Data governance
Data governance processes manage the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems. These processes rely on detailed internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Learn about the latest data governance processes and strategies to ensure data is consistent, trustworthy and properly protected.
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19 Nov 2024
With new Fabric features, Microsoft aims at AI development
New data management and analytics suite features include databases and a data catalog to enable enterprises to develop and operationalize advanced applications. Continue Reading
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14 Nov 2024
Noninvasive data governance offers friendly approach
Data governance doesn't need to be a burden on employees. A noninvasive approach formalizes existing responsibilities as components of a governance program. Continue Reading
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06 May 2022
8 proactive steps to improve data quality
Here are eight steps to take to improve your organization's data quality in a proactive way, before data errors and other issues cause business problems. Continue Reading
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04 May 2022
Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security
Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access. Continue Reading
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02 May 2022
Snowflake analytics tools coming to Dell on-premises storage
A new partnership between Snowflake Inc. and Dell Technologies brings Snowflake Data Cloud's tools to on-premises object storage for the first time. Continue Reading
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28 Apr 2022
Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation
Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2022
Experts outline keys for strong data governance framework
Developing guidelines that simultaneously protect organizations from risk while enabling and encouraging employees to work with data can be difficult, but not impossible. Continue Reading
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21 Apr 2022
3 considerations for a data compliance management strategy
A data compliance management strategy is key for organizations to protect data the right way. Different positions have responsibility to ensure industry regulations are met. Continue Reading
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19 Apr 2022
Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update
The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2022
Why businesses should know the importance of data quality
Data quality, building data trust and identifying bias are critical for organizations to confidently make decisions based on the data they collect. Continue Reading
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12 Apr 2022
Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud
Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2022
5 key elements of data tenancy
Data tenancy is a key piece of any data protection scheme and can be crafted around five building blocks to provide safe, secure data access to users. Continue Reading
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06 Apr 2022
Google grows cloud capabilities with BigLake data lakehouse
Google is continuing to build out its cloud data services with a new approach that will serve as a central cloud service for unifying data across different clouds and formats. Continue Reading
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28 Mar 2022
Snowflake launches industry-specific data cloud for retail
Retail Data Cloud is the vendor's fourth industry-specific data cloud, and comes prepackaged with data sets and capabilities to enable efficient data management and analytics. Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2022
Seeking truth in crisis times shows importance of metadata
Metadata gives context to data, and during crises like the war in Ukraine when it's difficult to know what news to trust, context can help distinguish truth from fiction. Continue Reading
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17 Mar 2022
Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance
The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity. Continue Reading
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16 Mar 2022
Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems
The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware. Continue Reading
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Definition
15 Mar 2022
data stewardship
Data stewardship is the management and oversight of an organization's data assets to help provide business users with high-quality data that is easily accessible in a consistent manner. Continue Reading
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Definition
10 Mar 2022
data residency
Data residency refers to the physical or geographic location of an organization's data or information. Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2022
New approaches create opportunity to turn data into value
Bill Schmarzo, a data science industry thought leader, discusses how organizations can reframe their view of data using economic concepts to turn data into value. Continue Reading
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02 Mar 2022
Anomalo Pulse dashboard aims for data quality insights
The startup is enhancing its platform by providing users with a new dashboard that brings visibility into the state of data used for data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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01 Mar 2022
Improve data value by relying on economic principles
Bill Schmarzo, author of 'The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation,' discusses how organizations can improve data value by incorporating economic concepts. Continue Reading
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28 Feb 2022
DBT Labs raises expectations for data transformation
DBT Labs co-founder and CEO Tristan Handy outlines his view on the modern data stack, how the vendor's technology powers data pipelines and why he raised money now. Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2022
Ahana aims to improve Presto data lake security in the cloud
Data startup Ahana has updated its Presto cloud platform with integrated governance and control capabilities for data lake deployments. Continue Reading
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16 Feb 2022
ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations
The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads. Continue Reading
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14 Feb 2022
Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance
Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results. Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2022
Data quality startup Superconductive raises $40M
