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Why Invest Now? Three Investors Share the Story Behind Alation’s Series E

Alation

In fact, the original founder chemistry caught Sands’ attention back in 2013. “We At Databricks, we’re focused on enabling customers to adopt the data lakehouse, and that’s an open data architecture that combines the best of the data warehouse and the data lake into one platform,” Ferguson says. “[The

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Amazon Redshift announcements at AWS re:Invent 2023 to enable analytics on all your data

AWS Big Data

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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FINRA CIO Steve Randich pushes the public cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

Randich, who came to FINRA.org in 2013 after stints as co-CIO of Citigroup and former CIO of Nasdaq, is no stranger to the public cloud. Gartner maintains, for example, that roughly 80% to 90% of an organization’s data is largely semi-structured or unstructured and is rarely used in AI cloud applications.

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Thermo Fisher transforms its customer experience

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2013, Alfa Aesar in 2015, Affymetrix and FEI Co. The rapid growth left the company highly dependent on fragmented, manual processes and disparate data sources and systems. The team also built a centralized data lake on AWS, Databricks, and Power BI. in 2016, and BD Advanced Bioprocessing in 2018. Catalyzing change.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s. 2013: Google launches Google Compute Engine (IaaS), its own version of EC2. Google launches BigQuery, its own data warehousing tool and Microsoft introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake Store. More on Kubernetes soon.

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Why Game Studios Should Exploit Visual Analytics | BizAcuity

BizAcuity

Inability to get player level data from the operators. It does not make sense for most casino suppliers to opt for integrated data solutions like data warehouses or data lakes which are expensive to build and maintain. BizAcuity [ISO 9001:2015, 27001:2013 certified], is a data analytics consulting company.

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Why We Started the Data Intelligence Project

Alation

Two data-driven careers. In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. To answer these questions we need to look at how data roles within the job market have evolved, and how academic programs have changed to meet new workforce demands. The first was in Madison, Wisconsin.