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5 misconceptions about cloud data warehouses

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s world, data warehouses are a critical component of any organization’s technology ecosystem. They provide the backbone for a range of use cases such as business intelligence (BI) reporting, dashboarding, and machine-learning (ML)-based predictive analytics, that enable faster decision making and insights.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architecture is a complex and varied field and different organizations and industries have unique needs when it comes to their data architects. Solutions data architect: These individuals design and implement data solutions for specific business needs, including data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes.

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Snowflake: A New Blueprint for the Modern Data Warehouse

CDW Research Hub

Companies today are struggling under the weight of their legacy data warehouse. These old and inefficient systems were designed for a different era, when data was a side project and access to analytics was limited to the executive team. To do so, these companies need a modern data warehouse, such as Snowflake.

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What is a Data Mesh?

DataKitchen

The data mesh design pattern breaks giant, monolithic enterprise data architectures into subsystems or domains, each managed by a dedicated team. First-generation – expensive, proprietary enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence platforms maintained by a specialized team drowning in technical debt.

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Building a vision for real-time artificial intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture and technology stack. It isn’t easy.

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Announcing zero-ETL integrations with AWS Databases and Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

To run analytics on their operational data, customers often build solutions that are a combination of a database, a data warehouse, and an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline. ETL is the process data engineers use to combine data from different sources.

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The Future of the Data Lakehouse – Open

CIO Business Intelligence

These lakes power mission critical large scale data analytics, business intelligence (BI), and machine learning use cases, including enterprise data warehouses. In recent years, the term “data lakehouse” was coined to describe this architectural pattern of tabular analytics over data in the data lake.