Three Tips for Avoiding Pitfalls in Your Data Supply Chain

Data governance used to be a side hustle that Data Engineers would tackle as they were doing their “real jobs”–building their pipelines or warehouse size corrections or indexes, their views, raw zone, presentation layer, or data contracts. In between, they’d mask some data or throw in a row-level policy. But as data regulations have become […]
Five Signs A Data Governance Solution Is Ready For Today’s Enterprise Challenges

Choosing the right data governance service or software to meet the needs of today’s enterprise challenges is a must. But many solutions dubbed “ready for the enterprise” are actually still stuck in the old ways. In the current economy, you can’t afford the time or resources for a months-long selection, testing and on-premises implementation process […]
insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street”

On Chief Data Officer & Data Governance. Commentary by Jame Beecham, Founder, and CEO of ALTR Seeing Data Governance at the top of this list aligns with a number of leading indicators for CDO attention and spend we have seen at ALTR. With reduced budgets and head counts, we are hearing from the industry that base level […]
Emerging Cloud Security Threats & How the US Govt. Plans to Deal with Them

In response to the growing threat landscape, the recent National Cybersecurity Strategy released by the U.S. government aims to develop safe and secure digital ecosystems. The latest cybersecurity strategy released by the government seeks to reimagine cyberspace by making fundamental shifts in how they allocate roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace. “It is true that nation-state-level threat […]
13 Tech Experts Explain Essential Facts About Data Privacy And Data Protection

De-Identifying Data Helps Address Both Privacy And Protection Company leaders should know that you can get both simultaneously. You can adhere to privacy constraints with data by de-identifying the information. By de-identifying the information, you have also protected the data—pretty neat. Data protection usually remains within a company’s “four walls” and hinges upon how your […]
Data Management News for the Week of February 24; Updates from data.world, Reltio, Snowflake & More

ALTR Touts New Open-Source Data Governance Initiative with Alation and Matillion This initiative will provide customers with a simplified, barrier-free cloud data stack. Non-proprietary integrations enable seamless data governance, with access control and security spanning from database to data catalog through ELT to cloud data platforms. Complexity is removed for customers by allowing generally-available software to […]
CEO Outlook 2023 Details
Vendors: What is the biggest market opportunity you and your channel partners will tackle together in 2023? Helping customers with reduced budgets and head counts start or complete data projects will be critical. Focusing on the outcomes their customers need, channel partners can bring their expertise and experiences to the table to quickly architect and […]
16 Reasons DevSecOps Efforts Fail (And How To Get Them Right)

With high-profile cyberattacks regularly hitting headlines, it’s not surprising more and more companies are embracing the DevSecOps movement. With the goal of incorporating security features and focus at every stage of the development process—from conception to release—DevSecOps brings development, security and operations teams together to build better, stronger processes and products—in theory, at least. In […]
11 Executives, 55 Companies and 91 Products Win 2023 Big Innovation Award

Today, the Business Intelligence Group named 11 executives, 55 companies, and 91 products as leaders and winners of the 2023 BIG Innovation Awards. This annual business awards program recognizes organizations, products, and people that are bringing new ideas to life in innovative ways. “Innovation is the life force for many organizations as the world and our […]
Four Steps To Self-Service Data Governance Success

In the first century, Greek professor Heron of Alexandria created a coin-operated machine to dispense holy water. Back then, visitors to the city temples took more holy water than they paid for. His vending machine applied levers and countermeasures to give people only what they had permission to get. This arguably was the introduction to self-service governance. […]