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In English, the term metadata is used in the plural form, built from the prefix meta (from the Greek preposition μετὰ, meaning “beyond” or “above”) and the Latin neuter plural data, meaning “the data.” In Italian, we use metadati, with the singular form metadato. Worldwide Google searches for this word have doubled since 2020 (an […]

Nicola Nodari’s appointment strengthens Irion’s expansion just weeks after being recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 for Augmented Data Quality Solutions. Nicola has been active in the enterprise software industry since 1993, bringing decades of experience from multinational tech companies. Specializing in Data Management since 1999, he has also contributed significantly to business development and

BCBS 239 is a set of Principles to strengthen the risk data aggregation and facilitate the resolution of banking crises. The 2007 global financial crisis exposed the fragility and inadequacy of corporate data management models, highlighting severe shortcomings in banks’ ability to identify and mitigate risks effectively. The proper aggregation of risk exposures and the

A new feature that will revolutionize the way our Partners work with Irion technologies: the new Digital Asset Library is available in the dedicated portal within the Irion Support site (accessible by registered and enabled users). What it’s all about. It is a collection of examples of how the distinctive features of the Irion EDM®

When a Public Interest Bank enters a situation of failure, a controlled crisis resolution procedure is preferred to avoid a traumatic bankruptcy: one of the most important tools for dealing with such situations is the Bail-in. In order not to burden the community as a whole, the mechanism requires that the money needed to cover losses and recapitalize the institution

Giacomo Saggioro is the new Senior Business & Data Management Consultant in Irion Domain Advisory team led by Mario Vellella. For the last 13 years, he has worked in large international consulting companies, particularly – but not limited to – the area of Finance and risk management for banking and insurance. He started his career

Enrico Galimberti is Irion’s new Product Presales Manager. In the last two decades, he led complex, innovative Enterprise Data Management projects for multinational companies. He worked on implementing architectures that would enable digital transformation with a particular focus on data governance, data quality, data integration, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and GDPR compliance. In addition to

After intense internal audit activities and 600 hours of work dedicated – in addition to 700 hours of preparatory tasks and network management – Irion achieved the important ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification. The specialized body DNV Business Assurance verified that the company meets the international standard for data security and risk reduction in sensitive data management,

Mario Vellella joins Irion as Principal Advisor: he will be head of the Domain Advisory team. With a Ph.D. degree and over 25 years of experience in Finance, he has also been an advisor, researcher, and executive officer in risk management while collaborating with the Department of Economics and Management of La Sapienza University in

BI Network signed a partnership agreement with Irion, software house leader in the Enterprise Data Management market. The consulting company with 20 years of experience in Business Intelligence & Analytics – will enrich its offer thanks to the innovative approach of Irion EDM®, the only declarative platform that automates all data management processes and brings

Pursuing data quality is not necessarily only due to regulatory norms. A number of companies do it “to make correct decisions and have reliable business processes, that is, usable with confidence in the entire company with shared responsibilities and a more central role of Data Stewards“. These are the distinctive features of the approach to

PER Bank launched the community BPER Data District uniting data professionals and those interested in business data so that the way to a Data-Driven Bank starts from the people. The initiative was presented at the workshop organized by the Big Data & Business Analytics Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, Irion’s partner. Three pillars of the project

Anyone who deals with data professionally or is interested in the subject will have heard of, or perhaps discussed, Data Mesh. This subject has recently been the focus of many writings and discussions. Not that there has been little new in the world of Data Management in recent years. We may define these new concepts

Hundreds of information resources (technical and functional guides, tutorials, product examples, overviews, and much more), a new, more powerful and versatile internal search engine to provide better assistance to all Irion EDM® users: customers, partners, and employees – these are the main features of Irion Support, the new digital knowledge base, which this summer has

Extract and integrate datasets for data scientists, business analysts, and, in general, Data Consumers within the company to analyze. Help these professionals better understand the data and manage it. Use the corporate Data Catalog (if any) to identify the data to extract. Bring together the IT and the business language to improve communication between the

