In the final blog of his series on data governance, Bob Seiner lays out the steps of how to get started quickly with data governance within your organization. Read the blog today.
To Activate Data Governance, Everybody Must be a Data Steward
This blog series has focused on staying non-invasive in your approach to data governance, the relationship between the work culture and governing your data, and the selection of the best approach to implementing data governance for your organization. This blog is...
Alation + First San Francisco Partners: A New Approach to Data Governance
Every business is trying to become a digital business and the monetization of data is a fundamental part of that transformation. But when you have hundreds of thousands of data sources, potentially millions of different datasets and thousands of people constantly...
Our Next Phase of Growth: Enterprise Data Catalogs
Today, we’re announcing that Alation has closed a $50 million Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new investor Salesforce Ventures and our existing investors Costanoa Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Harmony Partners and Icon Ventures....
GoDaddy: Customer-First Digital Transformation
This article is based on a podcast Ron Powell conducted with Sharon Graves, Enterprise Data and BI Tools Evangelist for GoDaddy, about data curation, data stewardship, and data catalogs. Ron is an independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNetwork and...
What Is Data Curation?
Data curation is a term that has recently become a common part of data management vocabulary. Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. When speaking and consulting, I often...
Driving Data Catalog Adoption
In a recent blog, titled Collaboration and Crowdsourcing with Data Cataloging, I discussed the importance of participation by all data stakeholders as a key to getting maximum value from your data catalog. Many organizations, however, find data catalog...