What is a Data Catalog?

The easiest way to understand a data catalog is to look at how libraries catalog books and manuals in a hierarchical structure, making it easy for anyone to find exactly what they need. Similarly, a data catalog enables businesses to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in […]

We’re excited about our recognition as a March 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Metadata Management Solutions.  Our team here at erwin takes great pride in this distinction because customer feedback has always shaped our products and services. The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is a recognition of vendors in the metadata management solutions […]

Hello from my home office! I hope you and your family are staying safe, practicing social distancing, and of course, washing your hands. These are indeed strange days. During this coronavirus emergency, we are all being deluged by data from politicians, government agencies, news outlets, social media and websites, including valid facts but also opinions […]

COVID-19 has presented businesses with a new and immediate set of challenges that reinforce the need for data intelligence to inform disaster planning and business continuity. The coronavirus epidemic and its impacts are sharp and severe. And while its duration is uncertain, it is likely to permanently change the way businesses and societies function. As […]

Data intelligence has a critical role to play in the supercomputing battle against Covid-19. Last week, The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a public-private partnership to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery […]

Organizations are flooded with data, so they’re scrambling to find ways to derive meaningful insights from it – and then act on them to improve the bottom line. In today’s data-driven business, enabling employees to access and understand the data that’s relevant to their roles allows them to use data and put those insights into […]

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizations across the globe are changing how they operate. Teams need to urgently respond to everything from massive changes in workforce access and management to what-if planning for a variety of grim scenarios, in addition to building and documenting new applications and providing fast, accurate access to data for smart […]

Almost 70 percent of CEOs say they expect their companies to change their business models in the next three years, and 62 percent report they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their businesses more digital, according to Gartner. Wouldn’t it be advantageous for these organizations to accelerate these digital transformation efforts? They […]

Happy Halloween! Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Who has had access to it? These can be frightening questions for an organization to answer. Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. In […]

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata, or the data about the data. However, most organizations don’t use all the data they’re flooded with to reach […]