Alation

JUNE 17, 2021

We’re so proud to join this growing community of leaders in data, where we plan to deliver more value to our joint customers for years to come. Leading companies like Cisco, Nielsen, and Finnair turn to Alation + Snowflake for data governance and analytics. Data migration , too, is much easier with both platforms.

Data Governance 98

Data Governance Data Lake Insurance Enterprise 98

erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Q: Is data modeling cool again? In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. A: It always was and is getting cooler!!

Data-driven 98

Data-driven Modeling Enterprise Structured Data 98

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) provides an integrated data and AI development environment within Amazon SageMaker. From the Unified Studio, you can collaborate and build faster using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI, data processing, and SQL analytics.

Visualization 102

Visualization Sales Data-driven Analytics 102

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.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Data Governance Metadata Metrics 98

erwin

APRIL 4, 2019

A strong data governance framework is central to the success of any data-driven organization because it ensures this valuable asset is properly maintained, protected and maximized. Let’s assume you have some form of data governance operation with some strengths to build on and some weaknesses to correct.

Data Governance 75

Data Governance Data Quality Risk Management Data-driven 75

BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Data is everywhere. With the growing interconnectedness of people, companies and devices, we are now accumulating increasing amounts of data from a growing variety of channels. New data (or combinations of data) enable innovative use cases and assist in optimizing internal processes.

Data Governance 89

Data Governance Data Warehouse Data Quality Data Strategy 89

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

Sales 105

Sales Data-driven Data Processing Key Performance Indicator 105

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture.

Data Governance 76

Data Governance Business Objectives Data Quality Measurement 76

erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

Organizations are responsible for governing more data than ever before, making a strong automation framework a necessity. In most companies, an incredible amount of data flows from multiple sources in a variety of formats and is constantly being moved and federated across a changing system landscape. Governing metadata.

Data Governance 71

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Cost-Benefit 71

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.

Management 130

Management Data-driven Data Governance Data Lake 130

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises across regulated industries face a critical challenge as they navigate their digital transformation journeys: effectively managing and governing data from legacy systems that are being phased out or replaced. The following diagram illustrates the end-to-end solution.

Data Governance 105

Data Governance Enterprise Management Data Lake 105

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?

Software 314

Software Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Processing 314

erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When you think of real-time, data-driven experiences and modern applications to accomplish tasks faster and easier, your local town or city government probably doesn’t come to mind. But municipal government is starting to embrace digital transformation and therefore data governance.

Digital Transformation 106

Digital Transformation Data Governance Data-driven Data Warehouse 106

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.

Key Performance Indicator 217

Key Performance Indicator Statistics Big Data Visualization 217

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.

Machine Learning 279

Machine Learning Software Metadata Testing 279

TDAN

AUGUST 16, 2022

Data Acumen, Literacy, and Culture Data literacy, or data acumen[1] as we like to call it, is increasingly cited as a critical enabler of being a data-driven organization. We set out to do something about that and developed a data acumen quick reference. Using the quick reference, folks […].

Data-driven 52

Data-driven IT Data Quality Data Governance 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) provides a unified experience for using data, analytics, and AI capabilities. You can use familiar AWS services for model development, generative AI, data processing, and analyticsall within a single, governed environment.

Data Analytics 72

Data Analytics Analytics Modeling Management 72

erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. So it’s safe to say that organizations can’t reap the rewards of their data without automation.

Metadata 96

Metadata Insurance Data-driven Cost-Benefit 96

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Every business is trying to become a digital business and the monetization of data is a fundamental part of that transformation. But when you have hundreds of thousands of data sources, potentially millions of different datasets and thousands of people constantly consuming that information, that transformation quickly becomes overwhelming.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data-driven Machine Learning Technology 52

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.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Strategy Metadata Data-driven 98

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 25, 2023

In our last blog , we introduced Data Governance: what it is and why it is so important. In this blog, we will explore the challenges that organizations face as they start their governance journey. Organizations have long struggled with data management and understanding data in a complex and ever-growing data landscape.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data-driven Strategy Data Architecture 52

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.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Unstructured Data 52

erwin

AUGUST 20, 2020

It provides a visual blueprint, demonstrating the connection between applications, technologies and data to the business functions they support. And thanks to data –our need to store and process it, and the insights it provides – such change is happening faster than ever. Data Governance. Big Data Adoption.

Enterprise 140

Enterprise Cost-Benefit Risk Data Governance 140

AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

Data Lake 112

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Warehouse 112

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.

Metadata 132

Metadata Cost-Benefit Measurement Data-driven 132

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 52

Data Governance Digital Transformation IoT Metadata 52

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

Data Governance Measurement Data Quality Metrics 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 6, 2025

In todays data-driven world, securely accessing, visualizing, and analyzing data is essential for making informed business decisions. For instance, a global sports gear company selling products across multiple regions needs to visualize its sales data, which includes country-level details.

Visualization 82

Visualization Sales Data Warehouse Management 82

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Amazon Redshift has established itself as a highly scalable, fully managed cloud data warehouse trusted by tens of thousands of customers for its superior price-performance and advanced data analytics capabilities. Since consumers access the shared data in-place, they always access the latest state of the shared data.

Data Lake 102

Data Lake Data Warehouse Recreation/Entertainment Data-driven 102

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Most organizations have come to understand the importance of being data-driven. To compete in a digital economy, it’s essential to base decisions and actions on accurate data, both real-time and historical. But the sheer volume of the world’s data is expected to nearly triple between 2020 and 2025 to a whopping 180 zettabytes.

Analytics 115

Analytics Key Performance Indicator Data Warehouse Data-driven 115

Alation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. As the volume, veracity, variety, and volume of data expands, insurance companies need a stable framework to govern data and democratize access. Further, compliance regulations like the GDPR and CCPA demand that organizations maintain data security and compliance.

Insurance 52

Insurance Data Governance Risk Strategy 52

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.

Data Governance 72

Data Governance Management Data-driven Analytics 72

Jen Stirrup

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Why do organizations get stuck with their data? Often, this problem can be due to the organization concentrating solely on technology and data. However, organizations can be supported by a synergistic approach by integrating systems thinking with the data strategy and technical perspective. It is such a fundamental question.

Data Science 145

Data Science Digital Transformation Data-driven Measurement 145

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

Data Lake 90

Data Lake Data Governance Data Architecture Machine Learning 90

BI-Survey

MARCH 4, 2022

“We are a data-driven company,” is a familiar refrain we hear from business leaders and managers. This is evidence of a fundamental shift in mindset, reflecting the fact that leaders have now understood and internalized the concept of the data-driven enterprise.

Data-driven 52

Data-driven Data Strategy Data Governance Strategy 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Data: Fertilizer for Innovation. Data helps with both of these challenges. Data helps with both of these challenges. Data is the mechanism for resolving questions. In a data-driven organization, ideas and solutions can come from anywhere. The Role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO).

Data-driven 52

Data-driven Internet of Things Data Lake Strategy 52

erwin

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Data governance tools used to occupy a niche in an organization’s tech stack, but those days are gone. The rise of data-driven business and the complexities that come with it ushered in a soft mandate for data governance and data governance tools.

Data Governance 40

Data Governance Cost-Benefit Data-driven Metadata 40