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Understanding the Differences Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

Data lakes and data warehouses are probably the two most widely used structures for storing data. Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Nutshell. A data warehouse is used as a central storage space for large amounts of structured data coming from various sources.

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Salesforce debuts Zero Copy Partner Network to ease data integration

CIO Business Intelligence

Currently, a handful of startups offer “reverse” extract, transform, and load (ETL), in which they copy data from a customer’s data warehouse or data platform back into systems of engagement where business users do their work. It works in Salesforce just like any other native Salesforce data,” Carlson said.

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Data governance in the age of generative AI

AWS Big Data

Data is your generative AI differentiator, and a successful generative AI implementation depends on a robust data strategy incorporating a comprehensive data governance approach. Data governance is a critical building block across all these approaches, and we see two emerging areas of focus.

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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Despite being primarily an AWS shop, Rocket has taken a model-agnostic approach to generative AI platforms.

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Why optimize your warehouse with a data lakehouse strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

To do so, Presto and Spark need to readily work with existing and modern data warehouse infrastructures. Now, let’s chat about why data warehouse optimization is a key value of a data lakehouse strategy. To effectively use raw data, it often needs to be curated within a data warehouse.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Understanding Structured and Unstructured Data

Sisense

Read on to explore more about structured vs unstructured data, why the difference between structured and unstructured data matters, and how cloud data warehouses deal with them both. Structured vs unstructured data. However, both types of data play an important role in data analysis.