The vendor behind the open source Great Expectations data quality technology is looking to build a commercial cloud service to help data professionals accurately profile data. Continue Reading
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07 Feb 2022
How big data collection works: Process, challenges, techniques
Taming large amounts of data from multiple sources and deriving the greatest value to ensure trusted business decisions hinge on a foolproof system for collecting big data. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Jan 2022
data profiling
Data profiling refers to the process of examining, analyzing, reviewing and summarizing data sets to gain insight into the quality of data. Continue Reading
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Definition
28 Jan 2022
data cleansing (data cleaning, data scrubbing)
Data cleansing, also referred to as data cleaning or data scrubbing, is the process of fixing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or otherwise erroneous data in a data set. Continue Reading
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10 Jan 2022
Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake
Elliot Shmukler, co-founder and CEO of Anomalo, details how he was inspired to build his data startup after a critical data failure while he was working at Instacart. Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2022
Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend
Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture. Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2021
Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence
Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow. Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2021
Bigeye brings new visibility to data observability
The startup continues to build out its cloud platform that enables data engineers to identify and remediate data pipeline quality and availability problems. Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2021
Calyptia spurs observability data with Fluent Bit Enterprise
Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services. Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2021
LogicMonitor introduces centralized log management platform
The data observability platform vendor's new platform enables enterprises to use AIOps and automation to find anomalies with their IT system, report them and head off widespread problems. Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2021
Business shift to a data monetization strategy elevates CDOs
As their focus dramatically swings from compliance issues to data monetization, chief data officers are on track to take their rightful place among C-level executives, but slowly. Continue Reading
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09 Nov 2021
Datafold raises $20M for data reliability engineering
Datafold's founder and CEO details the data observability challenges the startup is looking to address with its suite of data tools that provide visibility into data pipelines. Continue Reading
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21 Oct 2021
SolarWinds expands DataOps portfolio with Database Mapper
A year after acquiring SentryOne, the IT management software vendor is out with updated tools to help organizations better understand where data came from and where it is going. Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2021
Alation looks to boost data intelligence with Lyngo Analytics
Fresh off a big funding round, Alation seeks to enable users to benefit from data catalogs with technology that will translate natural language queries into SQL. Continue Reading
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Definition
13 Oct 2021
compliance
Compliance is the state of being in accordance with established guidelines or specifications, or the process of becoming so. Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2021
How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes
DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines. Continue Reading
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14 Sep 2021
Alation boosts platform with new data governance application
The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow. Continue Reading
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02 Sep 2021
How to choose exactly the right data story for your audience
A data practitioner has two jobs: tell the right data story and in the right way to win over project stakeholders, data expert Larry Burns says in his latest book. Continue Reading
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25 Aug 2021
Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability
Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology. Continue Reading
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17 Aug 2021
Monte Carlo raises $60M to advance data observability
Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes. Continue Reading
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10 Aug 2021
Oracle puts MySQL HeatWave on Autopilot
Oracle updated its MySQL database cloud service with new capabilities designed to automate and optimize database operations and query execution. Continue Reading
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09 Aug 2021
Best practices for cloud database management systems
Learn best practices to streamline cloud database management to benefit business performance, compliance audits and business continuity. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2021
Trifacta moves beyond data wrangling to DataOps
'Data wrangling' is a term that Trifacta assigns to data preparation, but there is more than that to the concept as part of the vendor's Data Engineering Cloud platform. Continue Reading
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14 Jul 2021
Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud
Informatica moves more of its on-premises capabilities into the cloud as it aims to provide an integrated data platform for multiple use cases, including analytics and AI. Continue Reading
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01 Jul 2021
EY CTO outlines data governance challenges
Multinational professional services firm EY has taken a strategic view of how to manage and use data in a federated approach powered by a trusted data fabric. Continue Reading
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28 Jun 2021
Data governance and your master data management strategy
Strong data governance and master data management strategies typically go hand in hand. Read on to see how key factors of data governance can support your master data management. Continue Reading
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24 Jun 2021
Confluent goes IPO as Kafka event streaming goes mainstream
The lead commercial vendor behind the open source Apache Kafka event streaming platform goes public as the market opportunity for data in motion grows. Continue Reading
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18 Jun 2021