Irion renews partnership with Big Data & Business Analytics Observatory of Politecnico di Milano. This year the company will continue contributing to the scientific and technological community. The initiative appeared for sharing the experiences and collecting the needs of selected companies, organizing thematic working groups, and pooling the knowledge generated. Irion will take part in

SMI Technologies and Consulting has entered into a partnership agreement with Irion, software house market leader in Enterprise Data Management. The Service Integrator will enrich its offer thanks to Irion’s innovative approach to Data Management, which allows governing the complexities of Information Technology and getting business value from the data. This agreement will allow SMI

“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” We have chosen these words by Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, the 1937 Nobel prize winner in medicine and physiology, for our wishes this year. These words reflect both us and what pushes us forward in our continuous search for improvement. Whether it

Exec Summary Adopting a Data Fabric Design for data management saves time and costs for the business. It also makes it easier to spread the information within an organization, as confirmed by Gartner at the Data&Analytics Summit. Therefore, this innovative approach brings numerous benefits for enterprises. Irion EDM is one of the Data Fabric-Ready platforms

IFRS 17: the Data Management challenges The international principle for accounting of contracts issued by insurance companies, postponed to January 1, 2023, marks a turning point in the insurance world. The aim of IFRS 17 is to ensure greater transparency by defining the principles for the recognition, aggregation, valuation, and accounting of all insurance and

The Cloud is a storage space that can be accessed at any time and in any place simply using any Internet connection.  Speaking about Cloud, we need to distinguish three types: Hybrid clouds are becoming increasingly fundamental in business IT structures – and this process will continue. That’s why a correct multi-cloud strategy will become

Making “forward looking” its guiding principle is a must for an IT business. It is an inspiring challenge – and a constant commitment. Our customers, our developers, our consultants, our partners have different objectives and operate with our technologies in different ways. Yet they all benefit from foresight-inspired practices and a vision that goes beyond

Customers can realize successful projects thanks to the agile by design technology, to compact and multidisciplinary teams, an incremental approach, an organization by basic work units and a focus on essentials. Is an agile methodology alone sufficient for creating a software solution? Or does an agile methodology require an agile development platform? We have long

A Business Glossary is an approved and regulated glossary containing business terms. It is an essential component of an Enterprise Data Management system and one of the main elements of a metadata repository that registers and catalogs entities in a structured model. These include not only the entities themselves, such as business terms/business data elements,

The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) aims at making the banks’ data collection more efficient, reducing the reporting burden for them while maintaining a high-quality standard. The strategy for achieving this goal is to harmonize and integrate data collection for all the EURO area countries. This strategy bases on two pillars: As part of

The European System of Central Banks (ESCB) has launched an initiative to develop an integrated standard of coordinated data management. This project sees the cooperation of reporting institutions, national and European authorities and service providers and aims to gradually bring to harmony all reporting. In the integration of the European institutions, the next big challenge

According to DAMA, Data Integration “describes the processes related to the movement and consolidation of data within and between data stores, applications and organizations”. To put it simple, these are all the actions necessary to unify various data sources and create one common vision of a certain process. Most organizations with hundreds or thousands of

The Enterprise Data Management platform captures, controls and harmonizes the input to ensure accurate and timely data for policy management A Data Hub system safeguards the company’s Data Quality. In the last quarter of 2020, NET Insurance completed a project that involved getting equipped with an important Data Management and Data Quality system. The company

According to Gartner (Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2020, 15 July 2020, Guido De Simoni), Metadata Management Solutions are applications with one or more of the following features: Big Data systems are becoming more and more widespread, the data available to companies – structured and unstructured, coming from numerous and diverse sources – is increasing,

One can find different definitions of Data Governance in influential sources: Regardless of the definition, however, it is now widely accepted that Data Governance is key to creating value, managing risks in an organization and improving business processes. All businesses, regardless of their industry and size, make data-related decisions. And the ever-growing volumes of data

