DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

As regulatory scrutiny, investor expectations, and consumer demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) accountability intensify, organizations must leverage data to drive their sustainability initiatives. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

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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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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2022

According to analysts, data governance programs have not shown a high success rate. According to CIOs , historical data governance programs were invasive and suffered from one of two defects: They were either forced on the rank and file — who grew to dislike IT as a result. The Risks of Early Data Governance Programs.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

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Alation

APRIL 13, 2021

Much of his work focuses on democratising data and breaking down data silos to drive better business outcomes. In this blog, Chris shows how Snowflake and Alation together accelerate data culture. He shows how Texas Mutual Insurance Company has embraced data governance to build trust in data.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Many CIOs have work to do here: According to a September 2024 IDC survey, 30% of CIOs acknowledged that they dont know what percentage of their AI proofs of concepts met target KPI metrics or were considered successful something that is likely to doom many AI projects or deem them just for show. How confident are we in our data?

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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

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Prashant Parikh, erwin’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, talks about erwin’s vision to automate every aspect of the data governance journey to increase speed to insights. Although AI and ML are massive fields with tremendous value, erwin’s approach to data governance automation is much broader.

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Andrew White

APRIL 5, 2019

An oft heard inquiry from clients is, “What is the right metric to use?” The context might be for: Defining data quality. Reporting the business impact of a data governance initiative. Monitoring the progress of a digital or data-driven transformation. A simple example exposed the potential value of PM.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 2, 2019

A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see “Related resources” at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. So, why is this new open source project resonating with data scientists and machine learning engineers?

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“Software as a service” (SaaS) is becoming an increasingly viable choice for organizations looking for the accessibility and versatility of software solutions and online data analysis tools without the need to rely on installing and running applications on their own computer systems and data centers. How will AI improve SaaS in 2020?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs must tie resilience investments to tangible outcomes like data protection, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness. According to Salesforces Perez, even though AI brings much opportunity, it also introduces complexity for CIOs, including security, governance, and compliance considerations.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Although the terms data fabric and data mesh are often used interchangeably, I previously explained that they are distinct but complementary. The popularity of data fabric and data mesh has highlighted the importance of software providers, such as Denodo, that utilize data virtualization to enable logical data management.

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datapine

MARCH 25, 2019

In our data-rich age, understanding how to analyze and extract true meaning from the digital insights available to our business is one of the primary drivers of success. Despite the colossal volume of data we create every day, a mere 0.5% is actually analyzed and used for data discovery , improvement, and intelligence.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For several years now, the elephant in the room has been that data and analytics projects are failing. Gartner estimated that 85% of big data projects fail. Add all these facts together, and it paints a picture that something is amiss in the data world. . The top-line result was that 97% of data engineers are feeling burnout. .

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Marketers around the world are embracing data-driven marketing to drive better results from their campaigns. However, while doing so, you need to work with a lot of data and this could lead to some big data mistakes. But why use data-driven marketing in the first place? Big Data Mistakes You Must Avoid.

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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.

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Alation

MARCH 5, 2021

Data governance defines how data should be gathered and used within an organization. It address core questions, such as: How does the business define data? How accurate must the data be for use? Organizations have much to gain from learning about and implementing a data governance framework.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an IT pilot has led to a wholesale data journey destined to transform operations at the world’s busiest airport, fueled by machine learning and generative AI. He is a very visual person, so our proof of concept collects different data sets and ingests them into our Azure data house.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper , leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics. This is called data democratization. Security and compliance risks also loom.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. The investment thesis was we could dramatically change the value of the company by becoming a true cloud and subscription-driven company. Today, we’re a $1.6

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

How do businesses transform raw data into competitive insights? Data analytics. As an organization embraces digital transformation , more data is available to inform decisions. To use that data, decision-makers across the company will need to have access. It can also help prevent data misuse. Value and Challenges.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I previously wrote about data mesh as a cultural and organizational approach to distributed data processing. Data mesh has four key principles—domain-oriented ownership, data as a product, self-serve data infrastructure and federated governance—each of which is being widely adopted.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The same could be said about data governance : ask ten experts to define the term, and you’ll get eleven definitions and perhaps twelve frameworks. However it’s defined, data governance is among the hottest topics in data management. This is the final post in a four-part series discussing data culture.

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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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Alation

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It was the bricks-and-mortar, merchandising experience versus the data-driven, near-limitless inventory and dynamic flexibility of e-commerce competitors. To meet this trend, retailers know that data is the key. The wide-open, greenfield opportunity presented by retail data in the early e-commerce days has also changed.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Data-informed decision-making is a key attribute of the modern digital business. But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. Self-service analytics typically involves tools that are easy to use and have basic data analytics capabilities.

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Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. In other words, they use data to heal more people and save more lives.

Data Governance 52

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. But governance is a time-consuming process (for users and data stewards alike).

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

The Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) is happening soon — and we’ll be onsite in San Diego from June 5-9. If you’re not familiar with DGIQ, it’s the world’s most comprehensive event dedicated to, you guessed it, data governance and information quality. The best part?

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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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Alation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Banks collect and manage a lot of sensitive data. And, the data collection doesn’t stop there — rich insights like transactions and purchasing information help to round out customer profiles. Data is both the enabler and the competitive advantage behind these experiences.” — Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder, Alation.

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