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?

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

How can companies protect their enterprise data assets, while also ensuring their availability to stewards and consumers while minimizing costs and meeting data privacy requirements? Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Lack of a solid data governance foundation increases the risk of data-security incidents.

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Octopai

DECEMBER 12, 2021

What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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Metadata Management Data Quality Data Governance 98

Data Virtualization

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The post The Data Warehouse is Dead, Long Live the Data Warehouse, Part I appeared first on Data Virtualization blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these.

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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.

Data Quality 98

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Alation

JULY 28, 2022

It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. However, CIOs declare that agility, innovation, security, adopting new capabilities, and time to value — never cost — are the top drivers for cloud data warehousing.

Data Warehouse 69

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erwin

MARCH 8, 2019

GDPR) and to ensure peak business performance, organizations often bring consultants on board to help take stock of their data assets. This sort of data governance “stock check” is important but can be arduous without the right approach and technology. That’s where data governance comes in ….

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

It’s no surprise that most organizations’ data is often fragmented and siloed across numerous sources (e.g., legacy systems, data warehouses, flat files stored on individual desktops and laptops, and modern, cloud-based repositories.). Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog. Technical Metadata.

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Octopai

JULY 18, 2019

Add to that the fact that the service providers are typically scrutinized at a highly detailed level by government regulators—so much so that in some countries, the government is the sole service provider. Healthcare and Data Governance. All of the challenges described above, among others, are data problems.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata. If you’ve been properly managing your metadata as part of a broader data governance policy, you can use metadata management explorers to reveal silos of dark data in your landscape.

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Like any good puzzle, metadata management comes with a lot of complex variables. That’s why you need to use data dictionary tools, which can help organize your metadata into an archive that can be navigated with ease and from which you can derive good information to power informed decision-making. Why Have a Data Dictionary? #1

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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 are these rampant and often uncontrolled projects to collect metadata properly motivated? What Is Metadata?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Solutions data architect: These individuals design and implement data solutions for specific business needs, including data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes. Application data architect: The application data architect designs and implements data models for specific software applications.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated.

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erwin

AUGUST 7, 2019

A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 24, 2024

ActionIQ is a leading composable customer data (CDP) platform designed for enterprise brands to grow faster and deliver meaningful experiences for their customers. This post will demonstrate how ActionIQ built a connector for Amazon Redshift to tap directly into your data warehouse and deliver a secure, zero-copy CDP.

Data Warehouse 125

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

Organisations are looking at ways of simplifying data; for example, through simple rebranding efforts to disguise the complexity. However, SAP Datasphere goes much deeper deeper than a simple rebranding; it is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users to seamlessly catalog, discover, analyze, and govern data across organizational boundaries, AWS accounts, data lakes, and data warehouses.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Analytics reference architecture for gaming organizations In this section, we discuss how gaming organizations can use a data hub architecture to address the analytical needs of an enterprise, which requires the same data at multiple levels of granularity and different formats, and is standardized for faster consumption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Stout, for instance, explains how Schellman addresses integrating its customer relationship management (CRM) and financial data. “A A lot of business intelligence software pulls from a data warehouse where you load all the data tables that are the back end of the different software,” she says. “Or

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Source systems Aruba’s source repository includes data from three different operating regions in AMER, EMEA, and APJ, along with one worldwide (WW) data pipeline from varied sources like SAP S/4 HANA, Salesforce, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Enterprise Analytics Platform (EAP) SharePoint, and more.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In an earlier blog, I defined a data catalog as “a collection of metadata, combined with data management and search tools, that helps analysts and other data users to find the data that they need, serves as an inventory of available data, and provides information to evaluate fitness data for intended uses.”.

Metadata 52

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

Effective permission management helps tackle these challenges by controlling how data is accessed and used, providing data integrity and minimizing the risk of data breaches. Apache Ranger is a comprehensive framework designed for data governance and security in Hadoop ecosystems.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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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. So why are organizations not able to scale governance? Meet Governance Requirements.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

New feature: Custom AWS service blueprints Previously, Amazon DataZone provided default blueprints that created AWS resources required for data lake, data warehouse, and machine learning use cases. You can build projects and subscribe to both unstructured and structured data assets within the Amazon DataZone portal.

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Alation

APRIL 25, 2023

That means if you haven’t already incorporated a plan for data governance into your long-term vision for your business, the time is now. Let’s take a closer look at what data governance is — and the top five mistakes to avoid when implementing it. 5 common data governance mistakes 1.

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Alation

APRIL 6, 2023

Data governance is traditionally applied to structured data assets that are most often found in databases and information systems. This blog focuses on governing spreadsheets that contain data, information, and metadata, and must themselves be governed. Simply put, metadata adds context.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The open data lakehouse is quickly becoming the standard architecture for unified multifunction analytics on large volumes of data. It combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with the data analytics, data governance, and data management functionality of the data warehouse.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With quality data at their disposal, organizations can form data warehouses for the purposes of examining trends and establishing future-facing strategies. Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood. 2 – Data profiling. Data profiling is an essential process in the DQM lifecycle.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Your sunk costs are minimal and if a workload or project you are supporting becomes irrelevant, you can quickly spin down your cloud data warehouses and not be “stuck” with unused infrastructure. Cloud deployments for suitable workloads gives you the agility to keep pace with rapidly changing business and data needs.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. Then, you transform this data into a concise format. Let’s find out what role each of these components play in the context of C360.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data.

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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

These data requirements could be satisfied with a strong data governance strategy. Governance can — and should — be the responsibility of every data user, though how that’s achieved will depend on the role within the organization. How can data engineers address these challenges directly?

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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.

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