AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2025

Concurrent UPDATE/DELETE on overlapping partitions When multiple processes attempt to modify the same partition simultaneously, data conflicts can arise. For example, imagine a data quality process updating customer records with corrected addresses while another process is deleting outdated customer records.

Snapshot 137

Snapshot Management Metadata Big Data 137

erwin

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. However, most organizations don’t use all the data at their disposal to reach deeper conclusions about how to drive revenue, achieve regulatory compliance or accomplish other strategic objectives. What Is Metadata? Harvest data.

Metadata 110

Metadata Management Data Quality Cost-Benefit 110

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

Enterprise 141

Enterprise Data Quality Structured Data Modeling 141

Rocket-Powered Data Science

MARCH 20, 2023

Datasphere goes beyond the “big three” data usage end-user requirements (ease of discovery, access, and delivery) to include data orchestration (data ops and data transformations) and business data contextualization (semantics, metadata, catalog services).

Data Warehouse 325

Data Warehouse Metadata Digital Transformation Machine Learning 325

erwin

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

Metadata 135

Metadata Data Governance Management Cost-Benefit 135

AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon DataZone is now able to present data quality information for data assets. Other organizations monitor the quality of their data through third-party solutions. Additionally, Amazon DataZone now offers APIs for importing data quality scores from external systems.

Data Quality 118

Data Quality Visualization Metadata Metrics 118

TDAN

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever before. The importance of quality data cannot be overstated.

Data Quality 90

Data Quality Metadata Data Governance Management 90

AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

It addresses many of the shortcomings of traditional data lakes by providing features such as ACID transactions, schema evolution, row-level updates and deletes, and time travel. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how the metadata layer of Apache Iceberg can be used to make data lakes more efficient.

Metadata 126

Metadata Snapshot Data Lake Metrics 126

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.

Metadata 105

Metadata Management Data Governance Machine Learning 105

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Data quality is crucial in data pipelines because it directly impacts the validity of the business insights derived from the data. Today, many organizations use AWS Glue Data Quality to define and enforce data quality rules on their data at rest and in transit.

Data Quality 110

Data Quality Visualization Metadata Key Performance Indicator 110

Ontotext

JUNE 10, 2021

Not Every Graph is a Knowledge Graph: Schemas and Semantic Metadata Matter. To be able to automate these operations and maintain sufficient data quality, enterprises have started implementing the so-called data fabrics , that employ diverse metadata sourced from different systems. Such examples are provenance (e.g.

Metadata 119

Metadata Cost-Benefit OLAP Modeling 119

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Domain ownership recognizes that the teams generating the data have the deepest understanding of it and are therefore best suited to manage, govern, and share it effectively. This principle makes sure data accountability remains close to the source, fostering higher data quality and relevance.

Metadata 105

Metadata Data Governance Data Quality Data-driven 105

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.

Metadata 104

Metadata Management Data-driven Data Architecture 104

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?

Metadata 98

Metadata Management Data Quality Data Governance 98

TDAN

MAY 4, 2022

Getting to great data quality need not be a blood sport! This article aims to provide some practical insights gained from enterprise master data quality projects undertaken within the past […].

Data Quality 114

Data Quality Enterprise Metadata Data Strategy 114

Octopai

OCTOBER 18, 2021

First, what active metadata management isn’t : “Okay, you metadata! Now, what active metadata management is (well, kind of): “Okay, you metadata! Data assets are tools. Metadata are the details on those tools: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. . Quit lounging around!

Metadata 98

Metadata Management IT Data Quality 98

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.

Metadata 84

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

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

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Data teams struggle to find a unified approach that enables effortless discovery, understanding, and assurance of data quality and security across various sources. Having confidence in your data is key. Automate data profiling and data quality recommendations, monitor data quality rules, and receive alerts.

Data Analytics 103

Data Analytics Analytics Data Lake Data Quality 103

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Some customers build custom in-house data parity frameworks to validate data during migration. Others use open source data quality products for data parity use cases. This takes away important person hours from the actual migration effort into building and maintaining a data parity framework.

