Name: The Evolution of the Enterprise Data Catalog: O'Reilly Author in Conversation
Start: 2023-11-30T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-11-30T16:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.

More than 500 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision-making, and realize business outcomes with Alation, including AbbVie, American Family Insurance, Autozone, Cisco, Draft Kings, Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Finnair, Munich Re, NASDAQ, Parexel, Pfizer, Salesforce, Virgin Australia, and Vistaprint.

Do you ever have to make decisions? Do you make them with confidence?

For that to be the case, you need to be able to trust your data. By ensuring the relevance and quality of your data, you can make decisions that are based on facts and drive your business forward.

During this on-demand webcast, you’ll learn how Alation’s Open Data Quality Framework can empower you to strengthen data quality in your Alation instance. Join the session now to:

- Learn the details of Alation’s Open Data Quality Framework
- Understand how to benefit from the ODQF by integrating it into your own Alation instance
- Watch a demo of the integration in action

Build Trust in Your Data with Alation’s Open Data Quality Initiative

During this session, you’ll learn how to use the Alation Anywhere Chrome Extension to search, preview, and trust critical data without leaving Chrome - enabling faster, more informed decisions across your organization and seamlessly fitting into your workflow.

It’s time to bring the power of data intelligence directly to your fingertips - right in your browser. Watch this video now to learn how to:

- Instantly surface critical metadata and insights directly within Chrome, minimizing context-switching and empowering data-driven decisions on the spot
- Access enriched data context with side-by-side previews in tools like Snowflake’s Snowsight, helping you delve deeper into your data without disruption
- Foster a unified data culture by instantly accessing trusted glossary terms, ensuring everyone stays aligned with a consistent language and understanding across teams

How to unlock data intelligence on Chrome with Alation Anywhere

Is your organization data mature? Can people access and leverage the data they need to drive meaningful business results? Addressing these questions is no easy task.

Fortunately, Alation has leveraged its years of experience in guiding customers along this journey to create an assessment that you can use to determine your organization’s data maturity. During this session, you will learn: 

• The core pillars of data culture maturity: data leadership, data search & discovery, data literacy, and data governance 
• Why different industries prioritize different pillars – and how they can advance 
• How this assessment helps you understand your organization, prioritize key tasks, and progress your communication program

Tune in now to learn how you can set your business on the path to data excellence.

How to Assess Your Organization's Data Maturity

Data quality should always be a top priority for your business. To ensure quality outputs, your data users need to know that they are working with trustworthy data. That’s why top cloud data solution providers like Snowflake and Databricks have created tools to help analyze your data and return quality information based on rules you apply. But how can your business users gain information from these results?

During this session, you’ll discover how Alation’s new Data Quality Processor allows businesses to import data quality information generated by Snowflake and Databricks and apply rules to determine the quality of their data. Watch now to learn how this tool can help your business:

• Gain a better understanding of the quality of your data
• Give data experts the ability to create rules to set data quality thresholds
• Visualize data quality and health
• And more

Ensure Trustworthy Data with Alation’s Data Quality Processor

Everyone in your organization who is using data should be confident that they can make a good business decision based on the data they have access to. But unfortunately, that is not always the case.

In this webcast, you’ll learn how you can build a data culture within your organization where data is expected to drive decisions at all levels. You’ll also gain expert guidance on how to put the data-culture theory into practice with Alation as your vehicle for change.

Other key topics covered include:

• What a data culture is and why you should pursue one
• Best practices for building a data culture (with helpful examples)
• How to use Alation to achieve a data culture, with guidance for IT, data science, and business users
• And more

Tune in now to find out how you can establish a data-driven mindset in your workplace.

Best practices for building a data culture in your organization

Microsoft Power BI continues to be a leading platform for data visualization and business intelligence. With its ability to transform complex data into actionable insights, organizations worldwide rely on Power BI to drive decision-making.

In this webcast, you’ll be introduced to Alation's new Azure Power BI connector – a tool designed to empower organizations to fully leverage their Power BI investments. By seamlessly integrating with Power BI Cloud and Azure Government Cloud, the connector provides comprehensive visibility into your entire Power BI landscape.

By watching, you will learn how you can use this tool to:

• Quickly find the right Power BI assets to answer critical business questions
• Ensure data quality by tracing data lineage from Power BI back to source systems
• Strengthen data governance across your Power BI environment

Tune in now to find out how a unified platform can help your organization maximize its Power BI instance.

