AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

This view is used to identify patterns and trends in customer behavior, which can inform data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes. In 2022, AWS commissioned a study conducted by the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC) to quantify the Business Value of Customer 360.

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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. Why does AI need an open data lakehouse architecture?

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Alation

AUGUST 11, 2022

He’s a true expert in the field, having worked at Oracle, Scient, BearingPoint, and Booz Allen Hamilton, and on data-focused projects with companies like LMVH, Major League Baseball, Toyota, American Express, Freddie Mac, and many, many others. I recently had the opportunity to connect with Mohan at Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas.

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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. These include tools for metadata management (e.g.,

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Alation

MAY 3, 2022

In a couple of weeks (May 17–19) the Alation team joins one of our favorite data events of the year: Tableau Conference 2022. Yet there’s still an alarming gap between finding data… and using it. In Nelson’s keynote at the 2021 Tableau Conference , he said, “Building a data culture is critical to get to the outcomes you need.”.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 9, 2023

SCD2 metadata – rec_eff_dt and rec_exp_dt indicate the state of the record. Register source tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog We use an AWS Glue crawler to infer metadata from delimited data files like the CSV files used in this post. These two columns together define the validity of the record.

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Alation

DECEMBER 8, 2022

There seem to be as many data governance vendors as there are data governance definitions! But by reviewing the offerings of the leading 18 vendors, Forrester Research’s new report, The Data Governance Solutions Landscape, Q4 2022 , can help you narrow your options based on core and extended features, size, and industry focus.

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Alation

JUNE 7, 2022

Today, they bridge the gap between the experts with data and everyone who needs to use data with a self-service environment; in other words, they’ve democratized data , supported by a system of record, with clear, authoritative sources and labels. Maturing our data strategy helps to accelerate our value to the customer.”.

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