Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Big data is more important for businesses than ever. Unfortunately, many are struggling to use data effectively. One study found that only 30% of companies have a well-articulated data strategy. Another survey showed only 13% of companies are meeting their data strategies’ goals.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data is the most significant asset of any organization. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

These areas are considerable issues, but what about data, security, culture, and addressing areas where past shortcuts are fast becoming todays liabilities? Types of data debt include dark data, duplicate records, and data that hasnt been integrated with master data sources.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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datapine

MAY 20, 2020

A CRM dashboard is a centralized hub of information that presents customer relationship management data in a way that is dynamic, interactive, and offers access to a wealth of insights that can improve your consumer-facing strategies and communications. Let’s look at this in more detail. What Is A CRM Report? Follow-Up Contact Rate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A modern data and artificial intelligence (AI) platform running on scalable processors can handle diverse analytics workloads and speed data retrieval, delivering deeper insights to empower strategic decision-making. They are often unable to handle large, diverse data sets from multiple sources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. AI has the power to revolutionise retail, but success hinges on the quality of the foundation it is built upon: data. The Data Consistency Challenge However, this AI revolution brings its own set of challenges.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Customers often want to augment and enrich SAP source data with other non-SAP source data. Such analytic use cases can be enabled by building a data warehouse or data lake. Customers can now use the AWS Glue SAP OData connector to extract data from SAP.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of finance and lending, the need for real-time, reliable, and centralized data has become paramount. Bluestone , a leading financial institution, embarked on a transformative journey to modernize its data infrastructure and transition to a data-driven organization.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

For container terminal operators, data-driven decision-making and efficient data sharing are vital to optimizing operations and boosting supply chain efficiency. Together, these capabilities enable terminal operators to enhance efficiency and competitiveness in an industry that is increasingly data driven.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In todays economy, as the saying goes, data is the new gold a valuable asset from a financial standpoint. A similar transformation has occurred with data. More than 20 years ago, data within organizations was like scattered rocks on early Earth.

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DataKitchen

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

On 24 January 2023, Gartner released the article “ 5 Ways to Enhance Your Data Engineering Practices.” Data team morale is consistent with DataKitchen’s own research. We surveyed 600 data engineers , including 100 managers, to understand how they are faring and feeling about the work that they are doing.

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“Software as a service” (SaaS) is becoming an increasingly viable choice for organizations looking for the accessibility and versatility of software solutions and online data analysis tools without the need to rely on installing and running applications on their own computer systems and data centers. How will AI improve SaaS in 2020?

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datapine

JUNE 5, 2019

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”– Data is all around us. Data has changed our lives in many ways, helping to improve the processes, initiatives, and innovations of organizations across sectors through the power of insight. Let’s kick things off by asking the question: what is a data dashboard?

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datapine

JULY 1, 2020

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, HP. Digital data is all around us. quintillion bytes of data every single day, with 90% of the world’s digital insights generated in the last two years alone, according to Forbes.

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datapine

MAY 27, 2020

In recent years, analytical reporting has evolved into one of the world’s most important business intelligence components, compelling companies to adapt their strategies based on powerful data-driven insights. No more sifting through droves of spreadsheets, no more patchwork data analysis, and reporting methods.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It allows organizations to secure data, perform searches, analyze logs, monitor applications in real time, and explore interactive log analytics. With its scalability, reliability, and ease of use, Amazon OpenSearch Service helps businesses optimize data-driven decisions and improve operational efficiency.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The need to integrate diverse data sources has grown exponentially, but there are several common challenges when integrating and analyzing data from multiple sources, services, and applications. First, you need to create and maintain independent connections to the same data source for different services.

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datapine

APRIL 12, 2019

Also, implementing effective management reports will create a data-driven approach to making business decisions and obtaining sustainable business success. Dashboards project management comes with a host of benefits to any modern organization regardless of industry or niche. Centralized data. Communication & cohesion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Between the host of regulations introduced in the wake of the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis, the emergence of thousands of fintech startups, and shifting consumer preferences for digital payments banking, financial services companies have had plenty of change to contend with over the past decade. But there’s an opportunity in this shift.

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O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 22, 2020

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for instance, imposes fines of up to 2%–4% of global annual revenue. For instance, financial companies are investing millions into using artificial intelligence to comply with anti-money laundering regulations or stricter data regulations. Don’t do it.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Previously, we discussed the top 19 big data books you need to read, followed by our rundown of the world’s top business intelligence books as well as our list of the best SQL books for beginners and intermediates. Data visualization, or ‘data viz’ as it’s commonly known, is the graphic presentation of data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Several co-location centers host the remainder of the firm’s workloads, and Marsh McLennans big data centers will go away once all the workloads are moved, Beswick says.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Over the last few months, Cloudera has been traversing the globe hosting our EVOLVE24 event series. Building Inclusive Data-Driven Organizations: Leadership Strategies for the Modern Workplace As it stands, women currently account for approximately 25% of the technology workforce.

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datapine

MAY 9, 2019

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore, management consultant, and author. In a world dominated by data, it’s more important than ever for businesses to understand how to extract every drop of value from the raft of digital insights available at their fingertips.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

However, enterprise cloud computing still faces similar challenges in achieving efficiency and simplicity, particularly in managing diverse cloud resources and optimizing data management. The rise of AI, particularly generative AI and AI/ML, adds further complexity with challenges around data privacy, sovereignty, and governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Users are verified and given the lowest privileges necessary each time they access a corporate resource, meaning ransomware and other data-stealing threats are far less of a concern. Due to the criticality of its services, Zscaler prioritizes security and reliability in its development strategy.

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Jet Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

20, 2024 – insightsoftware , a leader in data & analytics, today announced the availability of Logi Symphony, its flagship embedded business intelligence (BI) solution, on Google Cloud Marketplace. “insightsoftware can continue to securely scale and support customers on their digital transformation journeys.”

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Big data has been a powerful force of change in the fitness industry. More fitness companies are using data analytics, AI and other technology to better understand their customers, improve their operating margins and make other changes to adapt to new trends. This is largely driven by a growing need for data-driven fitness solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLellan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Several co-location centers host the remainder of the firm’s workloads, and Marsh McLellan’s big data centers will go away once all the workloads are moved, Beswick says.

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datapine

MAY 21, 2019

“BI is about providing the right data at the right time to the right people so that they can take the right decisions” – Nic Smith. Data analytics isn’t just for the Big Guys anymore; it’s accessible to ventures, organizations, and businesses of all shapes, sizes, and sectors.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, data is the bedrock of innovation, enhancing customer and employee experiences and securing a competitive edge. Like many large financial institutions, ANZ Institutional Division operated with siloed data practices and centralized data management teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

If a customer asks us to do a transaction or workflow, and Outlook or Word is open, the AI agent can access all the company data, he says. The data is kept in a private cloud for security, and the LLM is internally hosted as well. And the data is also used for sales and marketing. Thats been positive and powerful.

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datapine

AUGUST 28, 2019

By gaining centralized access to business data and presenting it in a visual way that follows a logical path and provides invaluable insights on a particular area or subject, you stand to set yourself apart from your competitors and become a leader in your field. Exclusive Bonus Content: Your definitive guide to data storytelling!

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datapine

JULY 17, 2019

Experts predict that by 2025, around 175 Zettabytes of data will be generated annually, according to research from Seagate. But with so much data available from an ever-growing range of sources, how do you make sense of this information – and how do you extract value from it? Looking for a bite-sized introduction to reporting?

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