Data Quality 113

Data Quality Data Lake Data Warehouse Metrics 113

Octopai

JUNE 26, 2020

In order to figure out why the numbers in the two reports didn’t match, Steve needed to understand everything about the data that made up those reports – when the report was created, who created it, any changes made to it, which system it was created in, etc. Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

Metadata 98

Metadata Data Governance Enterprise Reporting 98

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

An extract, transform, and load (ETL) process using AWS Glue is triggered once a day to extract the required data and transform it into the required format and quality, following the data product principle of data mesh architectures. From here, the metadata is published to Amazon DataZone by using AWS Glue Data Catalog.

IoT 110

IoT Machine Learning Metadata Data-driven 110

Smarten

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

If the data is not easily gathered, managed and analyzed, it can overwhelm and complicate decision-makers. Data insight techniques provide a comprehensive set of tools, data analysis and quality assurance features to allow users to identify errors, enhance data quality, and boost productivity.’

Machine Learning 62

Machine Learning Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metadata 62

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 18, 2020

By contrast, AI adopters are about one-third more likely to cite problems with missing or inconsistent data. The logic in this case partakes of garbage-in, garbage out : data scientists and ML engineers need quality data to train their models. This is consistent with the results of our data quality survey.

Enterprise 350

Enterprise Deep Learning Data Governance Risk 350

TDAN

AUGUST 31, 2021

Data is everywhere! But can you find the data you need? What can be done to ensure the quality of the data? How can you show the value of investing in data? Can you trust it when you get it? These are not new questions, but many people still do not know how to practically […].

Data Quality 105

Data Quality IT Metadata Data Governance 105

Octopai

MARCH 23, 2022

Data lineage tools give you exactly that kind of transparent, x-ray vision into your data quality. Data Supervision. This is why effective data management and governance requires actually appointing people to be data owners and data stewards. Everyone agrees that data quality is important.

Data Quality 98

Data Quality Reporting Modeling Interactive 98

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These formats, exemplified by Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake, addresses persistent challenges in traditional data lake structures by offering an advanced combination of flexibility, performance, and governance capabilities. These are useful for flexible data lifecycle management.

Snapshot 84

Snapshot Metadata Data Lake Optimization 84

erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

To marry the epidemiological data to the population data it will require a tremendous amount of data intelligence about the: Source of the data; Currency of the data; Quality of the data; and. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Data lineage to support impact analysis.

Metadata 122

Metadata IT Data Governance Data Quality 122

erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

If you are not observing and reacting to the data, the model will accept every variant and it may end up one of the more than 50% of models, according to Gartner , that never make it to production because there are no clear insights and the results have nothing to do with the original intent of the model.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Sales Modeling 52

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.

Metadata 56

Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 56

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. Data quality Data quality is essentially the measure of data integrity.

Data Quality 63

Data Quality Data Integration Metadata Cost-Benefit 63

O'Reilly on Data

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Anomaly detection is well-known in the financial industry, where it’s frequently used to detect fraudulent transactions, but it can also be used to catch and fix data quality issues automatically. If you suddenly see unexpected patterns in your social data, that may mean adversaries are attempting to poison your data sources.

Machine Learning 279

Machine Learning Software Metadata Testing 279

Cloudera

JANUARY 26, 2024

In this article, we will walk you through the process of implementing fine grained access control for the data governance framework within the Cloudera platform. In a good data governance strategy, it is important to define roles that allow the business to limit the level of access that users can have to their strategic data assets.

Metadata 73

Metadata Data Governance Management Finance 73

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

In order to help maintain data privacy while validating and standardizing data for use, the IDMC platform offers a Data Quality Accelerator for Crisis Response.

Finance 140

Finance Management Metadata Machine Learning 140

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It will do this, it said, with bidirectional integration between its platform and Salesforce’s to seamlessly delivers data governance and end-to-end lineage within Salesforce Data Cloud. Additional to that, we are also allowing the metadata inside of Alation to be read into these agents.”

Data Governance 123

Data Governance Metadata Unstructured Data Structured Data 123

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?

Metadata 133

Metadata IT Data-driven Data Quality 133

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data.

Data Governance 142

Data Governance Management Metadata Data Quality 142