A Data Governance Hub is a model that integrates skills, roles, methods and techniques for effective, efficient and flexible data asset management and governance. For modern businesses, data are what drives innovation. However, even today they are still mostly stored in silos and fragmented. That is, the data are not immediately available for the growing

Data classification is the process of organizing data assets. It means establishing a categorization and defining one or more taxonomies for the whole company. A classification system helps to effectively determine priorities and the intensity of actions on data. It is based on such criteria as criticality, security, access and use, privacy, ethics, data quality and storage

Alberto Scavino’s speech at Fattore I – New scenarios and business models for SMEs by Banca IFIS and Il Sole 24 Ore In front of us there is a nebula, a galaxy of data. We need to look at them one by one, validate, clean and filter them, remove the noise and disturbances. We need

A Data Catalog is a tool for registering all the company’s data assets and the related entities. The metadata that represent them are organized so that you can easily find where the data reside, understand their semantics and evaluate their quality. They also ensure easy and controlled access for all stakeholders, both IT and business

DataOps is a combination of collaborative practices and key data management techniques. It focuses on improving communication, integration and automation of data streams between a company’s data managers and data users. DataOps is a portmanteau term of “Data” & “Operations”. It originates from the DevOps discipline  (Software Development & IT Operations) but adapts it, obviously,

In October, Irion was invited to speak at the Annual Data Driven Banking in the next normal banking conference, in the TO BE Session of the Data Day, organized by ABI Servizi. We explained why metadata are at the center of hype and best practices in data management. These are some of the areas that

Data Valuation is an emerging discipline aimed at estimating the information’s value as a business asset. Information is an intangible asset that is becoming more and more important within organizations. However, the current accounting policies do not require assessing their actual or potential value. Business information and its physical representation in systems are two sides

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Data Quality and Anti Money Laundering with Irion EDM

Due to the global expansion of Covid-19 we want to share our commitment to the health and safety of our employees, customers and partners, guaranteeing business continuity and quality of service. Since February 23, we have extended working from home until further notice. We are fulfilling work planned, project deadlines as well as meeting product

We provide parents with benefits up to € 2,500/year for daycare and € 1,000/year for kindergarten for each child. Discover Irion For Family, the company welfare for young families as well as Smart Working and the on-site Gym. Lots of benefits employees love. At Irion we understand the financial impact of having a child. Year

Data Fabrics Add Augmented Intelligence to Modernize your Data Integration is the new Gartner research for data and analytics leaders. Gartner has identified Irion EDM among the Data Fabric ready platforms. The evolution of Data Management models Data Management is changing in depth. A disruptive paradigm shift is coming. The market demand for integrated platforms

[/vc_column]At Irion we understand the financial impact of having a child. Expenses increase considerably, and there is an increasing  need to reconcile work with family life. These are needs that risk compromising the balance in the family, especially if the services offer is insufficient, starting from those for early childhood. That’s why we try to

We interact with others daily communicating needs and receiving  requests .Every day, in a thousand daily activities, we behave and interact with others and with the context that surrounds us communicating what we need and receiving what is required. This is because, as a matter of fact, we are not experts on everything and we know

We have been talking about digital business and digital transformation for some time now, considering them decisive for the future of businesses. Key factors both in the success of digital native companies and in the survival of incumbents that are experiencing the unexpected competition capable of operating with innovative business models. They are entirely based on information

Data governance means the governing of a company’s data management processes. Often processes are cross-functional, they cross and involve more organizational units. Data governance is interesting: the chief data officer (CDO) is flanked by the roles of data owner, data user, application owner and data steward. In a widespread data governance system, these roles involve

Italy’s data governance experience is unique. Italy’s data governance experience is unique. The Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) a reference for global data management started being contemplated in our country only a decade ago. Starting with data quality, specifically finance to comply with a series of regulations led by Basel and Solvency. So far,

In many of us, the word metadata evokes a sense of something abstract, translucent, evanescent. Yet, we know that appropriately managed metadata is a powerful enabling tool. The concept of metadata thus comes into practice on the basis of a metadata-driven operational model. Applied to Data Management disciplines, a metadata-driven approach means driving a Data

Last January 29, the Tech Day of Société Générale was held in Turin at the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation. The Tech Day is an initiative created to foster the culture of innovation and digital transformation among Société Générale employees, through the sharing of experiments and innovative internal projects, also with the contribution of external experts. Irion

Data scientists wanted … The demand for professionals in the field is far greater than the offer. Once hired, putting them in the condition to do their best means making the investment profitable. This is our mission’s goal. A data scientist, with his ability to analyze and interpret data, will soon become an essential figure.

