Smart Data Collective

APRIL 24, 2020

Perhaps one of the biggest perks is scalability, which simply means that with good data lake ingestion a small business can begin to handle bigger data numbers. The reality is businesses that are collecting data will likely be doing so on several levels. Data Analytics Simplified. Proper Scalability.

Data Lake 131

Data Lake Data Collection Deep Learning Management 131

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Amazon Redshift , launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. This allowed customers to scale read analytics workloads and offered isolation to help maintain SLAs for business-critical applications.

Data Lake 81

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Optimization 81

datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

When encouraging these BI best practices what we are really doing is advocating for agile business intelligence and analytics. In our opinion, both terms, agile BI and agile analytics, are interchangeable and mean the same. What Is Agile Analytics And BI? Agile Business Intelligence & Analytics Methodology.

Business Intelligence 276

Business Intelligence Analytics Testing Dashboards 276

Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

Will you please describe your role at Fractal Analytics? Are you seeing currently any specific issues in the Insurance industry that should concern Chief Data & Analytics Officers? Are you seeing currently any specific issues in the Insurance industry that should concern Chief Data & Analytics Officers?

Insurance 250

Insurance Analytics Forecasting Deep Learning 250

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Amazon Redshift has established itself as a highly scalable, fully managed cloud data warehouse trusted by tens of thousands of customers for its superior price-performance and advanced data analytics capabilities. This allows you to maintain a comprehensive view of your data while optimizing for cost-efficiency.

Data Lake 101

Data Lake Data Warehouse Recreation/Entertainment Data-driven 101

AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

Data Lake 125

Data Lake Metadata Statistics Optimization 125

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Curate the data.

Data Architecture 122

Data Architecture Management Consulting Internet of Things 122

AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Sales Data Warehouse Snapshot 116

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. In practice, OTFs are used in a broad range of analytical workloads, from business intelligence to machine learning.

Metadata 95

Metadata Data Lake Snapshot Data Warehouse 95

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlocking the true value of data often gets impeded by siloed information. Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. Amazon DataZone natively supports data sharing for Amazon Redshift data assets.

Data Lake 108

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Governance Publishing 108

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging. The Lambda function sends the content to Amazon Bedrock with directions to summarize it.

Data Lake 101

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 101

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Data professionals need to access and work with this information for businesses to run efficiently, and to make strategic forecasting decisions through AI-powered data models. Without integrating mainframe data, it is likely that AI models and analytics initiatives will have blind spots.

Metadata 98

Metadata Data Lake Cost-Benefit Forecasting 98

AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 93

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The CDH is used to create, discover, and consume data products through a central metadata catalog, while enforcing permission policies and tightly integrating data engineering, analytics, and machine learning services to streamline the user journey from data to insight.

Data Lake 88

Data Lake Sales Metadata Machine Learning 88

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Enhance agility by localizing changes within business domains and clear data contracts. Eliminate centralized bottlenecks and complex data pipelines.

IoT 100

IoT Machine Learning Metadata Data-driven 100

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In 2022, data organizations will institute robust automated processes around their AI systems to make them more accountable to stakeholders. Model developers will test for AI bias as part of their pre-deployment testing. Continuous testing, monitoring and observability will prevent biased models from deploying or continuing to operate.

Testing 245

Testing Data Lake Data Architecture Manufacturing 245

DataKitchen

AUGUST 19, 2021

In figure 1 below, we see that the data requirements are quite different for each of three critical phases of a drug’s lifecycle: Table 1: Lifecycle phases of pharmaceutical product launch. Each distinct phase of the drug lifecycle requires a unique focus for analytics. Pharma Data Requirements. The new Recipes run, and BOOM!

Data Warehouse 246

Data Warehouse Data Lake Manufacturing Testing 246

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Analytics remained one of the key focus areas this year, with significant updates and innovations aimed at helping businesses harness their data more efficiently and accelerate insights. This zero-ETL integration reduces the complexity and operational burden of data replication to let you focus on deriving insights from your data.

Analytics 59

Analytics Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse 59

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

I assert that through 2026, almost all enterprises developing applications based on GenAI will explore vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to complement foundation models with proprietary data and content.

Data Lake 130

Data Lake IoT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 130

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. Of those tables, some are larger (such as in terms of record volume) than others, and some are updated more frequently than others.

