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Ust Oldfield
Tags as AI Labels: Why Generative AI Needs Metadata It Can Trust
Generative AI systems, especially those using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), depend not...

22nd November, 2025

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Engineering Case Study Data Governance Databricks Insurance
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Sargithan Senthilselvan
Early Insights from Applying the Databricks Data Quality DQX...
Introduction Are you suffering from poor data quality? Find out how we are helping an...

12th November, 2025

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Chief Data Officer Data Governance Analytics Data Strategy
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Ust Oldfield
Tagging is Metadata’s Metadata: Why Good Tags Matter
What Are Tags, Really? Tags are often dismissed as technical conveniences — tiny labels stuck...

29th October, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Your Data Governance Is Failing. The Catalyst Framework Can Help You...
Many organisations invest heavily in data infrastructure, analytics platforms, and AI...

29th September, 2025

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Security Data Governance Databricks
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Lucy Bellingham
Do You See What I See? Fine-Grained Access Control in Unity Catalog
Introduction Any data platform must be designed with security in mind: both protecting from...

8th April, 2025

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Engineering Data Governance
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Sargithan Senthilselvan
Ready, Set, Template: Reusing pipelines with 'My Templates' in Azure...
If you are using Azure Data Factory, you have probably built or debugged a pipeline. If you...

27th February, 2025

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Nikki Kelly
The Four Pillars of Data Culture
Data Culture Recap In our previous blog, I covered why Data Culture matters – 'Why you should...

17th December, 2024

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Data Data Governance
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Falek Miah
An Ultimate Guide to Databricks Unity Catalog
Databricks Unity Catalog (UC) has gained significant attention lately, with Databricks making...

6th February, 2024

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Data Governance
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Nikki Kelly
Data Governance: Embrace the Boring Stuff
Data Governance – you have heard the term a million times and not once has it driven...

25th January, 2024

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