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How Your Finance Team Can Lead Your Enterprise Data Transformation

Alation

Building a Data Culture Within a Finance Department. Our finance users tell us that their first exposure to the Alation Data Catalog often comes soon after the launch of organization-wide data transformation efforts. After all, finance is one of the greatest consumers of data within a business.

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SAP Datasphere Powers Business at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Data collections are the ones and zeroes that encode the actionable insights (patterns, trends, relationships) that we seek to extract from our data through machine learning and data science. Datasphere is a data discovery tool with essential functionalities: recommendations, data marketplace, and business content (i.e.,

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Build and manage your modern data stack using dbt and AWS Glue through dbt-glue, the new “trusted” dbt adapter

AWS Big Data

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt is predominantly used by data warehouses (such as Amazon Redshift ) customers who are looking to keep their data transform logic separate from storage and engine.

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Top 6 Benefits of Automating End-to-End Data Lineage

erwin

For example, automatically importing mappings from developers’ Excel sheets, flat files, Access and ETL tools into a comprehensive mappings inventory, complete with auto generated and meaningful documentation of the mappings, is a powerful way to support overall data governance. Data quality is crucial to every organization.

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Create a modern data platform using the Data Build Tool (dbt) in the AWS Cloud

AWS Big Data

In this post, we delve into a case study for a retail use case, exploring how the Data Build Tool (dbt) was used effectively within an AWS environment to build a high-performing, efficient, and modern data platform. It does this by helping teams handle the T in ETL (extract, transform, and load) processes.

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Turning the page

Cloudera

These acquisitions usher in a new era of “ self-service ” by automating complex operations so customers can focus on building great data-driven apps instead of managing infrastructure. Datacoral powers fast and easy data transformations for any type of data via a robust multi-tenant SaaS architecture that runs in AWS.

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What is Data Mapping?

Jet Global

This field guide to data mapping will explore how data mapping connects volumes of data for enhanced decision-making. Why Data Mapping is Important Data mapping is a critical element of any data management initiative, such as data integration, data migration, data transformation, data warehousing, or automation.