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Complete Data Management: Data Governance, Analytics, and Data Integration All in One

“It’s time to more aggressively pursue holistic Data Management,” says David Friedland, IRI VP of Business Development. “Marshalling all your data together in a centralized area,” so that everyone whose activities require access to it can perform their work in a less siloed and more shared way. That’s the message from IRI, which is well-known […]

By David Schlesinger 5 hours ago

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Wait! I promise – no math! Really! How encryption happens is not your job, and you may be excused from knowing the algorithms, remembering who discovered what, and why there is a secret key. Encryption systems scramble data into gibberish for protection, and then the gibberish can be […]

By A.R. Guess 4 hours ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Zignal Labs unveiled new Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities that enable corporate communications and marketing professionals to make faster and more informed decisions. Powered by machine learning and visualized through intuitive dashboards, Zignal AI-Powered Social Intelligence helps brands anticipate threats and risks, while surfacing new opportunities to […]

By Keith D. Foote 19 hours ago

Reltio was originally founded in 2011, based on the premise organizations need quick and reliable access to relevant information. The Reltio goal is to help companies turn data into useful information. To this end, Reltio has developed an Enterprise Cloud Management platform for their clients, providing the tools and services needed to accomplish this goal. […]

By Chris Schwarz 19 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Chris Schwarz. The times, they’re a-changin’. We’re on the verge of a world where everything from our fridges to our coffee makers are connected. And for data centers, that means an evolution. In 2014, Gartner predicted that the Internet of Things (IoT) – which is slated to reach approximately 8.4 […]

By A.R. Guess 19 hours ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Zensar Technologies, a leading provider of digital solutions, software and infrastructure services, announced the launch of its Big-Data enabled platform for seamless end to end information management. The solution is designed to address complex business problems through rapid, contextual and empowered insights using diversified, disparate and real-time […]

By A.R. Guess 19 hours ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Informatica, the Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader accelerating data-driven digital transformation, today announced Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, the most advanced Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution available for end-to-end enterprise cloud data management. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services will feature a next-generation user experience based on a […]

By A.R. Guess 20 hours ago

by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “SignifAI, the leading provider of predictive machine intelligence tools for TechOps teams, today announced the general availability of its cloud-based platform, delivering fast and accurate answers to the most important challenges that technical operations engineers face on a daily basis. SignifAI’s platform reduces alert noise generated by […]

By Shannon Kempe 21 hours ago

Seiner dataversity-rwdg2017-05-operating modelofdatagovernanceroles-20170518final from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Roles and responsibilities are the foundation of a successful Data Governance program. An operating model of roles focuses on all levels of the organization including the executive, strategic, tactical and operational responsibilities. A complete model also […]

May 25 LDM Webinar: Data Modeling & Metadata Management

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: May 25, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Metadata management is critical for organizations looking to understand the context, definition and lineage of key data assets. Data models play a key role in metadata management, as many of the key structural and business […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 1, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Efforts to improve computer software have led to the general use of certain methodologies, such as the Agile System Development Lifecycle, that are extremely focused on software coding. Even common technologies used for Big Data […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 7, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Hosted by: About the Webinar Ever felt like despite the buy-in from the businesses; there is a lack of engagement, slow/no momentum in driving data governance efforts further, and uncertainty in sustainability of a data […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 8, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free for all attendees About the Webinar The state of the art and practice for machine learning (ML) has matured rapidly in the past 3 years, making it an ideal time to take a look at what works and what doesn’t. In […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 13, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Much like project team management and home improvement, data governance sounds a lot simpler than it actually is. In a nutshell, data governance is the process by which an organization delegates responsibility and exercises control over […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 15, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar There are three distinct approaches to implementing Data Governance programs. There is the command-and-control approach, the traditional approach, and the non-invasive approach to implementing data governance. Selecting the best approach for your organization may be […]

By Shannon Kempe 8 months ago

DATE: June 20, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar Spatial analysis is more than simply understanding the physical location of key assets on a map. It’s about gaining a richer perspective on service offerings, consumer interaction, transactional information, and […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 22, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Self-Service data analysis holds the promise of more rapid time-to-value for both business and IT users as advanced tooling & visualization helps make sense of raw and source data sets. Does this mean that the […]

By Anita Kress 8 months ago

DATE: June 29, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar This webinar explores the organizational constructs and processes for enabling business to build better insights through Data Quality, Data Engineering, and Data Science. In particular, it examines the needs for: A Data Lab to […]

Let’s Talk Encryption

By David Schlesinger 5 hours ago

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By Suriya Subramanian 2 days ago

A good Data Governance framework should answer the following basic questions relating to data: What is the process of managing data in the firm? (process, controls, structure) Who is going to manage data? How data is managed in the firm? What happens if there are breaches to Data Management policies? Of the four questions above, […]

