AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Joel Farvault is Principal Specialist SA Analytics for AWS with 25 years’ experience working on enterprise architecture, data governance and analytics, mainly in the financial services industry. Joel has led data transformation projects on fraud analytics, claims automation, and Master Data Management.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division. Nodes and domains serve business needs and are not technology mandated.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Joel Farvault is Principal Specialist SA Analytics for AWS with 25 years’ experience working on enterprise architecture, data governance and analytics, mainly in the financial services industry. Joel has led data transformation projects on fraud analytics, claims automation, and Master Data Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

To fuel self-service analytics and provide the real-time information customers and internal stakeholders need to meet customers’ shipping requirements, the Richmond, VA-based company, which operates a fleet of more than 8,500 tractors and 34,000 trailers, has embarked on a data transformation journey to improve data integration and data management.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

In early April 2021, DataKItchen sat down with Jonathan Hodges, VP Data Management & Analytics, at Workiva ; Chuck Smith, VP of R&D Data Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ; and Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen, to find out about their enterprise DataOps transformation journey, including key successes and lessons learned.

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Cloudera

APRIL 19, 2022

Data holds incredible untapped potential for Australian organisations across industries, regardless of individual business goals, and all organisations are at different points in their data transformation journey with some achieving success faster than others. . More importantly, effective data strategies don’t stand still.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Your AI strategy is only as good as your data strategy,” Tableau CMO Elizabeth Maxon said in a press conference Monday. But to us, it’s more than just having a data strategy; it’s also about building a great foundation of a data culture.”

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TDAN

AUGUST 15, 2023

Nearly every data leader I talk to is in the midst of a data transformation. As businesses look for ways to increase sales, improve customer experience, and stay ahead of the competition, they are realizing that data is their competitive advantage and the key to achieving their goals. And it’s no surprise, really.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

But to augment its various businesses with ML and AI, Iyengar’s team first had to break down data silos within the organization and transform the company’s data operations. Digitizing was our first stake at the table in our data journey,” he says.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Conclusion Data-driven organizations are transitioning to a data product way of thinking. Utilizing strategies like data mesh generates value on a large scale. We took this a step further by creating a blueprint to create smart recommendations by linking similar data products using graph technology and ML.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In our last blog , we delved into the seven most prevalent data challenges that can be addressed with effective data governance. Today we will share our approach to developing a data governance program to drive data transformation and fuel a data-driven culture.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

CFM takes a scientific approach to finance, using quantitative and systematic techniques to develop the best investment strategies. Using social network data has also often been cited as a potential source of data to improve short-term investment decisions. Each team is the sole owner of its AWS account.

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Peter James Thomas

MARCH 9, 2020

In the thirteen years that have passed since the beginning of 2007, I have helped ten organisations to develop commercially-focused Data Strategies [1]. However, in this initial article, I wanted to to focus on one tool that I have used as part of my Data Strategy engagements; a Data Maturity Model.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 1, 2024

However, you might face significant challenges when planning for a large-scale data warehouse migration. Effective planning, thorough risk assessment, and a well-designed migration strategy are crucial to mitigating these challenges and implementing a successful transition to the new data warehouse environment on Amazon Redshift.

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TDAN

MARCH 16, 2021

Taking Stock A year ago, organisations of all sizes around the world were catapulted into a cycle of digital and data transformation that saw many industries achieve in a matter of weeks in what would otherwise have taken many years to achieve. Small businesses pivoted to doing business online in a way that they might […].

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TDAN

JUNE 15, 2021

We have seen an impressive amount of hype and hoopla about “data as an asset” over the past few years. And one of the side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been an acceleration of data transformation in organisations of all sizes.

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Octopai

JUNE 9, 2024

This challenge is especially critical for executives responsible for data strategy and operations. Here’s how automated data lineage can transform these challenges into opportunities, as illustrated by the journey of a health services company we’ll call “HealthCo.”

