David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Talend is a data integration and management software company that offers applications for cloud computing, big data integration, application integration, data quality and master data management. Its code generation architecture uses a visual interface to create Java or SQL code.

Management 311

Management Data Warehouse Data Quality Data Integration 311

DataKitchen

JANUARY 25, 2022

There’s no shortage of consultants who will promise to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of data from integration to transformation to visualization. . The challenge is that data engineering and analytics are incredibly complex. Ensuring that data is available, secure, correct, and fit for purpose is neither simple nor cheap.

Consulting 244

Consulting Testing Data Lake Data Quality 244

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, enterprise data generated from siloed sources combined with the lack of a data integration strategy creates challenges for provisioning the data for generative AI applications. As part of the transformation, the objects need to be treated to ensure data privacy (for example, PII redaction).

Data Governance 91

Data Governance Unstructured Data Metadata Data Lake 91

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As the volume and complexity of analytics workloads continue to grow, customers are looking for more efficient and cost-effective ways to ingest and analyse data. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration effortless. Choose Create job and Visual ETL. Choose Create connection.

Analytics 93

Analytics IT Data Lake Visualization 93

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

In fact, AMA collects a huge amount of structured and unstructured data from bins, collection vehicles, facilities, and user reports, and until now, this data has remained disconnected, managed by disparate systems and interfaces, through Excel spreadsheets.

Digital Transformation 101

Digital Transformation Business Intelligence Unstructured Data Data Lake 101

Ontotext

MAY 2, 2024

Storage-centric approach In the storage-centric approach, people try to address data silos by throwing everything in a data lake or a data warehouse. But, although, this helps somewhat in terms of architecture, soon these data lakes become unwieldy.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Lake Data-driven Enterprise 52

DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

An effective DataOps observability solution requires supporting infrastructure for the journeys to observe and report what’s happening across your data estate. Logs and storage for problem diagnosis and visualization of historical trends. Data and tool tests. And she’ll know when newer data will arrive.

Testing 130

Testing Statistics Measurement Metrics 130

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance. It uses metadata and data management tools to organize all data assets within your organization. Ensuring data quality is made easier as a result.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Data-driven Data Governance 52

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.

Analytics 68

Analytics Data Warehouse Data Lake Metadata 68

FineReport

MARCH 24, 2024

They analyze, interpret, and manipulate complex data, track key performance indicators, and present insights to management through reports and visualizations. Data analysts interpret data using statistical techniques, develop databases and data collection systems, and identify process improvement opportunities.

Statistics 52

Statistics Data mining Visualization Reporting 52

Jedox

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other challenges to data analytics include data storage, data quality, and a lack of knowledge and tools necessary to make sense of the data and generate those critical insights. Limited real-time analytics and visuals. Typically, we take our multiple data sources and perform some level of ETL on the data.

Data Analytics 69

Data Analytics Analytics Unstructured Data Data mining 69

AWS Big Data

JUNE 6, 2023

You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. Hundreds of thousands of customers use data lakes for analytics and ML to make data-driven business decisions.

Data Quality 72

Data Quality Data Lake Data-driven Metrics 72

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

Enterprise 80

Enterprise Data Warehouse Snapshot Cost-Benefit 80

Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. When you imagine a lake, it’s likely an idyllic image of a tree-ringed body of reflective water amid singing birds and dabbling ducks. I’ll take the lake, thank you very much. Many organizations have built a data lake to solve their data storage, access, and utilization challenges.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Metadata Data Warehouse Data Governance 52

Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

As such, most large financial organizations have moved their data to a data lake or a data warehouse to understand and manage financial risk in one place. Yet, the biggest challenge for risk analysis continues to suffer from lack of a scalable way of understanding how data is interrelated.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Knowledge Discovery Risk Data-driven 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. You can visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes.

Optimization 52

Optimization Forecasting Data Lake Metadata 52

AWS Big Data

MARCH 26, 2024

A Gartner Marketing survey found only 14% of organizations have successfully implemented a C360 solution, due to lack of consensus on what a 360-degree view means, challenges with data quality, and lack of cross-functional governance structure for customer data.

Data Strategy 67

Data Strategy Strategy Data Warehouse Prescriptive Analytics 67

AWS Big Data

MARCH 1, 2023

Finding similar columns in a data lake has important applications in data cleaning and annotation, schema matching, data discovery, and analytics across multiple data sources. Finally, to interact with and visualize results from our solution, we build an interactive Streamlit web application running on AWS Fargate.

Data Lake 81

Data Lake Deep Learning Modeling Interactive 81

Alation

MAY 16, 2023

Data Pipeline Use Cases Here are just a few examples of the goals you can achieve with a robust data pipeline: Data Prep for Visualization Data pipelines can facilitate easier data visualization by gathering and transforming the necessary data into a usable state.

Data Lake 69

Data Lake Data Governance Data Warehouse Data Processing 69

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With each game release and update, the amount of unstructured data being processed grows exponentially, Konoval says. This volume of data poses serious challenges in terms of storage and efficient processing,” he says. To address this problem RetroStyle Games invested in data lakes. Quality is job one.

