November 12, 2018
Whether your company is just getting started with data governance and data stewardship, has well-established systems and practices in place, or something in between, the Data Governance Winter Conference... 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... Read more
November 5, 2018
An Englishman whispered, “This is amazing!” An American laughed in astonishment. A Frenchman proclaimed, “Son of a B*%$#!” How will YOU react when you see how Octopai’s automated metadata discovery... Read more
October 28, 2018
It’s easy to be frustrated when you’re drowning in a sea of data, but new solutions for BI metadata management offer hope to these overworked professionals. We get... Read more
September 26, 2018
Just over a year ago, IDC’s forecast showed that by 2025, total worldwide data will “swell to 163ZB, 10 times the amount today.” The response we’d expect from your... Read more
September 3, 2018
We are proud to have Amnon recognized by Enterprise Management 360 as CxO of the week following his participation in the recent podcast on Transforming Business Intelligence with Metadata Management... Read more
July 29, 2018
New regulations, like GDPR, for example, can be a huge pain in the bum for BI groups who have to do a lot of dirty work in order to... Read more
July 26, 2018
Just like with any merger or acquisition, business systems must be consolidated or migrated so that the multiple companies involved can continue to function as one entity. So, when... Read more
July 22, 2018
When the CEO of a large communications company noticed some numbers that didn’t match up in a sales report, the BI group was tasked to figure out what happened.... Read more
June 20, 2018
Data discovery is being touted by the recent Dresner Advisory Services report entitled, State of BI 2018, published in Forbes, as one of the top six most critical initiatives... Read more
June 10, 2018
Steve, the Head of Business Intelligence at a leading insurance company, pushed back in his office chair and stood up, waving his fists at the screen. “Why aren’t the... Read more
May 21, 2018
We’ve talked a lot about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how crucial it is for enterprises to have their metadata in order for compliance, but we haven’t... Read more
May 16, 2018
In under two weeks, the General Data Protection Regulation will take effect and companies processing data about European residents are going to have to prove that they’ve take steps... Read more
May 3, 2018
Octopai CEO Amnon Drori welcomes industry expert, Dr. Claudia Imhoff to the Octopai booth at EDW 2018. We had the pleasure of spending the whole of last week... Read more
April 18, 2018
David R., the chief business analyst for a medium-sized software company, walked into the office on Monday morning and greeted his staff with a smile and encouraging words. They... Read more
April 10, 2018
We work with lots of enterprises whose BI groups are overloaded as they get their data ready for GDPR. The pressure is of course not vertical specific – companies... Read more
March 25, 2018
Are you going to be at Dataversity’s Enterprise Data World 2018 this year? Octopai will be! We’re heading to San Diego, California from April 22-27 to take part in EDW 2018... Read more
March 20, 2018
Some of you might be squinting your eyes at the screen right about now, scratching your head, trying to figure out how these four things are related. Perhaps even... Read more
March 5, 2018
Like most data professionals out there today, you’re probably realizing as you get ready for GDPR that you don’t really know all that much about your data. You struggle... Read more
February 21, 2018
Your Company Collects Tons of Data: Now What? Companies are collecting endless amounts of data, but few of them realize that more data doesn’t necessarily mean more value.... Read more
February 12, 2018
How long does it take you to track how your data moves? Days? Weeks? Months? In conversations we’ve had with customers from across multiple verticals such as... Read more
January 31, 2018
Would you buy a car without knowing its mileage, how many previous owners it had or a history of any work it had done? Would you adopt a pet... Read more
December 27, 2017
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
December 13, 2017
This blog post will explore how metadata management has quickly become the #1 topic on the minds and agendas of data-driven organizations everywhere. Yep, you read correctly – metadata... Read more
November 26, 2017
From Sunny Barcelona to Snowy Chicago, Data Professionals are Wow’ed by Octopai’s Automated Metadata Management Platform Dataversity’s Data Architecture Summit in Chicago was exactly what we were after... Read more
November 16, 2017
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline is creeping up and enterprises worldwide are freaking out. Rightly so – they are being forced to implement huge changes to... Read more
October 2, 2017
With the General Data Protection Regulation taking effect in the coming months, companies everywhere are scrambling to get their ducks in a row. Some will make the deadline, and... Read more
August 28, 2017
Let’s talk about: Creating metadata magic – how analysis can get great data quickly How not to spend 80% of your time on data preparation for the data... Read more
August 6, 2017
Oh the suspense! Will Airwave’s CFO manage to complete the task at hand in the time allotted? And what is all the fuss about Octopai? It all culminates in... Read more
July 27, 2017
The field of business intelligence is about to go through a major change – but will you be ready for it? For so long, metadata management in BI... Read more
July 27, 2017
Business Intelligence professionals and those working with metadata on a regular basis know that in order to locate a specific calculation to make a change in a report, BI... Read more
July 27, 2017
The world of metadata management in business intelligence is a deep and murky one. BI managers, tasked with generating reports based on vast amounts of data and metadata, often... Read more
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July 17, 2017
Just in case you forgot what happened in Part 1 of this series, Airwave’s BI team was about to be hit with months of manual work as a result of... Read more
July 13, 2017
See how Octopai’s centralized, cross-platform metadata search engine enables BI groups to quickly and precisely discover and govern shared metadata. Octopai revolutionizes the way BI works by turning days... Read more
July 11, 2017
If you are a project manager struggling with BI reporting and metadata diversity, let me show you how you can save money and get a better ROI for your... Read more
July 4, 2017
Business Intelligence is becoming increasingly complex due to the growing demand from business units to view data from multiple channels. This complexity is also magnified by regulatory pressure, competition,... Read more
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May 30, 2017
It was February 2014. I met Lisa Parker, a finance manager at Airwave, a commercial telecom outfit specializing in discount services for large consumer markets. Lisa approached me as... Read more
May 24, 2017
So you’re a Business Analyst at an insurance company and you’ve been asked to alter the HR headcount calculation reports to meet new regulations. No problem, right? Well, not... Read more
May 24, 2017
“Gal, we’ve got an all-hands-on-deck situation here.” This is what my former manager told me just as we were about to embark on what would be the most frustrating... Read more
