AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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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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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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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. Sales – Sales process, key performance indicators (KPIs), and metrics.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 2, 2019

Recall the following key attributes of a machine learning project: Unlike traditional software where the goal is to meet a functional specification , in ML the goal is to optimize a metric. Quality depends not just on code, but also on data, tuning, regular updates, and retraining. We’re now realizing the same is true for models, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Good data governance has always involved dealing with errors and inconsistencies in datasets, as well as indexing and classifying that structured data by removing duplicates, correcting typos, standardizing and validating the format and type of data, and augmenting incomplete information or detecting unusual and impossible variations in the data.

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erwin

JANUARY 31, 2019

And even organizations that are currently compliant can’t afford to let their data governance standards slip. Data Governance for GDPR. Google’s record GDPR fine makes the rationale for better data governance clear enough. So arguably, the “tertiary” benefits of data governance should take center stage.

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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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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Data silos are a perennial data management problem for enterprises, with almost three-quarters (73%) of participants in ISG Research’s Data Governance Benchmark Research citing disparate data sources and systems as a data governance challenge.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Common Data Governance Challenges. Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. And one enterprise alone can generate a world of data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 28, 2022

Metadata enrichment is about scaling the onboarding of new data into a governed data landscape by taking data and applying the appropriate business terms, data classes and quality assessments so it can be discovered, governed and utilized effectively. Scalability and elasticity. Public API.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As IT leaders oversee migration, it’s critical they do not overlook data governance. Data governance is essential because it ensures people can access useful, high-quality data. Therefore, the question is not if a business should implement cloud data management and governance, but which framework is best for them.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Defined as an enabler of frictionless access of data sharing in a distributed data environment, data fabric aims to help companies access, integrate, and manage their data no matter where that data is stored using semantic knowledge graphs, active metadata management, and embedded machine learning.

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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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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

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

S3 Tables integration with the AWS Glue Data Catalog is in preview, allowing you to stream, query, and visualize dataincluding Amazon S3 Metadata tablesusing AWS analytics services such as Amazon Data Firehose , Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, and Amazon QuickSight. With AWS Glue 5.0,

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Cloudera

MARCH 22, 2023

While in the old world where questions around data quality or system performance were answered by monitoring a few logs and metrics, in a distributed landscape (like a hybrid data platform) it’s not that straightforward. There are many logs and metrics, and they are all over the place.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

The following screenshot shows an example of data quality insights embedded in the Amazon DataZone business catalog. To learn more, see Amazon DataZone now integrates with AWS Glue Data Quality and external data quality solutions. She focuses on improving data discovery and curation required for data analytics.

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CDW Research Hub

MAY 29, 2019

Data governance helps organizations manage their information and answer questions about business performance, allowing them to better understand data, and govern it to mitigate compliance risks and empower information stakeholders. Checklist: Building an Enterprise Data Governance Program.

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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. You will then publish the data assets from these data sources.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.” Why keep data at all?

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The post will include details on how to perform read/write data operations against Amazon S3 tables with AWS Lake Formation managing metadata and underlying data access using temporary credential vending. config('spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog.rest-metrics-reporting-enabled','false').getOrCreate() S3FileIO').config('spark.hadoop.fs.s3a.aws.credentials.provider','org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.SimpleAWSCredentialProvider').config('spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog.rest-metric

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

Solution overview OneData defines three personas: Publisher – This role includes the organizational and management team of systems that serve as data sources. Responsibilities include: Load raw data from the data source system at the appropriate frequency. Provide and keep up to date with technical metadata for loaded data.

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Octopai

JULY 9, 2020

When conducted manually, however, which has tended to be the normal mode of operation before companies discovered automation – or machine learning data lineage solutions, data lineage can be extremely tedious and time-consuming for BI & Analytics teams.

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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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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The application supports custom workflows to allow demand and supply planning teams to collaborate, plan, source, and fulfill customer orders, then track fulfillment metrics via persona-based operational and management reports and dashboards. This metadata file is later used to read source file names during processing into the staging layer.

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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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Alation

JUNE 1, 2023

So it’s fitting that Snowflake Summit , the premier event for data cloud strategy, will occur at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas on June 26–29 (togas not required). As a 2-time Snowflake Data Governance Partner of the Year , Alation knows how important this event is to the Snowflake community. The data governance team’s solution?

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Among the tasks necessary for internal and external compliance is the ability to report on the metadata of an AI model. Metadata includes details specific to an AI model such as: The AI model’s creation (when it was created, who created it, etc.) And that makes sense.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

However, a foundational step in evolving into a data-driven organization requires trusted, readily available, and easily accessible data for users within the organization; thus, an effective data governance program is key. Why you should automate data governance and how a data fabric architecture helps.

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Alation

MAY 12, 2023

So when leading software review site TrustRadius announced that we had won their “Top Rated” awards in Data Catalog , Data Collaboration, Data Governance , and Metadata Management we were thrilled, but not surprised, since usability has been core to Alation’s product DNA since day 1. What does “Top Rated” mean?

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

Data in customers’ data lakes is used to fulfil a multitude of use cases, from real-time fraud detection for financial services companies, inventory and real-time marketing campaigns for retailers, or flight and hotel room availability for the hospitality industry.

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