Tag: data governance

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: andrea-braida; Justin Saul is Senior Director of Technology at A Place for Mom, Inc. (APFM). Justin’s career began in the start-up space, where he founded several successful businesses. He joined You’ve Got Leads—a division of APFM that delivers web-based relationship management solutions for the senior care industry—as a Director of Operations focused on strategic IT projects, and then moved into running all technology for the company’s start-up divisions. Justin has considerable breadth and depth of experience in building technical teams, architectures and processes.  It’s no secret that most successful ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: nancy-kopp; No matter what site you search, it’s seems to us that self-service data is a top trend in the data market today. The knowledge and insight that we can obtain from data can truly be a secret weapon. But the challenge is making the data available while maintaining accountability and governance.In the early days of data warehousing and business intelligence we advised  businesses on the value of data but that value was limited to only a few key analysts, quants and executives. It’s a game changer if you ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: aylee-nielsen; Recently, I had the honor of speaking with a number of the world’s most influential thought-leaders in the fields of data science, data analytics, machine learning and digital transformation. This group of prominent data technologists was more than happy to answer a wide variety of question on topics ranging from the fast-evolving area of unified governance and preparing for General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to transformative hybrid data management technologies, and of course, data science and machine learning.Join this incredible group of experts at Fast Track You Data – ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: seth-dobrin; Are you dealing with information that belongs to EU subjects? Does your company have a “Data Protection Officer”? If the answer the first question is yes and the answer to the second is no, then the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) probably applies to you, and you might not be prepared to comply. That’s ok. There’s still time. But first… What is the GDPR?  The GDPR is the biggest change in data privacy in Europe in two decades. It’s a complex and far-reaching regulation, comprising many duties and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. This article aims to list all top BI (Business Intelligence) products available on the market. It should help interested users to compare and select the best solution for their needs. According to the list of best business intelligence tools prepared by experts from FinancesOnline the leading solutions in this category comprise of systems designed to capture, categorize, and analyze corporate data and extract best practices for improved decision making. The more advanced the system is, the more data sources it will combine, including internal metrics coming from ... Read More

Feed: BDN Daily Press Releases Discussions - Big Data News. Author: Andrei Macsin. Icon Ventures leads investment to accelerate growth of the leading data catalog provider to chief data officers REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 18, 2017 — Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced it has closed a $23 million Series B funding round led by Icon Ventures with participation from Harmony Partners, Costanoa Ventures, and Data Collective. In addition, Michael Mullany, a general partner at Icon Ventures, has joined the Alation board of directors. This round of funding positions the company to scale rapidly to meet enterprise demand for collaborative ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Satyen Sangani. Innovating inside of established companies has always been challenging. Being “established” is synonymous with having a proprietary, scalable, and, likely, profitable way of doing things. Change is risky; change is expensive, and change is disruptive. Over the last 20 years, CEOs, CIOs and their enterprise IT departments have sought to define business processes and build the systems needed to operationalize and codify how people work together. Investment in business processes has become synonymous with “doing it better.” As a consequence, modern enterprises have hundreds if not thousands of different applications. In the back office and ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Guest Author. Dale Kim, Sr. Director, Products/Solutions, Arcadia Data Implementing data security controls can be hard, so it is up to technology vendors to work together to make security as simple as possible. This is especially true of big data environments where there are many pieces to integrate. When it comes to working with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), a tight integration with Apache Ranger is essential. And quite appropriately, Hortonworks recently shared some integration stories in a breakout session at the recent DataWorks Summit (on June 13-15, 2017) on partner integrations with Apache ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Sri Srinivasan. As Alysa outlines in her blog post, the release of the July update marks the availability of several new applications as well as important updates to many of our existing Dynamics 365 Cloud Services. Before we talk about the new Applications and capabilities, I want to start by talking about the new deployment options for Finance & Operations. It was just a few months ago in my last blog post that I shared our plans to create two additional deployment options for Dynamics 365 for Operations, Microsoft’s cloud ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Julie Steele. New Rules for a New Data Ecosystem  |  July 11th, 2017 As data and analytics technology change, they bring new data governance challenges with them. Of course, there are various definitions of data governance, depending on whom you ask. For the purposes of this post, we’re defining it as the practices that ensure the proper usage, integrity, and security of data throughout all points in the data lifecycle. In other words, it’s the plan, or “steering,” for how to manage your company’s data. And it’s an ever-evolving ecosystem. Traditional governance measures that covered ... Read More