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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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This second post of a two-part series that details how Volkswagen Autoeuropa , a Volkswagen Group plant, together with AWS, built a data solution with a robust governance framework using Amazon DataZone to become a data-driven factory. Next, we detail the governance guardrails of the Volkswagen Autoeuropa data solution.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Added data quality capability ready for an AI era Data quality has never been more important than as we head into this next AI-focused era. erwin Data Quality is the data quality heart of erwin Data Intelligence. erwin Data Quality is the data quality heart of erwin Data Intelligence.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Volkswagen Autoeuropa aims to become a data-driven factory and has been using cutting-edge technologies to enhance digitalization efforts. In this post, we discuss how Volkswagen Autoeuropa used Amazon DataZone to build a data marketplace based on data mesh architecture to accelerate their digital transformation.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 13, 2023

When we talk about data integrity, we’re referring to the overarching completeness, accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and security of an organization’s data. Together, these factors determine the reliability of the organization’s data. In short, yes.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues.

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erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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Ontotext

JUNE 10, 2021

And yeah, the real-world relationships among the entities represented in the data had to be fudged a bit to fit in the counterintuitive model of tabular data, but, in trade, you get reliability and speed. Ironically, relational databases only imply relationships between data points by whatever row or column they exist in.

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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 in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Data is the new oil and organizations of all stripes are tapping this resource to fuel growth. However, data quality and consistency are one of the top barriers faced by organizations in their quest to become more data-driven. Unlock quality data with IBM. and its leading data observability offerings.

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Alation

MARCH 2, 2023

Instead, we got data. Lots and lots of data. It does feel, however, as if we need jet-like speed to analyze and understand our data, who is using it, how it is used, and if it is being used to drive value. This is because simply collecting data leaves it open to misinterpretation, misuse, and decay.

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Octopai

JUNE 26, 2020

We’re dealing with data day in and day out, but if isn’t accurate then it’s all for nothing!” Steve needed a robust and automated metadata management solution as part of his organization’s data governance strategy. Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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Alation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Alation and Soda are excited to announce a new partnership, which will bring powerful data-quality capabilities into the data catalog. Soda’s data observability platform empowers data teams to discover and collaboratively resolve data issues quickly. Do we have end-to-end data pipeline control?

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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 in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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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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Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data-driven organizations are a bad idea. Using data to drive your organization is wonderful. But data, at best, can only be a powerful vehicle, or a reliable GPS system. Except sometimes we call organizations “data-driven” when really the data is driving them up the wall. And it should be.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Due to the convergence of events in the data analytics and AI landscape, many organizations are at an inflection point. Furthermore, a global effort to create new data privacy laws, and the increased attention on biases in AI models, has resulted in convoluted business processes for getting data to users. Data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Just after launching a focused data management platform for retail customers in March, enterprise data management vendor Informatica has now released two more industry-specific versions of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) — one for financial services, and the other for health and life sciences.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In today’s data-driven landscape, Data and Analytics Teams i ncreasingly face a unique set of challenges presented by Demanding Data Consumers who require a personalized level of Data Observability. Data Observability platforms often need to deliver this level of customization.

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Octopai

AUGUST 8, 2023

Battle Creek, Michigan — July 18, 2023 — Octopai, a global leader in data lineage and business intelligence automation, and Demand Chain AI, a pioneer in AI-driven demand forecasting and supply chain optimization, have today announced a strategic partnership.

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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.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An enterprise data catalog does all that a library inventory system does – namely streamlining data discovery and access across data sources – and a lot more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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Ontotext

APRIL 10, 2024

The data ecosystem today is crowded with dazzling buzzwords, all fighting for investment dollars. A survey in 2021 found that a data company was being funded every 45 minutes. Data ecosystems have become jungles and in spite of all the technology, data teams are struggling to create a modern data experience.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

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Octopai

AUGUST 11, 2024

Data flow lineage is crucial for anyone handling data within organizations. In essence, data flow lineage is indispensable for ensuring transparency, maintaining data quality, achieving compliance, enabling efficient troubleshooting, conducting impact analysis, and enhancing collaboration within organizations.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Third, any commitment to a disruptive technology (including data-intensive and AI implementations) must start with a business strategy. These changes may include requirements drift, data drift, model drift, or concept drift. I suggest that the simplest business strategy starts with answering three basic questions: What?

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 15, 2021

A data catalog serves the same purpose. By using metadata (or short descriptions), data catalogs help companies gather, organize, retrieve, and manage information. You can think of a data catalog as an enhanced Access database or library card catalog system. What Does a Data Catalog Do?

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erwin

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As the amount of data grows exponentially, organizations turn to data intelligence to reach deeper conclusions about driving revenue, achieving regulatory compliance and accomplishing other strategic objectives. It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

Like the proverbial man looking for his keys under the streetlight , when it comes to enterprise data, if you only look at where the light is already shining, you can end up missing a lot. Remember that dark data is the data you have but don’t understand. So how do you find your dark data? Analyze your metadata.

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erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Data lineage is the journey data takes from its creation through its transformations over time. It describes a certain dataset’s origin, movement, characteristics and quality. Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. Data Lineage Use Case: From Tracing COVID-19’s Origins to Data-Driven Business.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alation is pleased to launch a new strategic partnership with Fivetran, the leader in modern data integration. This new partnership will unify governed, quality data into a single view, granting all stakeholders total visibility into pipelines and providing them with a superior ability to make data-driven decisions.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2023, data leaders and enthusiasts were enamored of — and often distracted by — initiatives such as generative AI and cloud migration. I expect to see the following data and knowledge management trends emerge in 2024. However, organizations need to be aware that these may be nothing more than bolted-on Band-Aids.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 10, 2024

Next, I will explain how knowledge graphs help them to get a unified view to data derived from multiple sources and get richer insights in less time. This requires new tools and new systems, which results in diverse and siloed data. And each of these gains requires data integration across business lines and divisions.

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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. In 2019, the U.K.’s

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