Tag: collaboration

Feed: Alation. Author: Stephanie McReynolds. We’ve seen the trend first hand. Organizations who are so successful in their adoption of self-service analytics, that their own business intelligence (BI) evangelists worry that they’ve created an analytics “wild west.” When they see a data catalog for the first time, they’re thrilled that a product exists that can govern the west and increase analyst productivity. This week Dresner Advisory Services released their Data Catalog Market Study and BI end users validated the market for data catalogs.If you’re not familiar with them, Dresner Advisory Services conducts broad-based, end user studies of the BI market ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Aaron Kalb. Tools like MicroStrategy and Tableau make it easy for business users to quickly turn raw data into visualizations and reports. But before you can even start, you have to find a relevant data set, understand it, and trust it. Then you have to connect to it, which can involve many steps and typing many slashes and dots (mysql://10.1.abc/xyz, etc.).Even if you have Alation Catalog to facilitate finding, understanding, and trusting data assets, the process of actually connecting to data can be intimidating, difficult, and error-prone. It introduces needless friction in what should be a smooth ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The Quick Start builds an AWS-validated architecture that includes:• An Amazon Redshift data warehouse, which is an enterprise-class relational database query and management system. • Tableau Server for business intelligence (BI) and data visualization capabilities, and a sample Tableau Server dashboard that demonstrates how to connect to multiple data sources in AWS.• A sample dataset that's loaded to an Amazon Redshift cluster to support efficient creation of aggregates at large data scale, and an associated SQL worker instance. You can also choose to load your own dataset.• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with PostgreSQL, to provide ... Read More

Feed: AllegroGraph - THE Semantic Graph Database. Author: cnorvell. In this issue Gruff v6.0 Now Available Webcast - "Enriching the Property Graph with Relationship Objects" - November 18 - 10 AM Pacific CIOReview - AllegroGraph Named as Leading Database Solution SmartData Conference Video - "Healthcare Analytics with a Smart Data Lake" Bloor Research Positions AllegroGraph as a "Champion" Recent Articles about Franz - AllegroGraph Recorded Webcast: Maximizing New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications with AllegroGraph Allegro CL 10 - Meeting Demand for High Performance AI Applications Follow us on Google Plus, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube Brief Customer and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mac Slocum. L to R: O'Reilly Fluent Conference chairs Ally MacDonald, Kyle Simpson, and Tammy Everts. (source: O'Reilly Conferences via Flickr). Experts from across the web world are coming together in San Jose, Calif. for the O'Reilly Fluent Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The end of "personal" computing (and the beginning of personal computing) John Allsopp looks toward the next age of personal computing—one where humans will interact with machines in more seamless and futuristic ways. Building the culture and collaboration layer for DevOps Sean Regan says DevOps requires ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. In light of data’s prominence in modern business, organizations need to ensure they have a strong data foundation in place.The ascent of data’s value has been as steep as it is staggering. In 2016, it was suggested that more data would be created in 2017 than in the previous 5000 years of humanity. But what’s even more shocking is that the peak still not may not even be in sight. To put its value into context, the five most valuable businesses in the world all deal in data (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Knowing where to begin business process modeling can seem impossible – you have a wealth of information spread out in front of you and no clue where to start. In our previous articles, ‘The basics of business process modeling‘ and ‘Why am I doing this?,’ we  covered the reasons why businesses may undertake business process modeling. But knowing the basics and the why is only half the battle. Should you wish to benefit from a good business process strategy, an understanding of best practices is vital.With this in mind, we spoke to two experienced business process ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Alexey Zhebel. Alexey Zhebel  | June 21, 2017 |  Posted In: Database Monitoring, Events and Announcements, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Orchestrator, Percona Monitoring and Management, Percona Software, PMM, Prometheus, ProxySQL PREVIOUS POST Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.5 on June 21, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM-667: Fixed the Latency graph in the ProxySQL Overview dashboard to plot microsecond values instead of milliseconds. PMM-800: Fixed the InnoDB Page Splits graph in the MySQL InnoDB Metrics Advanced dashboard to show correct page merge success ratio. PMM-1007: ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: O'Reilly Media. Global air and sea routes. (source: Dominic Alves on Flickr). JupyterCon is August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. Registration is now open. Marius Tulbure is a developer and JavaScript enthusiast at Figshare. He will be speaking at JupyterCon, August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. Below, Tulbure shares his thoughts on the current and future state of Jupyter. 1. How has Jupyter changed the way you work? Our platform's back end is implemented using Python; therefore, we adopted Jupyter as a default tool for sharing executable snippets of code and for prototyping ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Cloudera Manager. Author: Bala Venkatrao. Bala Venkatrao is the Director of Product Management at Cloudera. As many of you know, we recently launched Cloudera Enterprise 3.7. Here’s the link to the press release This release marked a transition from Cloudera Management Suite (CMS) to Cloudera Manager (CM), the industry’s first and most comprehensive management application for Apache Hadoop. Over the last month we have received very positive feedback from our customers. I want to thank again all the Clouderans who spent countless hours bringing this product to market. I also want to take this opportunity ... Read More