AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this post, we focus on data management implementation options such as accessing data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), using popular data formats like Parquet, or using open table formats like Iceberg. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research.

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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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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. Python 3.7) to Spark 3.3.0

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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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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. They tested free shipping as a lever against a 10% discount on each order and found that the former generated twice as much business. billion is lost to low-value, manual data processing and management while $1.7

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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The need to integrate diverse data sources has grown exponentially, but there are several common challenges when integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources, services, and applications. First, you need to create and maintain independent connections to the same data source for different services.

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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. But the core of the process is simple, and hasn’t changed much since the early days of web testing. What’s required?

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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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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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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For several years now, the elephant in the room has been that data and analytics projects are failing. Gartner estimated that 85% of big data projects fail. Add all these facts together, and it paints a picture that something is amiss in the data world. . The top-line result was that 97% of data engineers are feeling burnout. .

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Data-driven companies sense change through data analytics. Companies turn to their data organization to provide the analytics that stimulates creative problem-solving. The speed at which the data team responds to these requests is critical. The agility of analytics directly relates to data analytics workflows.

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DataKitchen

MAY 10, 2024

The Five Use Cases in Data Observability: Mastering Data Production (#3) Introduction Managing the production phase of data analytics is a daunting challenge. Overseeing multi-tool, multi-dataset, and multi-hop data processes ensures high-quality outputs.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In today’s data-driven landscape, Data and Analytics Teams i ncreasingly face a unique set of challenges presented by Demanding Data Consumers who require a personalized level of Data Observability. Data Observability platforms often need to deliver this level of customization.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. The volume and variety of data has snowballed, and so has its velocity. So it’s safe to say that organizations can’t reap the rewards of their data without automation.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

So if you’re going to move from your data from on-premise legacy data stores and warehouse systems to the cloud, you should do it right the first time. And as you make this transition, you need to understand what data you have, know where it is located, and govern it along the way. Then you must bulk load the legacy data.

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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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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

Enterprises are trying to manage data chaos. They also face increasing regulatory pressure because of global data regulations , such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), that went into effect last week on Jan. GDPR: Key Differences.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In such an era, data provides a competitive edge for businesses to stay at the forefront in their respective fields. According to Forrester’s reports, the rate of insight-driven businesses is growing at an average of 30% per year. Challenges in maintaining data. Advantages of data fabrication for data management.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Part 2: Introducing Data Journeys. Observability is a methodology for providing visibility of every journey that data takes from source to customer value across every tool, environment, data store, team, and customer so that problems are detected and addressed immediately.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver AI across their enterprises – a new reality that, despite the hype, requires pragmatic approaches to testing, deploying, and managing the technologies responsibly to help their organizations work faster and smarter. The top brass is paying close attention.

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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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datapine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

a) Data Connectors Features. For a few years now, Business Intelligence (BI) has helped companies to collect, analyze, monitor, and present their data in an efficient way to extract actionable insights that will ensure sustainable growth. Your Chance: Want to take your data analysis to the next level? Table of Contents.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your LLM Needs a Data Journey: A Comprehensive Guide for Data Engineers The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 marks a transformative era in artificial intelligence, heralding new possibilities and challenges in equal measure. Embedding: The retrieved data is encoded into embeddings that the LLM can interpret.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2022

To simplify data access and empower users to leverage trusted information, organizations need a better approach that provides better insights and business outcomes faster, without sacrificing data access controls. There are many different approaches, but you’ll want an architecture that can be used regardless of your data estate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Moreover, companies may neglect adequate backup or fail to thoroughly test restore processes, potentially compromising data integrity and business continuity. The absence of regular fire drills and stress tests further compounds these issues, as organizations remain unaware of potential weaknesses until a crisis occurs.

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DataKitchen

JULY 27, 2023

The Ten Standard Tools To Develop Data Pipelines In Microsoft Azure. While working in Azure with our customers, we have noticed several standard Azure tools people use to develop data pipelines and ETL or ELT processes. We counted ten ‘standard’ ways to transform and set up batch data pipelines in Microsoft Azure.

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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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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to using AI and machine learning across your organization, there are many good reasons to provide your data and analytics community with an intelligent data foundation. For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured. Lets give a for instance.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Monitoring data pipelines in real time is critical for catching issues early and minimizing disruptions. AWS Glue has made this more straightforward with the launch of AWS Glue job observability metrics , which provide valuable insights into your data integration pipelines built on AWS Glue. Choose Add new data source.

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Juice Analytics

MARCH 27, 2021

We’ve found 10 of the best options to automate and update data for recurring presentations. The Challenge Let’s say you need to produce the same presentation month after month, updating the data each time. The presentation is basically the same, you simply want to swap out the underlying data. Efficiency. Cost: $29/user/month.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2022

With data increasingly vital to business success, business intelligence (BI) continues to grow in importance. With a strong BI strategy and team, organizations can perform the kinds of analysis necessary to help users make data-driven business decisions. BI encompasses numerous roles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

A data management platform (DMP) is a group of tools designed to help organizations collect and manage data from a wide array of sources and to create reports that help explain what is happening in those data streams. Deploying a DMP can be a great way for companies to navigate a business world dominated by data.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

AWS Data Pipeline helps customers automate the movement and transformation of data. With Data Pipeline, customers can define data-driven workflows, so that tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks. The option you choose depends on your current workload on Data Pipeline.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Enterprises and organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. However, throughout history, data services have held dominion over their customers’ data.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Cybersecurity is the practice of taking precautions to protect data privacy, security, and reliability from being compromised online. Specialists in cybersecurity help in taking appropriate precautions to secure sensitive data and individual privacy in the modern digital environment. What do cybersecurity specialists do?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

July 26, 2024: Salesforce and Workday are partnering to build a new AI-based employee service agent based on a common data foundation. IDC Research: Salesforce 1QFY25: Building a Data Foundation to Connect with Customers June 5, 2024: Salesforce reported solid growth including $9.13 billion in revenue or 11% year-over-year growth.

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