David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

MARCH 30, 2020

I was recently asked to identify key modern data architecture trends. Data architectures have changed significantly to accommodate larger volumes of data as well as new types of data such as streaming and unstructured data. Here are some of the trends I see continuing to impact data architectures.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Option 3: Azure Data Lakes. This leads us to Microsoft’s apparent long-term strategy for D365 F&SCM reporting: Azure Data Lakes. Azure Data Lakes are highly complex and designed with a different fundamental purpose in mind than financial and operational reporting. Data lakes are not a mature technology.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

There is an established body of practice around creating, managing, and accessing OLAP data (known as “cubes”). Data Lakes. There has been a lot of talk over the past year or two in the D365F&SCM world about “data lakes.” There are virtually no rules about what such data looks like. It is unstructured.

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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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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

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 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

MARCH 9, 2022

As a result, users can easily find what they need, and organizations avoid the operational and cost burdens of storing unneeded or duplicate data copies. Newer data lakes are highly scalable and can ingest structured and semi-structured data along with unstructured data like text, images, video, and audio.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

The new, industry-targeted data management platforms — Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Health and Life Sciences and the Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Financial Services — were announced at the company’s Informatica World conference Tuesday. Intelligent Data Management Cloud for Health and Life Sciences.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As part of that transformation, Agusti has plans to integrate a data lake into the company’s data architecture and expects two AI proofs of concept (POCs) to be ready to move into production within the quarter. Today, we backflush our data lake through our data warehouse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2024

That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Today, 60% to 70% of Rocket’s workloads run on the cloud, with more than 95% of those workloads in AWS.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The application presents a massive volume of unstructured data through a graphical or programming interface using the analytical abilities of business intelligence technology to provide instant insight. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights.

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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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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. Improving data quality. Data augmentation. Learn More.

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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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Sisense

APRIL 26, 2020

Different types of information are more suited to being stored in a structured or unstructured format. Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both. Unstructured data.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The need for an end-to-end strategy for data management and data governance at every step of the journey—from ingesting, storing, and querying data to analyzing, visualizing, and running artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models—continues to be of paramount importance for enterprises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Taking the broadest possible interpretation of data analytics , Azure offers more than a dozen services — and that’s before you include Power BI, with its AI-powered analysis and new datamart option , or governance-oriented approaches such as Microsoft Purview. Azure Data Lake Analytics. Datamarts in Power BI.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

My vision is that I can give the keys to my businesses to manage their data and run their data on their own, as opposed to the Data & Tech team being at the center and helping them out,” says Iyengar, director of Data & Tech at Straumann Group North America. The company’s Findability.ai

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The data lakehouse is a relatively new data architecture concept, first championed by Cloudera, which offers both storage and analytics capabilities as part of the same solution, in contrast to the concepts for data lake and data warehouse which, respectively, store data in native format, and structured data, often in SQL format.

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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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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. In practice, OTFs are used in a broad range of analytical workloads, from business intelligence to machine learning.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 28, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude and Amazon Titan have the potential to drive automation across various business processes by processing both structured and unstructured data. Redshift Serverless is a fully functional data warehouse holding data tables maintained in real time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Today transactional data is the largest segment, which includes streaming and data flows. EXTRACTING VALUE FROM DATA. One of the biggest challenges presented by having massive volumes of disparate unstructured data is extracting useable information and insights. These challenges can be summarised as follows.

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erwin

AUGUST 15, 2022

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Machine Learning.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 26, 2024

New feature: Custom AWS service blueprints Previously, Amazon DataZone provided default blueprints that created AWS resources required for data lake, data warehouse, and machine learning use cases. If you’re new to Amazon DataZone, refer to Getting started.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

Foundation models (FMs) are large machine learning (ML) models trained on a broad spectrum of unlabeled and generalized datasets. This data store provides your organization with the holistic customer records view that is needed for operational efficiency of RAG-based generative AI applications.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Today, we are pleased to announce new AWS Glue connectors for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage that allow you to move data bi-directionally between Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). option("header","true").load("wasbs://yourblob@youraccountname.blob.core.windows.net/loadingtest-input/100mb")

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When building a machine-learning-powered tool to predict the maintenance needs of its customers, Ensono found that its customers used multiple old apps to collect incident tickets, but those apps stored incident data in very different formats, with inconsistent types of data collected, he says. But they can be modernized.

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Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2023

When implementing a data lakehouse, the table format is a critical piece because it acts as an abstraction layer, making it easy to access all the structured, unstructured data in the lakehouse by any engine or tool, concurrently. Some of the popular table formats are Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, and Hive ACID.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Solution: CDP Private Cloud brings a next-generation hybrid architecture with cloud-native benefits to HBL’s data platform. HBL started their data journey in 2019 when data lake initiative was started to consolidate complex data sources and enable the bank to use single version of truth for decision making.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In this post, we show how Ruparupa implemented an incrementally updated data lake to get insights into their business using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue , Apache Hudi , and Amazon QuickSight. An AWS Glue ETL job, using the Apache Hudi connector, updates the S3 data lake hourly with incremental data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architect Armando Vázquez identifies eight common types of data architects: Enterprise data architect: These data architects oversee an organization’s overall data architecture, defining data architecture strategy and designing and implementing architectures.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

Many organizations are building data lakes to store and analyze large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. In addition, many teams are moving towards a data mesh architecture, which requires them to expose their data sets as easily consumable data products.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics. It focuses on data collection and management of large-scale structured and unstructured data for various academic and business applications.

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