DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Back by popular demand, we’ve updated our data nerd Gift Giving Guide to cap off 2021. We’ve kept some classics and added some new titles that are sure to put a smile on your data nerd’s face. Fail Fast, Learn Faster: Lessons in Data-Driven Leadership in an Age of Disruption, Big Data, and AI, by Randy Bean.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? Two of the biggest challenges in creating a successful enterprise architecture initiative are: collecting accurate information on application ecosystems and maintaining the information as application ecosystems change.

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Data Governance Enterprise Risk Data Lake 144

BizAcuity

MARCH 29, 2019

Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data.

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Data Lake Unstructured Data Cost-Benefit Data Quality 102

Boris Evelson

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Over the last five years, most large enterprises have slowly but surely matured from being data-aware to data-driven.

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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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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Organizations are collecting and storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data like reports, whitepapers, and research documents. By consolidating this information, analysts can discover and integrate data from across the organization, creating valuable data products based on a unified dataset.

Data Lake 114

Data Lake Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Modeling 114

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DataOps adoption continues to expand as a perfect storm of social, economic, and technological factors drive enterprises to invest in process-driven innovation. Many in the data industry recognize the serious impact of AI bias and seek to take active steps to mitigate it. Data Gets Meshier. Companies Commit to Remote.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Data organizations often have a mix of centralized and decentralized activity. DataOps concerns itself with the complex flow of data across teams, data centers and organizational boundaries. It expands beyond tools and data architecture and views the data organization from the perspective of its processes and workflows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2023

When I joined, there was a lot of silo data everywhere throughout the organization, and everyone was doing their own reporting. It was also a lot of churning for the different groups to come up with those data on the weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.” But where to begin? “We That’s the first level of a cultural shift.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. In this post, we discuss a common use case in relation to operational data processing and the solution we built using Apache Hudi and AWS Glue.

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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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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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Data-driven Data Lake Data Warehouse Machine Learning 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 21, 2024

IBM has showcased its new generative AI -driven Concert offering that is designed to help enterprises monitor and manage their applications. IBM claims that Concert will initially focus on helping enterprises with use cases around security risk management, application compliance management, and certificate management.

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Enterprise Management Data Lake Risk 110

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

From IT, to finance, marketing, engineering, and more, AI advances are causing enterprises to re-evaluate their traditional approaches to unlock the transformative potential of AI. What can enterprises learn from these trends, and what future enterprise developments can we expect around generative AI?

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Enterprise Manufacturing Risk Data-driven 133

AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises across regulated industries face a critical challenge as they navigate their digital transformation journeys: effectively managing and governing data from legacy systems that are being phased out or replaced.

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Data Governance Enterprise Management Data Lake 115

Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

Are you seeing currently any specific issues in the Insurance industry that should concern Chief Data & Analytics Officers? Lack of clear, unified, and scaled data engineering expertise to enable the power of AI at enterprise scale. The data will enable companies to provide more personalized services and product choices.

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Cloudera

JUNE 2, 2022

Since 2015, the Cloudera DataFlow team has been helping the largest enterprise organizations in the world adopt Apache NiFi as their enterprise standard data movement tool. This need has generated a market opportunity for a universal data distribution service. How to onboard data into their system?

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Enterprise Data Lake Data Collection Data-driven 104

AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

Data-driven organizations treat data as an asset and use it across different lines of business (LOBs) to drive timely insights and better business decisions. This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts.

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Data Lake Data Warehouse Marketing Management 98

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But the more challenging work is in making our processes as efficient as possible so we capture the right data in our desire to become a more data-driven business. If your processes aren’t efficient, you’ll capture the wrong data, and you wind up with the wrong insights. How are you populating your data lake?

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Data Lake Data-driven Dashboards Risk 135

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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Cost-Benefit Data-driven Software Testing 105

Octopai

JUNE 30, 2022

Establishing a single, enterprise-wide source of truth? Increasing data quality and accuracy? Why are data catalog use cases so downright… predictable? If you can rattle off the top five or ten enterprise data catalog use cases in your sleep, this post is an attempt to add a little more color and variety to your data life.

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Enterprise Data-driven Data Quality Data Lake 96

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

JULY 13, 2022

Since 2015, the Cloudera DataFlow team has been helping the largest enterprise organizations in the world adopt Apache NiFi as their enterprise standard data movement tool. This need has generated a market opportunity for a universal data distribution service. How to onboard data into their system?

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Enterprise Data Lake Data Collection Data-driven 88

AWS Big Data

JUNE 20, 2023

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and data sources residing in AWS, on-premises, or other cloud systems using SQL or Python. Solution overview Data scientists are generally accustomed to working with large datasets.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 27, 2021

DataOps has become an essential methodology in pharmaceutical enterprise data organizations, especially for commercial operations. Companies that implement it well derive significant competitive advantage from their superior ability to manage and create value from data.

Analytics 246

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

. - Andreas Kohlmaier, Head of Data Engineering at Munich Re 1. --> Ron Powell, independent analyst and industry expert for the BeyeNETWORK and executive producer of The World Transformed FastForward Series, interviews Andreas Kohlmaier, Head of Data Engineering at Munich Re. Sometimes they didn’t really know about each other.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Why: Data Makes It Different. Not only is data larger, but models—deep learning models in particular—are much larger than before.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing the right data strategy spurs innovation and outstanding business outcomes by recognizing data as a critical asset that provides insights for better and more informed decision-making. By taking advantage of data, enterprises can shape business decisions, minimize risk for stakeholders, and gain competitive advantage.

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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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Metadata Snapshot Cost-Benefit Optimization 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Just after launching a focused data management platform for retail customers in March, enterprise data management vendor Informatica has now released two more industry-specific versions of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) — one for financial services, and the other for health and life sciences.

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Finance Management Metadata Machine Learning 140

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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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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Data Lake Cost-Benefit Data-driven Data Warehouse 121

DataKitchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Data tables from IT and other data sources require a large amount of repetitive, manual work to be used in analytics. The data analytics function in large enterprises is generally distributed across departments and roles. Figure 1: Data analytics challenge – distributed teams must deliver value in collaboration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Data & Analytics is delivering on its promise. Every day, it helps countless organizations do everything from measure their ESG impact to create new streams of revenue, and consequently, companies without strong data cultures or concrete plans to build one are feeling the pressure. We discourage that thinking.

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Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. And so will your data. Benefits of a Data Lake.

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Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Governance 52

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse that delivers the best price-performance for your analytics workloads at any scale. It provides a conversational interface where users can submit queries in natural language within the scope of their current data permissions. Your data is not shared across accounts.

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Metadata Sales Data Warehouse Optimization 105

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

They also built an Azure-based data lake to provide global visibility of the company’s data to its 13,000-strong workforce. Digital transformation projects have always been about creating a data-driven business. Previously, each Mosaic location operated its own digital infrastructure.

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