Click to learn more about author Dr. Jans Aasman. Last year’s Equifax security breach provides a valuable lesson for organizations seeking to protect digital assets and is worth examining closer for three reasons. With intruders accessing personally identifiable information such as social security and driver’s license numbers for over 100 million Americans across the country, it’s […]
Syncsort and Cloudera Integrate Detailed Data Lineage from All Enterprise Data for Superior Data Governance
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced that it has delivered expanded integration between its industry-leading, high-performance data integration solution, DMX-h, and Cloudera Navigator. This combination uniquely enables data governance practitioners to view detailed data lineage information on enterprise-wide data […]
Metadata Discovery in Minutes: An Intelligent Solution
Roland Bullivant is accustomed to the stunned silence that often greets a demonstration of Safyr®, Silwood Technology’s Metadata Discovery software. Moments after realizing that Safyr creates a complete Metadata Glossary for large ERP and CRM packages in a matter of hours, a process that can take an entire team working full time six months – […]
To Get Value from Data, Organizations Should Also Focus on Data Flow
Click to learn more about author Stuart Tarmy. Data Flow allows a company to understand the relationships between data elements across the enterprise and between individual lines of business. Companies in a wide range of industries, including financial services, health care, aviation and energy services, are increasingly focused on Data Flow to better leverage their Data […]
What Is Data Lineage?
An apt metaphor for data lineage is that of complex book keeping. But, instead capturing financial transactions in a ledger, data asset values populate a given platform or document. Data lineage describes data origins, movements, characteristics, and quality across the data lifecycle. Typically, data lineage has been thought of as map of tables and joins, […]
What Is Metadata?
Metadata is information about the data collected. According to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK), metadata “includes information about technical and business processes, data rules and constraints, and logical and physical data structures.” Think of it as a wrapper around data that describes it, like how packaging tells what food is in a box or […]
Facilitating Collaborative Data Governance, Enterprise Data Architecture, and Data Modeling
“On its own, Big Data means nothing. It’s got to exist, coexist, and work with the other data,” said Ron Huizenga, Senior Product Manager at IDERA Software. “The good news in the industry is [that] we’re past Big Data being the shiny ball that people are chasing,” and now we’re trying to assess what Big […]
MANTA Introduces MANTA 3.18
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “This month we went all out. We sat down and worked hard to bring you MANTA 3.18 as soon as possible, because it wouldn’t have been fair of us to have kept these amazing features to ourselves… Up until now MANTA has had a […]
Exploring the Role of Data Preparation and Data Analytics in Healthcare Finance
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. According to Grandview Research, the global healthcare Data Analytics market will grow to $42.8 billion by 2024, as healthcare companies increasingly use data for financial applications, and to improve operational and administrative processes. The industry’s reliance on Data Analytics is also being driven by the increased use of […]
ASG Technologies: Bridging Enterprise Data Intelligence from the Mainframe to Big Data
Finding Shambhala, a paradise once sought by explorers, probably seems easier than mapping data buried under multiple application stacks, systems, and platforms for many modern enterprises. Data created and used over the course decades transforms and changes as the organization does. Ian Rowlands, VP of Product Marketing for ASG Technologies knows the unease of not […]