Name: The Evolution of the Enterprise Data Catalog: O'Reilly Author in Conversation
Start: 2023-11-30T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-11-30T16:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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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.

Your entire business community — not just your data experts — uses data. But getting everyone united on a data governance strategy is no easy task. So, how do you build a “village” of stakeholders throughout your organization to execute a data governance program? And how can a data catalog accelerate adoption?

In this webinar, hear from Mary Williams, Head of Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, along with governance experts Susannah Barnes and Curt McAdams as they discuss how to achieve data governance success. 

Join us in this fun, game show-themed webinar to learn about:
• The 4 simple questions to answer before launching a data governance program
• Proving the value, building the case, and identifying the champions for data governance
• The traits of “villages” that are receptive to cultural change
• Using a library analogy to introduce a data catalog to your organization

Data Governance: The 4 keys to a successful strategy

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

Hear firsthand how business leaders are becoming more AI savvy and where the biggest AI opportunities exist today.

Watch this webinar presented by Thomas Davenport, a distinguished professor at Babson College, to learn:

- New approaches to machine learning that are making AI easier
- Practical ways for organizations to use AI ethically
- Key principles to becoming an AI-fueled organization

Digital Leaders in Conversation: All in on AI

Alation’s innovative data intelligence platform can reduce complexity and increase adoption for everyone in the business – not just data analysts and engineers.

Our demo webinar will highlight how we are pioneering the modern data catalog. It’s easy to overcome complex searches and solve the challenge of putting data into the hands of every business decision-maker.  Alation helps create a strong foundation to build a data culture that tackles quality confidence issues and connects people with answers.

Alation experts will show you how to put the business case forward to reduce the complexity of finding, understanding and trusting data to:

- Increase the adoption for any business use case
- Integrate active data governance controls without slowing the business down
- Activate local support and training to accelerate ROI

How Alation solves increasing data complexity with a Data Intelligence platform

Hear from Zarie Rahman, Director of SEA, Public Sector & Healthcare on how a data catalog enhances data accessibility, governance, and collaboration within a self-service analytics environment.

Whether you are a business leader, data analyst, or IT professional, by attending this session, you will gain insights and knowledge to harness the combined power of self-service analytics and data catalog for data-driven decision-making and organizational success.

In this 60-minute discussion you will learn:

Self-Service Analytics and Data Catalog
The Importance of Data Catalog in Self-Service Analytics
Benefits of Integrating Data Catalog with Self-Service Analytics
Real-World Use Cases showcasing how to successfully integrate a data catalog with self-service analytics 
The impact of a data catalog on data accessibility, governance, and collaboration.

Empowering Organizations with Self-Service Analytics and Data Catalog

The latest data concepts seem to arrive as quickly as the actual data! The modern data stack (MDS), data fabric, and data mesh are top of mind for leading professionals today. These trends share a common theme: decentralized architecture. But how does this impact the business?

Learn the answer from Karla Kirton, Data Architect at Blockdaemon and Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach, who discusses these decentralization megatrends with an eye to business impact. Joined by Matt Turner, Director of Industry Strategy and Partner Marketing at Alation, they answer questions and share advice on how to retain control, security, and governance — while helping people find useful, trustworthy data and information faster.

In this on-demand webinar you will learn:

- More about data decentralization and how this can help drive business impact
- How you, like Blockdaemon, can create a decentralized utopia
- How you can weave data governance principles into your data mesh, helping people find, trust and share data faster

Hear Karla and Nicola, who share lessons learned and best practices to help you on your data journey.

Your path to a decentralized data architecture

You may know instinctively that Data Intelligence matters. You may know that with GenAI, the importance of good data and a data-literate organization has been heightened. This discussion between thought leaders and practitioners will show concrete evidence on the value of a data mature organization, how to measure an organization’s maturity, and how one high-performing organization has radically improved their use and understanding of data.

