“Every day, companies need to track and trace data movement processes through metadata discovery and data lineage,” emphasizes Amnon Drori, CEO and co-founder of Octopai. This task has not been easy and has often frustrated Drori throughout his twenty-year career. In the past, Drori’s teams have had to spend time checking and rechecking data, a […]
Data Governance for Leaders: Turn Data Strategy into Actions
Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
Avoid Scandal: Don’t Let Your Data Maintenance Get Sloppy
Click to learn more about author Kristin McMahon. It’s well understood that data is critical to driving good business decisions, but it’s easy to forget that data also supports a number of other activities. Data is at the center of everything businesses do, and it’s also how potential customers are measuring their prospective vendors. Because of […]
Do You Know Where Your Data Came From?
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years (and if you have, no judgement), you know there has been growing cultural concern over data privacy and legitimacy. This is the age of fake news and consumer data monetization. Just last month, Google bought credit card […]
Five Ways Data Engineers Are Leveraging Self-Service Data Prep Solutions
Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. With the growth of Big Data Analytics, data engineers are now gaining a lot of popularity. And, while the majority of them have coding and technical skills, ETL knowledge, or can program in MapReduce, many have found that applying a Self-service Data Prep solution can help them […]
Data Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum, and author of the book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, said that there is no historical precedent for the speed of current technological breakthroughs, and that the Fourth Revolution is evolving at an exponential, rather than linear pace. The Third Industrial Revolution introduced the personal computer and the internet, […]
Three Signs You’re Suffering from Data Mismanagement, and How to Fix it
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. We have more data at our fingertips than entire generations before us. But due to data mismanagement issues, for many companies that doesn’t mean very much. According to the recent survey “Reducing Inefficiency and Increasing the Value of Analytics and Business Intelligence,” only 11 percent of participants […]
Disrupting Metadata Management with Metadata Automation
The pre-digital card catalogs of libraries offer a good example of metadata (title, author, copyright, location on shelf). Metadata essentially means “data offering information about the data” or simply “data about data.” It is also often defined as “data in context,” since it supplies the “what, where, when, why, and how” of data. Metadata is […]
Accelerate BI Project Implementation with Data Warehouse Automation
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. For any large or mid-sized organization to survive in today’s highly competitive market, its decision makers require intelligible information to gauge key metrics affecting various business strategies effectively. They heavily rely on Business Intelligence (BI) solutions to drive innovation and agility for meeting the constantly changing consumer […]
Welcome to the New World of Curating Data, Not Owning it
Click to learn more about author Richard Macaskill. Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or […]