Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 14, 2025

How dbt Core aids data teams test, validate, and monitor complex data transformations and conversions Photo by NASA on Unsplash Introduction dbt Core, an open-source framework for developing, testing, and documenting SQL-based data transformations, has become a must-have tool for modern data teams as the complexity of data pipelines grows.

Data Transformation 52

Data Transformation Testing Unstructured Data Data Quality 52

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.

Data Integration 79

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Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Common challenges and practical mitigation strategies for reliable data transformations. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Introduction Data transformations are important processes in data engineering, enabling organizations to structure, enrich, and integrate data for analytics , reporting, and operational decision-making.

Testing 52

Testing Data Transformation Data-driven Manufacturing 52

Wayne Yaddow

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

AI is transforming how senior data engineers and data scientists validate data transformations and conversions. Artificial intelligence-based verification approaches aid in the detection of anomalies, the enforcement of data integrity, and the optimization of pipelines for improved efficiency.

Data Transformation 52

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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.

Visualization 71

Visualization Data Processing Testing Publishing 71

DataKitchen

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ChatGPT> DataOps, or data operations, is a set of practices and technologies that organizations use to improve the speed, quality, and reliability of their data analytics processes. The goal of DataOps is to help organizations make better use of their data to drive business decisions and improve outcomes.

Machine Learning 130

Machine Learning Data-driven Optimization Data Analytics 130

Ontotext

MARCH 20, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses are drowning in a sea of information. Traditional data integration methods struggle to bridge these gaps, hampered by high costs, data quality concerns, and inconsistencies. It’s a huge productivity loss.”

Data-driven 52

Data-driven Strategy Sales Data Integration 52

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.

Machine Learning 130

Machine Learning Cost-Benefit Data Transformation Testing 130

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For years, IT and business leaders have been talking about breaking down the data silos that exist within their organizations. Given the importance of sharing information among diverse disciplines in the era of digital transformation, this concept is arguably as important as ever. What are the challenges and potential rewards?

Data Warehouse 142

Data Warehouse Digital Transformation Data-driven Reporting 142

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 19, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to seamlessly integrate and utilize diverse data sources is critical for gaining actionable insights and driving innovation. The company stores vast amounts of transactional data, customer information, and product catalogs in Snowflake.

Analytics 107

Analytics Data-driven Data Integration Data Lake 107

erwin

APRIL 29, 2020

Data lineage is the journey data takes from its creation through its transformations over time. Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. With all these diverse data sources, and if systems are integrated, it is difficult to understand the complicated data web they form much less get a simple visual flow.

Metadata 111

Metadata Key Performance Indicator Data Governance Data Quality 111

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Data integration is the foundation of robust data analytics. It encompasses the discovery, preparation, and composition of data from diverse sources. In the modern data landscape, accessing, integrating, and transforming data from diverse sources is a vital process for data-driven decision-making.

Analytics 110

Analytics Visualization Data Integration Cost-Benefit 110

erwin

MARCH 26, 2020

Organizations are flooded with data, so they’re scrambling to find ways to derive meaningful insights from it – and then act on them to improve the bottom line. In today’s data-driven business, enabling employees to access and understand the data that’s relevant to their roles allows them to use data and put those insights into action.

Data-driven 90

Data-driven Unstructured Data Enterprise Machine Learning 90

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to using native managed AWS services that BMS didn’t need to worry about upgrading, BMS was looking to offer an ETL service to non-technical business users that could visually compose data transformation workflows and seamlessly run them on the AWS Glue Apache Spark-based serverless data integration engine.

Metadata 101

Metadata Data Lake Visualization Data Quality 101

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The most impactful data-driven insights come from connecting the dots between all your data sources—across departments, services, on-premises tools, and third-party applications. But typically, connecting data requires complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines, taking hours or days.

Dashboards 80

Dashboards Data-driven Data Integration Data Lake 80

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.

Testing 130

Testing Data-driven Visualization Dashboards 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

Data Strategy 136

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 3, 2025

These strategies can prevent delayed discovery of quality issues during data observability monitoring in production. Below is a summary of recommendations for proactively identifying and fixing flaws before they impact production data. Helps maintain business rule consistency and avoid regressions in data quality overtime.

Data Quality 52

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effortlessly move and analyze data across diverse platforms is essential. Amazon AppFlow , a fully managed data integration service, has been at the forefront of streamlining data transfer between AWS services, software as a service (SaaS) applications, and now Google BigQuery.

Data Warehouse 99

Data Warehouse Machine Learning Data Integration Data-driven 99

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Under the Transparency in Coverage (TCR) rule , hospitals and payors to publish their pricing data in a machine-readable format. The data in the machine-readable files can provide valuable insights to understand the true cost of healthcare services and compare prices and quality across hospitals.