Join guest speaker Stewart Bond, Vice President, Data Intelligence and Integration Software research at IDC, Jade Jones, Manager, Metadata & Data Quality at Sainsbury’s, and Nick Duce, Sr Manager of Customer Strategy & Programs at Alation – as they share industry insights into the developments of data maturity and how it applies to YOU.

You will learn:

- Evolution of the data intelligence landscape and the implications of GenAI
- Overview of our model that includes Leadership, Literacy, Search & Discovery, Governance
- Sainsbury’s pioneering journey to be the Data Intelligence Leader

From Data Maturity Model to Business Value with Alation

In today's data-driven world, valuable information is scattered across numerous systems and locations. D2I bridges the gap between data and decision-makers at all levels through the innovative UT Data Hub, a cloud-based centralized data repository to store and manage comprehensive academic and institutional data. By leveraging this platform with Alation, users can collaborate with campus partners to generate valuable insights for effective decision-making.

Alation Data Intelligence Project: University of Texas' "Data to Insights"

In today's world of data management, it is common to have policies and procedures that range from data quality and retention to personal data protection. If you are an organization that has policies defined, how difficult is it to find them? Often, policies are in file shares or document systems, making them very hard to discover.

Listen to this session to explore Data Intelligence experts from Snowflake, Venkat Suru, Field CTO, Data Apps and Collaboration, and Murali Krishnamurthy, Manager of APAC Solutions Engineering Team, Alation and learn:

- How to create and manage Snowflake access policies directly from Alation
- How to link a data policy to related data assets
- How to protect sensitive data using Snowflake's role-based masking policies
- How to write trusted SQL queries with guided navigation
- How to visualize column-level lineage for impact analysis

How Alation Powers Data Intelligence on Snowflake

Using data to drive your business means giving everyone in your organization access to the right data. This means growing your data maturity by investing in data governance, delivering self-service to data, and tackling cloud complexity.

However, a recent survey run by Deloitte found that while 70% of organizations wanted to improve their data maturity, only 10% are in the top tier.

Listen to this session to explore this topic with the data experts from Deloitte, Aravind Subramanian, Partner - AI & Data at Deloitte and Alation, Matt Turner, Director of Industry Strategy and Partner Marketing at Alation, and learn:
- Where organizations are falling short of their data maturity goals
- The role of the data catalog in helping organizations make progress
- What steps organizations can take to improve their data maturity

Bridging the Data Maturity Gap with Alation and Deloitte

Fifth Third Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Midwest and has a rich history of innovation (including inventing the ATM!) They continue to break new ground, using data to better serve customers and power a digital transformation. To deliver their promise on scaling data access and usage, Fifth Third Bank is adopting data mesh principles, investing in data products, and tackling the cultural changes that come with rethinking data strategy.

Hear first-hand how Kayleigh Lavorini, Director of Product Ownership and Data Strategy at Fifth Third Bank is putting data mesh into action.

Matt Turner, Director of Partner and Industry Marketing at Alation, and Matthias Nicola, Principal Data Architect for Snowflake join Kayleigh to discuss:

Lessons learned from implementing a data mesh
- How data mesh accelerates self-service and empowers better use of data within an organization
- How Alation and Snowflake work together to power data mesh

Fifth Third's Journey to Data Mesh with Alation and Snowflake

In this Financial Services Virtual Forum from Alation, you will learn about Nomura Bank and their data journey. The discussion will focus on: 
• The 3 key pillars for a successful metadata management strategy
• How to put metadata into action to break down silos
• How to speed catalog adoption with data mesh principles

Join us in this on-demand webinar featuring Krishna Natarajan, Vice President of Platform and Engineering at Nomura Bank, Balaji Gopalan, Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services and Matt Turner, Director of Industry Strategy and Partner Marketing at Alation.

Discovering metadata management success: Insights from Nomura Bank

The modern data stack (MDS), data fabric, and data mesh are top of mind for leading professionals like you. These trends share a common theme: decentralized architecture. But how does this impact your business?

Learn the answer from Karla Kirton, Data Architect at Blockdaemon and Nicola Askham, The Data Governance Coach, who discuss these decentralization megatrends in this webinar with an eye on your business impact. 

