Alation

JUNE 14, 2021

The Role of Catalog in Data Security. Recently, I dug in with CIOs on the topic of data security. Recently, I dug in with CIOs on the topic of data security. What came as no surprise was the importance CIOs place on taking a broader approach to data protection. So CISOs must protect data.

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phData

MARCH 22, 2024

Snowflake-managed Iceberg table’s performance is at par with Snowflake native tables while storing the data in public cloud storage. They are Ideal for situations where the data is already stored in data lakes and do not intend to load into Snowflake but need to use the features and performance of Snowflake.

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Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Several weeks ago (prior to the Omicron wave), I got to attend my first conference in roughly two years: Dataversity’s Data Quality and Information Quality Conference. Ryan Doupe, Chief Data Officer of American Fidelity, held a thought-provoking session that resonated with me. But what about governance rules that enforce quality?

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Alation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalog growth are accelerating because organizations must integrate more systems, comply with privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns. What Is Master Data Management (MDM)? Data Catalog and Master Data Management. Identify Resources.

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Alation

JULY 26, 2021

How do you initiate change within a system containing many thousands of people and millions of bytes of data? During my time as a data specialist at American Family Insurance, it became clear that we had to move away from the way things had been done in the past. So you can probably imagine: The company manages a lot of data.

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Alation

JANUARY 24, 2023

Most organisations are seeking to be data-driven because they believe in the value of data to inform key decisions at all levels, making data management absolutely critical. Business leaders already know about the importance of building a data culture in their organisation, and many have long since embarked on that journey.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MAY 9, 2024

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

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Alation

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Among all the internal celebrations, I wanted to take this moment to reflect on our journey so far and ask a thought-provoking question: who is the GOAT of data catalogs ? What Is a GOAT? These select athletes are determined by what the “market” is saying – this includes fans, analysts, and the press.

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Alation

MARCH 11, 2022

So far, we’ve considered the rivalry of data fabric versus mesh. We’ve explored what is a data fabric , what is a data mesh , and how a data catalog supports these architectures. In this blog, we’ll tease three high-level tips and takeaways. First thing: Data is a powerful asset.

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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. Types of Metadata.

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Hacker News

JUNE 27, 2023

In addition, CoreWeave delivered from the cloud similar performance to what NVIDIA achieved from an AI supercomputer running in a local data center. The new test uses a larger data set and a more modern AI model to better reflect the challenges cloud service providers face.

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Alation

MARCH 2, 2023

Instead, we got data. Lots and lots of data. It does feel, however, as if we need jet-like speed to analyze and understand our data, who is using it, how it is used, and if it is being used to drive value. This is because simply collecting data leaves it open to misinterpretation, misuse, and decay.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

Companies rely heavily on data and analytics to find and retain talent, drive engagement, and improve productivity. However, analytics are only as good as the quality of the data, which aims to be error-free, trustworthy, and transparent. According to a Gartner report , poor data quality costs organizations an average of USD $12.9

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Companies rely heavily on data and analytics to find and retain talent, drive engagement, improve productivity and more across enterprise talent management. However, analytics are only as good as the quality of the data, which must be error-free, trustworthy and transparent. What is data quality? million each year.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In business — and even in life — you can be so focused on “What’s next?” that it’s easy to forget to ask “What happened?” The 2022 Data Catalog Wasn’t Your 2021 Data Catalog. The Alation Data Catalog our customers currently use has evolved from when the year began. It can also tell stories.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

The cloud supports this new workforce, connecting remote workers to vital data, no matter their location. And what are the benefits? Data Cloud Migration Challenges and Solutions. Cloud migration is the process of moving enterprise data and infrastructure from on premise to off premise. But why migrate at all?

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Alation

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In business, data-based goals tend to be very tangible. Perhaps you want to boost your ROI or CAGR, or reduce the time your analysts spend accessing and leveraging data. In this blog we’ll describe digital transformation: how it can be achieved as well as how it can benefit your business. But first you need to define them.

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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? First, what are your business objectives? Keeping those customers (6 times).