We are happy to announce that from September 2018, Roberto Fasano joined our team as Principal Business Consultant As part of his position, Roberto is part of Consulting & Solution where he works closely with management, collaborating in the definition and design phases of business solutions. His expertise are particularly pre-sales, compliance with IFRS 17

We will be among the protagonists of the second day of “Operations and RPA”, the workshop organized by ABILab on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 of October, at the ABI headquarters in via Olona, Milan. An opportunity to deepen, thanks to the intervention of top experts in the sector, the transformations affecting banking operations and

The Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary, BIRD initiative will play a central role in effectively harmonizing statistical and regulatory reporting at a European level: Adopting a common language. With codified processing and control rules that will increase data quality of data and its comparability among countries. Eliminating the redundancy currently present in response to requests for

Today Irion welcomes Mauro Tuvo as Principal Advisor, he is an expert who has worked with data management for Italian and European organizations for over thirty years.  As part of his role at Irion, Mauro will work with Irion’s management managing offers, designing  solutions and developing market opportunities. In particular, Mauro’s contribution will relate Enterprise Data

Chartis Research named Irion a  “Category leader” in the FinTech Quadrant ™ in its “Data Integrity and Control in Financial Services – Market Update 2018” report, due to its quality “Completeness of offering” and “Market potential”.  It is a significant recognition for one of the main issues in the corporate governance of our customers, considering the focus

More and more companies are using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies with the aim of automating business processes, replacing robots and the human automation interaction with one or more software systems. The advantages of these solutions are many: they do not require interventions on IT applications, they can be done by power users without involving

The GDPR imposes requirements with significant impact on organization, processes and systems. One is the registry of process operations. The registry process must be performed with: • Streamlined process of integration with company systems and processes • Significant maintenance reduction  • Simple modification for future integrations • Navigation between different entities  to evidence related links •

Pharmaceutical regulations are tightening and to keep up with such a complex regulatory landscape pharma companies must rely on a robust Enterprise Data Management system. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) requires companies that produce and market authorized medications within the EU and European Economic Area to comply with the ISO Medicinal Identification (IDMP) standard. One

Available data verification is the toughest challenge “data scientists” face today. The best known Data Scientist community in the world, Kaggle, showed in its 2017 edition of The State of Data Science and Machine Learning study a comprehensive overview of the current state of Data Science and Machine Learning involving more than 16,000 professionals globally. Several

We are proud to announce a number of improvements to our platform with the launch of Update 8. We have added new powerful features and now provide a wider range of services to help companies make the best out of their data. We have also re-branded our platform from IrionDQ to Irion. Although data quality

Business continue to get swamped by the ever growing amounts of data and it has become fundamental to create systems for data regulation, validation and storage to satisfy business demands. Our CEO Alberto Scavino discusses the subject in an interview with Business Community. In which fields do you operate? Irion operates in Enterprise Data Management

The vision and strategy of an Italian fintech and regtech leader, with expansion plans for the international market. Irion is a business leader in Enterprise data Management and Data Quality with its product IrionDQ that has had a market presence over the the last 10 years. The founders, Alberto and Giovanni Scavino and Maura Sturaro, after gaining long-standing

Thanks to a strongly optimized technical architecture, Irion continues to be synonymous with elevated performance, even where the quantity and variability of business data increases, and the number of controls and execution times constantly require better performance. We are now pleased to announce the beginning of a partnership program with Cloudera Connect. Irion will be certified