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What is a Data Mesh?
A data mesh is an organizational framework for collecting, managing, and sharing data across the enterprise. It is a method of data management that empowers domain experts to own the data they create and make it available to consumers across business lines. Put more...
What is Metadata, and How Does It Work?
What is Metadata? We all know the metadata definition explaining that metadata — sometimes incorrectly spelled as "meta data" — is “data about data.” Although pithy, that definition leaves out many of metadata’s critical functions in data governance. Metadata...
Why You Need a Data Catalog for DataOps, According to Forrester Research
Big data has revolutionized the business world. Since the phrase “big data” first rose to prominence in the early ‘00s, numerous studies have shown that businesses focused on using data and business analytics to inform their decisions are significantly more productive...
What Is a Semantic Layer, and How Does It Turn Your Data into Knowledge?
It’s taken as read that the data created by your organization is incredibly valuable. Collecting and analyzing your data can lead to improved customer insight, increased market intelligence, forward-thinking innovation, improved business operations, and too many other...
And That’s a Wrap – Takeaways from Catalog and Cocktails Season Three
Thursday’s Catalog and Cocktails podcast season three finale capped Tim and Juan’s most-popular season yet, with the hosts toasting their 95th episode with … Champagne? (Not a cocktail, we know. But, hey, it was a special occasion.) The episode served as a...
Driving Action with Data Doesn’t Have To Be So Hard
The quantity of data being created around the world is mind boggling. According to our friends at Domo, humans currently produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. (And that figure has surely grown since their report was released in 2018.) In the business world,...
How to Evaluate a Modern Data Catalog
The data catalog market has exploded in recent years, and for good reason. Organizations have a ton of data and metadata, but it’s often difficult to find and understand, and people are not sure how to apply the data to their business. A modern data catalog serves as...
Why Your Business Shouldn’t Wait to Invest in a Data Catalog, Even if You Don’t Think You’re Ready
Given the size and complexity of most mature organizations and their infrastructure, any effort towards data modernization can be a daunting task. Even smaller, newer, nimbler businesses can experience this pain, as, in their haste to scale, they often cobble together...
The Role of a Data Catalog in Data Mesh
In our previous posts in this series, we focused on the people, processes, and cultural aspects of data mesh. Before we dive into the technical stuff, we should be clear about one thing: if someone tries to sell you a "data mesh platform," run away as fast as...
How an Enterprise Data Catalog Fast Tracks Domain-Driven Data Governance
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of a domain-driven approach to data governance… and I reminisced about the glory days of the early ‘00s. Putting low-rise jeans and boy bands aside for just a minute, this follow-up post focuses on how adopting an enterprise...
The Data Mesh Balancing Act: Centralized vs. Decentralized Governance
In the second post in our data mesh blog series, we introduced the Data Product ABCs framework.Here, we’ll explore how you find the perfect balance of centralized and decentralized federated data governance to cash in on the full value of your data mesh. Top-down...
Do You Know Your Data Product ABCs?
In our last post, we addressed the market definition of data mesh.Now we’re sharing our point of view on how you should implement it. The most important aspects of data mesh First, as a socio-technical approach, we believe data mesh is as much about people and...
Data is from Mars. Data Science is from Venus.
Today’s explosion of data is unstructured, feral, even wild. It is heterogeneous, or simply diverse. Which contrasts with the way our technologies have long sought to organize data into usable form, by making it homogeneous – or uniform. Enter ‘data mesh’ a radical...
How to Scale Your Data Culture with Data Mesh
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the majority of enterprise organizations continue to struggle to derive true value from their ever-growing stores of data. Bottlenecks created by centralized data teams, monolithic architectures, and restrictive governance...
Why It’s Time to Invest in a Data Catalog
It’s 2022, and data is the lifeblood of business. Gone are the days when executives made decisions based on “business savvy” or “gut instinct.” The most successful modern enterprise businesses — including Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and Uber — have created highly...
5 Questions with Jans Aasman
We all strive to be data-driven. And yet we all instinctively know that we’re not very good at it. In fact, if you believe any number of recent surveys, it seems we may actually be getting worse at data. One reason for this is a misalignment on what success looks like. How do you define and measure it? What is the actual value of your data?
The Return of Domain-Driven Design
Rewind to 2003, when Michael Jordan still played basketball, the third Lord of the Rings movie was in theaters, and you could buy a Ford Ranger for less than $9,000. A book broke onto the scene called “Domain-Driven Design” by Eric Evans that asked a great question –...
Last-Mile Governance is More than a Query Workbench
Enterprises adopt data catalogs for a variety of purposes. One of the most popular is data discovery. But in today’s governance-focused world, connecting data consumers with the assets and analysis needed to make informed business decisions requires more than a simple...
3 Ways to Confirm Your Data Catalog Is Really Powered by a Knowledge Graph
Why your data catalog needs to be powered by a knowledge graph I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — your organization needs a data catalog. Modern companies need data catalogs to empower your workers to get more information from your data investments, gain...
