Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Alation. Author: Michael Meyer. June 30, 2022 — As important as the responsibilities of a data curator are to self-service analytics, data curation best practices are still in their infancy. The evolution of communications technologies created an environment ripe for evolving the methods and features of the activity of curation. And as new technology allowed for more publishers and created a higher volume of content, information curation thrived. We are now seeing a similar transformation in the world of data, where there’s tension between the old world (single-source-of-truth data warehouses with top-down data governance) and the new world (distributed, ... Read More

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: Anthony Zumpano. June 28, 2022 — Collecting and using data to make informed decisions is the new foundation for businesses. The key term here is usable: Anyone can be data rich, and collect vast troves of data. The real challenge lies in getting people to access, manage, and search for it appropriately. This is where metadata, or the data about data, comes into play. Having a data catalog is the cornerstone of your data governance strategy, but what supports your data catalog? Your metadata management framework provides the underlying structure that makes your data accessible and manageable ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Matt Turner. June 24, 2022 — Last week the Alation team joined data leaders from all over the world for Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas. With over 10,000 people in attendance, it was truly an event for the entire data community. Attendees were focused on one key question: how can we put data into action and make it accessible to everyone? To address this challenge, Snowflake has really moved the ball with new Data Cloud capabilities; sessions taught people how to use these new capabilities to make a difference. Our theme was, “Alation Is the Treasure ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. The 2022 C.K. Prahalad Award was given to two co-winners, Shopify Sustainability Fund and Stripe Climate, recognizing their groundbreaking efforts to catalyze a market for carbon removal solutions. The awards were announced in connection with the 2022 CEF Annual Leadership Retreat, attended by senior executives representing CEF member companies with combined revenues of $4 trillion. Here is Yahoo Finance’s coverage of the news. On Shopify Shopify, a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce and one of the largest corporate buyers of long-term carbon removal, launched its Sustainability Fund in September 2019 ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Mitesh Shah. June 23, 2022 — Alation has been named the #1 data catalog in Dresner’s 2022 Wisdom of Crowds report for the sixth consecutive year! To arrive at a ranking, report authors interviewed and surveyed real data catalog users. In this way, report authors have furnished a useful buyer’s guide for prospective data catalog users. 18 data catalogs were rated according to three core catalog features. Customer surveys focused on three core catalog features: content co-creation & sharing, advanced catalog features, and administrative/governance. The report ranks 18 data catalogs by these metrics, placing Alation at the ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Junaid Saiyed. June 21, 2022 — Groucho Marx once quipped, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Fortunately, the rest of us don’t feel that way, and I’m thrilled to share Alation’s admission to a new club dedicated to innovation. Alation has been named a Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the venture capital program of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), as a Pathfinder organization and category-leading startup in data management and data catalogs. But this is more than mere recognition. It’s an investment from HPE in a strategic collaboration between our teams. What we ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Satyen Sangani. June 21, 2022 — When Alation was founded, we admittedly weren’t thinking in a fine-grained way about the audience of users. The product concept back then went something like: In a world where enterprises have numerous sources of data, let’s make a thing that helps people find the best data asset to answer their question based on what other users were using. It was SAT-like; not the answer, but the best answer among many options. And to determine “best,” we’d ingest log files and leverage machine learning. It was Googley in spirit: define best (i.e., ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: Clare Christopher. Following his role as research director and instructor of fintech at Creighton University, San Francisco-based economist, Jeffrey Milewski co-founded the non-profit Global Income Coin. The crypto company aims to provide a universal basic income of $1 to any person worldwide. Initial funding of $2 million is from a personal donation of Sid Sijbrandij (co-founder and CEO of GitLab Inc.). M.R. Rangaswami: Why did you co-found a nonprofit that wants to utilize crypto as a way to provide universal basic income worldwide?  Jeffrey Milewski: I’m inspired by the potential of crypto to make a ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Junaid Saiyed. June 16, 2022 — If you’re an engineer looking for a career at an organization steeped in business intelligence, awash in analytics, or minted with the mission to help other companies leverage their data, I’ve got good news: Our industry is growing, the work is exciting, and there are so many cutting-edge companies to choose from. There’s no bad news, only a challenge: Where should you work? Review the LinkedIn intros for a dozen data organizations and you’ll start to see the same keywords. Check out Glassdoor, and you’ll find many companies with positive reviews ... Read More