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Alation bags $123M at a $1.7B valuation for its data-cataloging software

TechCrunch

While more data is generally a good thing, particularly where it concerns analytics, large volumes can be overwhelming to organize and govern — even for the savviest of organizations. According to Forrester, somewhere between 60% and 73% of data produced by enterprises goes unused for analytics. Image Credits: Alation.

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The Very Group adopts a data catalog to better organize and leverage its online retail capabilities

CIO

Behind the flagship brand, though, he says data remained scattered in siloes across many legacy business units and applications, with limited automation, many glossaries, and complex data lineage, and stewardship making it hard to govern and audit. What type of decisions are you making? We’re a Power BI shop,” he says. “I

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What Is Causal Inference?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What would happen if I tried a different angle? We’re imagining what the world would be like under different sets of circumstances: what would happen if we do X? What would happen if we do Y instead? When used correctly, data allows us to infer something about the future based on what happened in the past.

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Data Quality Management: Roles, Processes, Tools

Altexsoft

But it is what it is: You need to rely on accurate information to complete a task or deliver a service, be it planning an optimal route to deliver sushi to numerous customers or sending customized newsletters. Low-quality data can also impede and slow down the integration of business intelligence and ML-powered predictive analytics.

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Trusted Data: Alchemy For Misinformation

Cloudera

The best description of untrusted data I’ve ever heard is, “We all attend the QBR – Sales, Marketing, Finance – and present quarterly results, except the Sales reports and numbers don’t match Marketing numbers and neither match Finance reports. Consult the Book of Spells Our spells are cast from our Enterprise Business Glossary.

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Applied AI – a gamechanger for business operations

Capgemini

Global enterprises must serve the information needs of everyone who gets in touch, no matter where those people are and no matter what language they speak. What’s more, it infuses custom translation instructions with enterprise glossaries that extend beyond standard language to improve translation quality.