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The Internet of Things: Real-Time Data and Analytics Enable Business Innovation

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The emerging internet of things (IoT) is an extension of digital connectivity to devices and sensors in homes, businesses, vehicles and potentially almost anywhere.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data.

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Use External Data Platform to Improve Analytics

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Our research shows that external data sources are also a routine part of data preparation processes, with 80% of organizations incorporating one or more external data sources. And a similar proportion of participants in our research (84%) include external data in their data lakes.

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

CIO Business Intelligence

The high-end organic produce and fresh meats distributor envisions IT — analytics and AI, specifically — as the key to more efficient distribution logistics and five-star customer experience. Baldor Specialty Foods is turning to IT to take its business to the next level. poached its first CIO.

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Modernizing Data Architectures

Data Virtualization

Recently, we have seen the rise of new technologies like big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and data lakes. But we have not seen many developments in the way that data gets delivered. Modernizing the data infrastructure is the.

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Living on the Edge: How to Accelerate Your Business with Real-time Analytics

Cloudera

Leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) allows you to improve processes and take your business in new directions. That’s where you find the ability to empower IoT devices to respond to events in real time by capturing and analyzing the relevant data. Real-time analytics isn’t always about life-and-death situations, though.

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Architectural patterns for real-time analytics using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, part 1

AWS Big Data

This is the first post to a blog series that offers common architectural patterns in building real-time data streaming infrastructures using Kinesis Data Streams for a wide range of use cases. In this post, we will review the common architectural patterns of two use cases: Time Series Data Analysis and Event Driven Microservices.

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