David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The adoption of cloud environments for analytic workloads has been a key feature of the data platforms sector in recent years. For two-thirds (66%) of participants in ISG’s Data Lake Dynamic Insights Research, the primary data platform used for analytics is cloud based.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2025

Governance features including fine-grained access control are built into SageMaker Unified Studio using Amazon SageMaker Catalog to help you meet enterprise security requirements across your entire data estate.

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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. The tools to transform your business are here.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Introduction Enterprises here and now catalyze vast quantities of data, which can be a high-end source of business intelligence and insight when used appropriately. Delta Lake allows businesses to access and break new data down in real time.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Data ingestion is the process of getting data to Amazon Redshift.

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 19, 2021

Data mesh and DataOps provide the organization, enterprise architecture, and workflow automation that together enable a relatively small data team to address the analytics needs of hundreds of active business users. Figure 1: Data requirements for phases of the drug product lifecycle. The new Recipes run, and BOOM!

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Uniteds embrace of SageMaker and Bedrock as well as Amazon Q is going to be a game changer for building data products, said Mai-LanTomsenBukovec, AWS vice president of technology, who pointed to United Data Hub as a transformational component in its AI journey at re:Invent. That number has increased to 21% in just 18 months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. DAMA-DMBOK 2.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BladeBridge offers a comprehensive suite of tools that automate much of the complex conversion work, allowing organizations to quickly and reliably transition their data analytics capabilities to the scalable Amazon Redshift data warehouse. times better price performance than other cloud data warehouses.

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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. But first, let’s define the data mesh design pattern. The past decades of enterprise data platform architectures can be summarized in 69 words.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2024

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that allows you to process and run your complex SQL analytics workloads on structured and semi-structured data. It served many enterprise use cases across API feeds, content mastering, and analytics interfaces.

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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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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Given the diverse data integration needs of customers, AWS offers a robust data integration system through multiple services including Amazon EMR , Amazon Athena , Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) , Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) , Amazon Kinesis , and others.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ostensibly, the new product represents Microsoft’s transition to a newer, more cloud-friendly ERP for midsized enterprises. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse. OLAP reporting based on a data warehouse model is a well-proven solution for companies with robust reporting requirements.

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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

MARCH 2, 2023

Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback. and later supports the Apache Iceberg framework for data lakes. AWS Glue 3.0 The following diagram illustrates the solution architecture.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

One of the key challenges in modern big data management is facilitating efficient data sharing and access control across multiple EMR clusters. Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated. Test access using SageMaker Studio in the consumer account.

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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. This post is co-written with Amit Gilad, Alex Dickman and Itay Takersman from Cloudinary. They decided to focus on four runtime engines.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For more sophisticated multidimensional reporting functions, however, a more advanced approach to staging data is required. The Data Warehouse Approach. Data warehouses gained momentum back in the early 1990s as companies dealing with growing volumes of data were seeking ways to make analytics faster and more accessible.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Cloud computing has made it much easier to integrate data sets, but that’s only the beginning. Creating a data lake has become much easier, but that’s only ten percent of the job of delivering analytics to users. It often takes months to progress from a data lake to the final delivery of insights.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 6, 2023

In this post, Morningstar’s Data Lake Team Leads discuss how they utilized tag-based access control in their data lake with AWS Lake Formation and enabled similar controls in Amazon Redshift. We realized we needed a data warehouse to cater to all of these consumer requirements, so we evaluated Amazon Redshift.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A modern data architecture is an evolutionary architecture pattern designed to integrate a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built stores with a unified governance model. Of those tables, some are larger (such as in terms of record volume) than others, and some are updated more frequently than others.

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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. This will take a few minutes to run and will establish a query history for the tpcds data. Choose Run all on each notebook tab.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2022

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I previously wrote about the importance of open table formats to the evolution of data lakes into data lakehouses. The concept of the data lake was initially proposed as a single environment where data could be combined from multiple sources to be stored and processed to enable analysis by multiple users for multiple purposes.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 22, 2024

In this post, we discuss how the Kaplan data engineering team implemented data integration from the Salesforce application to Amazon Redshift. Solution overview The high-level data flow starts with the source data stored in Amazon S3 and then integrated into Amazon Redshift using various AWS services.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 12, 2024

One-time and complex queries are two common scenarios in enterprise data analytics. Complex queries, on the other hand, refer to large-scale data processing and in-depth analysis based on petabyte-level data warehouses in massive data scenarios. Here, data modeling uses dbt on Amazon Redshift.

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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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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Enterprise data is brought into data lakes and data warehouses to carry out analytical, reporting, and data science use cases using AWS analytical services like Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift , Amazon EMR , and so on.

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DataKitchen

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This book is not available until January 2022, but considering all the hype around the data mesh, we expect it to be a best seller. In the book, author Zhamak Dehghani reveals that, despite the time, money, and effort poured into them, data warehouses and data lakes fail when applied at the scale and speed of today’s organizations.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 21, 2023

This leads to having data across many instances of data warehouses and data lakes using a modern data architecture in separate AWS accounts. We recently announced the integration of Amazon Redshift data sharing with AWS Lake Formation.

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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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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Data lakes are a popular choice for today’s organizations to store their data around their business activities. As a best practice of a data lake design, data should be immutable once stored. A data lake built on AWS uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as its primary storage environment.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 6, 2025

Amazon AppFlow automatically encrypts data in motion, and allows you to restrict data from flowing over the public internet for SaaS applications that are integrated with AWS PrivateLink , reducing exposure to security threats. He has worked with building data warehouses and big data solutions for over 13 years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Today, more than 90% of its applications run in the cloud, with most of its data is housed and analyzed in a homegrown enterprise data warehouse. Like many CIOs, Carhartt’s top digital leader is aware that data is the key to making advanced technologies work.

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