AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As organizations grapple with exponential data growth and increasingly complex analytical requirements, these formats are transitioning from optional enhancements to essential components of competitive data strategies. These are useful for flexible data lifecycle management. Apache Iceberg highlights AWS Glue 5.0

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Cloudera

JUNE 7, 2022

Only a fraction of data created is actually stored and managed, with analysts estimating it to be between 4 – 6 ZB in 2020. Clearly, hybrid data presents a massive opportunity and a tough challenge. Capitalizing on the potential requires the ability to harness the value of all of that data, no matter where it is.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data. You need to process this to make it ready for analysis.

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TDAN

MAY 31, 2022

The main goal of creating an enterprise data fabric is not new. It is the ability to deliver the right data at the right time, in the right shape, and to the right data consumer, irrespective of how and where it is stored. Data fabric is the common “net” that stitches integrated data from multiple data […].

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2020

Data modeling is a process that enables organizations to discover, design, visualize, standardize and deploy high-quality data assets through an intuitive, graphical interface. Data models provide visualization, create additional metadata and standardize data design across the enterprise. What is Data Modeling?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Why it’s challenging to process and manage unstructured data Unstructured data makes up a large proportion of the data in the enterprise that can’t be stored in a traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS). Understanding the data, categorizing it, storing it, and extracting insights from it can be challenging.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When it comes to using AI and machine learning across your organization, there are many good reasons to provide your data and analytics community with an intelligent data foundation. For instance, Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to ultimately perform better when data is structured.

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Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2022

Only a fraction of data created is actually stored and managed, with analysts estimating it to be between 4 – 6 ZB in 2020. Clearly, hybrid data presents a massive opportunity and a tough challenge. Capitalizing on the potential requires the ability to harness the value of all of that data, no matter where it is.

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Cloudera

APRIL 18, 2024

More Businesses Are Taking a Holistic Approach to Data Strategy One of the more common trends we saw coming up through conversations during the summit was the need for a reframing of how we approach data strategy—taking a much more holistic viewpoint to it than organizations otherwise would have in past years.

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Alation

MARCH 14, 2023

This was confirmed by the UK Ministry of Defence last September when it published its Data Strategy for Defence , which for the first time provided a clear vision and guidance for defence sector companies for gathering, collating and harnessing data. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 10, 2024

A modern data strategy redefines and enables sharing data across the enterprise and allows for both reading and writing of a singular instance of the data using an open table format. Why Cloudinary chose Apache Iceberg Apache Iceberg is a high-performance table format for huge analytic workloads.

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TDAN

APRIL 6, 2021

A metadata-driven data warehouse (MDW) offers a modern approach that is designed to make EDW development much more simplified and faster. It makes use of metadata (data about your data) as its foundation and combines data modeling and ETL functionalities to build data warehouses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2022

The rise of data strategy. There’s a renewed interest in reflecting on what can and should be done with data, how to accomplish those goals and how to check for data strategy alignment with business objectives. The evolution of a multi-everything landscape, and what that means for data strategy.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

S3 Tables integration with the AWS Glue Data Catalog is in preview, allowing you to stream, query, and visualize dataincluding Amazon S3 Metadata tablesusing AWS analytics services such as Amazon Data Firehose , Amazon Athena , Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, and Amazon QuickSight. With AWS Glue 5.0, AWS Glue 5.0 AWS Glue 5.0

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Alation

MARCH 1, 2023

To learn the answer, we sat down with Karla Kirton , Data Architect at Blockdaemon, a blockchain company, to discuss data strategy , decentralization, and how implementing Alation has supported them. What is your data strategy and how did you begin to implement it? Where does data mesh fit into your plans?

