Safely Driving Infonomic Growth with Data Access Governance and Security
As enterprises race to become data-driven businesses, a latent tension is intensifying: Is data the “new oil”? A “toxic asset”?…
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Autonomous Data Trust Score for Data Catalogs
With the accelerating adoption of Data Catalogs as the core component for enterprise data governance, the need to provide information…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: The Data Catalog
I have worked on a wide variety of data catalog projects lately, and I’d like to share some of my…
How a Data Catalog Enables Data Democratization
For many organizations, data is a business asset that’s owned by the IT department. Based on this ‘data ownership’ model,…
What Exactly is External Data?
My company has been talking a lot about our products because there has been some incredible progress on what we’re…
Is Junk Metadata a Data Catalog Risk?
Many of us know what a hoarder is. There have been shows about individuals who fill their dwellings with what…
What is a Data Catalog? Value, Benefits and Features
No matter where data comes from, becoming data-driven depends on every member of your organization being able to find, access,…
The Tribal Knowledge Problem
A recent report on data culture released by Alation shows that enterprises continue to make progress toward creating a data…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: In Defense of the Data Catalog
In the September issue of TDAN.com, Anthony Algmin denounced Data Catalogs as a “1980’s solution to a 2020’s problem.” Wow!…
The Book Look: New Book on the Data Catalog
About a week ago, I was teaching a data modeling class, and an attendee asked me to explain the concept…