erwin

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations are managing more data than ever. With more companies increasingly migrating their data to the cloud to ensure availability and scalability, the risks associated with data management and protection also are growing. Where did it come from and how has it changed? Who is authorized to use it and how?

Data Governance 106

Data Governance Cost-Benefit Risk Metadata 106

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this post, we discuss how Acast overcame the challenge of coupled dependencies between teams working with data at scale by employing the concept of a data mesh. Data engineers were finding it increasingly challenging to maintain and scale the data infrastructure, resulting in data access, data silos, and inefficiencies in data management.

Data-driven 83

Data-driven Advertising Metadata Data Architecture 83

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 23, 2023

With OpenSearch Service managed domains, you specify a hardware configuration and OpenSearch Service provisions the required hardware and takes care of software patching, failure recovery, backups, and monitoring. Your team should be familiar with sharding concepts and OpenSearch best practices to use the OpenSearch managed offering.

Snapshot 93

Snapshot Dashboards Visualization Metrics 93

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

One such major change for CDH users is the replacement of Sentry with Ranger for authorization and access control. . This blog post provides CDH users with a quick overview of Ranger as a Sentry replacement for Hadoop SQL policies in CDP. So, upgrading to a new major version in CDP can create hesitation and apprehension.

Data Lake 75

Data Lake Management Metadata Modeling 75

erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

You also can manage the effectiveness of your business and ensure you understand what critical systems are for business continuity and measuring corporate performance. If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

Metadata 132

Metadata Cost-Benefit Measurement Data-driven 132

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2023

ML algorithms and data science are how recommendation engines at sites like Amazon, Netflix and StitchFix make recommendations based on a user’s taste, browsing and shopping cart history. Here are some real-world applications of machine learning that have become part of our everyday lives.

Machine Learning 51

Machine Learning Marketing Forecasting Modeling 51

AWS Big Data

APRIL 26, 2023

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more.

Metadata 52

Metadata Dashboards Visualization Consulting 52

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In this post, we’ll cover how this works and how to set it up. How it works. The Ranger plugin is responsible for authorizing the requests against the cached policies. Cloudera Manager will automatically configure Ranger for Kudu and vice versa. The rest of the Ranger-specific options don’t need to be changed.

Metadata 52

Metadata Management IT Analytics 52

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Here at Cloudera, we’ve seen many large organizations struggle to meet ever-changing and ever-growing business demands. In addition, costs generated by independent IT projects frequently skyrockets with few controls in place to manage them. A tale of two organizations. We see it everywhere.

Data Warehouse 101

Data Warehouse Reporting Risk Cost-Benefit 101

Ontotext

JUNE 24, 2020

Web Annotation GraphQL Service. Find Annotations with Droid tags. As you model and engineer a large knowledge graph it can become very difficult to manage complexity. Existing GraphQL clients can consume federated GraphQL services without change. Our friends from the GraphQL Federation have pledged their support.

Modeling 64

Modeling Technology IT Management 64

erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So most early-stage data governance managers kick off a series of projects to profile data, make inferences about data element structure and format, and store the presumptive metadata in some metadata repository. There is rarely a clear directive about how metadata is used. There is rarely a clear directive about how metadata is used.

Metadata 84

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 84

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Assembling a version of the Mona Lisa in the style of Vincent van Gough is fun, but how often will that boost the bottom line? When thinking of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases, the question might be asked: What won’t AI be able to do? We’re all amazed by what AI can do.

Cost-Benefit 86

Cost-Benefit Insurance Unstructured Data Machine Learning 86

Alation

MARCH 29, 2023

To shed further light on the value of these contracts and how they benefit our customers, I sat down for an interview with our marketing team. How does that impact your work today? They need to manage technology more fluidly. Please tell us about your background. Eric Rosburg , Senior Account Executive, Alation: Sure!

Data Strategy 52

Data Strategy Strategy Data Governance Sales 52

erwin

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So most early-stage data governance managers kick off a series of projects to profile data, make inferences about data element structure and format, and store the presumptive metadata in some metadata repository. There is rarely a clear directive about how metadata is used. There is rarely a clear directive about how metadata is used.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Governance Digital Transformation Data Quality 52

AWS Big Data

JUNE 29, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud that delivers powerful and secure insights on all your data with the best price-performance. To address this, in this post we show you how you can automate near-real-time notifications over a Slack channel when certain queries are run on the data warehouse.

Data Warehouse 59

Data Warehouse Dashboards Testing Visualization 59

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. How can my company become great? How can my company become great?" How do I crush tough problems?

KPI 124

KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The top ten of anything rarely changes (with the exception of hourly changing content – news – sites). In each case I request you to look beyond the specific request and tool, rather focus on the analysis and how you could possibly apply it. We look at the top ten rows of data because: 1.

Metrics 94

Metrics KPI Reporting Visualization 94

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Direct traffic contains visitors that proactively seek you out, everyone else you have to "beg" to show up on your site! Yet this question seems to bedevil a lot of people: What the heck is Direct Traffic? I want you to be just as excited.

Analytics 122

Analytics Metrics Data-driven Reporting 122

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Since this is not a blog about legal issues (and I'm not a lawyer!) Privacy is a very important issue when it comes to digital.

