Tag: data warehouse

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Joshua Miner; According to Gartner, global retail sector spending will reach almost $203.6 billion dollars in 2019. Gartner states that software is the fastest-growing category of technology spending, “as retail CIOs prioritize analytics, digital marketing, mobile applications, e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) as the technologies most crucial to their organization’s mission.” Table 1. Retail IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars) The Yellowbrick solution’s high-performance design gives retailers faster, higher quality insight, even as data volumes increase. This enables retailers to win the fight for the customer through a personalized experience and targeted advertising, and ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances; Andreas Schurch, VP Alliances At Matillion, we value the relationships we have with our partners. As our business continues to grow, our partner relationships grow along with it. So it is with great excitement that we announce a private preview of the new Matillion Partner Network to select Matillion Partners. The Partner Network is a global program that allows our industry allies to come together to connect and collaborate. It provides the tools, training, and support that partners need to help their customers compete using data, by transforming ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Hemant Warudkar. Of late, a buzzword in marketing and analytics circles is CDP or Customer Data Platform. Chief Marketing Officers now have this new weapon in their arsenal to serve customers in an even better, faster and more granular manner. A CDP is a “data unifying software”. Adding it on top of your martech stack helps manage your customer experience across every touchpoint – marketing, customer service and product. It absorbs an enterprise’s data from all sources – batch, streaming, structured or unstructured, transaction or demographic - and makes it available 24X7 ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; In our latest ebook, The Data Leader’s Guide to Enterprise Cloud Security and Data Architecture, we talk a bit about data cloud security controls. What are data cloud security controls, and why do we need them?  Here’s a story: In 2013, internet giant Yahoo! suffered a security breach that compromised all 3 billion Yahoo! Accounts – the largest security breach in history. Not only that, Yahoo! didn’t disclose the breach until three years later. It nearly caused the company’s sale to Verizon to fall through. And it did reduce Yahoo’s ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: roger-sanders; For the past nine years, Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website for programmers, has polled developers to understand what technologies they are using and to find out what technologies they want to work with next. This year, the nearly 90,000 survey participants revealed that, once again, Python has risen in the ranks of language popularity. Python earned fourth place, edging out Java and underscoring the claim that it is the fastest-growing programming language in use today. SQL, a standardized language used to work with relational databases, came in third.  ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; Most companies already have the data they need to solve business challenges. However, much of that data goes unused for analysis. To unveil these insights and better understand their business, companies need a better way to act on the volumes of data they’ve accumulated over the years. Cloud data warehouse migration is often the answer.  In our recent ebook, Modernize Your Data Warehouse, we explained that data warehouse technology hasn’t changed much in almost 40 years. In short, legacy technology simply can’t keep up with the volume of data that ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects.Data cataloging helps curate internal and external datasets for a range of content authors. Gartner says this doubles business benefits and ensures effective management and monetization of data assets in the long-term if linked to broader data governance, data quality and metadata management initiatives ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: eric-hausken; Blog In a previous blog, I explained how data science capabilities, massive parallel processing (MPP) and usability improvements in data warehouse appliances can help the bottom line—and why old-fashioned architectures might not cut it. But what does that look like in practice? Research firm Quark + ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. A data lake is a centralized store of a variety of data types for analysis by multiple analytics approaches and groups. Many organizations are moving their data into a data lake. In this post, I explore how you can use AWS Lake Formation to build, secure, and manage data lakes.Traditionally, organizations have kept data in a rigid, single-purpose system, such as an on-premises data warehouse appliance. Similarly, they have analyzed data using a single method, such as predefined BI reports. Moving data between databases or for use with different approaches, like machine learning (ML) or ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. When Oracle announced the release of its Autonomous Database in 2018, DBAs had to wonder how it would change their jobs. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, the Autonomous Database handles patching, upgrades, and tuning; manages its own security needs; and can perform repairs on itself, eliminating human error in the process. What’s left for a DBA to do? Well, the fun stuff: As automation absorbs mundane tasks such as tuning, backups, optimization, configuration, and provisioning, DBAs will spend less time maintaining the physical database and more time extracting value from the data itself ... Read More