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Diving Deeper into the Data Lake

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

A data lake is a centralized repository designed to house big data in structured, semi-structured and unstructured form. I have been covering the data lake topic for several years and encourage you to check out an earlier perspective called Data Lakes: Safe Way to Swim in Big Data?

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Data Lakes Meet Data Warehouses

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

In this analyst perspective, Dave Menninger takes a look at data lakes. He explains the term “data lake,” describes common use cases and shares his views on some of the latest market trends. He explores the relationship between data warehouses and data lakes and share some of Ventana Research’s findings on the subject.

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Good Data Governance Improves Business Processes

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Many organizations invest in data governance out of concern over misuse of data or potential data breaches. These are important considerations and valid aspects of data governance programs. However, good data governance also has positive impacts on organizations.

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Collibra Brings Effective Data Governance to Line-of-Business

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Collibra is a data governance software company that offers tools for metadata management and data cataloging. The software enables organizations to find data quickly, identify its source and assure its integrity.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. Read this paper to learn about: The value of cloud data lakes as the new system of record.

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From data lakes to insights: dbt adapter for Amazon Athena now supported in dbt Cloud

AWS Big Data

The need for streamlined data transformations As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-based data lakes and warehouses, the demand for efficient data transformation tools has grown. Using Athena and the dbt adapter, you can transform raw data in Amazon S3 into well-structured tables suitable for analytics.

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Why Your Data Lake Needs Bad Data

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Everyone talks about data quality, as they should. Our research shows that improving the quality of information is the top benefit of data preparation activities. Data quality efforts are focused on clean data. Yes, clean data is important. but so is bad data.

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