Data governance strategies for today's evolving IT landscape
With remote work becoming part of the norm and as companies migrate more data into the cloud, it's imperative that companies review their data governance strategy. Continue Reading
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18 Jun 2021
How data governance and data quality work together
High-quality, reliable data is essential to the data governance process. Here are strategies to ensure data quality standards are ingrained in governance processes. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2021
Quest updates Erwin Data Modeling and Data Intelligence
Quest is looking to build out what it calls a data empowerment platform with the help of data modeling and other technology from its recently acquired Erwin business unit. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2021
The enterprise advantages of automated data collection
Many organizations still rely on manual data entry that wastes time and results in low-quality data. Here are the latest automated data collection techniques and their benefits. Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2021
Prefect raises $32M for dataflow automation technology
Data startup Prefect is looking to grow its open source project and commercial business to help organizations manage automated data pipeline requirements. Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2021
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark
Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2021
Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding
Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology. Continue Reading
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03 Jun 2021
Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update
LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data. Continue Reading
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21 May 2021
Superconductive raises $21M for open source data quality
The open source Great Expectations project is becoming increasingly popular, as the commercial vendor seeks to build out a cloud service to expand the project's reach. Continue Reading
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04 May 2021
Syniti boosts DataOps chops with DMR merger
The CEO of an enterprise data management vendor explains why his firm is merging with Data Migration Resources to expand their reach and data quality offerings. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2021
Data quality for big data: Why it's a must and how to improve it
As data volumes increase exponentially, methods to improve and ensure big data quality are critical in making accurate, effective and trusted business decisions. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2021
Who belongs on a high-performance data governance team?
Putting together a high-quality data governance team can be a challenge. Explore the necessary team members and best practices for a high-performing team. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2021
Soda launches cloud service to improve data observability
Data quality vendor Soda has had a busy 2021, building out new services and raising funding to help organizations identify and remediate data quality problems. Continue Reading
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15 Apr 2021
Bigeye raises $17M Series A funding to boost data quality
The former Uber product manager and current CEO and co-founder of a startup outlines the challenges and opportunities of enabling a new data trust platform with data quality at its foundation. Continue Reading
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13 Apr 2021
Informatica pulls together cloud data management in the cloud
Informatica rolls out its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, as customers provide insight into cloud data management challenges and opportunities at Informatica World 2021. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2021
Alation brings data catalog technology to the public cloud
Alation's data intelligence technology is getting easier for organizations to use, with a new managed service that can help enterprises better use the data they have. Continue Reading
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02 Apr 2021
Vaccination data poses data management challenges for firms
If companies are considering the use of vaccination credentials to reopen offices, IT teams should start planning now. Continue Reading
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10 Mar 2021
Precisely looks to boost data integrity software platform
Precisely is getting an infusion of capital as it moves forward with its decades-long business mission to help organizations use data effectively to make key decisions. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2021
Alation 2021.1 data catalog improves data intelligence
Alation updated its platform with new features for data discovery and search, as well as more data governance capabilities to enhance data trust. Continue Reading
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18 Feb 2021
Why your data story matters and how to tell it
Data storytelling isn't just for business analysts. Find out how to build a data management story and why you need to have one in the first place. Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2021
Cloud data catalog benefits for the enterprise
Vendor cloud data catalog options are expanding and offering more automated tools to end users. Read on to find out how enterprises can benefit from these options. Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2021
Monte Carlo gets new funding to expand data observability
The CEO of data management startup Monte Carlo, which raised $25 million in Series B funding Tuesday, details her views on the key pillars of data reliability. Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2021
Collibra acquires predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ
With OwlDQ, Collibra is bringing data quality capabilities to its data intelligence platform to help users better understand and evaluate the impact of different sources of data. Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2021
Quest Software adds data governance and DataOps with Erwin
With new data modeling, catalog and governance technology from an acquisition, Quest looks to build a broader data platform to help organizations optimize and benefit from data. Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2021
How Alation builds on data catalog for data intelligence
Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) of Alation, provides insight into the evolution of his company's technology to embrace data governance that enables data intelligence for organizations to fully benefit from their data assets. Continue Reading
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29 Dec 2020
Data lineage documentation imperative to data quality
