Universal semantic layer: Going meta on data, functionality, governance, and semantics
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Is there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for? By George Anadiotis When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn’t have answers to those questions. All he wanted to […]
Read More →Data management in 2024. Open data formats and a common language for a sixth data platform
What data management in 2024 and beyond will look like hangs on one question. Can open data formats lead to a best-of-breed data management platform? It will take Interoperability across clouds and formats, as well as on the semantics and governance layer. By George Anadiotis Sixth Platform. Atlas. Debezium. DCAT. Egeria. Nessie. Mesh. Paimon. Transmogrification. This […]
Read More →Heroes journey: Notes towards a Personal Knowledge Graphs Book
The hero’s journey is a common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home transformed. Writing a book is like a journey too. Writing the first Personal Knowledge Graphs book involved more than one hero and a few crises. Now the PKG […]
Read More →Data intelligence platform Alation bucks economic trends, raises $123M
For Satyen Sangani, CEO and cofounder of leading data intelligence vendor Alation, data intelligence has many components: master data management, privacy data management, reference data management, data transformation, data quality, data observability and more.
Read More →You.com is taking on Google with AI, apps, privacy, and personalization
Award-winning AI research? Check. Startup and enterprise experience? Check. Venture capital and Mark Benioff backing? Check. Is that enough for Richard Socher’s you.com to take on Google? Are you happy with Google search? Regardless of how you answer this question, chances are you still use it. With the notable exceptions of China and Russia, where […]
Read More →Alation details its data intelligence strategy
Data quality, a subset of data intelligence, is a topic that many enterprise executives are concerned about — with 82% citing data quality as a barrier for their businesses. With many data quality solutions with different approaches available in the market, how do you choose?
Read More →More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess
Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
Read More →Superconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality
Ensuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive's Great Expectations open source framework wants to do for data quality what test-driven development did for software quality
Read More →Own your newsfeed, own your data
A guide to keeping all your news sources and items in one place We all have things we care about and follow. Whether it’s sports, arts, technology, from the mainstream to the obscure, we gravitate around them. Over time, we tend to both specialise, accumulating knowledge in specific sub-domains, and expand, jumping to adjacent topics […]
Read More →Data.world secures $26 million funding, exemplifies the use of semantics and knowledge graphs for metadata management
Data.world wants to eliminate data silos to answer business questions. Their bet to do this is to provide data catalogs powered by knowledge graphs and semantics. The choice of technology seems to hit the mark, but intangibles matter, too.
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