Data Virtualization

MAY 19, 2023

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first section of this post discusses how we aligned the technical design of the data solution with the data strategy of Volkswagen Autoeuropa. Next, we detail the governance guardrails of the Volkswagen Autoeuropa data solution. These data products belonged to data domains such as production, finance, and logistics.

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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. Without this, organizations will continue to pay a “bad data tax” as AI/ML models will struggle to get past a proof of concept and ultimately fail to deliver on the hype.

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I delivered this series of questions focused on relating their need for an over-arching data strategy with the […]. The purpose of the Q&A was to assist her with determining the most appropriate messaging to share across the company.

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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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TDAN

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At the recent InfoGovWorld conference, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the future of Data Governance. Common themes were the growing importance of governance metadata, especially in the areas of business value, success measurement and reduction in operational and data risk.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

Monitor and identify data quality issues closer to the source to mitigate the potential impact on downstream processes or workloads. Efficiently adopt data platforms and new technologies for effective data management. Apply metadata to contextualize existing and new data to make it searchable and discoverable.

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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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TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

More Businesses Are Taking a Holistic Approach to Data Strategy One of the more common trends we saw coming up through conversations during the summit was the need for a reframing of how we approach data strategy—taking a much more holistic viewpoint to it than organizations otherwise would have in past years.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Data quality issues – Because the data was processed redundantly and shared multiple times, there was no guarantee of or control over the quality of the data. This led to reduced trust in the data. Furthermore, no process to discover new data existed. The data quality is measured using the data quality framework.

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TDAN

JULY 20, 2021

They use data better. How does Spotify win against a competitor like Apple? Using machine learning and AI, Spotify creates value for their users by providing a more personalized experience.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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TDAN

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and growth strategy. But what […].

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

A modern data strategy redefines and enables sharing data across the enterprise and allows for both reading and writing of a singular instance of the data using an open table format. When evolving such a partition definition, the data in the table prior to the change is unaffected, as is its metadata.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While some enterprises are already reporting AI-driven growth, the complexities of data strategy are proving a big stumbling block for many other businesses.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Under the hood, UniForm generates Iceberg metadata files (including metadata and manifest files) that are required for Iceberg clients to access the underlying data files in Delta Lake tables. Both Delta Lake and Iceberg metadata files reference the same data files. The table is registered in AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But most important of all, the assumed dormant value in the unstructured data is a question mark, which can only be answered after these sophisticated techniques have been applied. Therefore, there is a need to being able to analyze and extract value from the data economically and flexibly. The solution integrates data in three tiers.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the forefront of how enterprises work with data to help reinvent operations, improve customer experiences, and maintain a competitive advantage. It’s no longer a nice-to-have, but an integral part of a successful data strategy. All of this supports the use of AI.

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Octopai

JUNE 9, 2024

This challenge is especially critical for executives responsible for data strategy and operations. Here’s how automated data lineage can transform these challenges into opportunities, as illustrated by the journey of a health services company we’ll call “HealthCo.” This is where Octopai excels.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Data culture eats data strategy for breakfast” has become a popular saying among data and analytics managers and executives. Even the best data strategy cannot fulfill its potential if the data culture in the company does not match it. These include tools for metadata management (e.g.,

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). Consumer accounts : Used by data consumers to implement use cases insights and build applications tailored to their business needs.

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. SQL or NoSQL?

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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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TDAN

JANUARY 5, 2021

In this age, data management has become a necessary routine. Organizations have started to uncover large sets of data in the form of Assets typically used for analysis and decision making. Understandably, Data Catalogs […].

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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. Data discoverability Unlike structured data, which is managed in well-defined rows and columns, unstructured data is stored as objects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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Alation

MAY 31, 2023

Ensure data security and compliance. Define data requirements and policies. Select and implement data tools and technologies. Collaborate on data strategy with business and IT leaders. Identify and address data issues. Lead or contribute to data-related projects and initiatives.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

What does a sound, intelligent data foundation give you? It can give business-oriented data strategy for business leaders to help drive better business decisions and ROI. It can also increase productivity by enabling the business to find the data they need when the business teams need it.

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TDAN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In my last article I suggested that many organizations have approached Data Governance incorrectly using only centralize data governance teams and that approach is not working for many.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For Shared database’s region , choose the Data Catalog view source Region. The Shared database and Shared database’s owner ID fields are populated manually from the database metadata. This integration empowers organizations to break down data silos, accelerate analytics, and drive more agile customer-centric strategies.

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2023

The revised ZTMM is organized by five categories or pillars: identity, devices, networks, applications and workloads, and data, and four levels of maturity: traditional, initial, advanced, and optimal. Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX) is a core component of Cloudera Data Platform’s architecture.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 26, 2023

Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more. This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

With a good plan and a modern data catalog, you can minimize the time and cost of cloud migration. Source: Webinar with data expert Ibby Rahmani: Emerging Trends in Data Architecture: What’s the Next Big Thing? Alation & Global Data Strategy). Creating A Cloud Migration Strategy. Manage Costs.

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TDAN

MAY 17, 2022

There is… but one… Data Governance. Maybe you are one who believes that there is something called Master Data Governance, Information Governance, Metadata Governance, Big Data Governance, Customer [or insert domain name here] Data Governance, Data Governance 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0, or maybe even that […].

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

In our very own Enterprise Data Maturity research surveying over 3,000 IT and senior business leaders, we found that 40% of organizations are currently running hybrid but mostly on-premises, and 36% of respondents expect to shift to hybrid multi-cloud in the next 18 months. Where data flows, ideas follow.

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