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June 6, 2023
June 6, 2023
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4
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Stemma makes AI Discover Assistant available for all customers

Generative AI feature summarizes query-level context for data discovery and development workflows in Stemma's data catalog

Recent Updates
Data Catalog
Data Discovery
Announcement
May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023
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3
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How Stemma Upgrades Amundsen

The most current matchup on Stemma v. Amundsen; how Stemma provides a friendlier experience for analysts and business users, improves productivity through lineage, and simplifies catalog setup and administration.

Amundsen
Data Catalog
Recent Updates
May 16, 2023
May 9, 2023
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Diving Into The Details: A Deeper Look at Stemma’s Redesign

In part 2, Stemma's Head of Design, Dani Sandoval, continues his deep dive into the changes made to the data catalog interface to decrease frustration when debugging data issues, help data engineers establish best practices within data teams, and make discovering existing data easier for data scientists and analysts.

Data Catalog
May 9, 2023
May 2, 2023
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More Than a Makeover: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Stemma’s Redesign

Stemma's Head of Design, Dani Sandoval, goes deep into the changes made to the data catalog interface to decrease frustration when debugging data issues, help data engineers establish best practices within data teams, and make discovering existing data easier for data scientists and analysts.

Data Catalog
April 27, 2023
February 28, 2023
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5
min read

Stemma announces its Data Developer Update for improved data pipelines with dbt

Stemma releases the Data Developer Update to further improve the way dbt users manage their data development lifecycle: include the Lineage Graph for complex environments, dbt Cloud integration, and column Autodescribe to pull documentation based on column-level lineage

Announcement
Data Catalog
Recent Updates
February 1, 2023
February 1, 2023
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5
min read

How to fix your ETL to lower Snowflake Costs

Three queries and simple steps that data engineers can use to reduce Snowflake compute costs due to ETL

Data Discovery
Data Catalog
December 14, 2022
December 13, 2022
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4
min read

Up close with dbt lineage: Understanding the impact of temporary tables

By looking closely at the way dbt materializes tables we can better understand how to track lineage through SQL queries.

Data Discovery
December 14, 2022
December 7, 2022
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Two Tested, Cross-Team Management Tips for Data Leaders

A data team’s success hinges on its leader’s soft skills but, this is easy to lose sight of given the backlog of technical work. These two tips, earned from experience, can help new managers keep a focus on the fuzzy but important work of managing across teams.

Data Discovery
Trust
December 14, 2022
October 5, 2022
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5
min read

3 Patterns to Manage Micro Migrations

We define micro migrations in data engineering, provide some real world examples, and then give three patterns you can employ manage them better

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
September 21, 2022
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5
min read

Three Management Trends in the Modern Data Stack

A look at how Data leaders are facing a lack of resources, the changing role of data engineers, and the challenge of self-serve

Data Discovery
Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
August 30, 2022
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5
min read

The Semantic Data Warehouse Part 2: Entities, Contracts, and Role of the Data Catalog

In part 2 of Mark's conversation with Chad Sanderson about the Semantic Data Warehouse, they discuss the importance of semantically defining entities and new roles for contracts and the data catalog.

Data Discovery
Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
August 23, 2022
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5
min read

The Semantic Data Warehouse Part 1: Semantics and the Modern Data Stack

In this first part of Mark's discussion with Chad Sanford, they focus on "semantics," how it should be defined, and how the Semantic Data Warehouse fits with the modern data stack

Data Discovery
November 9, 2022
August 17, 2022
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min read

Open standards are not the answer

Lessons from SaaS on why open standards may not be the answer for solving the metadata problem

Data Catalog
Data Discovery
November 15, 2022
July 12, 2022
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5
min read

Balancing Proactive and Reactive Approaches to Data Management - Part 2

A deeper look at how to balance proactive and reactive methods for successful data management

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
June 23, 2022
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5
min read

Stemma: At the Center of Data Democratization

The team at Stemma developed tools to automate data stewardship for companies who won by making big bets on data. They are now building tools for modern, democratized teams.

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
June 21, 2022
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4
min read

Balancing Proactive and Reactive Approaches to Data Management - Part 1

Data management is best handled by balancing proactive and reactive methods

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
May 25, 2022
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4
min read

A Lesson in Data Policies from Facebook

The notes provided by Meta's privacy engineers provide excellent insight into how to manage data policies.

Trust
March 2, 2023
April 21, 2022
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April Updates to Stemma

1) Business Glossary
2) View columns in search results

Recent Updates
November 9, 2022
April 5, 2022
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Stemma Announces Tableau Partnership

Stemma and Tableau announce partnership to help shared customers build better dashboards.

