Unlike money, it’s really easy to acquire data. Most companies are positively drowning in it. The secret to turning all that data into money is to unlock its value...
The day-to-day operations of a business require a common understanding of terminology. Employees and management who come to the company from different industries might understand terms differently...
Businesses around the world are increasingly moving their computing environments to cloud service providers, such as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS...
A data asset is anything that is made up of data. It’s the resting place for data at-rest (as opposed to “in-transit”). A database, Excel spreadsheet, log file...
A data catalog provides consumers (typically developers, database analysts, BI professionals, and data scientists) with information about the various data assets available within a given organization...
Because businesses today—especially large businesses—are completely reliant on their data to make both day-to-day and strategic decisions, the quality of that data is of utmost importance...
A data map can show you the relationships between different data sources; systems that collect, organize, manipulate, and store data; and the reports, dashboards, and other artifacts that consume the data...
Simply put, it’s data lineage based on SQL; that is, it’s a data lineage tool that focuses on the SQL code that is used to build, maintain, and manage data sources...