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Top 10 Reasons for Alation with Snowflake: Reduce Risk with Active Data Governance

Alation

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. So why are organizations not able to scale governance? Meet Governance Requirements.

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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Journey to AI blog

The right data architecture can help your organization improve data quality because it provides the framework that determines how data is collected, transported, stored, secured, used and shared for business intelligence and data science use cases. Reduce data duplication and fragmentation.

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Alation 2022.2: Open Data Quality Initiative and Enhanced Data Governance

Alation

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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Avoid These Mistakes on Your Data Warehouse and BI Projects: Part 3

Dataversity

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we described how data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) projects are a high priority for many organizations. Project sponsors seek to empower more and better data-driven decisions and actions throughout their enterprise; they intend to expand their […].

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Data Catalog First, Master Data Management Second: Here’s Why

Alation

A data catalog is a metadata repository of information sources across the enterprise, including data sets, business intelligence reports, visualizations, and conversations. Early on, analysts used data catalogs to find and understand data more quickly.

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Data integrity vs. data quality: Is there a difference?

IBM Journey to AI blog

This is the practice of creating, updating and consistently enforcing the processes, rules and standards that prevent errors, data loss, data corruption, mishandling of sensitive or regulated data, and data breaches. A high overall score indicates that a dataset is reliable, easily accessible, and relevant.

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What Is Data Intelligence?

Alation

It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.