Understanding the detailed journey of data elements throughout the data pipeline can help an enterprise maintain data quality and improve trustworthiness. Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2020
Collibra grows enterprise data governance for the cloud
Collibra CEO discusses the importance of data governance for enterprises and how to tie data governance to business terminology to go beyond simply controlling data. Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2020
Top 5 U.S. open data use cases from federal data sets
The U.S. government has made data sets from many federal agencies available for public access to use and analyze. Check out some of the ways that data is being used. Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2020
Ataccama automates data governance with Gen2 platform update
Data management vendor Ataccama adds new automation features to its Gen2 platform to help organizations automatically discover metadata and build an accurate business glossary for data. Continue Reading
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02 Nov 2020
Healthcare data management challenges hold back adoption
The healthcare industry has had difficulty adopting data management best practices, but a few organizations have tackled the challenges successfully. Continue Reading
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16 Oct 2020
The new normal for enterprise data governance
Mastercard data exec highlights the foundational role of enterprise data governance during the pandemic era with more people working from home and new demands on businesses. Continue Reading
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06 Oct 2020
Synthetic data in healthcare advances patient analytics
Learn how synthetic data in healthcare can be beneficial across the board. Plus, get a sneak peek at a new book on synthetic data generation from O'Reilly Media. Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2020
Cloudera adds data engineering capability to enable DataOps
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to help data engineers use its platform with a new service that brings more power and management to running Spark for building data pipelines. Continue Reading
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24 Sep 2020
Talend evolves enterprise data integration efforts
The CTO of Talend outlines the path the data integration vendor has taken in recent years as the market for big data has evolved along with the need to treat data as an asset. Continue Reading
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24 Aug 2020
Why you should consider a machine learning data catalog
A machine learning data catalog can benefit an enterprise in a variety of ways, from increasing access to necessary data to keeping your data sources up to date. Continue Reading
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11 Aug 2020
How Riot Games upped its enterprise data governance game
Data governance product manager at Riot Games details how the game vendor dealt with data ownership challenges by embracing new processes and technologies for data management. Continue Reading
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29 Jul 2020
Key to data management in oil and gas is stability
Ensuring quality data management and analytics comes from following best practices, proper commitment from your organization and sticking with the plan. Continue Reading
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28 Jul 2020
Data accuracy vendor boosts MDM data quality
Naveego's latest platform update introduces a new user interface that looks to make it easier for users to integrate different data sources while ensuring data quality. Continue Reading
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23 Jul 2020
Immuta adds automated data governance for Databricks
Immuta has extended its data governance with new features that help enterprises with data privacy compliance for Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform workloads. Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2020
Surprising insight on the data governance process
Many enterprise data governance processes have been around for a while. Read on for ways a modern approach can be beneficial, and preview a new book that can update your strategy. Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2020
Databricks debuts Delta Engine built on top of Spark 3.0
At the Spark + AI Summit 2020, Starbucks and health IT vendor Cerner Corp. outlined how they use Databricks' Data Lake architecture to accelerate data analytics. Continue Reading
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29 May 2020
GDPR, CCPA, cloud drive security management tool makeovers
As data protection and privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA take hold, data managers refine governance practices, while vendors enhance traditional big data security tools. Continue Reading
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29 May 2020
Improving enterprise data governance with data trust
Talend users from Covanta and AutoZone provide insight into data management challenges amid growing data complexity at the Talend Connect virtual conference. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
How a synthetic data approach is helping COVID-19 research
Israeli researchers are using a system developed by big data vendor MDClone to collaborate on COVID-19 data to help find ways to deal with the pandemic. Continue Reading
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18 May 2020
Alternative data in finance holds potentials and risks
Alternative data sources, when verified as reliable and trustworthy, can be an essential tool for financial institutions when it comes to gathering information. Continue Reading
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27 Apr 2020
Data governance and COVID-19 data security challenges
Maintaining data governance and data security best practices is essential now more than ever. But the increase in working from home can put a strain on those practices. Continue Reading
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14 Apr 2020
Chief data officer role advances enterprise data governance
With organizations of all sizes coping with the impact of COVID-19, the importance of enterprise data governance and chief data officers is coming into sharper focus. Continue Reading
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07 Apr 2020
Okera sees increasing demand for enterprise data governance
Data governance and access vendor raises $14 million as incoming CEO Nick Halsey sees a continuing need for enterprise data governance and secure data access in the COVID-19 era. Continue Reading
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26 Mar 2020
Ascend boosts enterprise data governance with data lineage
The new capabilities of Ascend Govern bring data lineage and enterprise data governance as well as the ability to try and figure out the financial cost of data efforts. Continue Reading