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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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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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Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Leaders in healthcare seek to improve patient outcomes, meet changing business models (including value-based care), and ensure compliance while creating better experiences. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. In other words, they use data to heal more people and save more lives.
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A data marketplace is a platform that enables data producers to list consumable data products to its users. In this way, a data marketplace simplifies how data consumers discover and access trusted data assets within an organization.
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On May 29, 2024, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued new guidance on Data Governance and Management Practices for banks and financial institutions. This guidance stems from MAS’s inspections and aligns with the Basel Committee's principles for effective risk aggregation and reporting. It calls for stronger data governance frameworks to ensure robust data management controls, particularly in risk aggregation and reporting.
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Since the wrap of the last season of Data Radicals in March 2024, we’ve witnessed the explosion of AI and Nividia, the rise of robotics, and the most high-stakes race for the White House in modern history. Within Alation, we’re seeing customers build AI agents, trusted semantics, and data products to drive repeatable value.
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Master Data Management (MDM) and data catalogs are both becoming ubiquitous as organizations integrate more systems, embark on data-hungry and compliance-fraught AI initiatives, comply with extensive privacy regulations, and address data quality concerns — all while making data easy to find, access, trust, and use. Organizations that use data catalogs to support subsequent MDM initiatives experience organizational efficiency, accelerated decision-making, and overall customer satisfaction.
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What exactly is DataOps?
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The cloud is the de facto standard for housing data these days. There was a time not so long ago when most CIOs would never consider putting their crown jewels — AKA customer data and associated analytics — into the cloud.
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BCBS 239, also known as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's standard number 239, is a set of principles established in January 2013 to strengthen banks' risk data aggregation capabilities and internal risk reporting practices. This global standard aims to enhance the risk management and decision-making processes within banks and financial institutions. Risk data describes information organizations collect in order to better manage and mitigate risk.
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Businesses face an overwhelming influx of unstructured data from sources like social media, customer reviews, emails, and documents. Extracting valuable insights from this data is crucial for informed decision-making and maintaining competitiveness. Natural Language Processing (NLP) addresses this challenge.
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