Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

What Is Data Intelligence? Data intelligence is a system to deliver trustworthy, reliable data. It includes intelligence about data, or metadata. IDC coined the term, stating, “data intelligence helps organizations answer six fundamental questions about data.” These questions are: Who is using what data?

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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.”. Data catalogs have emerged as a core component of a modern technology stack and are a critical foundation for the transition from process-driven to data-driven decision making. – Gartner, Inc.,

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Smarten

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

How About Augmented Analytics? So, what is digital transformation Gartner asked, and here is what the Gartner glossary of terms says about that: ‘Digital business transformation is the process of exploiting digital technologies and supporting capabilities to create a robust new digital business model.’

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Alation

MAY 19, 2022

Alation attended last week’s Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in London from May 9 – 11, 2022. Coming off the heels of Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm, it’s clear that in-person events are back with a vengeance, and we’re thrilled about it. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2022: Keynote Highlights.

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Alation

JUNE 30, 2021

Alation has been named one of the Leaders in the GigaOm Radar for Data Catalogs Report. The inaugural research report marks a growing recognition of the importance of the data catalog in an enterprise’s data ecosystem. The Data Culture Platform. Data culture springs from human collaboration and innovation.

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Octopai

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Organizations are turning to the cloud and automated metadata management tools to successfully manage their business’s data. One easy way to maintain clear communication throughout a company is to establish an automated business glossary , which creates a common “language” for everyone in the company. One word for you: Cloud.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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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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Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. The data catalog is a foundational layer of the data fabric.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. But governance is a time-consuming process (for users and data stewards alike).

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

The saying “knowledge is power” has never been more relevant, thanks to the widespread commercial use of big data and data analytics. The rate at which data is generated has increased exponentially in recent years. Essential Big Data And Data Analytics Insights. million searches per day and 1.2

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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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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Organizations are building data-driven applications to guide business decisions, improve agility, and drive innovation. Many of these applications are complex to build because they require collaboration across teams and the integration of data, tools, and services. The following screenshot illustrates the SageMaker Unified Studio.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A Checklist to Challenge Your Vendor At first glance, data catalogs might seem like straightforward tools for organizing information an apparently mundane task. However, a closer look reveals that these systems are far more than simple repositories: Data catalogs are at the forefront of bringing AI into your business for at least two reasons.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

The new analytics mandate is descriptive, predictive and prescriptive in context. When I meet with CIOs or executive sponsors, one of the first things I do is map out their analytics maturity curve. Descriptive analytics: Where most organizations begin and linger Descriptive analytics answers the question: What happened?

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