenSearch Service uses OpenSearch innovation and AWS technologies to reimagine how data is indexed and stored in the cloud. Today, customers widely use OpenSearch Service for operational analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of data while also providing rich and interactive analytics.

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Optimization Snapshot Metadata Cost-Benefit 128

erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Once you’ve determined what part(s) of your business you’ll be innovating — the next step in a digital transformation strategy is using data to get there. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Many organizations prioritize data collection as part of their digital transformation strategy.

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