Visualization 110

Visualization Dashboards Data-driven Gap analysis 110

Cloudera

JUNE 1, 2021

This means we can double down on our strategy – continuing to win the Hybrid Data Cloud battle in the IT department AND building new, easy-to-use cloud solutions for the line of business. It also means we can complete our business transformation with the systems, processes and people that support a new operating model. .

Uncertainty 144

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 13, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, seamless integration and transformation of data across diverse sources into actionable insights is paramount. With AWS Glue, you can discover and connect to hundreds of diverse data sources and manage your data in a centralized data catalog.

Data Processing 98

Data Processing Visualization Data Lake Data Processing 98

AWS Big Data

MARCH 15, 2023

Infomedia Ltd (ASX:IFM) is a leading global provider of DaaS and SaaS solutions that empowers the data-driven automotive ecosystem. In this post, we share how Infomedia built a serverless data pipeline with change data capture (CDC) using AWS Glue and Apache Hudi.

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Cost-Benefit Data Processing Optimization Data-driven 72

Octopai

JUNE 9, 2024

In today’s data-centric world, organizations often tout data as their most valuable asset. However, many struggle to maintain reliable, trustworthy data amidst complex, evolving environments. This challenge is especially critical for executives responsible for data strategy and operations.

IT 52

IT Data-driven Predictive Analytics Data Strategy 52

FineReport

MARCH 31, 2024

In 2024, business intelligence (BI) software has undergone significant advancements, revolutionizing data management and decision-making processes. Harnessing the power of advanced APIs, automation, and AI, these tools simplify data compilation, organization, and visualization, empowering users to extract actionable insights effortlessly.

Dashboards 52

Dashboards Visualization Data mining Data-driven 52

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In recent years, driven by the commoditization of data storage and processing solutions, the industry has seen a growing number of systematic investment management firms switch to alternative data sources to drive their investment decisions. Each team is the sole owner of its AWS account.

Interactive 86

Interactive Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Governance 86

FineReport

JUNE 7, 2024

In 2024, data visualization companies play a pivotal role in transforming complex data into captivating narratives. This blog provides an insightful exploration of the leading entities shaping the data visualization landscape. Let’s embark on a journey to uncover the top 10 Data Visualization Companies of 2024.

Visualization 52

Visualization Predictive Analytics Dashboards Predictive Modeling 52

AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

Data Lake 93

Data Lake Analytics Snapshot Data Quality 93

erwin

JANUARY 11, 2019

Organizations have spent a lot of time and money trying to harmonize data across diverse platforms , including cleansing, uploading metadata, converting code, defining business glossaries, tracking data transformations and so on. So questions linger about whether transformed data can be trusted.

Data Governance 40

Data Governance Risk Metadata Management 40

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2023

Today, in order to accelerate and scale data analytics, companies are looking for an approach to minimize infrastructure management and predict computing needs for different types of workloads, including spikes and ad hoc analytics. Prerequisites To complete the integration, you need a Redshift Serverless data warehouse.

Data Analytics 52

Data Analytics Analytics Data Warehouse Data Processing 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

In this post, we share how the AWS Data Lab helped Tricentis to improve their software as a service (SaaS) Tricentis Analytics platform with insights powered by Amazon Redshift. Although Tricentis has amassed such data over a decade, the data remains untapped for valuable insights.

Software 52

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chances are, you’ve heard of the term “modern data stack” before. In this article, I will explain the modern data stack in detail, list some benefits, and discuss what the future holds. What Is the Modern Data Stack? It is known to have benefits in handling data due to its robustness, speed, and scalability.

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data Science Data Transformation 52

Ontotext

MARCH 27, 2024

For example, GPS, social media, cell phone handoffs are modeled as graphs while data catalogs, data lineage and MDM tools leverage knowledge graphs for linking metadata with semantics. Both nodes and edges have associated properties modeled as key-values with primitive data types and are single-valued.

Modeling 53

Modeling Metadata Data Quality Enterprise 53

Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. How can data help change how care is delivered?

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Measurement Data Quality Metrics 52

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

Its AI/ML-driven predictive analysis enhanced proactive threat hunting and phishing investigations as well as automated case management for swift threat identification. Options included hosting a secondary data center, outsourcing business continuity to a vendor, and establishing private cloud solutions.

IT 119

IT Insurance Cost-Benefit Testing 119

Sisense

MAY 14, 2019

I am incredibly proud and excited that Periscope Data is combining forces with Sisense in a merger that makes it possible to deliver the premier end-to-end BI and analytics platform that is unmatched in the industry. Harry and Tom had the vision to see a world where business was guided by deep and complex data-driven insights.

Data-driven 49

Data-driven Machine Learning Business Intelligence Consulting 49

Jet Global

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The quick and dirty definition of data mapping is the process of connecting different types of data from various data sources. Data mapping is a crucial step in data modeling and can help organizations achieve their business goals by enabling data integration, migration, transformation, and quality.

Data Warehouse 52

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