Name: How Cisco Visualizes the Value of Alation with Tableau
Start: 2021-09-14T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-09-14T16:53:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Alation, the data catalog company, is building a data-fluent world by changing the way people find, understand, trust, use, and reuse data. The first to bring a data catalog to market, Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions.

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 her new book, Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value, Woerner and her co-authors discuss the pathways for organizations needing to transform from silos and spaghetti. This involves conscious choices and business risks. The goal they suggest is to be Future Ready. Firms that achieve this have the adaptability and agility to succeed in almost any environment. As important, they outperform competitors in growth and margin.

Hear from Stephanie Woerner, Director of MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), to learn:
- The role of training in creating a digitally savvy workforce
- How the 4 V’s of data have transformed modern analytics
- The four core pathways to transforming data to insight to action — and what that means for your business

Digital Leaders in Conversation: Future Ready with Stephanie Woerner

Francis has been a leading-edge higher education CIO for many years. Now, she has taken an even more impressive role at Art and Wellness Enterprises, which supports the nonprofit entities of Alice L. Walton. In her current position she’s building an IT organization from the ground up with the objective of supporting the transformation of healthcare. This Summit Series session will glean lessons learned from this digital-native foundation.

Hear from Paige Francis, CIO of Art & Wellness Enterprises, to learn:
- How to build an innovative startup from the ground up
- Lessons from higher education that apply to the world of healthcare
- Why transforming healthcare begins with great data

Digital Leaders in Conversation: Reconsidering IT and Transforming Healthcare

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

The ubiquitous spreadsheet — the killer app that forever transformed computing — gathers, prepares, and performs analytics instantly. But when you need a tool to discover and trust data, or quickly source trusted data, a spreadsheet is a hammer when you need a screwdriver.

Watch this webinar replay to learn how Alation Connected Sheets turns the killer app into a game-changer. Alation Connected Sheets is a new product that pulls in trusted data from sources directly into the spreadsheet natively. It leverages the unique and innovative data governance capabilities of Alation Data Catalog to bring trust and data intelligence to spreadsheet users.

In this webinar you will:
- Receive an overview of Alation Connected Sheets, including who can benefit from the product
- See a live demo of the product in action
- Learn how to get started using Connected Sheets

How Alation Brings Trusted Data to Spreadsheets

Data governance has transformed. What once was a tedious compliance checkbox is today a means to accelerate growth, democratize data, and empower human collaboration at scale. The key lies in your approach. With its new Data Governance App and Active Data Governance Service Offering, Alation brings active data governance into the mainstream. But how do the app and offering work?   Watch the on-demand video to hear from Alation experts on how these together accelerate your data governance initiatives.

Four Ways to Mature Your Data Governance

In this customer roundtable, three Avista team members describe how Alation powered their data culture journey and improved the business.

Powering a Data Catalog: Avista's Data Culture Journey

CNA Insurance, one of the largest insurers in the United States, is moving to the cloud to modernize data and analytics, create greater flexibility, and improve cost-effectiveness. Implementing effective data governance in the cloud requires a comprehensive data governance framework— especially in a highly regulated industry. CNA is building its data governance framework with the Alation Data Catalog to ensure consistency, transparency, and facilitate stewardship. 

Hear from Scott Drummond, director of enterprise data enablement and governance at CNA Insurance, to find out how his team is implementing data governance in the cloud.

How CNA Insurance Implements Effective Data Governance in the Cloud

The path from raw data to insights begins with a decision. Organizations must realize there is value in their data and commit to the journey if they're to learn from it, use it, and share the vast capabilities. So how can data leaders widen access... without the risk?

First, they must tackle IT bottlenecks and siloed systems. Second, they need to launch a system that delivers data to those who need it. Yet opening data access to the masses can lead to a “wild west” data landscape, with predictable governance problems.

Thermo Fisher has taken a “middle way." Using data mesh, built on AWS technology and supported by the Alation Data Catalog, the team is moving from slow, centralized systems, to distributed with a federated governance approach. Watch this replay to learn how AWS and Alation can deliver risk-free access and speed up your data mesh journey.

From Centralized to Distributed – Thermo Fisher’s Data Mesh Strategy

Data Mesh is transforming how organizations manage data and make it accessible. Empowering data producers to create data products and data consumers to find and act on the data they need can bring data-driven decision-making to a much wider audience. 

