
Tag: data catalog
Alation Turns to GenAI to Automate Data Governance Tasks
Alation is rolling out a new offering dubbed ALLIE AI that’s aimed at helping data stewards better organize data when it’s being ingested into the company, as well as to streamline and simplify how customers ultimate Read more…
Amazon DataZone Goes GA
AWS today announced that DataZone, the data management service it unveiled a year ago to streamline access to trusted data, is now open for business. The company has added several new features designed to improve user’ Read more…
Data Catalogs: Extreme Makeover Edition
Here’s the cold, hard truth: data catalogs don’t get most people excited. In fact, it’s kind of like going to the dentist; almost nobody likes doing it, but the alternative is worse. In other words, while most peop Read more…
Privacera Streamlines Data Access Control Decisions
To be data-driven, one needs access to data. That’s pretty obvious. But data also carries risk, which complicates the math. One vendor hoping to streamline the data access workflow and safely get more data into the han Read more…
Databricks Strings a Data Mesh with Lakehouse Federation
Databricks this week unveiled Lakehouse Federation, a set of new capabilities in its Unity Catalog that will enable its Delta Lake customers to access, govern, and process data residing outside of its lakehouse. The comp Read more…
Acryl Data Raises $21M in Bid to Unify Data Stack
Acryl Data, the company driving the open source data catalog called the DataHub Project, got a boost in its quest to unify the fragmented data stack today when it announced the completion of a $21 million Series A round. Read more…
The Semantic Layer Architecture: Where Business Intelligence is Truly Heading
The rise of cloud computing, data mesh, and especially data lakehouses all reflect the massive efforts to adopt architectures that will keep pace with the exponential of data constantly growing. But the industry is st Read more…
Wanted: An Integration Layer for Data Management That Actually Works
As data silos continues to expand and data management difficulties continue to compound, a consensus is starting to build that what the industry needs now is a standard, repeatable, and efficient way of managing all that Read more…
Starburst Bolsters Trino Platform as Datanova Begins
Starburst today rolled out a host of enhancements to its Trino-based analytics platform for the cloud, called Galaxy, including support for Python, new caching and indexing features, and a new data catalog. The company u Read more…
What Does It Mean for a Data Catalog to Be Powered by a Knowledge Graph?
In this article, I explain why the first app built on a knowledge graph should be an enterprise data catalog. I then clarify why any catalog equipped to grow, scale, and evolve with the modern data stack must be built on Read more…
ThinkData Works Brings Data Catalog to Google Cloud
You can now use the data catalog from ThinkData Works to explore and discover data you have stored on Google Cloud, the Toronto, Ontario-based SaaS provider announced today. In addition to catalog features, the offering Read more…
Cloud Migrations Negatively Impacting Data Estates, Capital One Says
We’re in the midst of a massive migration of data to the cloud at the moment, driven in large part by the promises of advanced analytics and AI and the competitive advantages they can bring. However, before getting thi Read more…
Meet Satyen Sangani, a 2022 Datanami Person to Watch
It’s great to have a collection of big data, but it’s not much use if you can’t find specific pieces of data within it. That was the core insight driving Satyen Sangani and his company, Alation, to create the indus Read more…
The Modernization of Data Engineering at Capital One
Like many enterprises, Capital One Financial Corp. is in the process of democratizing employee access to data to improve profitability, lower risk, and increase customer satisfaction. But lowering the barriers to data ac Read more…
What to Look for in a Data Catalog
There’s no mistaking it: Data catalogs are hot. The product category has exploded in recent years as a way to drive data discovery and, increasingly, to control access to data. But how do you select the right data cata Read more…
Data Catalogs Take Center Stage in Eckerson CDO TechVent
If you’re in the market for a data catalog, join the party. By one estimate, nearly 93% of organizations have either deployed a data catalog or plan to. But as your buying decision gets closer, you might find yourself Read more…