Alation

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But what does it mean for an organisation to be truly data-driven? What foundation needs to be in place at the start, and what journey does an organisation need to embrace to benefit from the forensic insights their data can reveal? This requires: Data is embedded into the processes of the organisation.

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Alation

APRIL 14, 2023

Last week, the Alation team had the privilege of joining IT professionals, business leaders, and data analysts and scientists for the Modern Data Stack Conference in San Francisco. The show floor was buzzing with industry experts, networking and sharing valuable insights on the latest developments in the data space.

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Alation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today’s best-performing organizations embrace data for strategic decision-making. Because of the criticality of the data they deal with, we think that finance teams should lead the enterprise adoption of data and analytics solutions. This is because accurate data is “table stakes” for finance teams.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It was the bricks-and-mortar, merchandising experience versus the data-driven, near-limitless inventory and dynamic flexibility of e-commerce competitors. To meet this trend, retailers know that data is the key. The wide-open, greenfield opportunity presented by retail data in the early e-commerce days has also changed.

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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

In this blog, I’ll detail how we’ve grown in EMEA specifically, sharing exciting updates and plans for the future. Stay tuned for more information on what’s sure to be another educational, memorable, and enlightening gathering of the data community. But first: mark your calendars! Our revAlation London event returns for 2023.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This round was led by Thoma Bravo, Sanabil Investments, and Costanoa Ventures, with participation from new strategic partner Databricks Ventures. New investor Thoma Bravo led the round. We had not seen that in the broader intelligence & data governance market.”. Tre Sayle of Thoma Bravo. That was very unique.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Today, we’re announcing that Alation has closed a $50 million Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and our existing investors Costanoa Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Harmony Partners and Icon Ventures. And, the data catalog market has had a year of incredible growth.

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2022

Today, the term describes that same activity, but on a much larger scale, as organizations race to collect, analyze, and act on data first. But there have always been limits on who can access valuable data, as well as how it can be used. In the 1970s, data was confined to mainframes and primitive databases.

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Alation

MAY 11, 2023

In this blog, I’ll detail how we’ve grown in EMEA specifically, sharing exciting updates and plans for the future. Stay tuned for more information on what’s sure to be another educational, memorable, and enlightening gathering of the data community. But first: mark your calendars! Our revAlation London event returns for 2023.

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Iguazio

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Risk, compliance, data privacy and escalating costs are just a few of the acute concerns that financial services companies are grappling with today. But the evolution from analytical Al to generative Al has led to major advancements in the power of advanced analytics. View the entire webinar here.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

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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Alation

MAY 20, 2021

Data search just got better. Searchers can now hunt through data domains, with filters that help them spotlight the best asset more quickly. When it comes to enterprise search, Alation has always led the industry. When it comes to enterprise search, Alation has always led the industry. With the latest release of 2021.2,

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The term has been used a lot more of late, especially in the data analytics industry, as we’ve seen it expand over the past few years to keep pace with new regulations, like the GDPR and CCPA. In essence, DataOps is a practice that helps organizations manage and govern data more effectively. What exactly is DataOps ?

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IBM Journey to AI blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

The advancement of computing power over recent decades has led to an explosion of digital data, from traffic cameras monitoring commuter habits to smart refrigerators revealing how and when the average family eats. Both computer scientists and business leaders have taken note of the potential of the data.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly deploying applications to cloud requires not just development acceleration with continuous integration, deployment and testing (CI/CD/CT), It also requires supply chain lifecycle acceleration, which involves multiple other groups such as governance risk and compliance (GRC), change management, operations, resiliency and reliability.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

improved document management capabilities, web portals, mobile applications, data warehouses, enhanced location services, etc.) IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) enables businesses to respond to real-time data by applying automated decisions, enabling business users to develop and maintain operational systems decision logic.