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As in Part 1, the AWS DMS jobs will place the full load and CDC data from the source database (SQL Server) in the raw S3 bucket. Now we process this data using AWS Glue and save it to the silver bucket in Iceberg format. If the CDC operation is INSERT or UPDATE, the job merges the data into the Iceberg table. format(dbname)).config("spark.sql.catalog.glue_catalog.catalog-impl",

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

While some enterprises are already reporting AI-driven growth, the complexities of data strategy are proving a big stumbling block for many other businesses. So, what can businesses do to maximize the value of their data, and ensure their genAI projects are delivering return on investment?

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

They are also starting to realize – and accept – that data is challenging. Post-COVID, companies now understand that IT skills are different from data skills. It is easier to list the symptoms of a problematic data foundation as they are often pretty clear to business users.

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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 discoverability Unlike structured data, which is managed in well-defined rows and columns, unstructured data is stored as objects.

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I said I thought it affected all of them pretty profoundly, but perhaps the Metadata wedge the most. Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics most affected. I thought I’d spend a bit of time to reflect on the question and answer […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data architecture is a complex and varied field and different organizations and industries have unique needs when it comes to their data architects. Cloud data architect: The cloud data architect designs and implements data architecture for cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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TDAN

JANUARY 5, 2021

In this age, data management has become a necessary routine. Organizations have started to uncover large sets of data in the form of Assets typically used for analysis and decision making. Understandably, Data Catalogs […].

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Alation

APRIL 19, 2021

Data Cloud Migration Challenges and Solutions. Cloud migration is the process of moving enterprise data and infrastructure from on premise to off premise. This includes moving data, workloads, IT resources, and applications to the cloud. However, cloud data migration can be difficult. Alation & Global Data Strategy).

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now at the forefront of how enterprises work with data to help reinvent operations, improve customer experiences, and maintain a competitive advantage. It’s no longer a nice-to-have, but an integral part of a successful data strategy. Later this year, watsonx.data will infuse watsonx.ai

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Ontotext

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

What Makes a Data Fabric? Data Fabric’ has reached where ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Grid Computing’ once trod. Data Fabric hit the Gartner top ten in 2019. This multiplicity of data leads to the growth silos, which in turns increases the cost of integration. It is a buzzword.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These included metadata design and development, quantitative analysis, regression analysis, continuous integration, data analytics, data strategy, identity and access management, machine learning, natural language processing, and more. Certifications, IT Skills.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Organizations must comply with these requests provided that there are no legitimate grounds for retaining the personal data, such as legal obligations or contractual requirements. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Tags provide metadata about resources at a glance.

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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. Each component runs independently to solve a portion of the operational data processing use case.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

They enable transactions on top of data lakes and can simplify data storage, management, ingestion, and processing. These transactional data lakes combine features from both the data lake and the data warehouse. One important aspect to a successful data strategy for any organization is data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

Data scientists are becoming increasingly important in business, as organizations rely more heavily on data analytics to drive decision-making and lean on automation and machine learning as core components of their IT strategies. Data scientist job description. Semi-structured data falls between the two.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

This allows data consumers to easily identify new datasets and provides agility and innovation without spending hours doing analysis and research. Background The success of a data-driven organization recognizes data as a key enabler to increase and sustain innovation. It follows what is called a distributed system architecture.

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Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? Answers will differ widely depending upon a business’ industry and strategy for growth.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 4, 2023

Over the last decade, we’ve seen a surge in data science frameworks coming to fruition, along with mass adoption by the data science community. Data scientists have access to the Jupyter notebook hosted on SageMaker. The OpenSearch Service domain stores metadata on the datasets connected at the Regions.

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Ontotext

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2023, data leaders and enthusiasts were enamored of — and often distracted by — initiatives such as generative AI and cloud migration. Without this, organizations will continue to pay a “bad data tax” as AI/ML models will struggle to get past a proof of concept and ultimately fail to deliver on the hype.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Data culture eats data strategy for breakfast” has become a popular saying among data and analytics managers and executives. Even the best data strategy cannot fulfill its potential if the data culture in the company does not match it.

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