Posts Tagged ‘data governance’

Across industries like manufacturing, energy, life sciences, and retail, data drives decisions on durability, resilience, and sustainability. A significant share of this critical data resides in SAP systems, which is why so many business have invested i SAP Datasphere. SAP Datasphere is a comprehensive data service that enables seamless access to mission-critical business data across SAP […]

In a move that has sparked intense discussion across the enterprise software landscape, Klarna announced its decision to drop both Salesforce Sales Cloud and Workday, replacing these industry-leading platforms with its own AI-driven tools. This announcement, led by CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, may signal a paradigm shift toward using custom AI agents to manage critical business […]

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital transformation, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance their operations and gain a competitive edge. While Generative AI (GenAI) has been the hot topic since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, a new evolution of the technology is emerging that promises to revolutionize how […]

Databricks Unity Catalog is a unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Unity Catalog offers a comprehensive solution for enhancing data governance, operational efficiency, and technological performance. By centralizing metadata management, access controls, and data lineage tracking, it simplifies compliance, reduces complexity, and improves query performance […]

We are witnessing a sea-change in the way data is managed by banks and financial institutions all over the world. Data being commoditized and, in some cases, even monetized by banks is the order of the day. Though this seems to be at a stage where some more push is required in terms of adoption […]

The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore […]

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Amazon recently released a new data tool called DataZone, which allows companies to share, search, and discover data at scale across organizational boundaries. It offers many features such as the ability to search for published data, request access, collaborate with teams through data assets, manage and monitor data assets across projects, access analytics with a […]

In “Behind the Golden Arches” by John Love, the author shares an anecdote of how in the early days of McDonald’s, the company was having cashflow problems despite its being a significant source of revenue for many farmers. In a meeting with a particularly large farmer who had made significant money from selling tomatoes, lettuce, […]

The amount of data being created, captured, copied, and consumed  has increased exponentially with society’s tectonic shift to digital reliance. As a result, the pace of data privacy and data regulation has accelerated on a global scale. Ensuring the security of your proprietary and customers’ data is paramount to staying in line with ethical and […]

Inflation reached a forty-one-year high in June, and according to the Consumer Price Index, prices have remained elevated. Many are struggling to make their dollars stretch and are looking to their financial institutions for guidance on how to better manage spending and stay afloat financially. Financial firms cannot singlehandedly control inflation, of course, but they […]

Data lineage is the process of understanding, recording, and visualizing metadata as it flows from the originating data source to consumption. Using a data lineage tool can expedite the processes, however, it is a common misconception that a data lineage tool can automatically generate data lineage between several applications with the push of a button. […]