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Assessing Data Governance Platforms

Learn how to assess data governance platforms in five steps utilizing the OvalEdge Data Governance Platform Comparison Guide.

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Citigroup’s Data Governance Disaster: A Legacy of Fragmented Systems and Heavy Penalties

Despite major growth, US banking giant Citigroup has failed to address fundamental data governance processes leading to a multitude of fines and an...

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Measuring AI Readiness

AI readiness assessments measure an organization’s preparedness for implementing AI initiatives. In this blog, we examine common assessment areas,...

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How Data Governance Empowers Academic Medical Centers to Secure Research Grants

In this article, we explore how data governance can help Academic Medical centers (AMCs) secure research grants. As of 2023, the following US...

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Implementing All Four Aspects of Data Quality

Data quality implementation follows a series of tried-and-tested methodologies. In this blog, we explore these methodologies, the order in which you...

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How Data Governance Reduces Patient Readmissions

Readmission rate is a key financial and operational `metric for many healthcare providers in the US. This blog shows how CDOs can leverage data...

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How AI-Driven Drug Discovery Could Transform the Pharma Industry

AI can accelerate drug discovery for pharmaceutical companies. But, AI technologies need to be trained on the right data for the process to work...

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How OvalEdge Supports Column-Level Lineage With Dremio

OvalEdge connects with Dremio to support multiple data governance functions. Among them, lineage building. In this blog, we’ll explain how the...

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Importance of AI Governance in Banking

With AI adoption increasing dramatically in the banking industry, there is a growing need for comprehensive AI governance. In this article, we...

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Trusted AI: Why AI Governance is a Business-Critical Concern

Imagine unprecedented potential with AI, only to find your organization vulnerable and unprepared. In this blog, we will explain why effective AI...

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Why AI Governance Should Begin During Design, Not Deployment

In this blog, we’ll explain why AI governance must be built into the design of AI tools and not introduced at deployment.

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What is AI Governance?

AI adoption has some associated operational risks. To manage these risks, businesses must implement AI governance. In this article, we explain how AI...

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AI Data Readiness vs Traditional Data Quality

AI data readiness is different from traditional data quality. This article explains that difference using concrete examples so you can better prepare...

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Solving Data Quality Pain Points for Chief Risk Officers

Data quality issues severely impact CROs’ ability to build accurate risk models. In this article, we describe the nature of those data quality issues...

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Data's AI Readiness | First Step Towards AI Readiness

AI readiness hinges not on advanced algorithms but on data. Hence, organizations must prioritize data’s AI-readiness. This implies ensuring data is...

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PDPL Compliance Made Easy for UAE Banks

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have introduced a new legislation, the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), that mirrors the EU’s GDPR. We explain what the...

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What is AI Readiness?

Simply procuring AI technology is not sufficient; you also need to become AI-ready. This article explains the key elements of AI readiness.

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AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Boost Data Quality

In this article, we explain how AI and domain knowledge combined tackle every aspect of data quality and how OvalEdge provides this holistic solution...

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Improving Data Quality at a Regional Bank | A Case Study

A regional US bank used OvalEdge to tackle data quality issues that were leading to inaccurate liquidity risk and credit risk predictions, and...

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Data Quality Purpose-Built for Banking

For banks, issues with data quality can have dramatic repercussions financially and from a compliance perspective. In this blog, we’ll explore the...

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Data Quality Challenges for Fair Lending Compliance in Banking

Data quality is a major pain-point when it comes to fair lending compliance. Most existing tools are not purpose-built to address this challenge....

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Data Lineage Explained with Examples

This article aims to demystify the intricacies of data lineage by exploring its two main types—Business Data Lineage and Technical/ETL Data...

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The Top Features of a Comprehensive Data Catalog

In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of having a robust data catalog to...

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How OvalEdge Supports Snowflake Horizon’s Governance Capabilities

Snowflake Horizon, a built-in governance suite for Snowflake customers, covers every aspect of data governance with native features addressing...

How to Implement Data Governance in Small and Mid-Sized Banks

Data governance is crucial in every industry, but the stringent regulatory requirements in the financial sector make well-governed data one of the...

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Top Features of a Data Lineage Tool in 2024

In the intricate landscape of data management, understanding the journey and relationships of your data is paramount. A data lineage tool serves as a...