How to take control of your Microsoft Power BI assets in the cloud

ALLIE AI builds upon Alation’s machine learning (ML) core to enable organizations to save time, accelerate data curation capabilities, and democratize the contextual discovery of trusted data. With Intelligent Curation, organizations can accelerate the population of their data catalog and effectively curate data assets with Gen AI at scale. Intelligent Search redefines traditional keyword-focused search and fosters a robust data culture by combining behavioral, semantic, and keyword ranking capabilities for a more intuitive search experience.

In this brief, we cover:
- An introduction to ALLIE AI
- How it works
- A product demo
- Q&A

Watch this special Alation Brief, a series of short, practical knowledge-sharing sessions brought to you by the Alation Community.

Alation ALLIE AI Demo: Accelerating Productivity and Data Intelligence

How can your organization incorporate data best practices throughout your data storage and operations strategy?

In this webinar, you’ll find out how you can unlock the transparency required to effectively manage the 8 steps of the data management lifecycle, from data creation to archiving and destruction.

By watching, you will:

• Get an overview of the data management lifecycle, with insights into the critical role of data governance
• Learn how a data catalog can help your team better manage data
• Gain key guidance on how to craft a data management gameplan for your organization
• And more
Tune in now to learn how a data intelligence platform can help you implement proper data governance across your business environment.

How a data catalog can strengthen your storage  management and Ops strategy

The promise of AI is grand, but curating datasets and delivering value is easier said than done.

In this video brief, you’ll learn how Alation integrates AI features into its Data Intelligence Platform  to accelerate time to value. You’ll also find out how suggested descriptions and stewards can save you time and effort.

Key topics covered include:

• A crash course in Intelligent Curation
• How users can curate with, regenerate, and approve AI-suggested descriptions
• How Alation leverages AI within the platform to help users to scale efficiency

Curious to learn more about intelligent curation powered by AI? Watch the video now to find out how you can improve time to value on your AI initiatives.

Intelligent curation: Accelerate time to value with AI

Data is the lifeblood of modern businesses, and managing master data, such as customer information, product data, and employee records, is crucial for maintaining accuracy and consistency. But as data volumes grow exponentially, so do the challenges of keeping your master data clean and up-to-date. This is where data catalogs come into play.

Watch this Alation brief (originally exclusive to Alation customers) to learn:

- What is master data management (MDM) and why it is important
- About reference data management (RDM) and how it supports MDM
- How to apply these practices in the building of a comprehensive MDM architecture with the data catalog

From Chaos to Control: Elevating MDM with a Data Catalog

Many of the platforms that were designed just a few years ago were not built to take on the amount of data that is flowing into modern business environments. As a result, organizations are now faced with siloed data in multiple systems, creating a fragmented architecture fraught with unnecessary costs.

In this webcast, you’ll discover how you can elevate your enterprise visibility with the Alation Data Intelligence Platform. This briefing will demonstrate how Peak Performance, powered by Alation and Snowflake, can help kick off your data modernization journey by accelerating migrations, optimizing Snowflake performance, and driving trusted data adoption.

Tune in now to  improve data visibility to maximize your Snowflake maturity and raise your data operations to peak performance.

Data modernization: Elevate your data operations to peak performance

Organizations are eager to get their AI initiatives running; but are they AI-ready? Hear Steve Wooledge of Alation and guest speaker Michele Goetz, VP Analyst at Forrester to discuss:
- The data pitfalls that businesses are encountering and how the best teams are avoiding them
- The new data mindset required for success – and how this brings the business owners to the data table
- Key role changes and new personas: how to ensure AI model success by making data scientists and engineers part of the “creator bench” alongside data stewards and architects

You need the data platform and architecture to make it work.

Navigating the AI Landscape: How to Make your Data AI-Ready

How mature is your data culture?

This Alation Brief will introduce a maturity model that you can use to find the answer. By taking the assessment, you can determine where you are on your data culture journey and plan accordingly for the future.

During the session, you will learn:

• The four key pillars of data culture maturity
• How assessing where you stand can drive adoption and value for your organization
• Why data culture maturity tends to vary across industries
• And more

Watch the video brief now to gain a clear understanding of what it means to build a thriving data culture and how to put this roadmap into action.

4 pillars of data culture maturity: Where does your business stand?

Business lineage helps organizations understand the relationships among data assets, stakeholders, and governance frameworks, fostering trust and facilitating the realization of data’s full potential for everyone.

In this Alation Brief, you will learn how end-to-end business lineage can effectively map the data journey within an organization, from its origin to its destination. This approach enables all users, including those without technical expertise, to fully understand the data through visual representation.

