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imagine a data quality process updating customer records with corrected addresses while another process is deleting outdated customer records.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. This principle makes sure data accountability remains close to the source, fostering higher data quality and relevance.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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!

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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 […].

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds. s IT strategy but in a more opportunistic way.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. With automation, data quality is systemically assured.

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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.’

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By providing a standardized framework for data representation, open table formats break down data silos, enhance data quality, and accelerate analytics at scale. Their ability to resolve critical issues such as data consistency, query efficiency, and governance renders them indispensable for data- driven organizations.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and strategy for growth. The first step towards a successful data governance strategy is setting appropriate goals and milestones. Yet, so many companies today are still failing miserably in implementing data strategy and governance protocols.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But how can delivering an intelligent data foundation specifically increase your successful outcomes of AI models? And do you have the transparency and data observability built into your data strategy to adequately support the AI teams building them?

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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.

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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 […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Data Management Association (DAMA) International defines it as the “planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources.” Such a framework provides your organization with a holistic approach to collecting, managing, securing, and storing data.

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erwin

JANUARY 30, 2020

Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy: How Data Drives Digital. I’m encouraged by these results as it tells us that enterprises are really beginning to embrace the power of data to shape their organizations. And close to 50 percent have deployed data catalogs and business glossaries.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

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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.

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Constructing a Digital Transformation Strategy. To that end, data is finally no longer just an IT issue. As organizations become data-driven and awash in an overwhelming amount of data from multiple data sources (AI, IoT, ML, etc.),

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

This means that the AI products you build align with your existing business plans and strategies (or that your products are driving change in those plans and strategies), that they are delivering value to the business, and that they are delivered on time. AI product estimation strategies.

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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. Implement data privacy policies. Implement data quality by data type and source.

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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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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

The data you’ve collected and saved over the years isn’t free. 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 yet to implement data governance, this is another great reason to get moving quickly.

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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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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Data is processed to generate information, which can be later used for creating better business strategies and increasing the company’s competitive edge. It’s obvious that you’ll want to use big data, but it’s not so obvious how you’re going to work with it. Preserve information: Keep your raw data raw.

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DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These layers help teams delineate different stages of data processing, storage, and access, offering a structured approach to data management. In the context of Data in Place, validating data quality automatically with Business Domain Tests is imperative for ensuring the trustworthiness of your data assets.

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