erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

Metadata 84

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

Alation

JULY 28, 2022

It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. However, CIOs declare that agility, innovation, security, adopting new capabilities, and time to value — never cost — are the top drivers for cloud data warehousing.

Data Warehouse 69

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Governance 69

Data Virtualization

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. It was written by L.

Metadata 69

Metadata IT Data Integration Publishing 69

Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

However, to turn data into a business problem, organizations need support to move away from technical issues to start getting value as quickly as possible. SAP Datasphere simplifies data integration, cataloging, semantic modeling, warehousing, federation, and virtualization through a unified interface. Why is this interesting?

Data Warehouse 121

Data Warehouse Metadata Data Integration Business Intelligence 121

Data Virtualization

APRIL 21, 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutes First we had data warehouses, then came data lakes, and now the new kid on the block is the data lakehouse. But what is a data lakehouse and why should we develop one? In a way, the name describes what.

Data Lake 59

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Integration Management 59

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift , the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools.

Data Warehouse 128

Data Warehouse Analytics Data Lake Machine Learning 128

AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

Data engineers use Apache Iceberg because it’s fast, efficient, and reliable at any scale and keeps records of how datasets change over time. Apache Iceberg offers integrations with popular data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Hive, Presto, and more.

Data Lake 122

Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Data Architecture 122

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, enterprise data generated from siloed sources combined with the lack of a data integration strategy creates challenges for provisioning the data for generative AI applications. Data discoverability Unlike structured data, which is managed in well-defined rows and columns, unstructured data is stored as objects.

Data Governance 123

Data Governance Unstructured Data Metadata Data Lake 123

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.

Data Lake 78

Data Lake Data Warehouse Data-driven Optimization 78

erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

When evolving such a partition definition, the data in the table prior to the change is unaffected, as is its metadata. Only data that is written to the table after the evolution is partitioned with the new definition, and the metadata for this new set of data is kept separately. SparkActions.get().expireSnapshots(iceTable).expireOlderThan(TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(7)).execute()

Data Lake 126

Data Lake Metadata Snapshot Analytics 126

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Amazon Redshift also supports querying nested data with complex data types such as struct, array, and map.

Data Lake 118

Data Lake Data Warehouse Metadata Data Architecture 118

Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2021

Cloudera and Accenture demonstrate strength in their relationship with an accelerator called the Smart Data Transition Toolkit for migration of legacy data warehouses into Cloudera Data Platform. Accenture’s Smart Data Transition Toolkit . Are you looking for your data warehouse to support the hybrid multi-cloud?

Data Warehouse 87

Data Warehouse Cost-Benefit Metadata Data-driven 87

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Source systems Aruba’s source repository includes data from three different operating regions in AMER, EMEA, and APJ, along with one worldwide (WW) data pipeline from varied sources like SAP S/4 HANA, Salesforce, Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Enterprise Analytics Platform (EAP) SharePoint, and more.

Data Architecture 110

Data Architecture Optimization Data Warehouse Metadata 110

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.

Data Lake 122

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Warehouse 122

AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated. To address this challenge, organizations can deploy a data mesh using AWS Lake Formation that connects the multiple EMR clusters. An entity can act both as a producer of data assets and as a consumer of data assets.

Data Lake 113

Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Processing 113

AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

Addressing big data challenges – Big data comes with unique challenges, like managing large volumes of rapidly evolving data across multiple platforms. Effective permission management helps tackle these challenges by controlling how data is accessed and used, providing data integrity and minimizing the risk of data breaches.

Management 115

Management Big Data Data Warehouse Metadata 115

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Data warehouses play a vital role in healthcare decision-making and serve as a repository of historical data. A healthcare data warehouse can be a single source of truth for clinical quality control systems. What is a dimensional data model? What is a dimensional data model?

Data Warehouse 88

Data Warehouse Data Lake Cost-Benefit Metadata 88

DataKitchen

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Data in Place refers to the organized structuring and storage of data within a specific storage medium, be it a database, bucket store, files, or other storage platforms. In the contemporary data landscape, data teams commonly utilize data warehouses or lakes to arrange their data into L1, L2, and L3 layers.

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Testing Data Quality Predictive Modeling Metrics 182

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse , now generally available, unifies all your data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. Having confidence in your data is key.

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Data Analytics Analytics Data Lake Data Quality 101

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This is done by mining complex data using BI software and tools , comparing data to competitors and industry trends, and creating visualizations that communicate findings to others in the organization.