Key to this success is making sure that all data is used properly; for this, distributed data governance is the key. How can you get more people involved in curating data, making that governance a superpower that puts data into action? 

Join this session to explore this topic with our team of experts and chart your way to data mesh success.

Why Data Governance Is Your Mesh Superpower

In this data dialog, our panel reviews the business challenges that have driven the self-service business intelligence delivery model. Why must businesses gain agility and push decision making down in the organization? And why does this require a new model for business users, data modelers, and even business analysts for accessing and discovering data? It also covers specifics and best practices for implementing self-service.

Alation Data Dialog: Role of Self-Service Data In Driving Business Agility

Digital transformation doesn’t happen overnight. If your organization seeks to use data as a strategic asset, you’ll need a data catalog to realize that vision.

But those new to data catalogs will have their share of questions. How do you find a catalog partner that’s widely trusted by the market? And how do you ensure that your future catalog organically supports your unique range of use cases and users?

Watch to learn why IDC names Alation a leader, pointing to core strengths in: Market Presence, Connectivity, and Behavioral Metadata Harvesting/Analysis.

Data Dialogs: Trends Shaping the Data Catalog Market Now and Beyond (with IDC)

Harnessing quality data and putting it to use is of the utmost importance for businesses going forward. A well-functioning data analytics process enables companies to make informed decisions in all facets of their business, increasing efficiency and often improving the bottom line. 

Building an insightful data analytics process, however, can be challenging. Data is often siloed, and the flow of information can be inhibited by poor pipelines and outdated data governance policies. A company may have all the data in the world, but if it’s of low quality, it can be worse than useless. 

For companies looking to build their data capabilities, the right services and platforms are crucial. A top-tier service should be flexible, enable collaboration, and promote cross-platform integration. The right services and platform can make the seemingly daunting task of building up modern and efficient data governance policies a breeze. 

In Alation’s ‘Enabling More Business Users to Leverage Trusted Data,’ we’ll explore how a business can implement a data analytics platform that gives their employees the data to make the best decisions at every level. 

Topics for discussion include: 
- Why data analytics and governance are important in the modern business environment
- Common problems companies face in their data analytics process 
- Determining what services and platforms provide the best ROI
- How to seamlessly integrate data analytics platforms and governance into existing systems
- And more

A Guide to Enabling More Business Users to Leverage Trusted Data

At Fifth Third Bank, about 450 people use data every day. They all start with Alation. But this wasn't always the case. In fact, getting hundreds of folks working in sync has been a monumental task.   Just ask Greg Swygart, VP of enterprise data at Fifth Third Bank. Greg has led data consumption and interaction efforts since adopting Alation. Currently he’s scaling out data literacy for Fifth Third, replicating data capabilities to all roles across the company.   Hear Greg discuss how Fifth Third Bank moved from a command-and-control governance approach to non-invasive — and reaped the benefits. In addition, Bob Seiner, creator of Non-Invasive Data Governance, speaks to data governance’s evolution, with an eye to what’s next.   In this webinar, you'll learn:   - About Fifth Third’s transition away from command-and-control governance  - How Fifth Third leverages Alation as its data marketplace for curation & consumption  - Why words matter when driving adoption  - About the data catalog — and its role in human management   Don’t wait! Watch this webinar today.

Data Management Meets Human Management

Data governance has always been important to minimizing risk but never more so than now. Today, organizations of all sizes want to collect, integrate, access, and share volumes of data from diverse sources to drive data science, strategy development, process optimization, and daily operational decisions. Data is in motion as many organizations are moving data to cloud platforms. Democratization of data and analytics is increasing the number of data silos. Data exposure risks are growing – as are the risks that users are making decisions based on poor data quality, faulty knowledge about data assets, and incomplete views because data is too hard to find.

How can organizations modernize data governance to reduce risks? Join this TDWI Webinar to learn how innovations in technologies and practices are enabling organizations to increase confidence in data governance. We will focus on steps for overcoming legacy limitations and making data governance scalable and continuous.

Minimize Risk Through Modern Data Governance

Join experts from Cisco, Tableau, and Tredence to learn how they integrated the Alation Data Catalog with key systems to deliver Tableau dashboards offering insights like:   - User engagement, curation progress, and user sentiment - Catalog gaps and user pain points - New ways for Cisco users to find and use the catalog

How Cisco Visualizes the Value of Alation with Tableau

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