AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg , we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. This capability is particularly valuable in maintaining the integrity of backtests and the reliability of trading strategies.

Metadata

KDnuggets

JULY 11, 2025

For developers and data practitioners, this shift presents both opportunity and challenge. Understanding how different models tokenize text helps you estimate costs accurately and design efficient prompting strategies. Learning each models strengths helps you select the right tool for specific tasks.

Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

We believe the product operating model will allow us to be most effective in implementing the changes needed to achieve this strategy. We werent aligning on overarching strategies or collaborating well, and we knew we needed something different. I see this as the next evolution of the partnership needed to drive strategy.

Modeling

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems. Or, in some cases, companies have platforms that were built with human interactions in mind and aren’t ideal today for many gen AI implementations.

ROI

AWS Big Data

APRIL 8, 2025

Although these capabilities are powerful, implementing them effectively in production environments presents unique challenges that require careful consideration. Implementation patterns Implementing robust concurrent write handling in Iceberg requires different strategies depending on the conflict type and use case.

Snapshot

Jen Stirrup

AUGUST 2, 2025

The technical implementation is often the easiest part of the transformation; developing the organizational fluency to leverage the technology effectively presents the greater challenge. Here are practical steps organizations can take: Immersive Integration: Make data interaction as routine as checking email—not a specialist task.

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Each interaction amplifies the potential for errors, breaches, or misuse, underscoring the critical need for a strong governance framework to mitigate these risks. Ensuring these elements are at the forefront of your data strategy is essential to harnessing AI’s power responsibly and sustainably. Data breaches are not the only concern.

Data Governance

DataKitchen

JULY 8, 2025

Just as software teams would never dream of deploying code that has only been partially tested, data engineering teams must adopt comprehensive testing strategies to ensure the reliability, accuracy, and trustworthiness of their data products. The financial implications of these strategies are significant. without running real data.

Testing

Smarten

AUGUST 7, 2025

As data democratization and data literacy drive the enterprise strategy and business users begin to leverage augmented analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools, the data scientist is also called upon to refine and present analytics and reports created by team members in order to ensure that these are appropriate for more strategic decisions.

Analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research laboratory to the forefront of user interactions over the past two years. As senior product owner for the Performance Hub at satellite firm Eutelsat Group Miguel Morgado says, the right strategy is crucial to effectively seize opportunities to innovate.

Forecasting

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Check out the Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse: Accelerate analytics & AI presented at re:Invent 2024. Neeraja is a seasoned technology leader, bringing over 25 years of experience in product vision, strategy, and leadership roles in data products and platforms.

Data Lake

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With the next-generation user interface (UI), the Discover experience has been improved to simplify interactive analysis, so that you can easily utilize features such as natural language query generation to gain insights from your data. More specifically he loves to help customers use AI in their data strategy to solve modern day challenges.

Dashboards

Anmut

JULY 14, 2025

AI is reshaping enterprise data strategy The AI revolution is forcing a complete rethink of enterprise data strategy. Your customer interactions, operational processes, and market insights create irreplaceable competitive moats that become more valuable as AI capabilities advance. One without the other is worthless.

Recreation/Entertainment

KDnuggets

JULY 29, 2025

Log in to NotebookLM Click on New notebook Select Upload File > choose your exported PDF or TXT file Click Open NotebookLM will rapidly scan and digest the content of your data, preparing it for interactive querying. As you interact with the tool, it suggests new prompts, guiding you toward deeper insights.

Machine Learning

AWS Big Data

JUNE 24, 2025

By storing them in a queue, you have the option to implement strategies for retries and errors when needed. AWS provides Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) as a managed alternative for customers that want to reduce management and accelerate the development of their data strategy with Airflow in a cost-effective way.

Testing

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2025

GenAI as ubiquitous technology In the coming years, AI will evolve from an explicit, opaque tool with direct user interaction to a seamlessly integrated component in the feature set. In-depth analysis: LLMs can go beyond simple data presentation to identify and explain complex patterns in the data.

Software

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 22, 2025

As part of that mandate, the German software company presented enhancements to Joule , partnerships with other AI pioneers, and new features for its Business Data Cloud and Business Suite this week at the show. The name S/4HANA , whichshaped SAPs strategy for the past decade, is no longer mentioned at all. Who has seen S/4HANA?

Digital Transformation

DataFloq

JUNE 17, 2025

Allowing AI Agents To Interact To Solve Large Problems Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI models to freely interact with other models and applications. At run time, a user request is broken into steps and then agents that can handle each step are identified and interacted with.

Interactive

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Yet these increasingly dynamic interactions typically require chains of API requests to distant servers, causing latency, he says. Well-designed, well-deployed edge AI integrates more capabilities with minimal code changes, allowing businesses to deliver the real-time, interactive experiences users crave.”

