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The Internet of Things: Real-Time Data and Analytics Enable Business Innovation

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The emerging internet of things (IoT) is an extension of digital connectivity to devices and sensors in homes, businesses, vehicles and potentially almost anywhere.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Use External Data Platform to Improve Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Our research shows that external data sources are also a routine part of data preparation processes, with 80% of organizations incorporating one or more external data sources. And a similar proportion of participants in our research (84%) include external data in their data lakes.

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Modernizing Data Architectures

Data Virtualization

Recently, we have seen the rise of new technologies like big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and data lakes. But we have not seen many developments in the way that data gets delivered. Modernizing the data infrastructure is the.

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

CIO Business Intelligence

What’s also going to change this farm-to-table business is how we exploit the internet of things,” Parameswaran says, adding that he is considering employing blockchain technology to digitize Baldor’s supply chain.

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Apache Iceberg optimization: Solving the small files problem in Amazon EMR

AWS Big Data

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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Otis takes the smart elevator to new heights

CIO Business Intelligence

Otis One’s cloud-native platform is built on Microsoft Azure and taps into a Snowflake data lake. IoT sensors send elevator data to the cloud platform, where analytics are applied to support business operations, including reporting, data visualization, and predictive modeling. From the edge to the cloud.