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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond breaking down silos, modern data architectures need to provide interfaces that make it easy for users to consume data using tools fit for their jobs. Data must be able to freely move to and from data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts, and interfaces must make it easy for users to consume that data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Moreover, organizations are seeking solutions that not only safeguard this legacy data but also provide seamless access based on existing user entitlements, while maintaining robust audit trails and governance controls. On the Lake Formation console, choose Databases in the navigation pane.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. Divisions decide how many domains to have within their node; some may have one, others many.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. With automation, data quality is systemically assured.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2023

Building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides numerous benefits for an organization. However, many use cases, like performing change data capture (CDC) from an upstream relational database to an Amazon S3-based data lake, require handling data at a record level.

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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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Cloudera

AUGUST 4, 2021

And if data security tops IT concerns, data governance should be their second priority. Not only is it critical to protect data, but data governance is also the foundation for data-driven businesses and maximizing value from data analytics. But it’s still not easy. But it’s still not easy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Mark Booth: We have a growth strategy to improve our business, and to support that, we’re driving a transformation in technology and business processes. 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.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

Data Lakes have been around for well over a decade now, supporting the analytic operations of some of the largest world corporations. Such data volumes are not easy to move, migrate or modernize. The challenges of a monolithic data lake architecture Data lakes are, at a high level, single repositories of data at scale.

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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

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. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. He is passionate about helping customers in cloud adoption, migration and strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

The original proof of concept was to have one data repository ingesting data from 11 sources, including flat files and data stored via APIs on premises and in the cloud, Pruitt says. There are a lot of variables that determine what should go into the data lake and what will probably stay on premise,” Pruitt says.

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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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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The following are the key components of the Bluestone Data Platform: Data mesh architecture – Bluestone adopted a data mesh architecture, a paradigm that distributes data ownership across different business units. This enables data-driven decision-making across the organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Still, to truly create lasting value with data, organizations must develop data management mastery. This means excelling in the under-the-radar disciplines of data architecture and data governance. Contributing to the general lack of data about data is complexity. Seven individuals raised their hands.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

New feature: Custom AWS service blueprints Previously, Amazon DataZone provided default blueprints that created AWS resources required for data lake, data warehouse, and machine learning use cases. You can build projects and subscribe to both unstructured and structured data assets within the Amazon DataZone portal.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the core features of AWS Lake Formation is the delegation of permissions on a subset of resources such as databases, tables, and columns in AWS Glue Data Catalog to data stewards, empowering them make decisions regarding who should get access to their resources and helping you decentralize the permissions management of your data lakes.

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Cloudera

MAY 9, 2023

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will enable SoftBank to increase resources flexibly as needed and adjust resources to meet business needs. In addition, it has functions to review and update user access controls regularly as part of data governance.

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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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Alation

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data is a key asset for businesses in the modern world. Used correctly, it can improve internal operations, power marketing strategies, and much more. That’s why many organizations invest in technology to improve data processes, such as a machine learning data pipeline. Let’s look at five different ways.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Many businesses now need to achieve free and open data access in order to derive value and improve efficiencies as they navigate the ‘new norm’ — whether that’s involved working from a home office, or the garden shed. Toolsets and strategies have had to shift to ensure controlled access to data.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

To companies entrenched in decades-old business and IT processes, data fiefdoms, and legacy systems, the task may seem insurmountable. Develop a strategy to liberate data . Which type(s) of storage consolidation you use depends on the data you generate and collect. . Set up unified data governance rules and processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

The first generation of data architectures represented by enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms were characterized by thousands of ETL jobs, tables, and reports that only a small group of specialized data engineers understood, resulting in an under-realized positive impact on the business.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This past week, I had the pleasure of hosting Data Governance for Dummies author Jonathan Reichental for a fireside chat , along with Denise Swanson , Data Governance lead at Alation. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program?

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As your company transforms, you need a data foundation for business applications, new technical innovations, and data-driven business initiatives. With new capabilities for self-service and simpler builder experiences, you can democratize data access for line-of-business users, analysts, scientists, and engineers.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

AWS Lake Formation helps with enterprise data governance and is important for a data mesh architecture. It works with the AWS Glue Data Catalog to enforce data access and governance. This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 17, 2024

Su questa data platform, infatti, convergono tutti i dati generati dagli utenti sui sistemi della società, ovviamente solo laddove abbiano dato il consenso previsto dalle norme per la privacy. Il CIO ha, tuttavia, il fondamentale compito di coordinare la C-suite sulle strategie che ruotano intorno ai dati.

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DataKitchen

JUNE 12, 2023

We had been talking about “Agile Analytic Operations,” “DevOps for Data Teams,” and “Lean Manufacturing For Data,” but the concept was hard to get across and communicate. I spent much time de-categorizing DataOps: we are not discussing ETL, Data Lake, or Data Science.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. With both technology and business organization deeply involved in the what, why, and how of data, companies need to create cross-functional data teams to get the most out of it. That strategy is doomed to fail. What are the layers?

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