Tag: governance

Feed: Alation. Author: Michelle Cloutier. June 30, 2022 — Data Governance – The Pillar No One Wants to Talk About This blog builds on a previous blog that explored our customers’ best practices in building the data culture pillars of Search & Discovery and Data Literacy. Now, we’ll dive into what many consider the most difficult, but most critical, pillar of data culture: Data Governance. Every organization that takes data seriously must embrace data governance. However, for many organizations, the term data governance has earned a negative reputation that must be overcome. Done right, data governance simply ensures that the ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Tracy Eiler. June 14, 2022 — It’s not déjà vu — it’s a repeat! For the second year in a row, Snowflake has named Alation its Data Governance Partner of the Year. The announcement was made at Snowflake Summit this week (visit us at booth 2009!). And we’re just as proud, excited, and thankful as when we received the honor last year. This back-to-back recognition is testament to Alation’s essential role within the Snowflake partner ecosystem at the intersection of data cloud migration, active data governance, and self-service. Together with Snowflake, we help more than 125 joint ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Heather Gentile; The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is now commonplace throughout society. The adoption of AI is driven by its utility and the improvements in efficiency it creates. Every day, most of us rely on AI for tasks like autocompleting our text messages, navigating our route to a new location, and recommending what movie to watch next. Beyond these common uses of AI, there are also uses that regulators are beginning to identify as areas where there may be a higher risk. These higher-risk areas can include uses of AI in employment, financial, ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Anil Shankar; Artificial intelligence is being infused slowly but surely into all aspects of our lives, and it will be ubiquitous in everyday life sooner than we might imagine. Governments and regulatory bodies around the world are working to establish safety standards. In the U.S., the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently outlined options to prevent algorithmic bias in home valuations for mortgage lenders. The proposed rules aim to govern automated valuation models to protect borrowers. In October 2021, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced, “Americans Need a Bill of ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Neil Raden. June 2, 2022 — In part one of this series, I discussed how data management challenges have evolved and how data governance and security have to play in such challenges, with an eye to cloud migration and drift over time. In part two of this series, I’ll dive more deeply into AI/ML and data lineage, in the cloud and otherwise, and discuss how data governance and security can support these critical use cases, wherever they reside. Governing and Tracking ML/AI: The Rise of XAI Organizations have attempted to manage the data they use for analytics ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. As you develop next-generation cloud-native applications and modernize existing workloads by migrating to cloud, you need cloud teams that can govern centrally with policies for security, compliance, operations and spend management. In this edition of Let’s Architect!, we gather content to help software architects and tech leaders explore new ideas, case studies, and technical approaches to help you support production implementations for large-scale migrations. A multi-account AWS environment helps businesses migrate, modernize, and innovate faster. With the large number of design choices, setting up a multi-account strategy can take a significant amount of time, because it involves configuring ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; At Matillion, we love to highlight the ways in which our products integrate with other technologies in the modern enterprise data stack. This week, read how Matillion ETL and OvalEdge data catalog and governance solution help strengthen data governance across your organization. This article, written by John Bagnall, Matillion ETL Product Manager, originally appeared in the OvalEdge blog on May 27, 2022.Data governance is a hot topic right now. For companies today, ensuring proper data asset management and curating a culture of accountability over user data is a high priority, and rightly so. Many organizations believe ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Jim Barker. May 27, 2022 — What do Snow White’s Grumpy, Oscar the Grouch, and Gritty, the mascot of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, have in common? They represent the three G’s of data governance. (My Irish grandmother always said any good story starts with a joke, even a bad one. So I guess I have that one covered.) Here’s what I mean: Nearly two decades ago, a client asked me why you needed good data. Somewhere in the outer reaches of my brain I spit out those three words — grumpiness, grouchiness, and grittiness — and there ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Brock Matthews. Higher education institutions are some of the most data-rich entities in the world. Postsecondary leaders need high-quality, consistent and accurate insights to make the best decisions for their institution, students and constituents. Data governance is a topic that may seem technical in nature and perhaps important to only the IT department. However, a sound data governance strategy is the foundation that allows access to the data needed to make timely organizational decisions. Data governance and higher education Higher education faces one of the biggest challenges in obtaining data and interpreting it in a way ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Jason Lim. May 24, 2022 — In the latest release of Alation, 2022.2, generally available on May 24, Alation introduces the Open Data Quality Initiative for the modern data stack, giving customers the freedom to choose the data quality vendor that’s best for them with the added confidence that those tools will integrate seamlessly with Alation’s Data Catalog and Data Governance application. Additionally, a set of key features will accelerate data governance and simplify the security of sensitive metadata. Our Data Quality Journey The perennial problem of using data to make decisions, as coined by George Fuechsel, ... Read More