CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Truly data-driven companies see significantly better business outcomes than those that aren’t. According to a recent IDC whitepaper , leaders saw on average two and a half times better results than other organizations in many business metrics. Most organizations don’t end up with data lakes, says Orlandini.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

Responsibilities include: Look for the data to be used from the technical data catalog and request access to the data. Handle the process and conversion of data into a format suitable for their own use (such as fact-dimension) with granted referencing permissions. It is crucial in data governance and data management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Every day, organizations of every description are deluged with data from a variety of sources, and attempting to make sense of it all can be overwhelming. So a strong business intelligence (BI) strategy can help organize the flow and ensure business users have access to actionable business insights. “By

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AWS Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

This post discusses the journey that took Altron from their initial goals, to technical implementation, to the business value created from understanding their customers and their unique opportunities better. Data quality for account and customer data – Altron wanted to enable data quality and data governance best practices.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Figure 2: Example data pipeline with DataOps automation. In this project, I automated data extraction from SFTP, the public websites, and the email attachments. The automated orchestration published the data to an AWS S3 Data Lake. All the code, Talend job, and the BI report are version controlled using Git.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Our data team uses gen AI on Amazon cloud to explore sustainability metrics. For a typical project that will likely involve a Snowflake data lake hosted currently on Azure, Menon stresses that quality of data is critical. “AI AI tools rely on the data in use in these solutions.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 7, 2023

A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users. Data hubs and data lakes can coexist in an organization, complementing each other.

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

Whether you are a complete novice or a seasoned BI professional, you will find here some books on data analytics that will help you cultivate your understanding of this essential field. Before we delve deeper into the best books for data analytics, here are three big data insights to put their relevance and importance into perspective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study , 88% of IT decision-makers agree that data collection and analysis have the potential to fundamentally change their business models over the next three years. The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As part of their cloud modernization initiative, they sought to migrate and modernize their legacy data platform. Third-party APIs – These provide analytics and survey data related to ecommerce websites. This could include details like traffic metrics, user behavior, conversion rates, customer feedback, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2022

This would be straightforward task were it not for the fact that, during the digital-era, there has been an explosion of data – collected and stored everywhere – much of it poorly governed, ill-understood, and irrelevant. Further, data management activities don’t end once the AI model has been developed. Addressing the Challenge.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

It has been well published since the State of DevOps 2019 DORA Metrics were published that with DevOps, companies can deploy software 208 times more often and 106 times faster, recover from incidents 2,604 times faster, and release 7 times fewer defects. Finally, data integrity is of paramount importance.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

However, often the biggest stumbling block is a human one, getting people to buy in to the idea that the care and attention they pay to data capture will pay dividends later in the process. These and other areas are covered in greater detail in an older article, Using BI to drive improvements in data quality.

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Alation

JULY 19, 2022

Finally, a data catalog can help data scientists find answers to their questions (and avoid re-asking questions that have already been answered). Modern data catalogs surface a wide range of data asset types. Modern data catalogs also facilitate data quality checks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To optimize data analytics and AI workloads, organizations need a data store built on an open data lakehouse architecture. This type of architecture combines the performance and usability of a data warehouse with the flexibility and scalability of a data lake.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Having been in business for over 50 years, ARC had accumulated a massive amount of data that was stored in siloed, on-premises servers across its 7 business domains. Using Alation, ARC automated the data curation and cataloging process. “So

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Alation

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

What Is a Data Catalog? A data catalog is a centralized storage bank of metadata on information sources from across the enterprise, such as: Datasets. Business intelligence reports. The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset.

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