David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As I explained in our recent Buyers Guide for Data Platforms , the popularization of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has had a significant impact on the requirements for data platforms in the last 18 months.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

When you think of real-time, data-driven experiences and modern applications to accomplish tasks faster and easier, your local town or city government probably doesn’t come to mind. But municipal government is starting to embrace digital transformation and therefore data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“The number-one issue for our BI team is convincing people that business intelligence will help to make true data-driven decisions,” says Diana Stout, senior business analyst at Schellman, a global cybersecurity assessor based in Tampa, Fl. Or you have a [BI tool] like Domo, which Schellman uses, that can function as a data warehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centralized reporting boosts data value For more than a decade, pediatric health system Phoenix Children’s has operated a data warehouse containing more than 120 separate data systems, providing the ability to connect data from disparate systems. Companies should also incorporate data discovery, Higginson says.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

In this post, we look at three key challenges that customers face with growing data and how a modern data warehouse and analytics system like Amazon Redshift can meet these challenges across industries and segments. Take the case of mobile gaming company Playrix.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Data as a product is the process of applying product thinking to data initiatives to ensure that the outcome —the data product—is designed to be shared and reused for multiple use cases across the business.

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. So why are organizations not able to scale governance? Meet Governance Requirements.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With quality data at their disposal, organizations can form data warehouses for the purposes of examining trends and establishing future-facing strategies. Industry-wide, the positive ROI on quality data is well understood. Business/Data Analyst: The business analyst is all about the “meat and potatoes” of the business.

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Birst BI

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Managing large-scale data warehouse systems has been known to be very administrative, costly, and lead to analytic silos. The good news is that Snowflake, the cloud data platform, lowers costs and administrative overhead. The result is a lower total cost of ownership and trusted data and analytics.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse that’s used by tens of thousands of customers for price-performance, scale, and advanced data analytics. It also was a producer for downstream Redshift data warehouses. This blog post is co-written with Pinar Yasar from Getir.

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

People might not understand the data, the data they chose might not be ideal for their application, or there might be better, more current, or more accurate data available. An effective data governance program ensures data consistency and trustworthiness. It can also help prevent data misuse.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 28, 2023

There are two broad approaches to analyzing operational data for these use cases: Analyze the data in-place in the operational database (e.g. With Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, the integration replicates data from the source database into the target data warehouse.

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Data Science 101

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you have any dashboards? Do you have a data governance document? What data do you collect? Technical Questions Before Starting a Data Strategy. How and where is your current data stored? What is the current data infrastructure? Do you have a data warehouse?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

Analytics reference architecture for gaming organizations In this section, we discuss how gaming organizations can use a data hub architecture to address the analytical needs of an enterprise, which requires the same data at multiple levels of granularity and different formats, and is standardized for faster consumption.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The application supports custom workflows to allow demand and supply planning teams to collaborate, plan, source, and fulfill customer orders, then track fulfillment metrics via persona-based operational and management reports and dashboards. The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 17, 2023

During that same time, AWS has been focused on helping customers manage their ever-growing volumes of data with tools like Amazon Redshift , the first fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse. One group performed extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations to take raw data and make it available for analysis.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse provides an open data architecture that reduces data silos and unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, Redshift data warehouses, and third-party and federated data sources. AWS Glue 5.0 Finally, AWS Glue 5.0

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FineReport

MAY 31, 2023

In today’s dynamic business environment, gaining comprehensive visibility into financial data is crucial for making informed decisions. This is where the significance of a financial dashboard shines through. What is A Financial Dashboard? You can download FineReport for free and have a try!

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

Organisations are looking at ways of simplifying data; for example, through simple rebranding efforts to disguise the complexity. However, SAP Datasphere goes much deeper deeper than a simple rebranding; it is the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.

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FineReport

APRIL 3, 2024

In today’s data-driven landscape, businesses are leaning more on BI tools , particularly BI dashboard solutions, to enhance decision-making through data visualization. These BI Dashboard tools blend advanced analytics with user-friendly interfaces, revealing invaluable insights.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 6, 2025

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift for modern data analytics at scale, delivering up to three times better price-performance and seven times better throughput than other cloud data warehouses. On the Amazon Redshift console, navigate to the Redshift Serverless dashboard. Choose Create workgroup.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. The AWS modern data architecture shows a way to build a purpose-built, secure, and scalable data platform in the cloud.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 15, 2023

It is comprised of commodity cloud object storage, open data and open table formats, and high-performance open-source query engines. To help organizations scale AI workloads, we recently announced IBM watsonx.data , a data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture and part of the watsonx AI and data platform.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The outline of the call went as follows: I was taking to a central state agency who was organizing a data governance initiative (in their words) across three other state agencies. All four agencies had reported an independent but identical experience with data governance in the past. An expensive consulting engagement.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Target – Dashboards to be refreshed on a daily basis that would provide insights on sales, gross profit, sales pipelines, and customers. Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices. BI users create dashboards and reports in QuickSight.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Collaboration – Analysts, data scientists, and data engineers often own different steps within the end-to-end analytics journey but do not have an simple way to collaborate on the same governed data, using the tools of their choice. This is more than mere data; it’s our dynamic journey.”

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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Jet Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In order to maximize the value of data and analytics in your organization to get true insights into your business, you need the right tools and processes in place. Prepare Your Data for Accurate Business Analytics and Intelligence. How Master Data Management Reduces Risk in Any Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Project.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 27, 2024

The solution uses AWS services such as AWS HealthLake , Amazon Redshift , Amazon Kinesis Data Streams , and AWS Lake Formation to build a 360 view of patients. You can send data from your streaming source to this resource for ingesting the data into a Redshift data warehouse. We use on-demand capacity mode.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 19, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed and petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that is used by tens of thousands of customers to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workload. You can structure your data, measure business processes, and get valuable insights quickly can be done by using a dimensional model.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

The sheer scale of data being captured by the modern enterprise has necessitated a monumental shift in how that data is stored. From the humble database through to data warehouses , data stores have grown both in scale and complexity to keep pace with the businesses they serve, and the data analysis now required to remain competitive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

CDP Data Analyst The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Analyst certification verifies the Cloudera skills and knowledge required for data analysts using CDP. Candidates show facility with data concepts and environments; data mining; data analysis; data governance, quality, and controls; and visualization.

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Jet Global

MAY 16, 2019

You have detailed reporting requirements that calls for self-service reporting and analytics, drilldown capabilities, and data governance. Build reports and dashboards in Excel and Power BI without technical expertise. Consolidate data from multiple systems and customize 5x faster with data warehouse automation.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 7, 2024

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone allows you to simply and securely govern end-to-end data assets stored in your Amazon Redshift data warehouses or data lakes cataloged with the AWS Glue data catalog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Layering technology on the overall data architecture introduces more complexity. Today, data architecture challenges and integration complexity impact the speed of innovation, data quality, data security, data governance, and just about anything important around generating value from data.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 26, 2020

Talend’s data management environment running on Cloudera Data Platform enables you to create and execute Hadoop and Spark integration jobs, process and reconcile Big Data, and implement data governance processes using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Certified Machine Learning Partners.

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Sisense

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Today, data teams form a foundational element of startups and are an increasingly prominent part of growing existing businesses because they are instrumental in helping their companies analyze the huge volumes of data that they must deal with.

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