Click to learn more about author Usama Shamma. Data is everywhere, with IoT and the growing interconnectivity of the different data feeds, data sources, channels, and data consumers, the need for Data Governance controls guided by a Data Strategy are highly arise to support business decisions and fulfill compliance requirements such as European General Data […]
Data Governance and Data Stewardship Drive Successful Glossaries and Dictionaries
It would be any Data Manager’s nightmare to run meetings that create pedantic and irrelevant business glossaries or data dictionaries, which eventually gather cyber dust. However, skipping over building and maintaining a good business glossary or data dictionary risks convoluted meanings, confusing communications, and business failures. What should a company do? Robert S. Seiner (Bob), […]
Silwood Delivers ERP and CRM Metadata Into Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog
A recent press release reports, “Silwood Technology Ltd today announced that Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) customers can now use Silwood’s Safyr® metadata discovery software to provision SAP, Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft ERP and CRM metadata directly into EDC. Useful metadata from ERP and CRM packages is notoriously difficult to access and utilise for data […]
Dremio Bridges the Gap Between Data Engineers and Data Consumers
According to a new press release, “Dremio, the Data-as-a-Service Platform company, announced today a major release of its open source platform that includes a collaborative data catalog; along with new controls for multi-tenant deployments, end-to-end data encryption, and a breakthrough in performance and efficiency through the Gandiva Initiative for Apache Arrow. These new features support […]
Data-as-a-Service: Helping Companies Get More Value From Their Data, Faster
Click to learn more about author Kelly Stirman. Roger Magoulas introduced us to the term Big Data back in 2005. Never did we imagine that data was going to increase in volume so fast that the term itself would become almost irrelevant and big data would become just ‘data’. Big Data also brought with itself concepts […]
Automated Data Catalogs Allow Rethinking of Data Policies
In Data Catalogs we trust. Or at least that should be the case. In a recent global survey on data-driven decision making in business, close to 60 percent of respondents say their companies base at least half of their regular business decisions on gut feel or experience rather than data and information. Respondents cited problems […]
Talend Fall ’18 Enables Enterprises to Deliver Insight-Ready Data at Scale
A new press release reports, “Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises environments. Announced at Talend Connect UK, Talend’s Fall 2018 release delivers insight-ready data at scale with new features including […]
Intelligent Data Management Supports Better Data Access
Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]
MapR and Waterline Data Collaborate on Data Catalog for Machine Learning-Driven AI
According to a recent press release, “MapR® Technologies, Inc., the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, announced today at Strata Data Conference the availability of a Machine Learning-based (ML) data catalog with the MapR Data Platform. The new Waterline Data Catalog for MapR, a result of development collaboration and a reseller agreement with […]
Case Study: Data Virtualization Seasons the Machine Learning and Blockchain Landscape for McCormick
Food flavoring giant McCormick is spicing things by adopting Data Virtualization for a number of its key projects including the deployment of Machine Learning techniques and a Blockchain collaboration program with a prominent retailer as part of a plan to better control food quality. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview with Terry Moon, an Information Architect […]