Name: Alation Cloud Service - Faster Delivery of Data Intelligence Innovation
Start: 2021-05-06T18:29:00Z
End: 2021-05-06T18:29:51.000Z
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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.

Listen to Elizabeth Friend from Sallie Mae and Steve Wooledge of Alation, in a fireside chat that explores Sallie Mae's data culture journey. Elizabeth discusses the strategic use of Alation in creating a culture of analytics by connecting the Alation Data Intelligence Platform to critical data elements and building a stewardship program. She shares insights and best practices for developing data leadership and boosting data literacy. Steve chimes in on how Alation helps organizations like Sallie Mae build and articulate the business value of a strong data culture.

How Sallie Mae is Advancing Data Culture Through Leadership and Governance

Listen to this fireside discussion between Alexander Grima, GKN Aerospace, and Jonathan Bruce, Alation, on the importance of AI Governance and trusted data for executing critical data & AI initiatives. 

This webinar covers:
- The significant role of data intelligence, data culture, and governance for AI
- Importance of using the right data to feed and train enterprise AI models
- Ensuring active data governance for your enterprise data & AI objects to remain safe and compliant
- Building a culture around data within an organization, maintaining trusted data, and active governance when planning or executing AI initiatives

AI Governance & Data Intelligence: Fireside Chat with GKN Aerospace

Only 1 in 4 organizations (26%) reported a widespread data governance program, according to Alation’s State of Data Culture Report. However, 70% of organizations are committing to strengthening their data governance program in the next year. 

Join us in this webinar featuring Dr. Jonathan Reichental, founder, professor, and author of Data Governance for Dummies, Billy Tilson, Senior Director of Analytic Architecture at GoDaddy, and Julie Smith, Director of Data & Analytics at Alation, as they discuss the key findings from the latest research report on data culture maturity.

With data culture being at the core of how to extract maximum value from your data, this talk will cover:
• The critical importance of data leadership, data search & discovery, data literacy, and data governance for driving business value today
• The data governance gap, and how to address it
• The surprising link between data leadership and revenue returns
• Why powerful search & discovery is a key driver of success

Navigating Data Culture Maturity: Insights from State of Data Culture Report

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

In the age of AI, trusted data is fundamental to building strong organizational AI initiatives. And yet data availability, trust, and quality top the list of current AI/ML challenges. In IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, 29% of respondents reported issues with data quality and another 24% cite a lack of data trust. 

Watch our webinar where Michael Moulsdale, Senior AI Product Manager at Alation and Salima Mangalji, AI Product Marketing Manager at Alation will discuss how to overcome the data challenges in leveraging AI/ML, and how Alation’s solution can enable your AI initiatives. Nic Colley, Principal Solutions Engineer, will then demonstrate how we bring AI governance to life with a live demo of Alation for AI.   

Don’t miss this session to create better data trust and actively govern your datasets and AI models.

Trusted Data for Trusted AI - Seizing the AI Opportunity

In the age of AI, trusted data is fundamental to building strong organizational AI initiatives. And yet data availability, trust, and quality top the list of current AI/ML challenges. 

In IDC’s 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey, 29% of respondents reported issues with data quality and another 24% cite a lack of data trust. To boot, IBM reports that 4/5 executives at companies today see at least one trust-related issue as a roadblock to generative AI (GenAI) adoption.

Watch our webinar to discover practical advice for navigating these AI/ML data trust, quality, and availability perils. Additional agenda items include:
• Analysis of IDC’s report on current AI/ML challenges
• Data intelligence: what is it, and how does it improve AI trust and governance?
• How Alation for AI empowers you to conduct accurate AI model training, find trusted data sets, and effectively govern datasets.

Surmount AI/ML Governance & Trust Challenges with Data Intelligence

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

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.

The Evolution of the Enterprise Data Catalog: O'Reilly Author in Conversation

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

The demand for cloud computing services has grown dramatically and that trend is only expected to accelerate. Alation recently launched Alation Cloud Service to: deliver product innovations to customers faster, take pressure off IT teams, and give customers greater choice in how Alation is deployed and managed. Simply, it is Alation deployed in the public cloud, powering data intelligence across hybrid clouds, allowing customers to connect to data sources on-premises and on public clouds, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake and Microsoft Azure.   Watch this webinar with Howard Dresner, Founder and Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services and Jason Ma, Senior Director of Product Management at Alation to learn:  - Key insights from the Dresner Advisory Services recent “Cloud Computing and Business intelligence Market Study”  - About the challenges and opportunities with data intelligence across today’s hybrid cloud environment  - What Alation Cloud Service is, its benefits and who it is suitable for  - How to get started with Alation Cloud Service

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