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Data Governance in Technology Companies

In this digital wilderness, tech companies stand as pioneers and explorers in a vast sea of data. As they embark on their quest for technological...

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The Top Three CDO Priorities for 2024

Every year, technical roles in organizations must adapt to the changing face of the business technology landscape. This year, the CDO is facing a...

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Top 8 Features of a Data Quality Tool

High-quality data is a cornerstone of data governance, but many companies still fail to implement ways to ensure it. The best way to boost data...

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How to Implement the DPDP Act 2023, India’s Landmark Data Protection Act

In August 2023, the Government of India enacted its landmark data protection regulation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act)....

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Data Governance : Cost of Inaction

Some business decisions—like implementing an ERP system—will boost productivity, but the worst that will happen if you fail to act on them is losing...

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Data Governance in the Insurance Industry

Choosing a company to insure them when the worst-case scenario happens is one of the most important decisions a person can make. The trust customers...

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Data Lineage | Drivers and Techniques

Data lineage, tracking, and recording the various processes and changes data has been through since its inception is one of the core aspects of data...

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Business Glossary | Challenges and Solutions

Many data teams may believe the hard work is over once they have collected and curated the terms required to create a business glossary....

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What is Data Curation?

In a museum, the curator collects, organizes, manages, and preserves valuable art and artifacts. And without them, museums would just be big rooms...

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How OvalEdge Provides AI-Powered Access Management in Snowflake

When you opt for a data management or storage solution, you always consider the security implications. You want to ensure your data is always safe,...

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4 Steps to AI-Ready Data

Those in the know have long been aware of the potential of AI technologies. However, powerful as the data you feed it. Is your data AI-ready?

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How to Become and Deliver as a Chief Data Officer

The role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) is inextricably linked with data governance. Without experience managing data governance programs,...

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Data Catalog vs Data Dictionary - Differences & Use Cases

In the modern age, companies are responsible for a mind-bogglingly huge amount of data. If you imagine as much data as possible, it wouldn’t even...

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Data Dictionary: What is it and how do you create your own?

At this point, it’s cliche to emphasize the importance of data nowadays. Nearly every business relies heavily on data, and people are increasingly...

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The Importance of Data Governance in Financial Services

According to the 1966 musical Cabaret, ‘money makes the world go around’. But in 2023, it could be argued that data is just as pivotal to the earth's...

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What is Data Obfuscation and why is it important to your business?

In today's digital world, data is a valuable asset that businesses rely on for decision-making, operations, and competitive advantage. But with the...

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What is Active Metadata Management? Definition & Benefits

By adopting aggressive metadata analysis across your complete data management environment, you can reduce the time-to-delivery of new data assets to...

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The Importance of Data Governance in Healthcare

It gets clearer each year that data is at the heart of most businesses, which makes it vital to maintain high-quality standards.

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What is Data Fabric? Definition & Architecture

With the increased importance of data to businesses, it’s no surprise that there are more and more ways to organize and store data.

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How to Manage Data Quality via Frameworks

Data quality management is an essential element of data governance. However, to undertake it effectively, you need a dedicated tool. In this article,...

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How OvalEdge and Dremio Support Data Agility

In today's data-driven business landscape, organizations are becoming increasingly aware of how crucial data governance is in maintaining the...

3 Data Privacy Compliance Challenges that can be solved with OvalEdge

When you manage large amounts of data, privacy will always be front of mind. The most obvious reason is to avoid falling foul of rules and...

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5 Core Benefits of Data Lineage

One thing all data-driven organizations are aware of is the fluidity of data. Far from being a static resource, data is constantly moved from one...

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Data Security in Snowflake Via OvalEdge

OvalEdge has completed the Snowflake Ready Validation Program. This third-party technical validation process confirms that OvalEdge integration is...

Data Observability: What it is and Why it is important for your Business

It’s pretty much a cliché to say these days, but data really is the foundation of modern business. Not only is there an eye-watering amount of it,...

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What is Data Mesh? Principles & Architecture

Until recently, data lakes were the hot thing in data architecture, but more and more companies are turning away from this approach in search of an...

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Data Governance and Data Quality: Working Together

Data quality and data governance are closely aligned but there are some important differences between them. That said, successful data quality...

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Top 5 Data Governance Use Cases

It’s almost impossible to emphasize how important data is to both people and industry. Not only is data at the heart of most business operations, but...

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