DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Back by popular demand, we’ve updated our data nerd Gift Giving Guide to cap off 2021. We’ve kept some classics and added some new titles that are sure to put a smile on your data nerd’s face. Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, by Randy Bean.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 18, 2024

Over the years, organizations have invested in creating purpose-built, cloud-based data lakes that are siloed from one another. A major challenge is enabling cross-organization discovery and access to data across these multiple data lakes, each built on different technology stacks.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of finance and lending, the need for real-time, reliable, and centralized data has become paramount. Bluestone , a leading financial institution, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and transition to a data-driven organization.

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data has become an invaluable asset for businesses, offering critical insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational optimization. Today, this is powering every part of the organization, from the customer-favorite online cake customization feature to democratizing data to drive business insight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This first article emphasizes data as the ‘foundation-stone’ of AI-based initiatives. Establishing a Data Foundation. Software development, once solely the domain of human programmers, is now increasingly the by-product of data being carefully selected, ingested, and analysed by machine learning (ML) systems in a recurrent cycle.

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erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Data Security Starts with Data Governance. Who is authorized to use it and how?

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises across regulated industries face a critical challenge as they navigate their digital transformation journeys: effectively managing and governing data from legacy systems that are being phased out or replaced. The following diagram illustrates the end-to-end solution.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

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erwin

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This past year witnessed a data governance awakening – or as the Wall Street Journal called it, a “global data governance reckoning.” There was tremendous data drama and resulting trauma – from Facebook to Equifax and from Yahoo to Marriott. So what’s on the horizon for data governance in the year ahead?

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Alation

JUNE 17, 2021

We’re so proud to join this growing community of leaders in data, where we plan to deliver more value to our joint customers for years to come. Leading companies like Cisco, Nielsen, and Finnair turn to Alation + Snowflake for data governance and analytics. Data migration , too, is much easier with both platforms.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

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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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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

With hackers now working overtime to expose business data or implant ransomware processes, data security is largely IT managers’ top priority. And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Effective data governance must extend beyond the IT organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But the more challenging work is in making our processes as efficient as possible so we capture the right data in our desire to become a more data-driven business. If your processes aren’t efficient, you’ll capture the wrong data, and you wind up with the wrong insights. How are you populating your data lake?

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Although the terms data fabric and data mesh are often used interchangeably, I previously explained that they are distinct but complementary. The popularity of data fabric and data mesh has highlighted the importance of software providers, such as Denodo, that utilize data virtualization to enable logical data management.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. But to get maximum value out of data and analytics, companies need to have a data-driven culture permeating the entire organization, one in which every business unit gets full access to the data it needs in the way it needs it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an IT pilot has led to a wholesale data journey destined to transform operations at the world’s busiest airport, fueled by machine learning and generative AI. He is a very visual person, so our proof of concept collects different data sets and ingests them into our Azure data house.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources.

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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. From enhancing data lakes to empowering AI-driven analytics, AWS unveiled new tools and services that are set to shape the future of data and analytics.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 25, 2024

This post is co-authored by Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Director of Product, Salesforce Data Cloud. In today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations collect a wealth of data across various touch points and unify it in a central data warehouse or a data lake to deliver business insights.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s data-driven world , organizations are constantly seeking efficient ways to process and analyze vast amounts of information across data lakes and warehouses. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

Data governance is the collection of policies, processes, and systems that organizations use to ensure the quality and appropriate handling of their data throughout its lifecycle for the purpose of generating business value.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing and extracting valuable insights from their ever-expanding data ecosystems. As the number of data assets and users grow, the traditional approaches to data management and governance are no longer sufficient.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Once you’ve determined what part(s) of your business you’ll be innovating — the next step in a digital transformation strategy is using data to get there. Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. Many organizations prioritize data collection as part of their digital transformation strategy.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader. smava believes in and takes advantage of data-driven decisions in order to become the market leader.

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Alation

JANUARY 27, 2022

How do businesses transform raw data into competitive insights? Data analytics. As an organization embraces digital transformation , more data is available to inform decisions. To use that data, decision-makers across the company will need to have access. It can also help prevent data misuse. Value and Challenges.

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Ontotext

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the final part of this three-part series, we’ll explore ho w data mesh bolsters performance and helps organizations and data teams work more effectively. Usually, organizations will combine different domain topologies, depending on the trade-offs, and choose to focus on specific aspects of data mesh.

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BI-Survey

AUGUST 21, 2020

Data warehousing is getting on in years. However, data warehousing and BI applications are only considered moderately successful. Advanced analytics and new ways of working with data also create new requirements that surpass the traditional concepts. Can the basic nature of the data be proactively improved?

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Cloudera

MAY 9, 2023

The company also provides a variety of solutions for enterprises, including data centers, cloud, security, global, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT, and digital marketing services. Supporting Data Access to Achieve Data-Driven Innovation Due to the spread of COVID-19, demand for digital services has increased at SoftBank.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 27, 2023

Data lakes have come a long way, and there’s been tremendous innovation in this space. Today’s modern data lakes are cloud native, work with multiple data types, and make this data easily available to diverse stakeholders across the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Most organizations have come to understand the importance of being data-driven. To compete in a digital economy, it’s essential to base decisions and actions on accurate data, both real-time and historical. But the sheer volume of the world’s data is expected to nearly triple between 2020 and 2025 to a whopping 180 zettabytes.

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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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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For those in the data world, this post provides a curated guide for all analytics sessions that you can use to quickly schedule and build your itinerary. A shapeshifting guardian and protector of data like Data Lynx? Or a digitally clairvoyant master of data insights like Cloud Sight?

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