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. Data domains form a foundational pillar in data governance frameworks.

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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.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The practitioner asked me to add something to a presentation for his organization: the value of data governance for things other than data compliance and data security. Now to be honest, I immediately jumped onto data quality. Data quality is a very typical use case for data governance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow. Improve data discovery.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2022

Auditing has been setup for data in the metastore. System metadata is reviewed and updated regularly. Ideally, the cluster has been setup so that lineage for any data object can be traced (data governance). To find out more about Cloudera Data Platform Security visit [link].

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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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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. Denodo remains a specialist data management software provider and in September 2023 announced that it had received a $336 million investment from asset management firm TPG.

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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. As such, traditional – and mostly manual – processes associated with data management and data governance have broken down.

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erwin

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Metadata management is essential to becoming a data-driven organization and reaping the competitive advantage your organization’s data offers. Gartner refers to metadata as data that is used to enhance the usability, comprehension, utility or functionality of any other data point.

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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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erwin

JANUARY 24, 2019

With an automation framework, data professionals can meet these needs at a fraction of the cost of the traditional manual way. In data governance terms, an automation framework refers to a metadata-driven universal code generator that works hand in hand with enterprise data mapping for: Pre-ETL enterprise data mapping.

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Cloudera

MARCH 9, 2021

In this blog, we’ll highlight the key CDP aspects that provide data governance and lineage and show how they can be extended to incorporate metadata for non-CDP systems from across the enterprise. The SDX layer of CDP leverages the full spectrum of Atlas to automatically track and control all data assets.

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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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Octopai

JUNE 24, 2019

There are a number of scenarios that necessitate data governance tools. Businesses operating within strict industry regulations, utilizing analytics software, and/or regularly consolidating data in key subject areas will find themselves looking into data governance tools to help them achieve their goals.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Gartner predicts that “By 2020, 50% of information governance initiatives will be enacted with policies based on metadata alone.”. Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions , Guido de Simoni and Roxane Edjlali, August 10, 2017. Metadata management no longer refers to a static technical repository.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The data mesh, built on Amazon DataZone , simplified data access, improved data quality, and established governance at scale to power analytics, reporting, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases. After the right data for the use case was found, the IT team provided access to the data through manual configuration.

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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

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. But despite this fact, enterprises often face push back when implementing a new data governance initiative or trying to mature an existing one.

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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

To do this, the consortium will need the ability to automatically scan and catalog the data sources and apply strict data governance and quality practices. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This post dives into the technical details, highlighting the robust data governance framework that enables ease of access to quality data using Amazon DataZone. Onboard key data products – The team identified the key data products that enabled these two use cases and aligned to onboard them into the data solution.

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Octopai

JUNE 19, 2023

In an era where data is often referred to as the new oil, having a well-organized and easily accessible data catalog is no longer a luxury but a necessity as organizations deal with the deluge of too much data (data bloatedness) coming from every system and landscape.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 5, 2024

For example, a marketing analysis data product can bundle various data assets such as marketing campaign data, pipeline data, and customer data. With the grouping capabilities of data products, data producers can manage and control access to the underlying data assets with just a few steps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

AI relies upon large sets of data fed into it to help create output but is limited by the quality of data that is consumed by the model. This was on display during the initial test releases of Google Bard, where it provided a factually inaccurate answer on the James Webb Space Telescope based on reference data it ingested.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Application data architect: The application data architect designs and implements data models for specific software applications. Information/data governance architect: These individuals establish and enforce data governance policies and procedures.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In a 1971 book titled, “Silent Messages,” by Albert Mehrabian, the combination of non-verbal and spoken words is referred to as the 7%-38%-55% rule (source). The words you speak are a small fraction of communication. Think of it this way. When you […].

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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.). This also diminishes the value of data as an asset. Technical Metadata.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

The first post of this series describes the overall architecture and how Novo Nordisk built a decentralized data mesh architecture, including Amazon Athena as the data query engine. The third post will show how end-users can consume data from their tool of choice, without compromising data governance.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Flexible and easy to use – The solutions should provide less restrictive, easy-to-access, and ready-to-use data. A data hub is a center of data exchange that constitutes a hub of data repositories and is supported by data engineering, data governance, security, and monitoring services.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Essential components of a data lakehouse architecture and what makes an open data lakehouse. At the core of a data lakehouse architecture includes the storage, metadata service and the query engine, and typically a data governance component made up of a policy engine and a data dictionary.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

Limiting growth by (data integration) complexity Most operational IT systems in an enterprise have been developed to serve a single business function and they use the simplest possible model for this. In both cases, semantic metadata is the glue that turns knowledge graphs into hubs of data, metadata, and content.

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TDAN

JUNE 18, 2019

Part one of this series addressed the structure of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework. I refer to the row labels as the Levels or perspectives of the organization and the column labels as the Core Components of a […]. In part two, I detail each of the labels on the rows and columns of the framework.

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Octopai

JANUARY 19, 2020

BCBS 239 is a document published by that committee entitled, Principles for Effective Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting. You can see why it’s referred to by number and not by the title.) It will not surprise you to learn all 11 of the bank-relevant principles are related to data in some form or fashion.

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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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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

This streamlined architecture approach offers several advantages: Single source of truth – The Central IT team acts as the custodian of the combined and curated data from all business units, thereby providing a unified and consistent dataset. Similarly, individual business units produce their own domain-specific data.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 25, 2024

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Apache Airflow is an open source tool used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor sequences of processes and tasks, referred to as workflows.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

Administrators can customize Amazon DataZone to use existing AWS resources, enabling Amazon DataZone portal users to have federated access to those AWS services to catalog, share, and subscribe to data, thereby establishing data governance across the platform. If you’re new to Amazon DataZone, refer to Getting started.

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