Category: Datawarehousing

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. The AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR) tracks your AWS usage and provides estimated charges associated with that usage. You can configure this report to present the data at hourly or daily intervals, and it is updated at least one time per day until it is finalized at the end of the billing period. The Cost & Usage Report is delivered automatically to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify, and you can download it from there directly. You can also integrate the report into Amazon Redshift, query it with Amazon Athena, or upload it ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Would you be willing to wait two minutes for a website to load? What if it took 35 clicks to get through an online checkout process? Are you becoming reliant on the ease of mobile banking to check your balance or pay off a credit card? Digitalization and data driven products and services have truly empowered the consumer, providing access and reach to a global market, as well as more choice and control. As the balance has flipped from the business to the consumer, we have seen that reaching the consumer now means focusing on the experience ... Read More

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: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. Social relationships hold a wealth of information about your customers, employees, and suppliers that (if you have the tools to harness them) can provide you valuable insights about the factors that influence behaviors that ultimately impact your bottom line.  The challenge with analyzing and visualizing social relationships is that the underlying data doesn’t match well with the relational data structures that most data warehouses are designed around.  The use cases that your company needs to embrace to create competitive advantage are too complex for most relational databases to handle, and as a result, you may ... 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: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... 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: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. Robotic process automation (RPA) is one of the fastest-growing trends in the IT industry.  This next-generation of workflow management capabilities is poised to be an essential enabler for companies seeking to optimize their digitally transformed business processes for peak efficiency.  For RPA vendors, one of the critical capabilities that must be developed in your solution is the integration capabilities with a wide variety of third-party systems and data sources.Integration is a must-have feature for RPA solutions When customers are implementing RPA solutions, they are often doing so alongside the deployment of things like IoT devices, ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The hybrid cloud is not just a consideration, but for our customers, especially our larger customers, already a reality. To understand what we mean when we say hybrid cloud, we first need to define two terms: Hybrid Cloud: Uses mix of on-premises and one or more clouds. Multi-cloud: Uses two or more clouds. Typically, companies are using both hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. When we talk to our customers about hybrid cloud and or multi-clouds, we often hear the following: We want to use the best-of-breed cloud for a workload. We want to be cloud agnostic. One cloud provider does ... Read More