AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Unstructured data is information that doesn’t conform to a predefined schema or isn’t organized according to a preset data model. Unstructured information may have a little or a lot of structure but in ways that are unexpected or inconsistent. Text, images, audio, and videos are common examples of unstructured data.

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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. Deploying Data Lakes in the cloud. Best practices to build a Data Lake.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A data lake is a centralized repository that you can use to store all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. You can store your data as-is, without having to first structure the data and then run different types of analytics for better business insights. They are the same.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initially, data warehouses were the go-to solution for structured data and analytical workloads but were limited by proprietary storage formats and their inability to handle unstructured data. For instance, a streaming data pipeline can write tables using Hudi because of its strength in low-latency, write-heavy workloads.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Unstructured data has been a significant factor in data lakes and analytics for some time. Twelve years ago, nearly a third of enterprises were working with large amounts of unstructured data. As I’ve pointed out previously , unstructured data is really a misnomer.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

To enhance security, Microsoft has decided to restrict that kind of direct database access in D365 F&SCM and replace it with an abstraction layer comprised of something called “data entities”. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse.

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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

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 9, 2023

A modern data architecture enables companies to ingest virtually any type of data through automated pipelines into a data lake, which provides highly durable and cost-effective object storage at petabyte or exabyte scale.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2024

In the current industry landscape, data lakes have become a cornerstone of modern data architecture, serving as repositories for vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. Maintaining data consistency and integrity across distributed data lakes is crucial for decision-making and analytics.

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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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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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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. The SQL query language used to extract data for reporting could also potentially be used to insert, update, or delete records from the database.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Outdated software applications are creating roadblocks to AI adoption at many organizations, with limited data retention capabilities a central culprit, IT experts say. The data retention issue is a big challenge because internally collected data drives many AI initiatives, Klingbeil says. But they can be modernized.

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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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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 3, 2022

It’s stored in corporate data warehouses, data lakes, and a myriad of other locations – and while some of it is put to good use, it’s estimated that around 73% of this data remains unexplored. Every data point stored has potential value. Data augmentation.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Discover, prepare, and integrate all your data at any scale AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service that simplifies data preparation and transformation across diverse data sources. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to data analytics for deeper, better insights and automation is a growing enterprise IT priority. But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Meet the data lakehouse.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As the technology subsists on data, customer trust and their confidential information are at stake—and enterprises cannot afford to overlook its pitfalls. Yet, it is the quality of the data that will determine how efficient and valuable GenAI initiatives will be for organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Carhartt’s signature workwear is near ubiquitous, and its continuing presence on factory floors and at skate parks alike is fueled in part thanks to an ongoing digital transformation that is advancing the 133-year-old Midwest company’s operations to make the most of advanced digital technologies, including the cloud, data analytics, and AI.

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Sisense

APRIL 26, 2020

We live in a world of data: there’s more of it than ever before, in a ceaselessly expanding array of forms and locations. Dealing with Data is your window into the ways Data Teams are tackling the challenges of this new world to help their companies and their customers thrive. Structured vs unstructured data.

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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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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

An interactive analytics application gives users the ability to run complex queries across complex data landscapes in real-time: thus, the basis of its appeal. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights. Why Use an Interactive Analytics Application?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Data quality is no longer a back-office concern. As a leader, your commitment to data quality sets the tone for the entire organization, inspiring others to prioritize this crucial aspect of digital transformation. However, even the most sophisticated models and platforms can be undone by a single point of failure: poor data quality.

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Sisense

APRIL 9, 2021

Instead, businesses are increasingly turning to data lakes to store massive amounts of unstructured data. Analytics from your cloud data sources are key to transforming your business, but the reality of how most companies use them lags behind expectations. The rise of data warehouses and data lakes.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 3, 2023

With the rapid growth of technology, more and more data volume is coming in many different formats—structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Data analytics on operational data at near-real time is becoming a common need. Then we can query the data with Amazon Athena visualize it in Amazon QuickSight.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

At Salesforce World Tour NYC today, Salesforce unveiled a new global ecosystem of technology and solution providers geared to help its customers leverage third-party data via secure, bidirectional zero-copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus. First, many LLM use cases rely on enterprise knowledge that needs to be drawn from unstructured data such as documents, transcripts, and images, in addition to structured data from data warehouses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2024

At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, an IT pilot has led to a wholesale data journey destined to transform operations at the world’s busiest airport, fueled by machine learning and generative AI. Data integrity presented a major challenge for the team, as there were many instances of duplicate data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Deploying new data types for machine learning Mai-Lan Tomsen-Bukovec, vice president of foundational data services at AWS, sees the cloud giant’s enterprise customers deploying more unstructured data, as well as wider varieties of data sets, to inform the accuracy and training of ML models of late.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. And as businesses contend with increasingly large amounts of data, the cloud is fast becoming the logical place where analytics work gets done.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

You can think that the general-purpose version of the Databricks Lakehouse as giving the organization 80% of what it needs to get to the productive use of its data to drive business insights and data science specific to the business. Features focus on media and entertainment firms. Partner solutions to boost functionality, adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Basel, Switzerland-based company, which operates in more than 100 countries, has petabytes of data, including highly structured customer data, data about treatments and lab requests, operational data, and a massive, growing volume of unstructured data, particularly imaging data.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2024

At the same time, they need to optimize operational costs to unlock the value of this data for timely insights and do so with a consistent performance. With this massive data growth, data proliferation across your data stores, data warehouse, and data lakes can become equally challenging.

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