The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by ...

Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, today announced Alation CDE Manager, a dedicated solution to govern Critical Data Elements (CDEs) at scale, at revAlation London. CDE Manager empowers ...

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A unit of data stored in a field. For example, the account numbers "M0067521" and "A0142934" are data items in the "account number" field (the data element "account number"). Data item is synonymous ...