Cost-Benefit

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Amazon Athena provides interactive analytics service for analyzing the data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Amazon EMR provides a big data environment for data processing, interactive analysis, and machine learning using open source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. Navigate to AWS CloudFormation.

Metadata

AWS Big Data

JULY 25, 2025

However, managing schema evolution at scale presents significant challenges. This schema evolution strategy efficiently handles new data fields across different time periods. To update your table schema to handle the new sensor data, follow these steps: Copy the following code into the UpdateTableAPI.py

IoT

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Each branch has its own lifecycle, allowing for flexible and efficient data management strategies. This post explores robust strategies for maintaining data quality when ingesting data into Apache Iceberg tables using AWS Glue Data Quality and Iceberg branches. We discuss two common strategies to verify the quality of published data.

Data Quality

AWS Big Data

JULY 11, 2025

We’ll explore creating materialized views and implementing nested refresh strategies, where materialized views are defined in terms of other materialized views to expand their capabilities. Plan refresh strategies: When creating materialized views that depend on other materialized views, you cannot use AUTO REFRESH YES.

Data Warehouse

DataFloq

JULY 21, 2025

As presented in the table below, LLMs are much larger and pricier than SLMs. The table below presents an SLM vs. LLM comparison Is one language model better than the other? SLMs handle frequently asked questions, ticket routing, and routine customer interactions across email, chat, and voice channels. So, how are they different?

Modeling

KDnuggets

JULY 2, 2025

Not tailoring your CV and cover letter to present yourself as highly suitable for a position carries a risk of being overlooked even before the interview. Nate Rosidi is a data scientist and in product strategy. Companies want you to fit into the particular job. A fix: Read the job description carefully.

Machine Learning

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Taking advantage of agentic AI’s ability to process unstructured data, manage contextual decisions, and interact dynamically typically isn’t as simple as updating existing scripts or workflows, he said. These systems often present integration challenges, making it difficult to implement drastic changes to the existing technology stack.

Consulting

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

Technological paradigm shifts and disruptive global forces require CIOs to rethink their digital strategies every two years. Two years ago, I shared how gen AI impacts digital transformation priorities , focusing on data strategies, customer support initiatives, and AI governance.

Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2025

When I presented this idea to senior stakeholders in the business, they killed it instantly. For creative individuals innovating at the edges, even the prospect of having to present their idea to a committee can have a chilling effect. We also logged every interaction and used this to refine the model behaviour.

Enterprise

Jet Global

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Despite its powerful features, Oracle EBS can present challenges, including complex data management, integration hurdles, and a steep learning curve. With interactive reporting technology, you can easily refresh your reports to access real-time data, making financial reporting faster, more efficient, and highly accurate.

Reporting

AWS Big Data

JULY 31, 2025

Table statistics (also known as planner statistics ) provide a snapshot of the data available in a table to help the query planner make an informed decision on execution strategies. The next section reviews features in Amazon Redshift that help improve query performance on data lakes even when table statistics aren’t present or are limited.

Data Lake

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2025

Before the advent of generative AI, we at Rest — one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds — had already embarked on a strategy to simplify the retirement investment experience for our members. Generative AI presented a great opportunity to achieve this.

Measurement

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The tools are used to extract information from large documents, to help create presentations, and to summarize lengthy reports and compared documents to find discrepancies. Use case 3: sales and marketing Gen AI is further used at PGIM to help its sales staff help users interact with documents in a more user-friendly way.

ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2025

Salesforce Agentforce leverages AI across its ecosystem: In service cloud, it provides intelligent routing of customer service cases and predictive analytics for agent performance, optimizing customer interactions and service delivery. A system-agnostic strategy shifts the focus from tool-specific automation to enterprise-wide intelligence.

IoT

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its processing of vast datasets enables supply chain precision, life-saving diagnostics and hyper-personalized consumer interactions, fostering scalability and innovation. However, AI adoption also presents complex challenges, including security vulnerabilities, ethical concerns and regulatory compliance. Ensuring ethical practices.

Data-driven

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

People want the ability to come into the office when they want to interact and do creative work with the team, but then there’s also focused work time that they want.” Top CIOs develop communication strategies and schedule regular dialogs with their teams. They should be active listeners so their teams can share feedback and ideas.

IT

Jet Global

JANUARY 14, 2025

Measurable ROI Finance teams are set to transform their financial reporting strategies this year, driven by a challenging economic climate. Spreadsheet Server enables you to: Automate manual processes with interactive, accurate, and refreshable reports straight from your ERP.

Finance

O'Reilly on Data

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It became increasingly clear that they would need a new strategy. Designing an effective AI learning path that worked with the Head First methodwhich engages readers through active learning and interactive puzzles, exercises, and other elementstook months of intense research and experimentation.

Testing