Data Lake 103

Data Lake Data Processing Metadata Snapshot 103

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Databricks is a data engineering and analytics cloud platform built on top of Apache Spark that processes and transforms huge volumes of data and offers data exploration capabilities through machine learning models. The platform supports streaming data, SQL queries, graph processing and machine learning.

Big Data 327

Big Data Data Processing Machine Learning Modeling 327

AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Use cases for Hive metastore federation for Amazon EMR Hive metastore federation for Amazon EMR is applicable to the following use cases: Governance of Amazon EMR-based data lakes – Producers generate data within their AWS accounts using an Amazon EMR-based data lake supported by EMRFS on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)and HBase.

Data Lake 96

Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Processing 96

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. And as businesses contend with increasingly large amounts of data, the cloud is fast becoming the logical place where analytics work gets done.

Data Lake 116

Data Lake Analytics Data Warehouse Machine Learning 116

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Enterprise data is brought into data lakes and data warehouses to carry out analytical, reporting, and data science use cases using AWS analytical services like Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift , Amazon EMR , and so on. foundation model (FM) in Amazon Bedrock as the LLM. The answer is yes.

Metadata 88

Metadata Data Lake Modeling Data Warehouse 88

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2024

billion acquisition of data and analytics company Neustar in 2021, TransUnion has expanded into other services such as marketing, fraud detection and prevention, and robust analytical services. At the core of its strategy is the mountain of data that TransUnion has acquired — along with more than 25 companies — over decades.

Modeling 114

Modeling IT Machine Learning Data Governance 114

DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. See the pattern?

Data Architecture 246

Data Architecture Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 246

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) provides a unified experience for using data, analytics, and AI capabilities. You can use familiar AWS services for model development, generative AI, data processing, and analyticsall within a single, governed environment. To use Amazon Bedrock FMs, grant access to base models.

Data Analytics 72

Data Analytics Analytics Modeling Management 72

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2023

Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other business data, as well as support the use of business intelligence (BI) tools and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. Search for the Jira Cloud connector.

Data Lake 92

Data Lake Data Transformation Data-driven Cost-Benefit 92

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Yet, despite growing investments in advanced analytics and AI, organizations continue to grapple with a persistent and often underestimated challenge: poor data quality.

Data Quality 102

Data Quality Data-driven Key Performance Indicator Metadata 102

AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2025

In modern data architectures, Apache Iceberg has emerged as a popular table format for data lakes, offering key features including ACID transactions and concurrent write support. About the Authors Sotaro Hikita is an Analytics Solutions Architect. This scenario applies to any type of updates on an Iceberg table.

Snapshot 117

Snapshot Management Metadata Big Data 117

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

What are predictive analytics tools? Predictive analytics tools blend artificial intelligence and business reporting. But there are deeper challenges because predictive analytics software can’t magically anticipate moments when the world shifts gears and the future bears little relationship to the past. Highlights. Deployment.

Predictive Analytics 137

Predictive Analytics Analytics Statistics Machine Learning 137

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This evaluation, we feel, critically examines vendors capabilities to address key service needs, including data engineering, operational data integration, modern data architecture delivery, and enabling less-technical data integration across various deployment models.

Data Integration 81

Data Integration Data Lake Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 81

AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Data Warehouse Marketing Management 93

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When building a machine-learning-powered tool to predict the maintenance needs of its customers, Ensono found that its customers used multiple old apps to collect incident tickets, but those apps stored incident data in very different formats, with inconsistent types of data collected, he says.

Insurance 108

Insurance Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Data Lake 108

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

This cloud service was a significant leap from the traditional data warehousing solutions, which were expensive, not elastic, and required significant expertise to tune and operate. Amazon Redshift Serverless, generally available since 2021, allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage the data warehouse.

Data Warehouse 112

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Machine Learning 112

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2024

One-time and complex queries are two common scenarios in enterprise data analytics. Complex queries, on the other hand, refer to large-scale data processing and in-depth analysis based on petabyte-level data warehouses in massive data scenarios.

Snapshot 79

Snapshot Recreation/Entertainment Experimentation Data Lake 79

AWS Big Data

JUNE 23, 2023

Events and many other security data types are stored in Imperva’s Threat Research Multi-Region data lake. Imperva harnesses data to improve their business outcomes. As part of their solution, they are using Amazon QuickSight to unlock insights from their data.

Data Lake 75

Data Lake Dashboards Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 75