Click to learn more about author Hiral Rana. Data has for years acted as the building blocks upon which all urban civilizations now stand. This proved even truer during the COVID-19 pandemic, when unimagined chaos ensued around the globe, sending multiple businesses into closure. On the flip side, the epidemic also presented a silver lining […]
Where Is the Data Technology Industry Headed?
Click here to learn more about Heine Krog Iversen. We recently read reports about plans for Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm. This announcement is interesting and causes some of us in the tech industry to step back and consider many of the factors involved in providing data technology […]
Closing the Data Science Skills Gap at Your Organization
Click to learn more about author Itamar Ben Hamo. Data scientists are some of the most in-demand professionals on the market. A LinkedIn Workforce Report in 2018 found 151,000 unfilled data scientist jobs across the United States, with “acute” shortages in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. And the demand for data scientists […]
What Is Data Intelligence?
Just as a business must be effective in monitoring and managing finances, it also needs data intelligence capabilities to monitor and manage its data assets. Data intelligence, describes discovering, understanding, and governing data so that the business gets the maximum value in its investment of data with the minimum risk. This can also mean a […]
Becoming a Prized Data Warehouse and Data Integration Tester
Click to learn more about author Wayne Yaddow. Data warehouse (DW) testers with data integration QA skills are in demand. Data warehouse disciplines and architectures are well established and often discussed in the press, books, and conferences. They have become a standard necessity for most modern organizations. Each business often uses one or more data […]
What Is Data Integration?
Data integration refers to actions taken in creating consistent, quality, and usable data from one or more diverse data sets. As technologies become more complex and change over time, data variety and volume grow exponentially and the speed of data transfer becomes ever shorter. Data integration has and will continue to become more critical to […]
Can You Trust Your Data?
Click to learn more about author Craig Stewart. In order to be successful in today’s ultra-competitive business environment, companies must be committed to data. Data needs to truly be at the heart of every decision an organization makes, but this is easier said than done. There is an overwhelming amount of data in every organization. […]
Pillars of Data Integrity: The New Business Imperative
Click to learn more about author Amy O’Connor. Innovations in data-driven intelligence continue to power transformation initiatives for modern businesses. While these innovations improve how we collect, store, manipulate, and analyze data, that is not enough to fully leverage data. Being accurate, consistent, and contextual is crucial for unleashing the data’s full potential. It is […]
Knowledge Graphs as Belief System Encapsulations
Click to learn more about author Babis Marmanis. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit us, the global research community went into high gear to study the disease and to share their research in hopes of finding a solution. This increase in research output created a new challenge for scientific publishers: finding enough qualified peer-reviewers to keep […]
What Is DataOps?
DataOps (Data Operations) is collaborative Data Management practices “focused on improving the communication, integration, and automation of data flows” to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models, and related artifacts. DataOps were created as a better way to develop and deliver analytics, and to aid the data engineers, business uses, analysts, and […]