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.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 12, 2024

In recent years, data lakes have become a mainstream architecture, and data quality validation is a critical factor to improve the reusability and consistency of the data. In this post, we provide benchmark results of running increasingly complex data quality rulesets over a predefined test dataset.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We pulled these people together, and defined use cases we could all agree were the best to demonstrate our new data capability. Once they were identified, we had to determine we had the right data. Then we migrated the data to our new data lake, and stood up the new platform.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 29, 2024

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources. The default output is log based.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With this new functionality, customers can create up-to-date replicas of their data from applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk in an Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines.

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Jet Global

JULY 2, 2019

To address the flood of data and the needs of enterprise businesses to store, sort, and analyze that data, a new storage solution has evolved: the data lake. What’s in a Data Lake? Data warehouses do a great job of standardizing data from disparate sources for analysis. Taking a Dip.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. Hundreds of thousands of customers use data lakes for analytics and ML to make data-driven business decisions.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

Poor-quality data can lead to incorrect insights, bad decisions, and lost opportunities. AWS Glue Data Quality measures and monitors the quality of your dataset. It supports both data quality at rest and data quality in AWS Glue extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

cycle_end"', "sagemakedatalakeenvironment_sub_db", ctas_approach=False) A similar approach is used to connect to shared data from Amazon Redshift, which is also shared using Amazon DataZone. The data science and AI teams are able to explore and use new data sources as they become available through Amazon DataZone.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On the agribusiness side we source, purchase, and process agricultural commodities and offer a diverse portfolio of products including grains, soybean meal, blended feed ingredients, and top-quality oils for the food industry to add value to the commodities our customers desire. The data can also help us enrich our commodity products.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The core issue plaguing many organizations is the presence of out-of-control databases or data lakes characterized by: Unrestrained Data Changes: Numerous users and tools incessantly alter data, leading to a tumultuous environment. Monitor for freshness, schema changes, volume, field health/quality, new tables, and usage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper , leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics. Most organizations don’t end up with data lakes, says Orlandini.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Domain ownership recognizes that the teams generating the data have the deepest understanding of it and are therefore best suited to manage, govern, and share it effectively. This principle makes sure data accountability remains close to the source, fostering higher data quality and relevance.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Figure 2: Example data pipeline with DataOps automation. In this project, I automated data extraction from SFTP, the public websites, and the email attachments. The automated orchestration published the data to an AWS S3 Data Lake. All the code, Talend job, and the BI report are version controlled using Git.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To provide a response that includes the enterprise context, each user prompt needs to be augmented with a combination of insights from structured data from the data warehouse and unstructured data from the enterprise data lake. Implement data privacy policies. Implement data quality by data type and source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed. Addressing the Challenge.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In addition to the tracking of relationships and quality metrics, DataOps Observability journeys allow users to establish baselines?concrete concrete expectations for run schedules, run durations, data quality, and upstream and downstream dependencies. And she’ll know when newer data will arrive.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Data observability provides insight into the condition and evolution of the data resources from source through the delivery of the data products. Barr Moses of Monte Carlo presents it as a combination of data flow, data quality, data governance, and data lineage.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

Foundation – This role encompasses the data steward and governance team. Responsibilities include: Provide a preprocessed, generic dataset of data commonly used by many consumers. Manage and guide metrics for the quality of data published by each publisher. It is crucial in data governance and data management.

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datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

You will need to continually return to your business dashboard to make sure that it’s working, the data is accurate and it’s still answering the right questions in the most effective way. Testing will eliminate lots of data quality challenges and bring a test-first approach through your agile cycle.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2024

Migrating to Amazon Redshift offers organizations the potential for improved price-performance, enhanced data processing, faster query response times, and better integration with technologies such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Jim Hare, distinguished VP and analyst at Gartner, says that some people think they need to take all the data siloed in systems in various business units and dump it into a data lake. But what they really need to do is fundamentally rethink how data is managed and accessed,” he says.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices. Goals – Lay the foundation for a data platform that can be used in the future by internal and external stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As part of their cloud modernization initiative, they sought to migrate and modernize their legacy data platform. Third-party APIs – These provide analytics and survey data related to ecommerce websites. This could include details like traffic metrics, user behavior, conversion rates, customer feedback, and more.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This plane drives users to engage in data-driven conversations with knowledge and insights shared across the organization. Through the product experience plane, data product owners can use automated workflows to capture data lineage and data quality metrics and oversee access controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

As an integrated manufacturing capability, Dow is a complex puzzle, and these AI models help us incorporate historical data, market trends, and customer behaviors, all of which allow us to produce a more precise demand plan. Is gen AI a shiny toy in a hype cycle or will it have material impact on your business?

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

In 2022, AWS commissioned a study conducted by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) to quantify the Business Value of Customer 360. The following figure shows some of the metrics derived from the study. The AWS modern data architecture shows a way to build a purpose-built, secure, and scalable data platform in the cloud.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 8, 2022

However, a foundational step in evolving into a data-driven organization requires trusted, readily available, and easily accessible data for users within the organization; thus, an effective data governance program is key. Here are a few common data management challenges: Regulatory compliance on data use.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. You can visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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Alation

JULY 19, 2022

Modern data catalogs also facilitate data quality checks. Historically restricted to the purview of data engineers, data quality information is essential for all user groups to see. Data scientists often have different requirements for a data catalog than data analysts.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

However, often the biggest stumbling block is a human one, getting people to buy in to the idea that the care and attention they pay to data capture will pay dividends later in the process. These and other areas are covered in greater detail in an older article, Using BI to drive improvements in data quality.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Reichental describes data governance as the overarching layer that empowers people to manage data well ; as such, it is focused on roles & responsibilities, policies, definitions, metrics, and the lifecycle of the data. In this way, data governance is the business or process side. Where do you govern?

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. Data governance and security measures are critical components of data strategy. What is Business Intelligence?

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BizAcuity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. Data governance and security measures are critical components of data strategy. What is Business Intelligence?

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