CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

As part of its plan, the IT team conducted a wide-ranging data assessment to determine who has access to what data, and each data source’s encryption needs. 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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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 5, 2025

In this post, well see the fundamental procedures, tools, and techniques that data engineers, data scientists, and QA/testing teams use to ensure high-quality data as soon as its deployed. First, we look at how unit and integration tests uncover transformation errors at an early stage.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For each service, you need to learn the supported authorization and authentication methods, data access APIs, and framework to onboard and test data sources. This approach simplifies your data journey and helps you meet your security requirements.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Extrinsic Control Deficit: Many of these changes stem from tools and processes beyond the immediate control of the data team. Unregulated ETL/ELT Processes: The absence of stringent data quality tests in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) or ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes further exacerbates the problem.

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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.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Build data validation rules directly into ingestion layers so that insufficient data is stopped at the gate and not detected after damage is done. Use lineage tooling to trace data from source to report. Understanding how data transforms and where it breaks is crucial for audibility and root-cause resolution.

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DataKitchen

JULY 27, 2023

Let’s go through the ten Azure data pipeline tools Azure Data Factory : This cloud-based data integration service allows you to create data-driven workflows for orchestrating and automating data movement and transformation. Azure Blob Storage serves as the data lake to store raw data.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 20, 2020

DataOps Engineers implement the continuous deployment of data analytics. They give data scientists tools to instantiate development sandboxes on demand. They automate the data operations pipeline and create platforms used to test and monitor data from ingestion to published charts and graphs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance. What are the four types of data analytics?

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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.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The goal of DataOps Observability is to provide visibility of every journey that data takes from source to customer value across every tool, environment, data store, data and analytic team, and customer so that problems are detected, localized and raised immediately. A data journey spans and tracks multiple pipelines.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 30, 2025

Our approach The migration initiative consisted of two main parts: building the new architecture and migrating data pipelines from the existing tool to the new architecture. Often, we would work on both in parallel, testing one component of the architecture while developing another at the same time.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 3, 2025

Photo by CDC on Unsplash Many data pipeline failures and quality issues that are detected by data observability tools in production could have been prevented earlier in the pipeline lifecycle with better pre-production testing strategies. Helps identify transformation errors, and data quality issues early, minimizing risks.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As Gameskraft’s portfolio of gaming products increased, it led to an approximate five-times growth of dedicated data analytics and data science teams. Consequently, there was a fivefold rise in data integrations and a fivefold increase in ad hoc queries submitted to the Redshift cluster.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

To fuel self-service analytics and provide the real-time information customers and internal stakeholders need to meet customers’ shipping requirements, the Richmond, VA-based company, which operates a fleet of more than 8,500 tractors and 34,000 trailers, has embarked on a data transformation journey to improve data integration and data management.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt is predominantly used by data warehouses (such as Amazon Redshift ) customers who are looking to keep their data transform logic separate from storage and engine.

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Sisense

AUGUST 6, 2020

Be sure test cases represent the diversity of app users. As an AI product manager, here are some important data-related questions you should ask yourself: What is the problem you’re trying to solve? What data transformations are needed from your data scientists to prepare the data?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Tricentis is the global leader in continuous testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. Speed changes everything, and continuous testing across the entire CI/CD lifecycle is the key. Tricentis instills that confidence by providing software tools that enable Agile Continuous Testing (ACT) at scale.

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FineReport

MARCH 31, 2024

Through meticulous testing and research, we’ve curated a list of the ten best BI tools, ensuring accessibility and efficacy for businesses of all sizes. In essence, the core capabilities of the best BI tools revolve around four essential functions: data integration, data transformation, data visualization, and reporting.

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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.

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Alation

JANUARY 17, 2023

What if, experts asked, you could load raw data into a warehouse, and then empower people to transform it for their own unique needs? Today, data integration platforms like Rivery do just that. By pushing the T to the last step in the process, such products have revolutionized how data is understood and analyzed.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2023

Customers often use many SQL scripts to select and transform the data in relational databases hosted either in an on-premises environment or on AWS and use custom workflows to manage their ETL. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service with the ability to scale on demand. Choose Save changes.

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Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This, in turn, empowers data leaders to better identify and develop new revenue streams, customize patient offerings, and use data to optimize operations. Too much access increases the risk that data can be changed or stolen. Remove Low Quality, Unused, or “Stale” Data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Project Kernel framework utilizes templates and AI augmentation to streamline coding processes, with the AI augmentation generating test cases using training models built on the organization’s data, use cases, and past test cases. This enabled the team to expose the technology to a small group of senior leaders to test.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If you can show ROI on a DW it would be a good use of your money to go with Omniture Discover, WebTrends Data Mart, Coremetrics Explore. If you have evolved to a stage that you need behavior targeting then get Omniture Test and Target or Sitespect. Experimentation and Testing Tools [The "Why" – Part 1]. and embrace Multiplicity.

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Smarten

JANUARY 4, 2018

Think of your data warehouse as an active repository that is ever changing as new data sources keep on getting added and existing data sources keep on getting updated. In order to manage the environment, an organization must dedicate resources to monitor and track ETL process, its data flow, data integration and data updates.

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Jet Global

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Data mapping is essential for integration, migration, and transformation of different data sets; it allows you to improve your data quality by preventing duplications and redundancies in your data fields. Data mapping is important for several reasons.

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Jet Global

JULY 16, 2024

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets designed to bring high-performance ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) transactions to big data. It provides a stable schema, supports complex data transformations, and ensures atomic operations. What is Apache Iceberg?

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Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

Strategic Objective Create a complete, user-friendly view of the data by preparing it for analysis. Requirement Multi-Source Data Blending Data from multiple sources is compiled and the output is a single view, metric, or visualization. Data Transformation and Enrichment Data can be enriched for analysis.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 2, 2024

More companies have realized there is an opportunity to integrate, enhance, and present this SaaS data to improve internal operations and gain valuable insights on their data. From there, they can perform meaningful analytics, gain valuable insights, and optionally push enriched data back to external SaaS platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2025

In Snowflake, Johnson Controls has a flexible, cloud-based, high spike utilization platform for processing a complex variety of data workloads, including data transformations, as well as machine learning and gen AI modeling, Sankaran says.

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Wayne Yaddow

MARCH 28, 2025

First: It is critical to set up a thorough data inventory and assessment procedure. Organizations must do a comprehensive inventory of their current data repositories, recording the data sources, kind, structure, and quality before starting data integration.

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BI-Survey

MARCH 6, 2025

While efficiency is a priority, data quality and security remain non-negotiable. Developing and maintaining data transformation pipelines are among the first tasks to be targeted for automation. However, caution is advised since accuracy, timeliness, and other aspects of data quality depend on the quality of data pipelines.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 23, 2023

DataOps Observability includes monitoring and testing the data pipeline, data quality, data testing, and alerting. Data testing is an essential aspect of DataOps Observability; it helps to ensure that data is accurate, complete, and consistent with its specifications, documentation, and end-user requirements.

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