Join this short and practical knowledge-sharing session now to find out how you can use the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to mature your data processes, increase transparency, and reduce costs with end-to-end business lineage.

Build trust and transparency in your data with end-to-end business lineage

Unlocking the potential of Generative AI through a robust data culture is no longer just a trend, but a necessity in today's business landscape. According to McKinsey, the economic impact of Generative AI could reach between $2 and $4 Trillion annually, emphasizing the pivotal role of data in driving productivity gains. However, realizing these benefits requires organizations to embrace a culture where data serves as the cornerstone of AI endeavors.

Enter Data Culture, the convergence of technology, processes, people, and data aimed at harnessing AI's potential and enhancing productivity. At the forefront of this movement is the Data Culture Maturity Model (DCMM) by Alation, offering a comprehensive framework to assess, nurture, and optimize data culture across industries and organizations of all sizes.

Join Leandra Siedor, Director of Customer Strategy & Operations, Alation and Ali Riza Kuyucu, Global Head of Data and Analytics at BlueCloud in this webinar, where they will:

- Unveil the key principles and components of DCMM, showcasing its potential to impact businesses.
- Highlight the tangible benefits of fostering a data-driven culture, including enhanced decision-making, innovation, and competitive advantage.
- Explore how Alation and BlueCloud leverage DCMM to drive organizational change and accelerate digital transformation efforts.
- Offer actionable insights and best practices for organizations embarking on their data culture journey.

Whether you're a C-suite executive, data scientist, or business leader passionate about harnessing the power of data, join us to unlock full potential with DCMM and drive your organization toward growth and success. Register now to embrace the transformative power of data culture.

Empowering AI through Organizational Data Culture

In today’s data-driven world, your organisation needs more than just data; it needs the right tools and proven approaches to turn that data into trusted and actionable insights used by everyone. Alation is trusted by leading organisations in Asia Pacific, like PEXA, to govern their data, empower a data culture, and deliver faster business value from their data initiatives.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why PEXA selected Alation and the immediate impact it made to their organisation. Hear from Zach McIntyre, Sr Manager, Professional Services at Alation, and guest speaker Ruth Layton, Head of Data Governance, PEXA, the world’s first digital property settlement platform, to learn:

How to get executive sponsorship needed for a self service business analytics initiative 
- Why Alation was selected over other data intelligence platforms
- How enterprise-wise adoption was achieved
- The business value realised through increased productivity and decision-making.

Choosing the Right Data Governance Platform for your Organization

Watch this on-demand webinar for an insightful take on "How Data Products Enable Better Decision Making." In this session, you will discover how data products provide curated and easily accessible insights, empowering businesses to make smarter choices.

In the webinar, you will learn:
- The role of data products in enabling data-driven decisions
- How data products provide curated insights for better decision-making
- Real-world examples of businesses leveraging data products for success

This webinar is perfect for professionals looking to enhance their understanding of data-driven decision making and learn how to leverage data products effectively.

How Data Products Enable Better Decision Making

Watch this fireside discussion between Phil Dale, Marks & Spencer, and GT Volpe, Alation, on the pivotal themes of data strategy, data leadership, and trusted data for critical data and AI initiatives. Discover how Marks & Spencer navigates the evolving data landscape, ensuring that data-driven decision-making is at the core of their business strategy.

This webinar for anyone passionate about transforming data into actionable insights and who recognizes data’s indispensable role in decision-making and competitive differentiation. Learn how a best-in-class organization like Marks & Spencer does it!

This webinar covers:
- The strategic approaches and best practices that shape effective data leadership within organizations
- The significant role of data leadership in aligning data initiatives to outcomes and measuring the value to your organization
- Building a culture around data within an organization, maintaining trusted data, and active governance when planning and executing critical data initiatives

How Marks & Spencer Aligns Data Initiatives to Business Outcomes

Today, enterprises are awash in data. How can data producers and consumers not just stay afloat – but find the data they need, and use it to make a meaningful impact?

In his new animal book from O’Reilly, The Enterprise Data Catalog, data expert Ole Olesen-Bagneux reveals how a data catalog can empower people in organizations to discover and wield data to drive business success. Along with Olesen-Bagneux, here from Deb Seys and Jason Lim from Alation discuss how to organize data for your catalog, search for what you need, and curate data within the catalog for maximum impact. Olesen-Bagneux takes a data management and library and information science perspective to offer tips that will help catalog newcomers launch this platform successfully.

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