February 9, 2020
In 1999, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft, built at a cost of $125 million, disintegrated while entering its orbit around the red planet. Postmortem investigation found that there were... Read more
January 21, 2020
How much time has your BI team wasted on finding data and creating metadata management reports? BI groups spend more than 50% of their time and effort manually searching... Read more
January 12, 2020
For the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with scads of BI professionals from multiple verticals, in dozens of countries on a daily basis. From Data Analysts,... Read more
December 16, 2019
The last decade has been an important one for enterprise data lineage. Data lineage management, once a time-consuming process of manual data tracking used only in times of crisis,... Read more
December 4, 2019
Data has become the norm. It’s literally everywhere, but are we really able to fully understand what our data is telling us? Are we even seeing the whole picture?... Read more
November 28, 2019
Once upon a time, almost all data had one shape, and it was a rectangle. For data structures that followed the relational database model, which relate to each other... Read more
November 14, 2019
There aren’t that many actions you perform every single day more than just a handful of times, other than say breathing, blinking and the like. These are critical bodily... Read more
October 23, 2019
How do you get from A to B? If you’re at A but you don’t know where B is, you can either wander around at random in the hopes... Read more
March 6, 2019
Decision makers are finally starting to internalize the business value of having an accurate and thorough understanding of the data movement process. They get that in order for the... Read more
January 28, 2019
At Octopai, we talk a lot about data lineage. We also talk a lot about how the ability to track it, visualize it, and query it takes much of... Read more
December 23, 2018
BI managers have an unenviable goal: Assuming responsibility for data quality. After all, you’re the data specialist, and tracing data lineages is your job. At least, that’s what... Read more
November 11, 2018
There’s something terribly wrong with your company, isn’t there? We’re not talking about how demanding your clients are, or the enormous amount of data you need to dig through... Read more
