{"id":10851,"date":"2021-07-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2021-04-05T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:52:33","slug":"data-lineage-gaining-insight-into-the-data-used-for-analysis-and-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/data-lineage-gaining-insight-into-the-data-used-for-analysis-and-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Lineage: Gaining Insight into the Data used for Analysis and Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As data is being increasingly used with analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence, it’s important to have insight about the history of the data being used. Where it came from or was derived from? What is the age of the data? What is the quality of it? Who has access to it? Where and who has it been used? How trustworthy is it? Industries like finance and pharmaceuticals have extensive regulations that require the auditing of how data is being used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data lineage solutions are designed to answer those kinds of questions about data history, quality, trustworthiness, condition, and usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ian Rowlands<\/a>, technology author, said that \u201can enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially, to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect the data together. It used to be really hard to get CEOs to care about data. A trend that we\u2019ve seen increasingly over the past several years is that CEOs have been getting more and more irritated at the inability to get value out of their data.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some use case examples for how data lineage is being applied is the following:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n