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CDW Research Hub

JULY 23, 2021

By watching this series, you will: Learn about current data trends and how to leverage data management strategies for your organization. Get hands-on experience with the data cloud. Gain experience and understanding of how to drive better business decisions with your data. Learn about current trends.

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Sisense

MAY 11, 2021

In this article, we’ll dig into what data modeling is, provide some best practices for setting up your data model, and walk through a handy way of thinking about data modeling that you can use when building your own. Building the right data model is an important part of your data strategy. Discover why.

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Peter James Thomas

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Prelude… I recently came across an article in Marketing Week with the clickbait-worthy headline of Why the rise of the chief data officer will be short-lived (their choice of capitalisation). It may well be that one thing that a CDO needs to get going is a data transformation programme.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Identifying structured and unstructured data. Setting data management policies, like tagging data. A comprehensive data governance strategy ensures that you have quality data so you can leverage insights for data-driven decision making. Why Is Data Governance In The Public Sector Important?

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Anmut

MARCH 24, 2022

We could give many answers, but they all centre on the same root cause: most data leaders focus on flashy technology and symptomatic fixes instead of approaching data transformation in a way that addresses the root causes of data problems and leads to tangible results and business success. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Cloudera

APRIL 12, 2021

As Cussatt put it, “data transformation isn’t about the IT, but about enabling the mission to be able to serve the veterans.” This is where data strategy and digital modernization come into play. If not for efficient IT, the VA’s services wouldn’t have operated so promptly and smoothly during the pandemic, he noted.

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Anmut

APRIL 6, 2022

We’ve done our best to help you understand what a data asset is and why treating data as an asset is a smart strategy for your business. Now we’d like to discuss how you can start extracting maximum value from your data by taking a closer look at what data asset management looks like in practice.

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Alation

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Curious to learn how the data catalog can power your data strategy?

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

This is supported by automated lineage, governance and reproducibility of data, helping to ensure seamless operations and reliability.    IBM and AWS have partnered to accelerate customers’ cloud-based data modernization strategies.

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Dataiku

AUGUST 28, 2019

With all the media hype and coverage around AI, one might think that every company out there has Enterprise AI all figured out and is extremely mature in their data journey. However, we surveyed more than 350 data professionals and found a different story.

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

But there are only so many data engineers available in the market today; there’s a big skills shortage. So to get away from that lack of data engineers, what data mesh says is, ‘Take those business logic data transformation capabilities and move that to the domains.’

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AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2023

This concludes creating data sources on the AWS Glue job canvas. Next, we add transformations by combining data from these different tables. Transform the data Complete the following steps to add data transformations: On the AWS Glue job canvas, choose the plus sign.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Everyone’s talking about data. Data is the key to unlocking insight— the secret sauce that will help you get predictive, the fuel for business intelligence. The transformative potential in AI? It relies on data. The good news is that data has never […].

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Data Virtualization

APRIL 21, 2021

BHP is a global resources company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It is among the world’s top producers of major commodities, including iron ore, metallurgical coal, and copper, and has substantial interests in oil and gas. BHP has operations and offices.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With Simba drivers acting as a bridge between Trino and your BI or ETL tools, you can unlock enhanced data connectivity, streamline analytics, and drive real-time decision-making. Let’s explore why this combination is a game-changer for data strategies and how it maximizes the value of Trino and Apache Iceberg for your business.

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Jet Global

JULY 16, 2024

By providing a consistent and stable backend, Apache Iceberg ensures that data remains immutable and query performance is optimized, thus enabling businesses to trust and rely on their BI tools for critical insights. It provides a stable schema, supports complex data transformations, and ensures atomic operations.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2025

While enabling organization-wide efficiency, the team also applied these principles to the data architecture, making sure that CLEA itself operates frugally. After evaluating various tools, we built a serverless data transformation pipeline using Amazon Athena and dbt. The Source stage maintains raw data in its original form.

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