Business Intelligence 126

Business Intelligence Data-driven Statistics Data Warehouse 126

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Agile BI and Reporting, Single Customer View, Data Services, Web and Cloud Computing Integration are scenarios where Data Virtualization offers feasible and more efficient alternatives to traditional solutions. Does Data Virtualization support web data integration?

Visualization 141

Visualization Cost-Benefit Big Data Prescriptive Analytics 141

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 9, 2022

All this data arrives by the terabyte, and a data management platform can help marketers make sense of it all. Marketing-focused or not, DMPs excel at negotiating with a wide array of databases, data lakes, or data warehouses, ingesting their streams of data and then cleaning, sorting, and unifying the information therein.

Management 144

Management Advertising Data Lake Sales 144

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Gartner defines a data fabric as “a design concept that serves as an integrated layer of data and connecting processes. The data fabric architectural approach can simplify data access in an organization and facilitate self-service data consumption at scale. 11 May 2021. . 3 March 2022.

Management 79

Management Metadata Data Architecture Data Lake 79

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

You also need services to store data for analysis and machine learning (ML) like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Customers have created hundreds of thousands of data lakes on Amazon S3. Amazon DataZone uses ML to automatically add metadata to your data catalog, making all of your data more discoverable.

Data Warehouse 116

Data Warehouse Data Lake Dashboards Data Integration 116

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

Data ingestion You have to build ingestion pipelines based on factors like types of data sources (on-premises data stores, files, SaaS applications, third-party data), and flow of data (unbounded streams or batch data). Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

Data Strategy 94

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 94

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance.

Data Lake 115

Data Lake Snapshot Metadata Optimization 115

AWS Big Data

JUNE 27, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. This enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers. Document the entire disaster recovery process.

Snapshot 92

Snapshot Data Warehouse Data Processing Strategy 92

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The importance of publishing only high-quality data cant be overstatedits the foundation for accurate analytics, reliable machine learning (ML) models, and sound decision-making. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that you can use to effectively monitor and manage data quality through AWS Glue Data Quality.

Data Quality 124

Data Quality Publishing Snapshot Data Lake 124

Ontotext

APRIL 10, 2024

In most enterprises data teams lack a data map and data asset inventory and are often unaware of data that exists across the organization, its associated profile, quality and associated metadata. Teams can’t access data to build their business use cases. For example, a product data tag is basic metadata.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Lake Data Warehouse Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 29, 2024

You can slice data by different dimensions like job name, see anomalies, and share reports securely across your organization. With these insights, teams have the visibility to make data integration pipelines more efficient. An AWS Glue crawler scans data on the S3 bucket and populates table metadata on the AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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Metrics Visualization Dashboards Interactive 128

Ontotext

AUGUST 22, 2023

Context: The Key to Making Data Useful It goes without saying that data without meaning can yield incorrect insights, leading to potentially dangerous decisions. Beyond that, and without a way to visualize, connect, and utilize the data, it’s still just a bunch of random information.

Metadata 52

Metadata Knowledge Discovery Big Data Enterprise 52

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

All this data arrives by the terabyte, and a data management platform can help marketers make sense of it all. DMPs excel at negotiating with a wide array of databases, data lakes, or data warehouses, ingesting their streams of data and then cleaning, sorting, and unifying the information therein.

Management 105

Management Advertising Data Lake Sales 105

Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

The data warehouse and analytical data stores moved to the cloud and disaggregated into the data mesh. Today, the brightest minds in our industry are targeting the massive proliferation of data volumes and the accompanying but hard-to-find value locked within all that data. Architectures became fabrics.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Warehouse Data Quality Data Lake 52

Octopai

JUNE 1, 2020

Data mapping is the cornerstone of many important business intelligence processes: Data Integration – Even if systems are compatible, combining two disparate data repositories still requires meticulous data mapping. Correct data mapping facilitates the creation of usable, searchable data warehouses.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Warehouse Data Integration Finance 52

Alation

JANUARY 13, 2022

Spoiler alert: data fabric and data mesh are independent design concepts that are, in fact, quite complementary. Data fabric has captured most of the limelight; it focuses on the technologies required to support metadata-driven use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Gartner on Data Fabric.

Data Lake 59

Data Lake Metadata Data-driven Data Governance 59

erwin

MAY 2, 2022

Data modeling is a serious scientific method with many rules and best practices. One must also capture the vast quantity of metadata around the OLTP business requirements that must be reflected. I was pricing a data warehousing project with just 4 TB of data – small by today’s standards.

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Modeling Insurance Cost-Benefit Data Warehouse 98