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What Is DataOps? Definition, Principles, and Benefits

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What exactly is DataOps ? 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.

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Turnkey Cloud DataOps: Solution from Alation and Accenture

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They must put high-quality data into the hands of users as efficiently as possible. DataOps has emerged as an exciting solution. As the latest iteration in this pursuit of high-quality data sharing, DataOps combines a range of disciplines. People want to know how to implement DataOps successfully.

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Alation Launches Open Data Quality Framework

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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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Data Profiling: What It Is and How to Perfect It

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For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today.

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The Audience for Data Catalogs and Data Intelligence

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The audience grew to include data scientists (who were even more scarce and expensive) and their supporting resources (e.g., ML and DataOps teams). After that came data governance , privacy, and compliance staff. Power business users and other non-purely-analytic data citizens came after that. data pipelines) to support.

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What Is Data Observability and Why You Need It?

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For some time now, data observabilit y has been an important factor in software engineering, but its application within the realm of data stewardship is a relatively new phenomenon. Data observability is a foundational element of data operations (DataOps).

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Fabrics, Meshes & Stacks, oh my! Q&A with Sanjeev Mohan

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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. Data mesh says architectures should be decentralized because there are inherent problems with centralized architectures.