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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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Today, Amazon Redshift is used by customers across all industries for a variety of use cases, including data warehouse migration and modernization, near real-time analytics, self-service analytics, data lake analytics, machine learning (ML), and data monetization.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To achieve this, they aimed to break down data silos and centralize data from various business units and countries into the BMW Cloud Data Hub (CDH). This led to inefficiencies in data governance and access control.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

In addition to real-time analytics and visualization, the data needs to be shared for long-term data analytics and machine learning applications. To achieve this, EUROGATE designed an architecture that uses Amazon DataZone to publish specific digital twin data sets, enabling access to them with SageMaker in a separate AWS account.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

They’re taking data they’ve historically used for analytics or business reporting and putting it to work in machine learning (ML) models and AI-powered applications. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio (Preview) solves this challenge by providing an integrated authoring experience to use all your data and tools for analytics and AI.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

These strategies, such as investing in AI-powered cleansing tools and adopting federated governance models, not only address the current data quality challenges but also pave the way for improved decision-making, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. When financial data is inconsistent, reporting becomes unreliable.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift uses generative AI to analyze user intent, query patterns, and schema metadata to identify common SQL query patterns directly within Amazon Redshift, accelerating the query authoring process for users and reducing the time required to derive actionable data insights.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 15, 2024

Unlocking the true value of data often gets impeded by siloed information. Traditional data management—wherein each business unit ingests raw data in separate data lakes or warehouses—hinders visibility and cross-functional analysis. Amazon DataZone natively supports data sharing for Amazon Redshift data assets.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For many organizations, this centralized data store follows a data lake architecture. Although data lakes provide a centralized repository, making sense of this data and extracting valuable insights can be challenging. We recommend testing your use case and data with different models.

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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

JUNE 10, 2024

Organizations have multiple Hive data warehouses across EMR clusters, where the metadata gets generated. To address this challenge, organizations can deploy a data mesh using AWS Lake Formation that connects the multiple EMR clusters. An entity can act both as a producer of data assets and as a consumer of data assets.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In August, we wrote about how in a future where distributed data architectures are inevitable, unifying and managing operational and business metadata is critical to successfully maximizing the value of data, analytics, and AI.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this regard, the enterprise data product catalog acts as a federated portal, facilitating cross-domain access and interoperability while maintaining alignment with governance principles. This model balances node or domain-level autonomy with enterprise-level oversight, creating a scalable and consistent framework across ANZ.

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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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DataKitchen

AUGUST 3, 2021

First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt. Second-generation – gigantic, complex data lake maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. To achieve this, they plan to use machine learning (ML) models to extract insights from data.

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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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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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erwin

DECEMBER 17, 2020

What is Microsoft’s Common Data Model (CDM), and why is it so powerful? The same is true for data, with a number of vendors creating data models by vertical industry (financial services, healthcare, etc.) and making them commercially available to improve how organizations understand and work with their data assets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

“The challenge that a lot of our customers have is that requires you to copy that data, store it in Salesforce; you have to create a place to store it; you have to create an object or field in which to store it; and then you have to maintain that pipeline of data synchronization and make sure that data is updated,” Carlson said.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2023

Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other business data, as well as support the use of business intelligence (BI) tools and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. For InitialRunFlag , choose Setup.

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erwin

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But even with the “need for speed” to market, new applications must be modeled and documented for compliance, transparency and stakeholder literacy. With all these diverse metadata sources, it is difficult to understand the complicated web they form much less get a simple visual flow of data lineage and impact analysis.

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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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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. Text, images, audio, and videos are common examples of unstructured data. Therefore, there is a need to being able to analyze and extract value from the data economically and flexibly.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Architecturally the introduction of Hadoop, a file system designed to store massive amounts of data, radically affected the cost model of data. Organizationally the innovation of self-service analytics, pioneered by Tableau and Qlik, fundamentally transformed the user model for data analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

However, they do contain effective data management, organization, and integrity capabilities. 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. Warehouse, data lake convergence. Meet the data lakehouse.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Part Two of the Digital Transformation Journey … In our last blog on driving digital transformation , we explored how enterprise architecture (EA) and business process (BP) modeling are pivotal factors in a viable digital transformation strategy. Digital Transformation Strategy: Smarter Data.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

For many enterprises, a hybrid cloud data lake is no longer a trend, but becoming reality. With a cloud deployment, enterprises can leverage a “pay as you go” model; reducing the burden of incurring capital costs. Due to these needs, hybrid cloud data lakes emerged as a logical middle ground between the two consumption models.

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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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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

We’ll work with those scientists and actually build the computer models and go run it, and it can be anything from sub-physical particle imaging to protein folding,” he says. “In In other cases, it’s more of a standard computational requirement and we help them provide the data in the right formats.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In this example, the Machine Learning (ML) model struggles to differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin. Will the model correctly determine it is a muffin or get confused and think it is a chihuahua? The extent to which we can predict how the model will classify an image given a change input (e.g. Model Visibility.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

You can collect complete application ecosystem information; objectively identify connections/interfaces between applications, using data; provide accurate compliance assessments; and quickly identify security risks and other issues. Automating Data Governance and Enterprise Architecture.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2024

Solution To address the challenge, ATPCO sought inspiration from a modern data mesh architecture. Amazon DataZone provides rich functionality to help a data platform team distribute ownership of tasks so that these teams can choose to operate less like gatekeepers. Choose the Amazon DataZone blueprint you want to enable.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have seen a strong customer demand to expand its scope to cloud-based data lakes because data lakes are increasingly the enterprise solution for large-scale data initiatives due to their power and capabilities. The team uses dbt-glue to build a transformed gold model optimized for business intelligence (BI).

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