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Feed: Alation. Author: Stewart Bond. September 21, 2021 — I grew up in a family that did a lot of camping in recreational vehicles. My dad had this uncanny ability to go somewhere once, and never need a map to get back there again, so we never relied on maps when we went to our favorite campgrounds close to home. Once or twice a year we would do longer trips, going to places throughout North America, places my dad had never been, and so we relied on maps – paper maps! We also relied on a citizen’s band radio in ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The priority of data continues to increase within modern enterprises, and the asset value of that data continues to grow as the amount of data captured expands. But the data itself, in isolation, only has marginal value. It’s what the organisation does with it that matters, and that’s why, for most CIOs and other data experts, the shift in conversation has been away from data in itself, to focus on the integration, and how it is leveraged into business processes.At the same time, the past 18 months have been enormously disruptive for every IT leader, and ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This is the first post in a four-part series on why Open Source Puppet users have made the decision to move to Puppet Enterprise. If you’re considering making this change, read on for pros and cons!As more and more businesses are moving from Open Source Puppet (OSP) to Puppet Enterprise (PE), they are experiencing multiple benefits. In this blog series, we’re exploring the biggest benefits we hear from customers about their experience moving from OSP to PE. One of the most common questions we get is: Is PE just OSP with GUI and ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Information architecture definedInformation architecture is a discipline focused on structuring, organizing, and categorizing content and data in an effective and usable way, largely for websites and applications.Application front ends are becoming increasingly complex, spanning multiple platforms, covering multiple use cases, and drawing data from an ever-growing collection of information sources. Information architecture is the art of putting all the pieces together into a coherent whole.Information architecture frameworkWithout solid information architecture, companies don’t get the maximum value out of the data collected in warehouses, says Daniel Wallance, associate partner at McKinsey & Co.“The volumes of data have ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Forbes BrandVoice. Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Forbes. Establishing a Data Culture—one in which teams value, practice, and encourage using data to make decisions—is a key step toward building a data-driven organization that thrives in today’s dynamic environment.  But how can business leaders nurture that culture after it takes root? One way is to increase access to data and facilitate analysis and innovation by migrating to the cloud. Having data and analytics in the cloud removes barriers to access and trust while strengthening data governance. This influences important behavioral changes in how people use ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . National and local governments as well as NGOs such as the World Bank, IMF and World Health Organization offer web portals to access their datasets. In the US, the data.gov service offers access to 320,000 datasets, the UK's data.gov.uk has 51,000 and the EU's portal comprises 1.36 million. These allow the free download of data on consumer spending, weather, mapping, company financials, public procurement contracts and much more.On top of this are private data resources from companies such as Google and Yelp. Google offers rich data on search behavior from around the world while Yelp offers ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space and individuals with skills in Tableau are in high demand.Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence forecasts the global data visualization market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 9.69% between 2021 and 2026 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven. Tableau is consistently listed as a leader in the BI industry for its data visualization platform, which helps business users access, prepare, and present data insights.With the market for data visualization rising and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Indhu. Data is an essential topic in today’s business world. Every business owner wants to talk about innovative ideas and the value that can flow from data. The data regarding markets, customers, agencies, other companies, and publishers are considered to be valuable resources. Statistics and data are only useful if they are of high quality. The definition of data quality is so broad that it helps companies with different markets and missions to understand whether their data meets the standards. There are some major benefits of Data Quality that will help ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Davendra Paltoo; Exploitation of data is critical to business success, and quicker data processing improves an organization’s ability to react to business events in real time. As a result, organizations are bringing together new types of data from a variety of internal and external sources for real-time data or near-real-time analytics. This can involve building data lakes and information hubs — often on public clouds — fed by real-time streaming technologies, to process and gain value from this variety of data. All these trends drive a growing need for capabilities that can effectively feed ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . In 2020, one of the most serious pandemics in history swept across the world. COVID-19 dramatically changed how people live, work, and create value. As such, it has driven the increasing convergence of the digital and physical worlds. It has also supercharged the digital transformation of industries, and thousands of industries are being reshaped, marking an epochal shift.Digital transformation has entered a new stage of development, offering much-needed certainty in a climate of extreme uncertainty resulting from the resurgence of COVID-19 and a sluggish economic recovery. This new stage is defined by four trends.First, digitalization is ... Read More