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The MLOps Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Collaboration : Ensuring that all teams involved in the project, including data scientists, engineers, and operations teams, are working together effectively. In the case of our CI/CD-MLOPs system, we stored the model versions and metadata in the data storage services offered by AWS i.e S3 buckets.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building point-to-point integrations manually is time consuming, inefficient and costly; andorganizations need a better way to consume and share data, as well as a more flexible and agile way to add new features and solutions. API management software allows you to govern, manage, secure and monetize APIs.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The “data textile” wars continue! In our first blog in this series , we define the terms data fabric and data mesh. The second blog took a deeper dive into data fabric, examining its key pillars and the role of the data catalog in each. Data as a product.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

DataOps sprung up to connect data sources to data consumers. The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. This led me to Sanjeev Mohan. Data fabric, data mesh, modern data stack. Tools became stacks. Architectures became fabrics.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, modern travel and tourism thrive on data. For example, airlines have historically applied analytics to revenue management, while successful hospitality leaders make data-driven decisions around property allocation and workforce management. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry?

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IBM Journey to AI blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 7, 1983, a product was born that would revolutionize how organizations would store, manage, process , and query their data: IBM Db2. Codd published his famous paper “ A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” Over the past 40 years, Db2 has been on an exciting and transformational journey.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

A new research report by Ventana Research, Embracing Modern Data Governance , shows that modern data governance programs can drive a significantly higher ROI in a much shorter time span. Historically, data governance has been a manual and restrictive process, making it almost impossible for these programs to succeed.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Modern business is built on a foundation of trusted data. Yet high-volume collection makes keeping that foundation sound a challenge, as the amount of data collected by businesses is greater than ever before. An effective data governance strategy is critical for unlocking the full benefits of this information.

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Alation

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2002, Capital One became the first company to appoint a Chief Data Officer (CDO). Early CDOs largely sought to ensure compliance with regulations around financial data, taking a defensive posture to guard company and customer information. Today, the modern CDO drives the data strategy for the entire organization.

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Alation

AUGUST 17, 2021

Roald Amundsen led the Norwegian team to the South Pole with sled dogs. On your journey to the Data Cloud, you need a superior approach to help you achieve your ultimate goals. Get the Guide: Top 10 Reasons to Choose Alation for Your Snowflake Data Cloud. But be warned: Not all data catalogs are created equal.

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Alation

JUNE 17, 2021

We’re so proud to join this growing community of leaders in data, where we plan to deliver more value to our joint customers for years to come. Leading companies like Cisco, Nielsen, and Finnair turn to Alation + Snowflake for data governance and analytics. Data migration , too, is much easier with both platforms.

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Alation

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The elf teams used data engineering to improve gift matching and deployed big data to scale the naughty and nice list long ago , before either approach was even considered within our warmer climes. And Santa was hoping to make 2021 his most data-driven year yet. No Need to Pout or Cry: Just Know Your Data!

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s a truism that data is the most important asset in the 21 st century economy. But, today too many enterprises exist in a data fog, with poorly contextualized data scattered across millions of tables. Dispelling this data fog is one of the key challenges for the next generation enterprise.

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Alation

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The foundation of insurance is data and analytics. As the volume, veracity, variety, and volume of data expands, insurance companies need a stable framework to govern data and democratize access. Further, compliance regulations like the GDPR and CCPA demand that organizations maintain data security and compliance.

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phData

JULY 18, 2023

The Ultimate Modern Data Stack Migration Guide phData Marketing July 18, 2023 This guide was co-written by a team of data experts, including Dakota Kelley, Ahmad Aburia, Sam Hall, and Sunny Yan. Imagine a world where all of your data is organized, easily accessible, and routinely leveraged to drive impactful outcomes.

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

How do businesses transform raw data into competitive insights? Data analytics. As an organization embraces digital transformation , more data is available to inform decisions. To use that data, decision-makers across the company will need to have access. It can also help prevent data misuse. Value and Challenges.

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Alation

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Enterprise data analytics enables businesses to answer questions like these. Having a data analytics strategy is a key to delivering answers to these questions and enabling data to drive the success of your business. What is Enterprise Data Analytics? Data engineering. How can we better tailor our new products?

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