Joined by Matt Turner, Director of Industry Strategy and Partner Marketing at Alation, the trio answer questions and share advice on how to retain control, security, and governance — while helping you find useful, trustworthy data and information faster.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn:
• More about data decentralization and how this can help drive business impact
• How you, like Blockdaemon, can create a decentralized utopia
• How you can weave data governance principles into your data mesh, helping people find, trust and share data faster

Vista (the largest Cimpress company) empowers more than 16 million small business owners around the globe to professionally promote their business with quality printed and digital marketing products at an affordable price. Leaders at Vista seek to transform it into one of the world’s most iconic data-driven companies.

The Vista Data & Analytics (DnA) team has led this initiative and embraced data mesh as its key strategy. In just two years, they built a productive, scalable data mesh using a best-in-breed approach. Today, the DnA team’s mission is to leverage more than 120 data products to create great customer experiences. What's the secret to their success?

Watch this webinar to learn how the Vista DnA team:

- Built a usable, people-friendly data mesh to drive business impact and adoption.
- Wove data principles and federated governance into their mesh to make data easily accessible.
- Supports data consumption for 300 colleagues in over 30 cross-functional teams

Watch to hear Jannik Podlesny, Principal at the Vista DnA team, to learn how data mesh can help you mature your data strategy and the challenges and opportunities in store. Jannik is joined by Dilip Rajan, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, AWS, and John Wills, Field CTO, Alation.

Alation + AWS Data Mesh Bootcamp: The Vista Journey to Data Mesh

Metadata innovations in the modern data stack are speeding up data-driven decision-making. Providing visibility into data, from source to signal, builds trust and accelerates data pipeline tasks. With Fivetran's new metadata APIs and the Alation data catalog, everyone can now see how data moves across these systems.

In this Data Dialog, experts from Fivetran and Alation discuss the importance of this previously hidden metadata and explore how it can help everyone better use data. The session also features a demo, where you'll see how metadata can help you work in the modern data stack. See how this update works on Fivetran, dbt, Snowflake, and Tableau - all running on AWS.

Watch today to see how you can deliver visibility across your modern data stack!

Bringing Visibility to the Modern Data Stack: Alation + Fivetran

Data governance has evolved past a compliance checkbox. According to the new Data Governance Solutions Landscape Q4 2022 by Forrester Research, “Data governance allows organizations to unleash the value of their data while enabling risk management.”

Still unconvinced that governance can drive value (and not just mitigate risk?). Listen to report author & guest speaker Raluca Alexandru, along with John Wills, Field CTO at Alation, to learn:

- How data governance is evolving to support both “offense” and “defense”
- How data leaders wield governance across a broad range of use cases
- Why democratizing data stewardship is “a key building block” to successful governance

Watch this replay for a deep discussion about the exciting new capabilities under the umbrella of data governance.

Data Dialogs: Navigating the Governance Landscape: Q&A with Forrester Research

In Data Governance for Dummies, Jonathan Rechiental makes the topic of data governance much more approachable for practitioners and lay people. He shares how to make the business case for data governance, including during tough economic conditions, and then how to build a data governance program. In this webinar, Reinchental and Swanson will share their insights on how to implement a successful data governance program — with an eye to what’s worked for the most successful and innovative companies in data today.

Digital Leaders in Conversation: Data Governance for Dummies

Today, enterprises are awash in data. How can data producers and consumers not just stay afloat – but find the data they need, and use it to make a meaningful impact?

In his new animal book from O’Reilly, The Enterprise Data Catalog, data expert Ole Olesen-Bagneux reveals how a data catalog can empower people in organizations to discover and wield data to drive business success. Along with Olesen-Bagneux, here from Deb Seys and Jason Lim from Alation discuss how to organize data for your catalog, search for what you need, and curate data within the catalog for maximum impact. Olesen-Bagneux takes a data management and library and information science perspective to offer tips that will help catalog newcomers launch this platform successfully.

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