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Alation Launches Salesforce Connector to Enhance Data Trust
We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Salesforce. This partnership will bring data governance and deep insights around data lineage into Salesforce Data Cloud. With this bidirectional integration, Alation joins the Salesforce Data Governance alliance.
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How to Choose the Best Enterprise Data Catalog: Key Criteria Uncovered
It's analyst report season! In the next few months, analyst firms will provide guidance on how to approach the data catalog market and key criteria for choosing a data catalog. These reports can be helpful starting points. But they should be just that: a starting point. With over 12 years of experience and a customer base of nearly 600 enterprises, including 40 of the Fortune 100, we've developed a comprehensive understanding of what truly matters in a data catalog solution to deliver business success. Here are our key criteria uncovered:
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What Is Master Data Governance? A Beginner's Guide
Data is often described as the "new oil," but like oil, it can quickly become a mess if not properly managed. Enter Master Data Governance (MDG), a critical component of Master Data Management (MDM), that ensures your most important data assets are accurate, consistent, and reliable.
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AI-Ready Data: The Role of Data Intelligence in GenAI
The introduction of generative AI (GenAI) into the market in late 2022 resulted in a lot of hype, but behind it was also hope. Hope that science fiction-like AI technology was now in our sights, helping to significantly improve employee productivity, help with skills shortages, assist with the creation of new ideas and innovations, contribute very significant value in the economy, and drive global GDP higher.
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Data Swamp, Data Lake, Data Lakehouse: What to Know
What is a data swamp?
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Trusted Metrics: Why Data Integrity is the Key to AI Success
Sometime around 2005, self-service business intelligence (BI) applications like Tableau and Qlik rose in prominence, displacing IT-centric solutions like Congos and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). In switching to these BI tools, we were promised actionable insights and real-time visibility for our business operations.
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AI Governance Best Practices: A Framework for Data Leaders
The debate over the role of AI governance in business success is not just about compliance or ethical concerns—it's a question of whether companies can realize the financial potential that AI promises to unlock. As AI moves from concepts and proofs-of-concept (POCs) to a core component of business operations, the real question for business leaders is not if AI governance matters, but how it directly influences their bottom line.
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Alation Expert Spotlight: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
In this new blog series, we share interviews with Alation experts first posted in the Alation Customer Community. This interview was originally recorded in June, 2024, and has been lightly edited for clarity.
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How to Train Your Team on Data Compliance and Security
In July 2024, when major airlines could not operate effectively due to a , it ignited the world’s interest in data compliance and security programs. Much like national security, you know compliance is working when it's not on the news.
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What Is Snowflake?
Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing solution offering a single data storage, processing, and analysis platform. It was founded in 2012 in San Mateo, California. Snowflake’s founders wanted to build a data platform that would harness the immense power of the cloud. Snowflake enables organizations to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of structured and semi-structured data through a scalable and fully managed platform. The platform supports the ETL process of
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What Is a Data Pipeline?
A data pipeline is a series of processes that automate the movement and transformation of data from one system to another, enabling organizations to collect, process, and store data efficiently. It connects multiple data sources, applies various transformations, and delivers the refined data to target systems such as databases, data warehouses, or data lakes.
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