Announcement
November 9, 2022
March 25, 2022
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March Updates to Stemma

March Updates:
1) seeing why a search result is being displayed
2) ability to conduct a single search for multiple asset types
3) authentication improvements for previewing BigQuery data
4) updated MySQL integration.

Recent Updates
November 9, 2022
March 9, 2022
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Stemma vs. Amundsen

Learn how Stemma is different from Amundsen

Amundsen
November 9, 2022
March 8, 2022
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4
min read

Better Tableau Dashboards with the Stemma Data Catalog

Building dashboards that help you make better decisions using Tableau and Stemma

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
February 25, 2022
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February Updates to Stemma

February Updates:
1) Create shared descriptions with exact matching columns
2) Create shared descriptions with exact matching columns
3) Delta Lake integration

Recent Updates
November 9, 2022
February 16, 2022
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Migrating from Amundsen to Stemma

Learn how to migrate from open-source Amundsen to Stemma based on organizations like iRobot and more.

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
February 15, 2022
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min read

Bulk Assign Owners with Stemma

How to effectively define ownership of your data assets while onboarding a data catalog

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
January 19, 2022
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Stemma is now SOC 2 Type II Certified

Our SOC 2 Type II certification is a publicly visible milestone in the journey towards securing the privacy of your data. In this post, we discuss what this step in Stemma's journey means for our existing and future customers.

Announcement
November 9, 2022
November 16, 2021
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How to evaluate a data catalog

The data catalog is becoming a ubiquitous part of the data ecosystem, so much so that the new data stack is now known by its three pillars: the warehouse, the BI tool and the data catalog. However, many organizations still struggle to wrangle their data in a way that allows users to answer the most basic questions: what data exists and what does it mean?

Data Catalog
November 9, 2022
October 7, 2021
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min read

3 Steps for a Successful Data Migration

Learn the 3 crucial steps that great data engineering teams follow for a successful data migration.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
October 4, 2021
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Making Sense of Metadata Ingestion

One of the early questions that data engineering teams pose when implementing a catalog is: should we make the catalog responsible for gathering metadata from data systems ("pull"), or task data systems with reporting metadata to the catalog ("push")? And, what are the consequences of using one approach over the other? Learn how to ingest metadata into your catalog and which method to choose.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
September 15, 2021
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Data Discovery in Data Mesh

Why is data discovery important? What is the role for data discovery in data mesh? Who's responsible for making data discoverable? Learn the answers to these questions (and more!) — summarized from a recent panel discussion on Data Discovery in Data Mesh.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
August 16, 2021
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Defining Data Ownership

Has anyone ever asked you, "Who's the data owner?" Learn how to define data ownership and how a data catalog can help you document this information.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
August 9, 2021
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4
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The Rise of the Operational Data Catalog

It’s time for the data catalog to evolve. Catalogs already have access to rich, cross-sectional views of your data ecosystem. The next frontier is to repurpose this information for operational use by integrating your catalog into your CICD pipeline.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
July 29, 2021
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4
min read

Top 2 Reasons Why Data Catalogs Fail

Here are the top 2 reasons why data catalogs end up failing — and how to avoid them.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
July 29, 2021
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7
min read

How-to: Setup OIDC Authentication in Amundsen

This step-by-step guide explains how to enable Open ID Connect (OIDC) for your Amundsen installation.

Amundsen
November 9, 2022
June 23, 2021
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5
min read

How to Make Your Data Catalog Successful

Learn why adoption and customer satisfaction are the top 2 goals that matter when it comes to measuring the success of your data catalog.

Data Discovery
Trust
November 9, 2022
June 2, 2021
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5
min read

Stemma: Helping you trust your data

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Stemma - a fully managed data catalog, powered by Amundsen, the leading open-source data catalog with the largest community and broadest adoption. We raised $4.8M in seed funding led by Sequoia to bring the power of the leading open-source data catalog to every organization.

Amundsen
Announcement
November 9, 2022
March 18, 2021
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5
min read

Amundsen deployment best practices

Almost any organization using Amundsen will need to make custom changes to their install. Unfortunately, this has been a long-time issue for the community. This post is the first in a step-by-step guide to getting a fully customized enterprise deployment of Amundsen¹, based on how Stemma deploys Amundsen for its customers.

Amundsen
Announcement
May 1, 2023
December 1, 2020
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7
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The data production - consumption gap

All recent innovation in data has taken place in two areas — helping data engineers produce data, and helping data consumers (primarily data analysts and scientists) consume that data.

Amundsen
Announcement