Data and Analytics Trends for 2019 and Beyond: A Panel Discussion

Data Governance is both a technical and an organizational discipline, and getting Data Governance right requires a combination of Data Management fundamentals aligned with organizational change and stakeholder buy-in. Join Nigel Turner and Donna Burbank as they provide an architecture-based approach to aligning business motivation, organizational change, Metadata Management, Data Architecture and more in a concrete, practical way to achieve success in your organization.

Today, most web and mobile applications are limited to “lightweight” analytics because general-purpose databases can be optimized for transactional or analytical workloads, but not both – and since transactional processing is critical, applications have to compromise on analytics. However, what if an e-commerce application could let customers know which products are soon to be sold out based on clickstream data, shopping carts, current inventory and recent purchases as well as historical buying patterns and emerging shopping trends? In this webinar, attendees will learn how to leverage MariaDB ColumnStore to provide transactional applications with real-time analytics on historical data.

In an age of data lakes, enterprise data catalogs are becoming a necessity. Done right, machine learning data catalogs can facilitate discoverability and ensure compliance while fostering the user engagement needed to build a robust data culture. In this webinar, Andrew Brust, analyst at GigaOm Research, and Aaron Kalb, co-founder and chief data officer at Alation, discuss why people are an essential part of successful self-service analytics, and how data catalogs can help foster collaboration and analytics enthusiasm.

Metadata Governance is the execution and enforcement of authority over the management of Metadata and other data documentation. Organizations that govern their data documentation find it easier to govern their data as a result. There is direct correlation between the use of Data Catalogs, Business Glossaries and Data Dictionaries and successful governance of data and Metadata. This month’s RWDG webinar with Bob Seiner will focus on governing the use of the mentioned tools and the Metadata that can be managed inside each one. Bob will talk about governing Metadata in existing Metadata resources versus using new tools to handle this function.