Data Collection 130

Data Collection Advertising Metrics Reporting 130

Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

You'll be surprised at how much you learn, and, like an Easter egg hunt, the whole thing is fun all by itself. You'll be surprised at how much you learn, and, like an Easter egg hunt, the whole thing is fun all by itself. The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. This hurts my feelings!

Analytics 155

Analytics Reporting Metrics Slice and Dice 155

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. This blog post is about the above recommendations, and their merit. Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. Gets more Likes. It was huge.

Advertising 165

Advertising ROI Metrics Marketing 165

Cloudera

JANUARY 21, 2022

This blog will summarise the security architecture of a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster. The release of CDP Private Cloud Base has seen a number of significant enhancements to the security architecture including: Apache Ranger for security policy management. Updated Ranger Key Management service. Characteristics. Non-secure.

Data Processing 107

Data Processing Management Cost-Benefit Finance 107

Cloudera

MARCH 23, 2023

In this blog we will cover materialized views — a special type of sink that makes the output available via REST API. This is not a simple task to do, since planes are constantly moving and changing their altitudes, and we need to read this data from an unbounded stream. Why use a materialized view?

Broadcasting 77

Broadcasting IT Software Management 77

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We covered the value this new capability provides in a previous blog. In this blog post we’ll compare implementing policies using the group-based mechanism (IDBroker) to how it is done in a RAZ-enabled environment. . Changes with file access control . So, what are the consequences of this implementation?

Interactive 62

Interactive Metadata Data Warehouse Management 62

Alation

JANUARY 25, 2022

Data fabric is now on the minds of most data management leaders. In our previous blog, Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: A Love Story , we defined data fabric and outlined its uses and motivations. This marketecture diagram 2 is a simplified version of its fellow from our first blog. Social signals around data are powerful.

Metadata 52

Metadata IT Metrics Data-driven 52

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This beautiful daily, weekly, monthly blog post I was drafting in my head to share my excitement with you about thinking analysis differently went poof. This beautiful daily, weekly, monthly blog post I was drafting in my head to share my excitement with you about thinking analysis differently went poof. And, that is how it should be.

Analytics 80

Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice 80

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

I'd requested you to submit questions on my Facebook or Google+ pages and am always delighted at the wide range of challenges you share. How do you think about making reconsiderations for a scenario like this?? Nothing changes for the business. about digital marketing and analytics. Hour-by-hour report please. :)? ,

Marketing Analytics 131

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Measurement 131

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Tens of thousands of rows of keywords in the Search Report (even for this small blog!). The top ten of anything rarely changes (except in rare circumstances like a sale or on a pure content – think news – site). Advanced table filters, tag clouds and keyword trees are a good start. The top ten won't change.

Analytics 109

Analytics Metrics Reporting ROI 109

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

A couple weeks back I'd requested the nice folks following me on Google+ and Facebook to submit their most important digital marketing and analytics questions. Yehoshua I've covered this topic in detail in this blog post: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. Let's do this!

Modeling 124

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

After 416,350 words in posts and 845,128 words in comments on this blog, thus far, there is always more to explore, illuminate and share. It is a great way to stay connected to what's most important to you (and keep the blog and its content relevant!). They are: the tactical "How do I?", Thank you. Let's go!

Analytics 94

Analytics Measurement Metrics Predictive Analytics 94

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 23, 2006

‡ Never start with clickstream, it becomes “old” quickly ‡ People care about their paychecks ‡ Execution strategy: ~ Identify Senior Management hot buttons ~ Exhibit daily that you can • increase revenue • trim costs • improve customer satisfaction. . 2 Solve for the Trinity. # Your Choice?

Data-driven 117

Data-driven Metrics KPI Reporting 117

Alation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Therefore, the question is not if a business should implement cloud data management and governance, but which framework is best for them. Ideally, that process is managed by a team of experts. Today’s organizations are rapidly embracing the cloud. This is mostly due to cost-saving and data sharing benefits. Achieving this is not easy.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data Quality Metrics Metadata 52

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

In service of report creation the job includes: Pulling data, writing queries, fulfilling ad-hoc requests, scheduling data outputs (reports, dashboards), liaising with script implementers / IT teams to collect more data, etc. A part of reason for this mis-match in value delivered is that there is a natural evolution that needs to occur.

Data-driven 140

Data-driven Consulting Reporting Marketing 140

Alation

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, I’ll address some of the questions we did not have time to answer live, pulling from both Dr. Reichental’s book as well as my own experience as a data governance leader for 30+ years. Can you have proper data management without establishing a formal data governance program? Establishing a solid vision and mission is key.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Cost-Benefit 52

Alation

MARCH 24, 2022

So how are data privacy and security distinct? In this blog, we’ll compare and contrast data privacy and security, and make the case that both are essential and complementary for an effective data governance program. They want to exercise their right to control their private data: Who uses it, when, and how.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Risk Data-driven Measurement 52

Alation

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Setting data management policies, like tagging data. Further, the public sector also manages high-value classified information. To secure this data, entities need to control where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s shared. Changing Regulations. Standardizing data formats. Privacy concerns.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Metadata Data-driven Unstructured Data 52

Alation

AUGUST 9, 2021

Less than 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are managing data as an asset and only 24 percent of executives consider their organization to be data-driven. The below are just a few examples of how to make your data analytics stack approachable and functional for business teams: 1. 5 Tips for a Business-Friendly Data Analytics Stack.

Analytics 98

Analytics Data-driven Contextual Data Data Analytics 98