Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. Which trends do you see for 2022 in AI & ML technology and tools and tool capabilities? We will publish a new Top Trends for D&A for 2022 in a couple of months. – We do have a job description of a CDO.

Analytics 64

Analytics Measurement Data-driven Modeling 64

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Birgit Fridrich, who joined Allianz as sustainability manager responsible for ESG reporting in late 2022, spends many hours validating data in the company’s Microsoft Sustainability Manager tool. Data quality is key, but if we’re doing it manually there’s the potential for mistakes.

Reporting 115

Reporting Data Quality Strategy Data-driven 115

AWS Big Data

JULY 16, 2024

In 2022, Zurich began a multi-year program to accelerate their digital transformation and innovation through the migration of 1,000 applications to AWS, including core insurance and SAP workloads. SIEM solutions help you implement real-time reporting by monitoring your environment for security threats and alerting on threats once detected.

Insurance 130

Insurance Management Cost-Benefit Optimization 130

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In 2022, AWS commissioned a study conducted by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) to quantify the Business Value of Customer 360. Profile aggregation – When you’ve uniquely identified a customer, you can build applications in Managed Service for Apache Flink to consolidate all their metadata, from name to interaction history.

Data Strategy 98

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 98

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

After the data lands in Amazon S3, smava uses the AWS Glue Data Catalog and crawlers to automatically catalog the available data, capture the metadata, and provide an interface that allows querying all data assets. Evolution of the data platform requirements smava started with a single Redshift cluster to host all three data stages.

Data Lake 115

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven B2B 115

AWS Big Data

MARCH 9, 2023

SCD2 metadata – rec_eff_dt and rec_exp_dt indicate the state of the record. Register source tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog We use an AWS Glue crawler to infer metadata from delimited data files like the CSV files used in this post. It is also called the surrogate key and has a unique value that is monotonically increasing.

Slice and Dice 98

Slice and Dice Data Warehouse Metrics Metadata 98

Cloudera

JANUARY 19, 2024

Supported AI models and services The SQL AI Assistant is not bundled with a specific LLM; instead it supports various LLMs and hosting services. The model can run locally, be hosted on CML infra or in the infrastructure of a trusted service provider. You must have an AWS account with Bedrock access before following these steps.

Data Warehouse 72

Data Warehouse Data Processing Optimization Modeling 72

Alation

MAY 11, 2023

This multi-brand online retailer hosts thousands of products for sale on the internet and collects millions of bits and bytes of data across customer touchpoints each day. The CDO of The Very Group, Steve Pimblett, is an Alation champion who’s overseen incredible momentum around data use within his own organisation.

B2B 52

B2B Finance Data Governance Marketing 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

That means security, governance, and metadata. Here are three examples of organizations that unlocked increased value from hybrid data models: A large African telecommunications company was able to build up its analytics once and then deploy them on whatever infrastructure was available in the specific country of the African continent.

Insurance 52

Insurance Metadata Data Processing Machine Learning 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Although this post uses an Aurora PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS as the data source, the solution can be extended to ingest data from any of the AWS DMS supported databases hosted on your data centers. Solution overview The following diagram shows the overall architecture of the solution that we implement in this post.

Data Lake 98

Data Lake Dashboards Metrics Metadata 98

Alation

MAY 11, 2023

This multi-brand online retailer hosts thousands of products for sale on the internet and collects millions of bits and bytes of data across customer touchpoints each day. The CDO of The Very Group, Steve Pimblett, is an Alation champion who’s overseen incredible momentum around data use within his own organisation.

B2B 40

B2B Finance Data Governance Marketing 40

Alation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And they rarely, if ever, host the most current data available. You founded Kloudio to address the spreadsheet problem, and Alation acquired Kloudio in February of 2022. In the future, spreadsheet users will be able to curate and publish rich metadata about their spreadsheets back into the data catalog.

Metadata 52

Metadata Enterprise Cost-Benefit Data Quality 52

Laminar Security

MAY 3, 2023

According to our recent State of Cloud Data Security Report 2023 , 77% of organizations experienced a cloud data breach in 2022. That’s particularly concerning considering that 60% of worldwide corporate data was stored in the cloud during that same period. Organizations have an array of technologies across their security and IT teams.

Management 40

Management Risk Risk Management Data Processing 40

Cloudera

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2022, it’s hard to believe, that for the first decades of the Information Age, the U.S. billion for 2022 represents a full 11% of the nation’s total. The centerpiece of MHS Genesis is Cerner’s Millennium services management platform, which provides hosted software-as-a-service functionality in the cloud.

Informatics 87

Informatics Metadata Insurance Data Processing 87

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Absence of data catalog and metadata management – Data didn’t have any metadata associated with it, and so use cases couldn’t consume the data without further explanation from the data source owners and specialists. In addition, they use generative AI capabilities to generate business metadata.

Digital Transformation 111

Digital Transformation Metadata Data Quality Manufacturing 111

AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2025

In 2022, Flutter UKI reached a crossroads. Performance Optimization: A significant portion of the DAGs are dynamically generated based on database metadata. Task code and common modules are hosted on Amazon S3 and retrieved at runtime. Placing code outside of tasks was avoided, including parameter evaluation.

Optimization 66

Optimization Management Recreation/Entertainment Testing 66

Andrew White

MARCH 31, 2023

I hosted 25 1-1s in between the meetings and presentations. Data mesh versus data fabric I am not the expert here but in lay terms, I believe both fabric and mesh include a semantic inference engine that consumes active metadata. It seems 2022 was a record year for VC funding overall.

Analytics 40

Analytics Marketing Data-driven Visualization 40