Octopai

DECEMBER 12, 2021

What enables you to use all those gigabytes and terabytes of data you’ve collected? Metadata is the pertinent, practical details about data assets: what they are, what to use them for, what to use them with. Without metadata, data is just a heap of numbers and letters collecting dust. Where does metadata come from?

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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. The following diagram illustrates the building blocks of the Institutional Data & AI Platform.

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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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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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erwin

JULY 17, 2019

Having a clearly defined digital transformation strategy is an essential best practice for successful digital transformation. But what makes a viable digital transformation strategy? Constructing A Digital Transformation Strategy: Data Enablement. With automation, data quality is systemically assured.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. The metadata from these applications will help the language model identify trends and understand patterns across a particular SaaS offering, Batta added.

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Alation

JULY 28, 2022

It’s costly and time-consuming to manage on-premises data warehouses — and modern cloud data architectures can deliver business agility and innovation. However, CIOs declare that agility, innovation, security, adopting new capabilities, and time to value — never cost — are the top drivers for cloud data warehousing.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. Three Types of Metadata in a Data Catalog.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Today’s customers have a growing need for a faster end to end data ingestion to meet the expected speed of insights and overall business demand. This ‘need for speed’ drives a rethink on building a more modern data warehouse solution, one that balances speed with platform cost management, performance, and reliability.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse provides an open data architecture that reduces data silos and unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes, Redshift data warehouses, and third-party and federated data sources. With AWS Glue 5.0, AWS Glue 5.0 Finally, AWS Glue 5.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 6, 2022

The data you’ve collected and saved over the years isn’t free. If storage costs are escalating in a particular area, you may have found a good source of dark data. Analyze your metadata. If you’ve yet to implement data governance, this is another great reason to get moving quickly. Data sense-making.

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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. When evolving such a partition definition, the data in the table prior to the change is unaffected, as is its metadata.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Data is processed to generate information, which can be later used for creating better business strategies and increasing the company’s competitive edge. It’s obvious that you’ll want to use big data, but it’s not so obvious how you’re going to work with it. Preserve information: Keep your raw data raw.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This blog is intended to give an overview of the considerations you’ll want to make as you build your Redshift data warehouse to ensure you are getting the optimal performance. This results in less joins between the metric data in fact tables, and the dimensions. So let’s dive in! OLTP vs OLAP.

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Jen Stirrup

MARCH 29, 2023

What does a sound, intelligent data foundation give you? It can give business-oriented data strategy for business leaders to help drive better business decisions and ROI. It can also increase productivity by enabling the business to find the data they need when the business teams need it.

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erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Metadata is an important part of data governance, and as a result, most nascent data governance programs are rife with project plans for assessing and documenting metadata. But in many scenarios, it seems that the underlying driver of metadata collection projects is that it’s just something you do for data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support datasets from multiple sources but require a consistent data structure.

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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. Then, you transform this data into a concise format.

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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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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 31, 2024

It was not until the addition of open table formats— specifically Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake—that data lakes truly became capable of supporting multiple business intelligence (BI) projects as well as data science and even operational applications and, in doing so, began to evolve into data lakehouses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

SAP’s Data Warehouse Cloud is evolving, gaining new features and a new name, Datasphere, as the company addresses continued diversification of the enterprise data. Khan said SAP is going beyond the usual capabilities of a data fabric by preserving the business context of the data it carries. “You

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“I do think the acquisition has been a bit of a distraction, but that’s probably true anytime that kind of money starts moving around,” David Nalley, director of open-source strategy and marketing at Amazon Web Services, told me. There’s been a ton of innovation lately around the Iceberg REST catalog because the data turf war is over.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Amazon Redshift also supports querying nested data with complex data types such as struct, array, and map.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Amazon Redshift powers data-driven decisions for tens of thousands of customers every day with a fully managed, AI-powered cloud data warehouse, delivering the best price-performance for your analytics workloads.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift , the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

We show how Ranger integrates with Hadoop components like Apache Hive, Spark, Trino, Yarn, and HDFS, providing secure and efficient data management in a cloud environment. Join us as we navigate these advanced security strategies in the context of Kubernetes and cloud computing.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 2, 2023

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets, which captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Some solutions provide read and write access to any type of source and information, advanced integration, security capabilities and metadata management that help achieve virtual and high-performance Data Services in real-time, cache or batch mode. How does Data Virtualization complement Data Warehousing and SOA Architectures?

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Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2021

While cloud-native, point-solution data warehouse services may serve your immediate business needs, there are dangers to the corporation as a whole when you do your own IT this way. Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) is here to save the day! CDW is an integrated data warehouse service within Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies. It’s a role that combines hard skills such as programming, data modeling, and statistics with soft skills such as communication, analytical thinking, and problem-solving.

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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. All of this supports the use of AI.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

An Amazon DataZone domain contains an associated business data catalog for search and discovery, a set of metadata definitions to decorate the data assets that are used for discovery purposes, and data projects with integrated analytics and ML tools for users and groups to consume and publish data assets.

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Effective DQM is recognized as essential to any consistent data analysis, as the quality of data is crucial to derive actionable and – more importantly – accurate insights from your information. There are a lot of strategies that you can use to improve the quality of your information. 2 – Data profiling.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2023

The right data architecture can help your organization improve data quality because it provides the framework that determines how data is collected, transported, stored, secured, used and shared for business intelligence and data science use cases. Perform data quality monitoring based on pre-configured rules.

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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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