Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 1, 2024

There are many clear benefits of running a data-driven business. Unfortunately, those benefits can be quickly negated if you don’t make data integrity a priority. When we see a spam email, we almost always click the delete button too quickly, and then we wonder when it will stop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million terabytes of data will be generated by humans over the web and across devices. That’s just one of the many ways to define the uncontrollable volume of data and the challenge it poses for enterprises if they don’t adhere to advanced integration tech. By the time you finish reading this post, an additional 27.3

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 22, 2023

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, seamless data integration plays a crucial role in driving business decisions and innovation. Two prominent methodologies have emerged to facilitate this process: Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT).

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I previously explained that data observability software has become a critical component of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an environment for monitoring the quality and reliability of data on a continual basis.

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Sisense

AUGUST 28, 2020

We live in a world of data: There’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways data teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive. What is data integrity?

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 5, 2024

New drivers simplify Workday data integration for enhanced analytics and reporting RALEIGH, N.C. – The Simba Workday drivers provide secure access to Workday data for analytics, ETL (extract, transform, load) processes, and custom application development using both ODBC and JDBC technologies.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The rapid adoption of software as a service (SaaS) solutions has led to data silos across various platforms, presenting challenges in consolidating insights from diverse sources. Introducing the Salesforce connector for AWS Glue To meet the demands of diverse data integration use cases, AWS Glue now supports SaaS connectivity for Salesforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. Data theft leads to financial losses, reputational damage, and more.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Together, these capabilities enable terminal operators to enhance efficiency and competitiveness in an industry that is increasingly data driven.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As the study’s authors explain, these results underline a clear trend toward more personalized services, data-driven decision-making, and agile processes. According to the study, the biggest focus in the next three years will be on AI-supported data analysis, followed by the use of gen AI for internal use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

It’s especially poignant when we consider the extent to which financial data can steer business strategy for the better. This is the impact of data-driven financial analysis – or what is termed FP&A – in the business context. billion is lost to low-value, manual data processing and management while $1.7

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Race For Data Quality In A Medallion Architecture The Medallion architecture pattern is gaining traction among data teams. It is a layered approach to managing and transforming data. By systematically moving data through these layers, the Medallion architecture enhances the data structure in a data lakehouse environment.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This integration not only streamlines business processes but also fosters improved customer engagement through personalized experiences. Enhanced analytics driven by AI can identify patterns and trends, allowing enterprises to better predict future business needs.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

According to recent survey data from Cloudera, 88% of companies are already utilizing AI for the tasks of enhancing efficiency in IT processes, improving customer support with chatbots, and leveraging analytics for better decision-making.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 21, 2021

The same study also stated that having stronger online data security, being able to conduct more banking transactions online and having more real-time problem resolution were the top priorities of consumers. . Financial institutions need a data management platform that can keep pace with their digital transformation efforts.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 6, 2021

Specifically, in the modern era of massive data collections and exploding content repositories, we can no longer simply rely on keyword searches to be sufficient. My favorite approach to TAM creation and to modern data management in general is AI and machine learning (ML). Data catalogs are very useful and important.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The next phase of this transformation requires an intelligent data infrastructure that can bring AI closer to enterprise data. The challenges of integrating data with AI workflows When I speak with our customers, the challenges they talk about involve integrating their data and their enterprise AI workflows.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

At AWS re:Invent 2024, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker , the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. It enables teams to securely find, prepare, and collaborate on data assets and build analytics and AI applications through a single experience, accelerating the path from data to value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Data has always been fundamental to business, but as organisations continue to move to Cloud based environments coupled with advances in technology like streaming and real-time analytics, building a data driven business is one of the keys to success. There are many attributes a data-driven organisation possesses.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Some tasks should not be automated; some tasks could be automated, but the company has insufficient data to do a good job; some tasks can be automated easily, but would benefit from being redesigned first. Some of these data sources will be owned by the pharmacy; others aren’t. Most are subject to privacy regulations.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

Analytics are prone to frequent data errors and deployment of analytics is slow and laborious. When internal resources fall short, companies outsource data engineering and analytics. There’s no shortage of consultants who will promise to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data from integration to transformation to visualization. .

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Real-time data streaming and event processing are critical components of modern distributed systems architectures. Apache Kafka has emerged as a leading platform for building real-time data pipelines and enabling asynchronous communication between microservices and applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We actually started our AI journey using agents almost right out of the gate, says Gary Kotovets, chief data and analytics officer at Dun & Bradstreet. The problem is that, before AI agents can be integrated into a companys infrastructure, that infrastructure must be brought up to modern standards. According to the Tray.ai

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) provides an integrated data and AI development environment within Amazon SageMaker. From the Unified Studio, you can collaborate and build faster using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI, data processing, and SQL analytics.

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Amazon Redshift , launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. Industry-leading price-performance Amazon Redshift offers up to three times better price-performance than alternative cloud data warehouses.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 26, 2023

Data is a key enabler for your business. Many AWS customers have integrated their data across multiple data sources using AWS Glue , a serverless data integration service, in order to make data-driven business decisions.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 24, 2022

The only question is, how do you ensure effective ways of breaking down data silos and bringing data together for self-service access? It starts by modernizing your data integration capabilities – ensuring disparate data sources and cloud environments can come together to deliver data in real time and fuel AI initiatives.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Organizations run millions of Apache Spark applications each month on AWS, moving, processing, and preparing data for analytics and machine learning. Data practitioners need to upgrade to the latest Spark releases to benefit from performance improvements, new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements. Original code (Glue 2.0)

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 13, 2023

When we talk about data integrity, we’re referring to the overarching completeness, accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and security of an organization’s data. Together, these factors determine the reliability of the organization’s data. In short, yes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

As regulatory scrutiny, investor expectations, and consumer demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) accountability intensify, organizations must leverage data to drive their sustainability initiatives. However, embedding ESG into an enterprise data strategy doesnt have to start as a C-suite directive.

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Data Virtualization

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s data-driven landscape, the integration of raw source data into usable business objects is a pivotal step in ensuring that organizations can make informed decisions and maximize the value of their data assets. To achieve these goals, a well-structured.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

20, 2024 – insightsoftware , a leader in data & analytics, today announced the availability of Logi Symphony, its flagship embedded business intelligence (BI) solution, on Google Cloud Marketplace. “insightsoftware can continue to securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys.”

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This shift is partly driven by economic uncertainty and the need for businesses to justify every expense. This can not only reduce costs but also simplify your IT landscape and improve data integration. While value-based pricing is appealing in theory, it can be extremely difficult to measure and implement in practice.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Metadata can play a very important role in using data assets to make data driven decisions. Generating metadata for your data assets is often a time-consuming and manual task. Then we improve the metadata generation by adding the data documentation to the LLM prompt using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

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