Name: Choosing the Right Data Governance Platform for your Organization
Start: 2024-05-15T21:06:00Z
End: 2024-05-15T21:06:30.000Z
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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.

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

Discover how Peak Performance elevates your enterprise visibility with the Alation Data Intelligence Platform. This briefing will demonstrate how Peak Performance, powered by Alation and Snowflake, boosts enterprise visibility by accelerating migrations, optimizing Snowflake performance, and driving trusted data adoption.

By the end of this session, attendees will have a better understanding of:

- Alation Consumption Tracker and new Query Log Ingestion (QLI) usage use cases
- How to use Peak Performance to analyze and prioritize workloads to migrate to the cloud
- How to activate Peak Performance through the Snowflake Native App Marketplace
- Where to use new visibility to maximize your Snowflake maturity and raise your data operations to peak performance

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

Accelerating Your Data and AI Journey with Alation

Watch this on-demand Alation Brief to learn how Alation brings critical transparency to the 8 steps of the data management lifecycle, from data creation to archiving and destruction

In the video brief, 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

This video brief is designed for data management professionals curious to learn how a data intelligence platform can help them implement data governance in enterprises today.

Spinning the DMBOK Wheel: Navigating Data Storage and Operations with Alation

Watch this on-demand Alation Brief to learn how Alation integrates AI features to accelerate time to value. In this session, you will discover how suggested descriptions and suggested stewards can save you time and effort. 

In the video brief, you will:
- Get a crash course in Intelligent Curation
- See firsthand how users can curate with, regenerate, and approve AI-suggested descriptions, as well as view potential joins
- Understand how Alation leverages AI within the platform to help users to scale efficiency

This video brief is perfect for Alation newcomers curious to learn more about intelligent curation as powered by AI.

Improving Time to Value with ALLIE AI

In the video brief, 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

This video brief is perfect for professionals seeking a clear understanding of what it means to build a thriving data culture – and how to put this roadmap into action.

Assessing Your Organization’s Data Culture Maturity

Business lineage illuminates 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 from our Alation Community, you will learn how Alation’s end-to-end business lineage effectively maps 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.

See how the Alation Data Intelligence Platform is helping organizations mature their data processes, increase transparency, and reduce costs with end-to-end business lineage.

Join us for this special Alation Brief, short and practical knowledge-sharing sessions brought to you by the Alation Community.

Unlock Trust and Transparency with 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

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

Data products, with their evolutionary approach, have the power to transform the way business value is delivered. By utilizing domain knowledge and a product mindset, they can accelerate your business outcomes. In this first public session of our popular Alation Brief event series from our Alation Community, you will learn about Alation’s method of enabling your data mesh to deliver these transformative data products and how they become part of your data fabric and marketplace. The Alation Data Intelligence Platform is critical in how data producers enhance data consumers’ experience in finding, understanding, and trusting data products for data-driven decisions.

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

Data Products for a Meshy World: Deliver Business Value

Listen to Elizabeth Friend from Sallie Mae and Steve Wooledge of Alation, in a fireside chat that explores Sallie Mae's data culture journey. Elizabeth discusses the strategic use of Alation in creating a culture of analytics by connecting the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to critical data elements and building a stewardship program. She shares insights and best practices for developing data leadership and boosting data literacy. Steve chimes in on how Alation helps organizations like Sallie Mae build and articulate the business value of a strong data culture.

How Sallie Mae is Advancing Data Culture Through Leadership and Governance

Listen to this fireside discussion between Alexander Grima, GKN Aerospace, and Jonathan Bruce, Alation, on the importance of AI Governance and trusted data for executing critical data & AI initiatives. 

This webinar covers:
- The significant role of data intelligence, data culture, and governance for AI
- Importance of using the right data to feed and train enterprise AI models
- Ensuring active data governance for your enterprise data & AI objects to remain safe and compliant
- Building a culture around data within an organization, maintaining trusted data, and active governance when planning or executing AI initiatives

AI Governance & Data Intelligence: Fireside Chat with GKN Aerospace

Only 1 in 4 organizations (26%) reported a widespread data governance program, according to Alation’s State of Data Culture Report. However, 70% of organizations are committing to strengthening their data governance program in the next year. 

Join us in this webinar featuring Dr. Jonathan Reichental, founder, professor, and author of Data Governance for Dummies, Billy Tilson, Senior Director of Analytic Architecture at GoDaddy, and Julie Smith, Director of Data & Analytics at Alation, as they discuss the key findings from the latest research report on data culture maturity.

With data culture being at the core of how to extract maximum value from your data, this talk will cover:
• The critical importance of data leadership, data search & discovery, data literacy, and data governance for driving business value today
• The data governance gap, and how to address it
• The surprising link between data leadership and revenue returns
• Why powerful search & discovery is a key driver of success

Navigating Data Culture Maturity: Insights from State of Data Culture Report

According to The Forrester Wave: Data Governance Solutions, Q3 2023 “The data governance market is no longer just about regulatory compliance; today, it helps businesses realize the true potential of their data.”

How can this be done? Hear from report author & guest speaker Raluca Alexandru, along with Jonathan Bruce, VP of Product Management at Alation, and host Steve Wooledge, VP of Product Marketing at Alation, to learn:

- How organizations can derive business value from a data governance platform
- The role of a data catalog in a data governance solution
- How to harness AI’s true potential while upholding trusted data and integrity

Watch this on-demand webinar today for a deep discussion about the evolution of the data governance market.

Inside the Data Governance Market w/ Forrester: Evolving Trends & AI’s Potential

In the age of AI, trusted data is fundamental to building strong organizational AI initiatives. And yet data availability, trust, and quality top the list of current AI/ML challenges. In IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, 29% of respondents reported issues with data quality and another 24% cite a lack of data trust. 

Watch our webinar where Michael Moulsdale, Senior AI Product Manager at Alation and Salima Mangalji, AI Product Marketing Manager at Alation will discuss how to overcome the data challenges in leveraging AI/ML, and how Alation’s solution can enable your AI initiatives. Nic Colley, Principal Solutions Engineer, will then demonstrate how we bring AI governance to life with a live demo of Alation for AI.   

Don’t miss this session to create better data trust and actively govern your datasets and AI models.

Trusted Data for Trusted AI - Seizing the AI Opportunity

In the age of AI, trusted data is fundamental to building strong organizational AI initiatives. And yet data availability, trust, and quality top the list of current AI/ML challenges. 

In IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, 29% of respondents reported issues with data quality and another 24% cite a lack of data trust. To boot, IBM reports that 4/5 executives at companies today see at least one trust-related issue as a roadblock to generative AI (GenAI) adoption.

Watch our webinar to discover practical advice for navigating these AI/ML data trust, quality, and availability perils. Additional agenda items include:
• Analysis of IDC’s report on current AI/ML challenges
• Data intelligence: what is it, and how does it improve AI trust and governance?
• How Alation for AI empowers you to conduct accurate AI model training, find trusted data sets, and effectively govern datasets.

Surmount AI/ML Governance & Trust Challenges with Data Intelligence

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.

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