Tips and tricks to regularly maintain, tune up, and enrich your data catalog and business glossary to give contextualized insights
Data catalogs
What is DataOps?
Imagine this: it’s time for your family’s weekend getaway after a tough week at work and school. In the midst of the fun, you get a text that a critical data pipeline broke at work, and you need to fix it immediately. Now your weekend plans are on hold as you head...
Recap: data.world spring summit 2021
“What we need is imagination.” This was Pablos Holman's crescendoed challenge to free-thinkers and risk takers in technology. The hacker and inventor spoke to data.world CEO Brett Hurt at spring summit 2021 about the inevitable, critical role of data in all manner of...
Data engineers: your knowledge bridge
I'm a bit of a juggler at heart. For the last twenty years, I've supported data engineers, scientists, and more in their line of work. And I've been everywhere from the smallest of startups, to massive data centers (some even hosting military data). If I’ve learned...
Throttle up your data catalog with machine learning
How do you get from northeast Maine to Southern California? By walking, over 40 days. By cycling, nearly a dozen days. By driving, over 40 hours. By plane, about 7 hours. Working with data manually is like walking. You’ll get...
Five critical data challenges your enterprise needs to solve
As a Chief Data Officer (CDO), you might be inclined to focus on the needs of your data analysts, scientists, and engineers. But the scope of the CDO office is much larger. Indeed, data impacts every aspect of your business. The largest team in your organization is...
data.world community hits an impressive milestone
The data.world community hits an impressive milestone: we have now activated over a million accounts across out enterprise and community data platforms. Clear, accurate, and trustworthy data is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our partners use data.world to serve critical data to enable everyone to dig in and analyze.
What’s new and what’s next at data.world
When you’re the lone SaaS vendor in a world of legacy data catalogs, it can at times be difficult to demonstrate innovation. Continuously rolling out updates, enhancements, and fixes via the cloud means you don’t get your time in the spotlight with a monumental...
Gartner names data.world a Challenger in the Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management, 2020
Augmented data catalogs (that is, those powered by technology such as knowledge graphs) play a key role in metadata management. In fact, almost exactly one year ago, Gartner predicted that “by 2021, organizations that offer a curated catalog of internal and external...
Calculate your data catalog’s ROI
Enterprises, analysts, and experts agree: data catalogs have a significant impact on your business’ bottom line. Without one, you risk getting left behind by your more data-driven competitors. Gartner calls augmented data catalogs an “enterprise must-have,” while...
What it means to be a true cloud-native data catalog
When Marc Benioff popularized the term "cloud," validated the Software-as-a-Service delivery model, and coined the phrase "No software" at Salesforce.com, he had a very distinct vision in mind. He saw a world where businesses were free from the time and expense of...
data.world debuts as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Machine Learning Data Catalogs, Q4 2020
We’re excited to announce that data.world was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for Machine Learning Data Catalogs. Our data catalog also received the top score in the current offering category. Author Michele Goetz states that “data.world emerges with a...
data.world is now available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace
We’re pleased to announce that AWS customers can now purchase data.world via the AWS Marketplace, providing yet another channel for data teams to access our unique subscription-based SaaS data catalog. data.world’s enterprise data catalog unites and classifies your...
That’s a wrap for data.world summit 2020
Missed data.world summit 2020? Visit this page to watch a replay of the full event. “With data, anything is possible.” With that message, our CEO Brett Hurt kicked off our first data.world summit last week. He succinctly captured the moment in history we’re in today,...
Data catalogs: build or buy?
Do you spend hours searching for the one person in your company who holds the keys to the data you need? Once you have the data, do you struggle to understand it? Do you even trust it? If any of this sounds familiar, you’re in great company. IBM estimates that the US...
How to move faster without sacrificing data quality
We all know that data is growing rapidly in size and complexity. So is the demand for faster and deeper insights. As we try to tame the growing data chaos while speeding up integration, processing, analysis, and access, data quality suffers. Let’s explore the ways we...
10 tips for building your data warehouse and data catalog together
What do you do first, build a data warehouse or catalog your data? It’s not quite the chicken and egg question, but it is a dilemma that many enterprise data leaders face. In this blog, we’ll explore why and how you should do both at the same time. Read on if you’re...
How to Be a Successful Data Catalog Champion
As a sales engineer, it’s my job to help companies start their data catalog journeys off on the right foot. Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of organizations that are excited about the prospects of what a data catalog can do. Many achieve success. Others...
Data Lineage – the “not-so-secret” solution to solve complex data problems
The easiest way to understand data lineage is to think about how data transforms itself during any type of process. As an example, think about retail transactions that may turn into warranty claims due to defective merchandise. Records such as transaction and...
Your external data is a mess. Here’s how to fix it.
Picture this: it’s the fall of 2019 at the Forrester Data Strategy Conference in Austin. An almost unthinkably distant past filled with live sports, cheaper Zoom stock, and an absence of phrases like “in these uncertain times.” On the last day of the conference, Dr....