Click to learn more about author Emily Washington. In recent years, enterprise data across multiple industries has led to groundbreaking innovation: In the utility industry, energy companies build consumer portals for sharing energy-saving information, supporting the customer by cutting energy costs and protecting the environment. Financial institutions build modern applications and analyze client financial records […]
A Brief History of Data Lakes
Data Lakes are consolidated, centralized storage areas for raw, unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data, taken from multiple sources and lacking a predefined schema. Data Lakes have been created to save data that “may have value.” The value of data and the insights that can be gained from it are unknowns and can vary with the […]
Understanding DataOps
DataOps (data operations) has its roots in the Agile philosophy. It relies heavily on automation, and focuses on improving the speed and accuracy of computer processing, including analytics, data access, integration, and quality control. DataOps started as a system of best practices, but has gradually matured to a fully functional approach for handling data analytics. […]
Intelligence Drives Better Experiences: Optimizing Business Processes in 2020
Click here to learn more about author Dan Lahl. Teaser: Going forward, customer experience is King. My personal consumer buying habits have changed primarily to digital because I can research everything online, check product reviews, get YouTube videos on product usage, look at user forums and have items I purchase arrive at my home the […]
The Benefits of Simplifying Data Access
Click to learn more about author Philip On. Data is one of the most valuable resources a company has, but for many it remains largely untapped. It’s stored in departmental silos, or because of overly complicated access, it remains locked behind the doors of data specialists. Access to data needs to be simplified so that […]
How to Crush Database Workloads by Combining Transactions and Analytics on the Same Platform
Click to learn more about author Neil McGovern. The rise of Big Data over the past decade has made businesses think more critically about their analytics strategies, and about how they use the exponentially growing amount of data available to them to drive positive business outcomes. Now that these modern organizations understand the business value […]
Data Delivery vs. Amazon Delivery: Making Data Scientists More Efficient
Click to learn more about author Dipti Borkar. If Amazon can deliver an order in 1 hour, why does it take days or weeks for data scientists to access their datasets? Embrace chaos, embrace data silos, orchestrate, and deliver. As I head to AWS Summit today, I’ve been thinking about the beginnings—how it began for […]
Can Blockchain Eliminate the Data Silo?
Click to learn more about author Flip Filipowski. Data silos aren’t a new IT obstacle — they’ve been around since the dawn of internet businesses. Companies in the 21st century generally tend to innovate efficiently in the name of survival. With incredible strides in data technologies and Data Management, why haven’t data silos been kicked […]
How to Become a Data-Driven Enterprise
Click to learn more about author Matthew Baird. Over the past few years, becoming “data-driven” has emerged as a popular objective for organizations across a variety of industries. Simply put, being data-driven involves leveraging existing operational and customer data as well as external data sources for both tactical and strategic decision-making. Such an approach complemented […]
In-Memory Database Advancements Lead to Data-Driven Success
“Our recent research shows that companies now agree that data is the most important asset in an organization today – sometimes even more than human resources,” said Mathias Golombek, CTO for Exasol in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Yet evolving technology and organizational issues have led to separated systems, data silos, and lost opportunities. “The question […]