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It’s 2025. Are your data strategies strong enough to de-risk AI adoption?

CIO Business Intelligence

If 2023 was the year of AI discovery and 2024 was that of AI experimentation, then 2025 will be the year that organisations seek to maximise AI-driven efficiencies and leverage AI for competitive advantage. Primary among these is the need to ensure the data that will power their AI strategies is fit for purpose.

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Build a high-performance quant research platform with Apache Iceberg

AWS Big Data

Iceberg offers distinct advantages through its metadata layer over Parquet, such as improved data management, performance optimization, and integration with various query engines. Icebergs table format separates data files from metadata files, enabling efficient data modifications without full dataset rewrites.

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SAP Datasphere Powers Business at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The release of SAP Datasphere was launched and announced globally on March 8, 2023. Datasphere goes beyond the “big three” data usage end-user requirements (ease of discovery, access, and delivery) to include data orchestration (data ops and data transformations) and business data contextualization (semantics, metadata, catalog services).

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Enterprises can gain an edge with Metadata Management

CIO Business Intelligence

Central to this is metadata management, a critical component for driving future success AI and ML need large amounts of accurate data for companies to get the most out of the technology. Let’s dive into what that looks like, what workarounds some IT teams use today, and why metadata management is the key to success.

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Run Apache XTable in AWS Lambda for background conversion of open table formats

AWS Big Data

Central to a transactional data lake are open table formats (OTFs) such as Apache Hudi , Apache Iceberg , and Delta Lake , which act as a metadata layer over columnar formats. Originally open sourced in November 2023 under the name OneTable, with contributions from amongst others OneHouse , it was licensed under Apache 2.0.

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AWS Lake Formation 2023 year in review

AWS Big Data

In this post, we are happy to summarize the results of our hard work in 2023 to improve and simplify data governance for customers. We announced our new features and capabilities during AWS re:Invent 2023, as is our custom every year. In 2023, we released several updates to AWS Glue crawlers. Bienvenue dans DataZone!

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Write queries faster with Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift was launched in preview during AWS re:Invent 2023. It enables you to get insights faster without extensive knowledge of your organization’s complex database schema and metadata. It uses metadata from database schemas to improve the SQL query suggestions.