phData

JULY 18, 2023

With the birth of cloud data warehouses, data applications, and generative AI , processing large volumes of data faster and cheaper is more approachable and desired than ever. First up, let’s dive into the foundation of every Modern Data Stack, a cloud-based data warehouse.

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Alation

AUGUST 30, 2022

we are introducing Alation Anywhere, extending data intelligence directly to the tools in your modern data stack, starting with Tableau. We continue to make deep investments in governance, including new capabilities in the Stewardship Workbench, a core part of the Data Governance App. Data governance at scale.

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phData

JANUARY 24, 2024

Understanding Fivetran Fivetran is a user-friendly, code-free platform enabling customers to easily synchronize their data by automating extraction, transformation, and loading from many sources. Fivetran automates the time-consuming steps of the ELT process so your data engineers can focus on more impactful projects.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. Today, the brightest minds in our industry are targeting the massive proliferation of data volumes and the accompanying but hard-to-find value locked within all that data.

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Alation

JUNE 7, 2022

. “We’re never going to be able to hire enough data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects to support the growth that we want to achieve. That vision — where data and insights are created by everyone, powered by a central team, and shared across the enterprise — is already bearing fruit.

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2022

Through Impact Analysis, users can determine if a problem occurred with data upstream, and locate the impacted data downstream. With robust data lineage, data engineers can find and fix issues fast and prevent them from recurring. Similarly, analysts gain a clear view of how data is created. In 2022.1,

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phData

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A data mesh is a conceptual architectural approach for managing data in large organizations. Traditional data management approaches often involve centralizing data in a data warehouse or data lake, leading to challenges like data silos, data ownership issues, and data access and processing bottlenecks.

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Alation

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. But what does this mean from a practitioner perspective?

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Alation

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While data fabric takes a product-and-tech-centric approach, data mesh takes a completely different perspective. Data mesh inverts the common model of having a centralized team (such as a data engineering team), who manage and transform data for wider consumption. But why is such an inversion needed?

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