Precisely

JANUARY 9, 2025

And then a wide variety of business intelligence (BI) tools popped up to provide last mile visibility with much easier end user access to insights housed in these DWs and data marts. But those end users werent always clear on which data they should use for which reports, as the data definitions were often unclear or conflicting.

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Alation

JANUARY 20, 2022

In Ryan’s “9-Step Process for Better Data Quality” he discussed the processes for generating data that business leaders consider trustworthy. To be clear, data quality is one of several types of data governance as defined by Gartner and the Data Governance Institute. Step 2: Data Definitions.

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Alation

MAY 24, 2022

generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application.

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Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today.

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Alation

JULY 6, 2021

Common Data Governance Challenges. Every enterprise runs into data governance challenges eventually. Issues like data visibility, quality, and security are common and complex. Data governance is often introduced as a potential solution. And one enterprise alone can generate a world of data.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

It asks much larger questions, which flesh out an organization’s relationship with data: Why do we have data? Why keep data at all? Answering these questions can improve operational efficiencies and inform a number of data intelligence use cases, which include data governance, self-service analytics, and more.

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Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

But make no mistake: A data catalog addresses many of the underlying needs of this self-serve data platform, including the need to empower users with self-serve discovery and exploration of data products. In this blog series, we’ll offer deep definitions of data fabric and data mesh, and the motivations for each. (We

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