Tag: governance

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Mariann McDonagh. As the amount of data grows exponentially, organizations turn to data intelligence to reach deeper conclusions about driving revenue, achieving regulatory compliance and accomplishing other strategic objectives.It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5 quintillion bytes generated every day and 90 percent of the world’s data volume created just in the last two years. This data explosion has overwhelmed most organizations, making it nearly impossible for them to manage much less put to smart, strategic use. How do you identify the time-sensitive, relevant insights ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bill Schmarzo. Okay, I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! If data scientists are the modern-day alchemist who turn data into gold, then why are so many companies using leeches to monetize their data? When I talk to companies about the concept of a “Chief Data Monetization Officer” role, many of them look at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears.  “Sorry, we don’t have that role here.”  Of course you don’t have that role, and that’s why you SUCK at monetizing data.  ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Howard M Wiener. A recent Wall Street Journal article, entitled Coronavirus Pandemic Helps Speed More CIOs Toward Business Operations Accountability, observed: “Large businesses are starting to hold their chief information officers accountable for the results of corporate-wide digital business operations, giving them much wider responsibility within the organization. . . Gartner, which last month released its annual list of top strategic predictions, said that by 2024, a quarter of the CIOs working in large, traditional enterprises will effectively become, as the research and advisory firm calls it, ‘COO by proxy.’” The ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Dave McCann. By Dave McCann, VP of Migration, Marketplace, and Control Services at AWS At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we see customers increasingly turn to AWS Marketplace to modernize the software they use, and to transform their software supply chain. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with more than 7,000 software listings from over 1,700 independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. If you’re an ISV, we are dedicated to helping you simplify software procurement. We also want to help you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jobin George. By Jobin George, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Deepak Ram, Director, Strategic Solutions at InformaticaBy Louis-Noël Trapadoux, Principal Product Manager at Informatica Systems are growing more complex, cloud applications are growing in adoption, and cloud data lakes are being increasingly deployed. At the same time, organizations need to implement data cataloging solutions to provide data governance, data analytics, or pure metadata management. These cataloging solutions should be able to quickly start providing insights so they can drive adoption. This adoption would, in turn, provide additional insight into the data assets ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. When deploying data lakes on AWS, you can use multiple AWS accounts to better separate different projects or lines of business. In this post, we see how the AWS Lake Formation cross-account capabilities simplify securing and managing distributed data lakes across multiple accounts through a centralized approach, providing fine-grained access control to the AWS Glue Data Catalog and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) locations. Use case Keeping each business unit’s resources as compute and storage in its own AWS account allows for easier cost allocation and permissions governance. In the other hand, centralizing your ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Kiran Narsu. Kiran Narsu Alation, AWS, cloud, cloud architectures, data catalog, enterprise data catalog December 2, 2020 — Alation Helps Users Navigate Hybrid Cloud Architecture Today, Alation announced having achieved AWS Advanced Technology Partner status and is now available in AWS Marketplace. Our many joint customers have been using Alation with Amazon Web Services, including Amazon Redshift, EMR, S3, Glue, RDS, and Athena, to enable data search & discovery, run powerful queries, more efficiently migrate to a hybrid cloud, and ensure data governance. Welcome to the Hybrid Cloud Enterprises adopt AWS to have the best of both ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve put together this post to walk you through all that’s changed in Amazon QuickSight this year. For your reading convenience, this post is broken up into the following sections: Embedded Analytics at scale Embedded analytics has been a key focus area for both independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises in the past year. Thousands of customers have since chosen to launch embedded dashboards in QuickSight for both their internal and external end-users, including the NFL, Blackboard, Comcast, Panasonic Avionics, EHE Health, and more, with the ability to scale ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . For many organizations, the use of data and analytics has recently shifted from being a business priority to being a business necessity. This is a critical time to ensure that you’re getting the most out of Power BI—and to maximize its integration with Azure services that will help you build a comprehensive analytics solution. Join us on December 3, 2020, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-8), for the Shape Your Future with Azure Data and Analytics digital event to explore how data and analytics impact the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. With the introduction of CTAS support for Amazon Athena (see Use CTAS statements with Amazon Athena to reduce cost and improve performance), you can not only query but also create tables using Athena with the associated data objects stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). These tables are often temporary in nature and used to filter or aggregate data that already exists in another Athena table. Although this offers great flexibility to perform exploratory analytics, when tables are dropped, the underlying Amazon S3 data remains indefinitely. Over time, the accumulation of these objects can ... Read More