Unstructured Data 128

Unstructured Data Data-driven Visualization Data Quality 128

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

BI software helps companies do just that by shepherding the right data into analytical reports and visualizations so that users can make informed decisions. To gain employee buy-in, Stout’s team builds BI dashboards to show them how they can easily connect to and interact with their data, as well as visualize it in a meaningful way.

IT 130

IT Business Intelligence Sales Key Performance Indicator 130

Alation

JULY 19, 2022

The traditional data science workflow , as defined by Joe Blitzstein and Hanspeter Pfister of Harvard University, contains 5 key steps: Ask a question. Get the data. Explore the data. Model the data. Communicate and visualize the results. A data catalog can assist directly with every step, but model development.

Metadata 59

Metadata Data Quality Statistics Data Science 59

AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 18, 2023

AWS Step Functions is a fully managed visual workflow service that enables you to build complex data processing pipelines involving a diverse set of extract, transform, and load (ETL) technologies such as AWS Glue , Amazon EMR , and Amazon Redshift. By default, when an iteration of map state fails, all other iterations are aborted.

Metadata 117

Metadata Visualization Data Lake Data-driven 117

Alation

MAY 16, 2023

Data Pipeline Use Cases Here are just a few examples of the goals you can achieve with a robust data pipeline: Data Prep for Visualization Data pipelines can facilitate easier data visualization by gathering and transforming the necessary data into a usable state.

Data Lake 40

Data Lake Data Governance Data Warehouse Data Processing 40

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 27, 2022

Since its uniquely metadata-driven, the abstraction layer of a data fabric makes it easier to model, integrate and query any data sources, build data pipelines, and integrate data in real-time. This improves data engineering productivity and time-to-value for data consumers. What’s a data mesh?

Management 85

Management Metadata Data Architecture Data Lake 85

BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. Without a strong BI infrastructure, it can be difficult to effectively collect, store, and analyze data.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Consulting KPI Data Warehouse 52

BizAcuity

JANUARY 31, 2023

Several large organizations have faltered on different stages of BI implementation, from poor data quality to the inability to scale due to larger volumes of data and extremely complex BI architecture. Without a strong BI infrastructure, it can be difficult to effectively collect, store, and analyze data.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Consulting KPI Data Warehouse 52

datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

It’s necessary to say that these processes are recurrent and require continuous evolution of reports, online data visualization , dashboards, and new functionalities to adapt current processes and develop new ones. Testing will eliminate lots of data quality challenges and bring a test-first approach through your agile cycle.

Business Intelligence 276

Business Intelligence Analytics Testing Dashboards 276

Alation

JUNE 21, 2022

Analysts didn’t just want to catalog data sources, they wanted to include dashboards, reports, and visualizations. Why start with a data source and build a visualization, if you can just find a visualization that already exists, complete with metadata about it?

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Quality Visualization Data Lake 52

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s common to ingest multiple data sources into Amazon Redshift to perform analytics. Often, each data source will have its own processes of creating and maintaining data, which can lead to data quality challenges within and across sources. Answering questions as simple as “How many unique customers do we have?”

Data Quality 73

Data Quality Testing Data Warehouse Unstructured Data 73

AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Every event in the data source can be relevant, and our customers don’t tolerate data loss, poor data quality, or discrepancies between the source and Tricentis Analytics. While aggregating, summarizing, and aligning to a common information model, all transformations must not affect the integrity of data from its source.

Software 52

Software Data Lake Testing Cost-Benefit 52

Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Previously, there were three types of data structures in telco: . Entity data sets — i.e. marketing data lakes . It is an edge-to-AI suite of capabilities, including edge analytics, data staging, data quality control, data visualization tools, and machine learning.

Data Architecture 82

Data Architecture Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation Business Driver 82

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.

Cost-Benefit 81

Cost-Benefit Metadata Data Governance Modeling 81

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. Visualizations. The data catalog also stores metadata (data about data, like a conversation), which gives users context on how to use each asset.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Metadata Data Governance Visualization 52

datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new edition also explores artificial intelligence in more detail, covering topics such as Data Lakes and Data Sharing practices. 6) Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz. Khan Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Beaney.

Big Data 263

Big Data Data Analytics Analytics Data mining 263

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 18, 2024

AWS Lake Formation and the AWS Glue Data Catalog form an integral part of a data governance solution for data lakes built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with multiple AWS analytics services integrating with them. In 2022 , we talked about the enhancements we had done to these services. Bien intégré!

Data Lake 86

Data Lake Metadata Data Governance Statistics 86

AWS Big Data

MAY 1, 2024

In addition, by properly separating data and processing, it becomes effortless for the teams and organizations to share, manage, and inherit processes that were traditionally confined to individual PCs. It is crucial in data governance and data management. It can also contribute to lower utilization by end-users.

Dashboards 100

Dashboards Data-driven Publishing Cost-Benefit 100