David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 22, 2025

I recently described how business data catalogs are evolving into data intelligence catalogs. These catalogs combine technical and business metadata and data governance capabilities with knowledge graph functionality to deliver a holistic, business-level view of data production and consumption.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 28, 2021

Below, we’ll take a look at four industries that were major mobile app early-adopters, and we’ll see how they’re reaping the benefits of data-driven app development. What are data-driven apps? First, it’s important to understand what a data-driven app actually is. 4) (2) (5). Final Thoughts. References.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 21, 2025

The root cause of the problem came down to data quality. In fact, through 2026, more than one-half of enterprises will recognize that modernizing processes will be necessary to capture the data needed to enable new generative AI (GenAI) features that aid in maximizing sales effectiveness to achieve revenue targets.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 14, 2025

Data governance has always been a critical part of the data and analytics landscape. However, for many years, it was seen as a preventive function to limit access to data and ensure compliance with security and data privacy requirements. Data governance is integral to an overall data intelligence strategy.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A growing number of organizations are resorting to the use of big data. They have found that big data technology offers a number of benefits. However, utilizing big data is more difficult than it might seem. Companies must be aware of the different ways that data can be collected, aggregated and applied.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 1, 2022

More businesses are becoming reliant on big data than ever these days. Big data has been especially important for implementing modern marketing strategies. billion by 2026 as more marketers discover the benefits of big data technology. However, marketers are also leveraging big data for newer marketing strategies as well.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Big data is changing the future of software development in countless ways. Towards Data Science talked about some of the biggest changes that big data has created in this rapidly evolving field. One of them was the shift towards all-in-one data-driven software development across various industries.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 20, 2025

Domo is best known as a business intelligence (BI) and analytics software provider, thanks to its functionality for visualization, reporting, data science and embedded analytics. Facilitating self-service data analytics was an early design goal for Domo, providing the company with differentiation compared to many of its rivals.

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erwin

AUGUST 20, 2020

It provides a visual blueprint, demonstrating the connection between applications, technologies and data to the business functions they support. And thanks to data –our need to store and process it, and the insights it provides – such change is happening faster than ever. Data Governance. Data Security & Risk Management.

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datapine

MAY 14, 2019

“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.” – Chris Lynch, big data expert. We live in a world saturated with data. Zettabytes of data are floating around in our digital universe, just waiting to be analyzed and explored, according to AnalyticsWeek. Wondering which data science book to read?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs. AI a primary driver in IT modernization and data mobility AI’s demand for data requires businesses to have a secure and accessible data strategy. Cost, by comparison, ranks a distant 10th.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The proliferation of big data has had a huge impact on modern businesses. We have a post on some of the industries that have been most affected by big data. Of course, there are some reasons big data can help make our communities more sustainable. What makes them different from traditional data centers? from 2021 to 2027.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and from third-party sources. Using Amazon DataZone lets us avoid building and maintaining an in-house platform, allowing our developers to focus on tailored solutions.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Companies are investing more in big data than ever before. Last year, global businesses spent over $271 billion on big data. While there are many benefits of big data technology, the steep price tag can’t be ignored. We mentioned that data analytics offers a number of benefits with financial planning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester predicts a reset is looming despite the enthusiasm for AI-driven transformations.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 2, 2021

Data-driven organizations are always looking for smarter ways to reach their customers. One of the biggest benefits of using big data in 2021 is improving customer engagement. Online businesses have discovered that big data can be a powerful asset when they want to boost their conversion rates.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

When I joined, there was a lot of silo data everywhere throughout the organization, and everyone was doing their own reporting. It was also a lot of churning for the different groups to come up with those data on the weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.” But where to begin? “We That’s the first level of a cultural shift.

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datapine

MAY 5, 2023

With YoY analysis, you compare growth data for two specific timeframes from consecutive years against one another to see if the metric has dwindled, increased, or remained the same. Typically, data for a financial year, month, or quarter is compared to the same time period of the previous year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

But this definition misses the essence of modern enterprise architecture. If we were going to amend this definition it would include that an architect addresses many concerns, enables integration (integration issues are often where architects focus much of their attention) and ensures the evolvability of a system.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. It provides a conversational interface where users can submit queries in natural language within the scope of their current data permissions. Your data is not shared across accounts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As such, the data on labor, occupancy, and engagement is extremely meaningful. Here, CIO Patrick Piccininno provides a roadmap of his journey from data with no integration to meaningful dashboards, insights, and a data literate culture. You ’re building an enterprise data platform for the first time in Sevita’s history.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data exploded and became big. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. 1) Data Quality Management (DQM). We all gained access to the cloud.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 5, 2023

That’s because AI algorithms are trained on data. By its very nature, data is an artifact of something that happened in the past. Data is a relic–even if it’s only a few milliseconds old. When we decide which data to use and which data to discard, we are influenced by our innate biases and pre-existing beliefs.

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erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Q: Is data modeling cool again? In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. A: It always was and is getting cooler!!

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datapine

MAY 20, 2020

To put the power of CRM software (or customer relationship management dashboard software) into a living, breathing, real-world perspective, we’ll explore CRM dashboards in more detail, starting with basic definitions of such dashboards and reports while considering how you can use CRM dashboard software to your business-boosting advantage.

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datapine

APRIL 22, 2020

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore. And, as a business, if you use your data wisely, you stand to reap great rewards. Data brings a wealth of invaluable insights that could significantly boost the growth and evolution of your business.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Third, any commitment to a disruptive technology (including data-intensive and AI implementations) must start with a business strategy. These changes may include requirements drift, data drift, model drift, or concept drift. A business-disruptive ChatGPT implementation definitely fits into this category: focus first on the MVP or MLP.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“Software as a service” (SaaS) is becoming an increasingly viable choice for organizations looking for the accessibility and versatility of software solutions and online data analysis tools without the need to rely on installing and running applications on their own computer systems and data centers. How will AI improve SaaS in 2020?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We are excited to announce the acquisition of Octopai , a leading data lineage and catalog platform that provides data discovery and governance for enterprises to enhance their data-driven decision making.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Why: Data Makes It Different. Much has been written about struggles of deploying machine learning projects to production. This approach is not novel.

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datapine

JULY 31, 2019

In a data-driven age, modern organizations need access to advanced data analytics solutions to help them improve the business in a wealth of key areas—Salesforce is one of those solutions. Exclusive Bonus Content: Your Definitive Guide to Salesforce Reports! So, what tools do we use for Salesforce?

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Previously, we discussed the top 19 big data books you need to read, followed by our rundown of the world’s top business intelligence books as well as our list of the best SQL books for beginners and intermediates. Data visualization, or ‘data viz’ as it’s commonly known, is the graphic presentation of data.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MAY 6, 2025

Large language models have allowed BI providers to accelerate the delivery of functionality to convert natural language questions into analytic queries and generate summarizations and recommendations from data and charts. Features that enable natural language query and natural language generation are now ubiquitous.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for instance, imposes fines of up to 2%–4% of global annual revenue. For instance, financial companies are investing millions into using artificial intelligence to comply with anti-money laundering regulations or stricter data regulations. Don’t do it.

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