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

During my four years with Tableau, I’ve had the privilege to engage with amazing people who gave the gift of content, from beginner to advanced—spanning blogs, videos, Tweets, podcasts, and more. . What better way to connect with others than by sharing your story or knowledge? Your story is unique and so is your perspective.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

One common reason to engage in data collaboration is to run an audience overlap analysis, which is a common analysis to run when media planning and evaluating new partnerships. Common methods for sharing data, such as using pixels and SFTP transfers, can carry risk because they involve moving sensitive customer information.

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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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AWS Machine Learning Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Specifically, we briefly introduce MLOps principles and focus on the main differentiators compared to FMOps and LLMOps regarding processes, people, model selection and evaluation, data privacy, and model deployment. These data owners are focused on providing access to their data to multiple business units or teams.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

To succeed in the modern era, CSPs need versatile teams, including data scientists for data interpretation and operations, software developers for automation through vendor application programming interfaces (API) and service assurance engineers for designing closed loops to ensure service reliability.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

During my four years with Tableau, I’ve had the privilege to engage with amazing people who gave the gift of content, from beginner to advanced—spanning blogs, videos, Tweets, podcasts, and more. . What better way to connect with others than by sharing your story or knowledge? Your story is unique and so is your perspective.

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With Snorkel Flow, Wayfair built a data-centric AI development workflow to help improve automated catalog tagging across their products. With over 10,000 product tags across 40 million products, creating and managing labeled data is an enormous and time-consuming effort. Manually labeling training data was prohibitively slow.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

Implementing a modern data architecture provides a scalable method to integrate data from disparate sources. By organizing data by business domains instead of infrastructure, each domain can choose tools that suit their needs. However, realizing the full benefits requires overcoming some challenges.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MAY 9, 2023

These events can provide a wealth of information about what’s actually happening across your business at any moment in time. First, events can be locked away across a variety of different data sources, applications and systems. First, events can be locked away across a variety of different data sources, applications and systems.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MAY 9, 2023

Over the past decade, deep learning arose from a seismic collision of data availability and sheer compute power, enabling a host of impressive AI capabilities. Data must be laboriously collected, curated, and labeled with task-specific annotations to train AI models. We stand on the frontier of an AI revolution.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With the amount of data companies are using growing to unprecedented levels, organizations are grappling with the challenge of efficiently managing and deriving insights from these vast volumes of structured and unstructured data. What is a Data Lake?

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Snorkel AI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With Snorkel Flow, Wayfair built a data-centric AI development workflow to help improve automated catalog tagging across their products. With over 10,000 product tags across 40 million products, creating and managing labeled data is an enormous and time-consuming effort. Manually labeling training data was prohibitively slow.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In a recent blog, titled Collaboration and Crowdsourcing with Data Cataloging , I discussed the importance of participation by all data stakeholders as a key to getting maximum value from your data catalog. This build-it-and-they-will-come approach fails to engage people to actively use the catalog.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

In a sea of questionable data, how do you know what to trust? Data quality tells you the answer. It signals what data is trustworthy, reliable, and safe to use. It empowers engineers to oversee data pipelines that deliver trusted data to the wider organization. Today, as part of its 2022.2

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Defined.ai blog

MAY 3, 2023

Unlocking the Potential of Data Transparency and Selectability Let’s start with something that’s not as visible (yet) as other updates but one that’s, for sure, important for anybody in the market for data of any type: data transparency and selectability.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Alation is the leading data catalog. Early on, we focused on three goals: Ease of deployment … so you can launch the catalog in days… Human-centric search … and start using it to find great data instantly… Usage and collaboration … and collaborate to leverage new insights fast.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s the news no organization wants to hear―you’ve been the victim of a ransomware attack, and now you’re wondering what to do next. Over 17 percent of all cyberattacks involve ransomware —a type of malware that keeps a victim’s data or device locked unless the victim pays the hacker a ransom.

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Alation

AUGUST 18, 2022

How do you approach data lineage? We all know that data lineage is a complex and challenging topic. In this blog, I am drilling into something I’ve been thinking about and studying for a long time: fundamental approaches to lineage creation and maintenance. What Is Data Lineage Creation & Maintenance?

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