Click to learn more about author Kristin McMahon. In today’s data-driven culture, organizations across industries are approaching decision making from a quantitative point of view based on stats and figures, and relying less on gut feelings when making decisions. As they rely on data, they have expanded their strategy beyond back office and corporate applications. We […]
To Drive Business Success Implement a Data Catalog and Data Inventory
Successful Data Management needs a Data Inventory and a Data Catalog. Operating a business without these is like ordering a meal in a restaurant without a menu, where the waiter and waitresses ask the patron to choose a platter from some vegetables, meats, and fruits, that happen to be on hand. An establishment like this […]
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 – […]
Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Finalizing the Vision
Click to learn more about author John Felahi. In this second blog of a two-part series on Multi-Data Lake Management, we continue to best answer the question of: “How can I make everything work together today?” In Part One on this subject, “Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Synchronizing Everything Together” we discussed coordinating all […]
Knowledge Maps – Interesting Versus Boring
Click to learn more about author John Singer. When designing your Knowledge Maps it certainly helps to have some interesting questions that you are trying to answer. (See Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Data Question). “Build it and they will come” approaches didn’t work very well for data warehouse and BI efforts and the […]
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, […]
Five Essentials to Multi-Data Lake Management: Synchronizing Everything Together
Click to learn more about author John Felahi. Data is the New OS “From a technology perspective, every employee should have access to the data that matters most to their jobs and should be empowered to share it with others across a business.” Multi-Data Lake Management is at the top of many minds at numerous […]
Diagnosing the Internet of Things: Predictive Maintenance Through Analytics
The ancient practice of augury involves the reading of omens, often through the flight patterns of birds. The birds, in this case, are in the machine, and by listening to the sounds a machine makes, Saar Yoskovitz can predict when it will break down. There are no birds involved, but the process can tell the […]
Educating New Data Experts for the World of Data Management
Millennials (the new generation of future Data Experts) have a lot to offer. But, enterprises might need to think a little differently about how to foster their growth so that they can deliver real value to the organization. As baby boomers retire – and as businesses realize that Generation X wasn’t big enough to replace […]
Dec 12 Data-Ed Webinar: Metadata Strategies – Data Squared
DATE: December 12, 2017, This webinar has passed. The recording is available On Demand. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The first step towards understanding what data assets mean for your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata—literally, data about data—is […]