Tag: data warehouse

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Amid the buzz surrounding AI (a Gartner survey in 2018 reports that “11% of marketing technology executives reported AI as their top choice as the technology that would have the most impact on their marketing efforts in the next five years”), business leaders may ask if AI (artificial intelligence) is really mature and valuable today for marketing and sales- and if so, how it can be tangibly implemented.  Table of Contents Is there such a thing as AI marketing? According to McKinsey & Co., AI does currently offer real value for marketing ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Kubernetes is a technology that allows us to isolate an application. That is good but how can we scale this? Of course, we should create new containers. But, how many containers should we have at the same time? How many servers should be involved? Who will monitor all nodes to balance loading and redirect queries to less loaded nodes? Also, how can we update our app without stopping? The answer is Kubernetes. What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Andreina Gomez; In 2019,  strategies emerged and shifted for data environments inside of enterprises as companies attempted to break down silos and improve data utilization for better business insights.  But what should data professionals prepare for in 2020 to stay competitive and fuel business growth? Take a look at the video below to hear from experts in the data integration and transformation space from DocuSign, Travis Perkins, and Matillion on the most important trends you’ll see in 2020. Top trends to watch Here are some of the top trends our customers identified as important in 2020: Modernization ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. There is a trend in industry which says that modern applications need to be built on top of one or more special-purpose databases. That every application benefits from using the best-of-breed technology for each requirement. And that the plethora of special-purpose options available from certain cloud providers is reasonable to manage. That’s all BUNK. The reality is that navigating the choices, figuring out how to use them effectively, and dealing with the ETL and inevitable data sprawl, is so difficult that the pain far outweighs any technical advantage you might get. In the vast ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; We are so excited to announce that Matillion has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Matillion ETL, Matillion’s flagship product, has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift. Matillion ETL for Redshift is also the top-rated product in AWS Marketplace. Amazon has many partners but only some products are truly integrated with their solutions. Achieving the Amazon Redshift Ready designation differentiates Matillion as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon Redshift and is generally available and fully ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We talk a lot about modern ETL, as opposed to the way that traditional ETL has worked since the technology emerged a few decades ago. But how has ETL actually changed? Here are a few ways in which they differ, and why it may be time to update the way you think about – and perform – ETL.   The basics of the ETL process   As its name suggests, the ETL process does three things:   It extracts raw data from multiple siloed sources.   It transforms that data to ensure consistency at its ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Leo Sadovy. Where in your business process can analytics and AI play a contributing role in enhancing your decision making capability?  At the information interpretation stage.  As a framework for understanding where analytic and AI opportunities may arise, the simple diagram below illustrates the relationships between data, information and knowledge, and how you get from one end to the other.  The key is how you come to understand the arrows (the verbs)  that link the three primary concepts (the nouns). Information is organized data.  The same data can be organized differently to yield different information sets ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Matt Yellen, Principal Engineer at CloudZeroAnalyzing large datasets can be challenging, especially if you aren’t thinking about certain characteristics of the data and what you’re ultimately looking to achieve. There are a number of factors organizations need to consider in order to build systems that are flexible, affordable, and fast, while at the same time meeting the needs of their end users. For example, you need to understand where your data is coming from, how often it changes, and how the data will be queried. In some cases, a fixed ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: kevin-oliver; Let’s be honest: no one wakes up in the morning excited to go through a procurement process. This reaction can be particularly true where data management is concerned. When quick responses to market changes are necessary, it’s essential to be able to adjust your architecture rapidly without procurement delays.Completing these adjustments may be easier than you think. Single-license platforms exist that cover a breadth of data management offerings and provide the flexibility necessary to address changes as they arise. In fact, platforms like these can be so fluid ... Read More