Dataversity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Data engineering is a fascinating and fulfilling career – you are at the helm of every business operation that requires data, and as long as users generate data, businesses will always need data engineers. The journey to becoming a successful data engineer […].

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Alation

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week, IDC released its second IDC MarketScape for Data Catalogs report, and we’re excited to share that Alation was recognized as a leader for the second consecutive time. These include data analysts, stewards, business users , and data engineers. Alation launched Alation Cloud Service (ACS) in April, 2021.

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Alation

JUNE 21, 2022

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

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Alation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Today a modern catalog hosts a wide range of users (like business leaders, data scientists and engineers) and supports an even wider set of use cases (like data governance , self-service , and cloud migration ). So feckless buyers may resort to buying separate data catalogs for use cases like…. Self-service.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

Data mesh says architectures should be decentralized because there are inherent problems with centralized architectures. For example, when we centralize, all the focus goes on the data engineers. But there are only so many data engineers available in the market today; there’s a big skills shortage.

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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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Alation

MARCH 22, 2022

Accenture calls it the Intelligent Data Foundation (IDF), and it’s used by dozens of enterprises with very complex data landscapes and analytic requirements. Simply put, IDF standardizes data engineering processes. They can better understand data transformations, checks, and normalization.

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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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phData

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, Snowflake offers many of the capabilities needed for a self-service data platform, enabling a distributed, domain-driven architecture and offering capabilities to help implement data as a product and federated computational governance. Interested in a Free Data Mesh Consultation?

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

These tools are used to manage big data, which is defined as data that is too large or complex to be processed by traditional means. How Did the Modern Data Stack Get Started? The rise of cloud computing and cloud data warehousing has catalyzed the growth of the modern data stack.

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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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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? Happy to chat.

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phData

MARCH 11, 2024

For years, marketing teams across industries have turned to implementing traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) as separate systems purpose-built to unlock growth with first-party data. For behavioral data , Hightouch offers an event tracking SDK to deploy an SDK across your web, server, and mobile apps.

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Mlearning.ai

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Data Security and Governance Maintaining data security is crucial for any company. With traditional data warehouses, organizations may find it challenging to prevent data breaches. Furthermore, a shared-data approach stems from this efficient combination. What will You Attain with Snowflake?

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phData

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

ThoughtSpot is a cloud-based AI-powered analytics platform that uses natural language processing (NLP) or natural language query (NLQ) to quickly query results and generate visualizations without the user needing to know any SQL or table relations. Suppose your business requires more robust capabilities across your technology stack.

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phData

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Here’s how a composable CDP might incorporate the modeling approaches we’ve discussed: Data Storage and Processing : This is your foundation. You might choose a cloud data warehouse like the Snowflake AI Data Cloud or BigQuery. Building a composable CDP requires some serious data engineering chops.

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phData

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Snowflake’s Data Cloud has emerged as a leader in cloud data warehousing. As a fundamental piece of the modern data stack , Snowflake is helping thousands of businesses store, transform, and derive insights from their data easier, faster, and more efficiently than ever before.

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Data Science Blog

JULY 23, 2023

Databricks is an ideal tool for realizing a Data Mesh due to its unified data platform, scalability, and performance. It enables data collaboration and sharing, supports Delta Lake for data quality, and ensures robust data governance and security.

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Alation

JUNE 14, 2022

For the second year in a row, Snowflake has named Alation its Data Governance Partner of the Year. This back-to-back recognition is testament to Alation’s essential role within the Snowflake partner ecosystem at the intersection of data cloud migration , active data governance , and self-service.

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Alation

JUNE 1, 2023

So it’s fitting that Snowflake Summit , the premier event for data cloud strategy, will occur at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas on June 26–29 (togas not required). As a 2-time Snowflake Data Governance Partner of the Year , Alation knows how important this event is to the Snowflake community.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The elf teams used data engineering to improve gift matching and deployed big data to scale the naughty and nice list long ago , before either approach was even considered within our warmer climes. The best data was discovered, experts were identified, and conversations were starting. Make data governance an asset.

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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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phData

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In an effort to better understand where data governance is heading, we spoke with top executives from IT, healthcare, and finance to hear their thoughts on the biggest trends, key challenges, and what insights they would recommend. Get the Trendbook What is the Impact of Data Governance on GenAI?

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