Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. When speaking and consulting, I often hear people refer to data in their data lakes and data warehouses as curated data, believing that it is curated because it is stored as shareable data.

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Alation

JUNE 9, 2021

In this four-part blog series on data culture, we’re exploring what a data culture is and the benefits of building one, and then drilling down to explore each of the three pillars of data culture – data search & discovery, data literacy, and data governance – in more depth.

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2022

In that sense, data modernization is synonymous with cloud migration. Modern data architectures, like cloud data warehouses and cloud data lakes , empower more people to leverage analytics for insights more efficiently. What Is the Role of the Cloud in Data Modernization? How to Modernize Data with Alation.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Figure 1 illustrates the typical metadata subjects contained in a data catalog. Figure 1 – Data Catalog Metadata Subjects. Datasets are the files and tables that data workers need to find and access. They may reside in a data lake, warehouse, master data repository, or any other shared data resource.

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Alation

JUNE 21, 2022

Over time, we called the “thing” a data catalog , blending the Google-style, AI/ML-based relevancy with more Yahoo-style manual curation and wikis. Thus was born the data catalog. In our early days, “people” largely meant data analysts and business analysts. Data engineers want to catalog data pipelines.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

From modest beginnings as a means to manage data inventory and expose data sets to analysts, the data catalog has grown in functionality, popularity, and importance. Modern data catalogs—originated to help data analysts find and evaluate data—continue to meet the needs of analysts, but they have expanded their reach.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance. It uses metadata and data management tools to organize all data assets within your organization. This is especially helpful when handling massive amounts of big data.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

MARCH 14, 2024

. Netezza incorporates in-database analytics and machine learning (ML), governance, security and patented massively parallel processing. Whether it’s for ad hoc analytics, data transformation, data sharing, data lake modernization or ML and gen AI, you have the flexibility to choose.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset. It offers a broad range of data intelligence solutions, including analytics, data governance, privacy, and cloud transformation. Data Catalog by Type.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

What are common data challenges for the travel industry? Some companies struggle to optimize their data’s value and leverage analytics effectively. When companies lack a data governance strategy , they may struggle to identify all consumer data or flag personal data as subject to compliance audits.

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2022

Manual lineage will give ARC a fuller picture of how data was created between AWS S3 data lake, Snowflake cloud data warehouse and Tableau (and how it can be fixed). Time is money,” said Leonard Kwok, Senior Data Analyst, ARC. Alation has the broadest and deepest connectivity of any data catalog.

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Alation

JULY 7, 2022

To answer these questions we need to look at how data roles within the job market have evolved, and how academic programs have changed to meet new workforce demands. In the 2010s, the growing scope of the data landscape gave rise to a new profession: the data scientist. Supporting the data ecosystem.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

But refreshing this analysis with the latest data was impossible… unless you were proficient in SQL or Python. We wanted to make it easy for anyone to pull data and self service without the technical know-how of the underlying database or data lake. Sathish and I met in 2004 when we were working for Oracle.

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Alation

AUGUST 2, 2022

Customer centricity requires modernized data and IT infrastructures. Too often, companies manage data in spreadsheets or individual databases. This means that you’re likely missing valuable insights that could be gleaned from data lakes and data analytics.

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

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