By Xiaowei Jiang 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Xiaowei Jiang. It has been a great year for Blink, our fork of Apache Flink®, at Alibaba. We went into production with Blink about a year ago, and since then, we have used it to make real-time updates to listings in various search products such as Taobao, Tmall, AliExpress, etc. […]

By Rob Mandeville 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Rob Mandeville. Databases are at the heart of every organization’s data center: they’re arguably one of the most important components of a business’s success and surely one of the most complex and critical when it comes to resource consumption and performance management. However, when troubleshooting or attempting to resolve […]

By Jason Lark 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Jason Lark. The popular sentiment is that ‘data is king’, and it’s not exactly wrong – but when it comes to customer data, marketers should always follow the rule of quality over quantity. Data can be valuable for your business, but only when it’s actionable and its insights can be […]

By Paul Barth 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Paul Barth. This article presents ten specific examples of why metadata helps make data in a data marketplace useful and how. While there is a lot of talk about the importance of having good metadata in the data marketplace, it isn’t always clear exactly what that really means. What […]

By Michael Blaha 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. It’s important to have data models guide the development of individual applications and ensure that they meet business objectives. But it’s not sufficient. Other kinds of data models, such as enterprise data models, are also part of proper Data Governance. What Is an Enterprise Data Model? An […]

By Gary Palgon 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Gary Palgon. Financial constraints and Data Security are common challenges for healthcare and life sciences organizations. While the information technology departments in both industries face shrinking budgets, fewer staff resources and an increasing number of threats, the financial implications of not investing in data solutions that address healthcare and life […]

Complete Data Management: Data Governance, Analytics, and Data Integration All in One

By Jennifer Zaino 5 hours ago

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By Amber Lee Dennis 6 days ago

According to Fawad Butt, many companies spend a lot of time and energy building a Data Governance and Data Stewardship Program by putting, policies, procedure, and tools into place, yet, “At the end of the day, the real operationalization work of Data Governance tends to happen through Data Stewards.” To do that well, stewards need […]

By A.R. Guess 7 days ago

Data Harmonization is an approach to Data Quality that is meant to improve the governance and usefulness of data across the enterprise. How does it do that? And how should a company go about implementing a Data Harmonization strategy? To answer these questions, DATAVERSITY® spoke with Anil Kaul, co-founder and CEO of Absolutdata. Mr. Kaul […]

By Paramita Ghosh 1 week ago

The biggest benefit of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications across industries is the tremendous adaptive capability of AI to fit into any industry sector. The number of Artificial Intelligence use cases are currently expanding throughout the Data Management industry in ways never seen. The rapid robotization of human functions has been perceptibly felt in many industries […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the fast track, with IHS Markit recently forecasting that the number of connected IOT devices this year will reach 20 billion. In its report, IoT Trend Watch 2017, however, the research firm also points to technology fragmentation in the area, which will require efforts including further alignment of […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

CauseSquare started in 2015, when co-founder and CTO, Walid Darwish and four of his friends, all developers, were volunteering their time with non-profit organizations and discovered that, “This sector, in terms of technology, still has a long way to go.” They also suspected that these organizations were heading for trouble in the long term. Their […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Data solutions provider Innovative Systems has been pursuing an aggressive plan to grow and expand the role its technology offerings can play in the enterprise. Synchronos® Master Data Management (MDM), for one thing, is moving along on its journey to become the base of all the vendor’s product lines. “Think of it as the platform […]

By Paramita Ghosh 3 weeks ago

The Smart Machine Age is upon us and is likely to disrupt many different human processes, tasks, and activities over the next 10 years and far longer as the key technologies continue to develop. The gradual availability of higher computing power at low costs, the explosive volumes of business data, and advances in Machine Learning […]

Zignal Labs Unveils AI-Powered Social Intelligence for Communications and Marketing Teams

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by Angela Guess A press release written by Ronan De Renesse of Ovum reports, “Globally, the native digital assistant installed base is set to exceed 7.5 billion active devices by 2021, which is more than the world population according to the US Census Bureau on May 1, 2017. But fear not – Skynet, from the […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release out of the company, “Tamr Inc., the innovator in data unification, today announced that GE Ventures has made a strategic equity investment in the company. The investment follows GE’s experience as a customer of Tamr’s for more than two years. During that time, its data unification […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Striim™, provider of the leading end-to-end, real-time data integration and intelligence platform, today introduced Striim for IoT, a comprehensive streaming data management solution for the Internet of Things (IoT). Striim for IoT helps companies address three of the most difficult data challenges of IoT infrastructure: 1) managing […]

By A.R. Guess 5 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Scout Server Monitoring. The transaction closed Friday, May 5, 2017. As part of the acquisition, Scout Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Andre Lewis has joined SolarWinds. With […]

By A.R. Guess 5 days ago

by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Being the most cost effective, secure, flexible, and green datacenter in Europe – that is the vision of Lefdal Mine Datacenter (LMD) in Norway. Opened on 10th May 2017, the datacenter has completed the build out of Phase 1, and a cooling capacity of 45 MW is […]