AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2024

Businesses are constantly evolving, and data leaders are challenged every day to meet new requirements. For many enterprises and large organizations, it is not feasible to have one processing engine or tool to deal with the various business requirements. This post is co-written with Andries Engelbrecht and Scott Teal from Snowflake.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. DataOps helps the data mesh deliver greater business agility by enabling decentralized domains to work in concert. . But first, let’s define the data mesh design pattern.

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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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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.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. However, enterprises often encounter challenges with data silos, insufficient access controls, poor governance, and quality issues. Embracing data as a product is the key to address these challenges and foster a data-driven culture.

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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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erwin

AUGUST 31, 2023

Q: Is data modeling cool again? In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, data reigns supreme. The data-driven enterprise relies on accurate, accessible, and actionable information to make strategic decisions and drive innovation. A: It always was and is getting cooler!!

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data is the foundation of innovation, agility and competitive advantage in todays digital economy. As technology and business leaders, your strategic initiatives, from AI-powered decision-making to predictive insights and personalized experiences, are all fueled by data. Data quality is no longer a back-office concern.

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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

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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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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AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC) with AWS Lake Formation , using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and session tags to simplify data access, grant creation, and maintenance. Organizations can now grant permissions on a resource based on user attribute and is context-driven.

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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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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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

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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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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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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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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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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

To build a data-driven business, it is important to democratize enterprise data assets in a data catalog. With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. GenericInMemoryCatalog stores the catalog data in memory.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. But to get maximum value out of data and analytics, companies need to have a data-driven culture permeating the entire organization, one in which every business unit gets full access to the data it needs in the way it needs it.

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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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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Customers often want to augment and enrich SAP source data with other non-SAP source data. Such analytic use cases can be enabled by building a data warehouse or data lake. Customers can now use the AWS Glue SAP OData connector to extract data from SAP.

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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.

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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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