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Thoughts on the usability of enterprise data products

by Jon Loyens | Dec 16, 2019 | Data-driven cultures

The other day, a member of our sales team shared this Twitter thread comparing the usability of baby clothes to enterprise software. This takedown is both funny and true, speaking as a parent and as an enterprise software co-founder and user. The really insightful bit...

How Yonder Empowers Employees with Democratized Data Access and Tools

by Ian Greenleigh | Dec 9, 2019 | Data-driven cultures

Yonder is a fast-growing authentic internet company on a mission to give the online world the same amount of cultural context as the offline world. “We’re the anthropologists of the internet,” says Taylor McCaslin—Senior Product Manager at Yonder—describing how the...

data.world debuts in Gartner Metadata Management Magic Quadrant Report

by David Tishgart | Oct 23, 2019 | Data catalogs

Data gets all the headlines as it is collected and compiled, recorded and reorganized, and assessed for business value. But it’s the associated metadata that breathes life and utility into data with context and meaning. That’s why enterprises invest in metadata...

Why your digital transformation strategy needs an augmented data catalog solution

by Tim Gasper | Oct 4, 2019 | Data catalogs

Interest in enterprise data catalog solutions is at an all-time high. As organizations roll out their digital transformation strategies, many run into major challenges with finding, managing, and creating insights from massive amounts of complex, scattered data...

Why is everyone so fired up about data catalog tools?

by Ian Greenleigh | Aug 21, 2019 | Data catalogs

You've probably heard a lot about data catalog tools lately. Why? You don’t need anyone to tell you; you feel it in your bones. Data is the most important competitive battleground of our time. The threat to every business is existential. Today’s winners will do...