Name: Alation Data Dialog: Launching a Successful Self-Service Analytics Initiative
Start: 2022-05-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2022-05-24T16:44:47.000Z
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.

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

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

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

Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs Result in Data Governance

Data environments are growing more complex. At the same time, everyone from data scientists to business users need data for decision making. How do you navigate complexity while meeting the demand for data? How do you help users find and understand the data they need? How do you raise the bar on data literacy? At Cbus, Australia’s largest financial super fund for the building, construction, and allied industries, the answers are found in end-to-end connectivity with Alation’s data catalog.

Hear John Gilbert, data governance manager at Cbus, talk about how his team is leveraging Alation to democratize data across their diverse data landscape. And, learn how Alation enhances that connectivity to increase understanding of the data, raise the bar on data literacy, and provide visibility into data lineage. He’s followed by Jason Lim, director of technical product marketing at Alation, who explains how data domains helps people find relevant data faster, and how data lineage impact analysis helps to identify who and what is impacted by changes to data. 

In this webinar, you’ll learn how Cbus is using Alation to: 

- Relieve the need for IT and SMEs to locate and explain data 
- Create more consistency and accuracy from data used across the organization 
- Empower business and technical user self-service by raising data literacy

Driving Data Literacy with Self-Service Analytics

Today, data catalogs connect a wide range of users to trusted data. But data scientists, analysts, and business users need data quality details to use that data wisely. How can businesses integrate data quality into their data stack — and prepare people to make the most of it?

Watch this data dialog to hear Sanjeev Mohan answer this question. Sanjeev, a former Gartner analyst, reviews the DQ market with an eye to new and emerging vendors, plus:

What goes into the modern data stack
How businesses can ensure that data quality metrics inform daily behavior
Why the freedom of choice around data quality vendors is key
Following the analyst presentation, Peter Wang, Senior Product Manager, Alation, introduces Alation’s new Open Data Quality Initiative. Peter discusses the crucial role of DQ in a data catalog and share details on the initiative, which creates choice for partners and customers on their DQ journeys.

Data Dialog: Why An Effective Data Quality Program Includes a Data Catalog

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

Please join us for a special International Women's Day online event to honor the work of data women everywhere as we look at data culture. Data culture is an organizational culture of data-driven decision-making.

Women Leading Data Intelligence: Data Culture

The COVID-19 pandemic has made moving to the cloud an imperative for many organizations and their digital transformation efforts. The need to reduce latencies in gaining access to data for analysis has been a huge driver in a year of massive, rapid change. As we look ahead to a post-pandemic world, the cloud is more appealing than ever for data storage and analysis. It promises to make all the data that’s needed for analytics available to everyone who needs it while offering cost savings and performance boons. However, moving to the cloud brings challenges. 

Making things simpler for our business communities often means making things more challenging on the IT backend. The more complexity in the technical infrastructure, the more difficulty for the people supporting that infrastructure. For those managing a move to the cloud, it is important to remember that this is a journey, one that is comprised of multiple initiatives, not a single project. 

If you are responsible for your company’s migration to the cloud, this webinar is for you. Hear Claudia Imhoff, analytics and infrastructure expert; Chris Twogood, SVP of global marketing at Teradata, Kiran Narsu, VP of business development at Alation, and Ashish Yajnik, VP of product management at Teradata, for an in-depth discussion on: 

- Three strategies that all organizations must develop to clarify how their data and cloud deployments will help the business reach its objectives. 
- The common pitfalls that can stall and stymie cloud migrations 
- How to avoid these pitfalls and create a seamless transition to the cloud

A Data-Driven Approach to Cloud Migration

Combining Data Democracy and Data Governance to Deliver Digital Experience

Cisco is a worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions with more than 70K employees and 60K partners. To deliver a superior digital experience to customers, Cisco is empowering its workforce and business partners by combining data democratization with an active approach to data governance to ensure quality, compliance, process, and stewardship standards are maintained across Cisco’s data assets. 

Cisco is partnering with the Alation Platform to enable this revolutionary approach to governance. Hear from Abra Le, director of data governance at Cisco, Aisha Memon, data governance lead at Cisco, and Lakshmi Randall, director of solutions marketing at Alation, to learn:

- Why traditional governance initially failed at Cisco 
- Why data democratization and risk mitigation represent two sides of the same coin for driving business value 
- How Cisco is enabling a trustworthy, transparent data foundation with Alation’s data catalog

Cisco + Alation: Active Data Governance

Expert how-to’s on cloud migration

The cloud is calling! Many are migrating. Today, enterprises migrate on-prem warehouses to multiplatform environments, such as cloud data warehouses and lakes. What could go wrong? 

Plenty. The more complex your data environment, the more challenging your migration. You need a carefully planned strategy, with an eye to potential pitfalls, to guarantee success. 

Hear Fern Halper, VP of research at TDWI, and Ibby Rahmani, director of product marketing at Alation, together in conversation with experts from Couchbase and Delphix. They share expert tips for cloud data migration, plus warnings on what to avoid. 

Watch this video to learn: 

- Tips for accelerating enterprise cloud migration 
- Best practices for security and availability, particularly around sensitive data 
- Advice for creating a strategy supported by all key stakeholders

Pain Points of Moving Data to the Cloud and Strategies for Success

Managing data governance in a single organization is challenging enough, but expanding a system for data uniformity, control, and auditability across more than two dozen independent agencies is a massive undertaking. Luckily for the State of Tennessee, their new chief data officer came equipped with a tried-and-true data governance framework which leveraged a data catalog to bring organization, standardization, and control to their statewide data system in less than six months.

Join Kim Wienzierl, Chief Data Officer for the State of Tennessee, and Amber O’Connell, the State’s Director of Data Governance, to learn how the Alation data catalog helped quickly instill uniformity, auditability, and governance into a system that cost too much in time, effort, and budget as various agencies shared and consumed data. They’ll explain this easy to implement, data governance framework, and pinpoint how Alation empowers the State to bring much-needed data fluency to their statewide data.
 
During this webinar, you’ll learn how the State of Tennessee is using a data catalog to:

• Connect governance policies and templates to specific data sources while empowering agencies to quickly and easily comply with compliance audit requests.
• Offer data fluency to more than 25 statewide agencies, empowering users to easily find and access data through improved data visibility, availability, and accessibility across a wide range of data sources.  
• Reduce reliance on institutional knowledge by documenting processes to improve the scope, scale, and quality of resulting data insights.
• Reduce the prolonged and unsustainable cycle times for data discovery, cleaning, and analysis.
Lay the groundwork for prioritizing time and resources for future data quality initiatives.

How a Data Catalog Forms the Foundation for Data Governance

Once you’ve decided to execute a self-service initiative, how do you realize its goals? How do you welcome business users and data scientists along for the journey? What questions need to be asked? And how does organize data within business domains enable true self-service for every type of user? Watch this webinar replay to find out.

Alation Data Dialog: Launching a Successful Self-Service Analytics Initiative

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