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What’s the Difference Between a Data Warehouse and Data Lake?

Click to learn more about video blogger Andrew Brust. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host Andrew Brust, Senior Director of Market Strategy and Intelligence at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

According to a new press release, “Vena Solutions, the fastest growing provider of cloud-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software, today announced its latest product release. The new release includes more than 20 new and enhanced features to support Vena’s already-robust business modeling capabilities, with augmented power BI integration, in-product customer support access, and more. […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

A recent press release states, “AppViewX, a global leader in network automation, today announced the launch of AppViewX 12.4 at the F5 Agility event. With the new version of the platform, NetOps and SecOps teams can leverage low-code automation on an enterprise-ready platform. The AppViewX 12.4 release will include more pre-packaged automation workflows and elements […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

According to a new press release, “Following the announcement of its Brain Builder beta program, Neurala, the award-winning artificial intelligence company, today announced a call for submissions for its “AI for Good”competition. Developers who participate in the ‘AI for Good’ contest will have the chance to win a $1,000 first-place cash prize. The second-place finalist […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 2 days ago

To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar In order to find value in your organization’s data assets, heroic Data Stewards are tasked with saving the day—every single day! These heroes adhere to a Data Governance framework and work to ensure that data is captured right the first time, validated […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 2 days ago

Getting Started with Data Stewardship from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar In order to find value in your organization’s data assets, heroic Data Stewards are tasked with saving the day—every single day! These heroes adhere to a Data Governance framework and work to ensure that […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 days ago

David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]

By Bill Tolson 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Bill Tolson. I remember being a kid, with the start of the new school year looming. Even though I actually liked school, I was never really ready to relinquish the lazy hazy days of summer. Instead, my theory was that if I just didn’t think about it, sandlot baseball, swims […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

A new press release reports, “Qumulo, Inc., the pioneer and leader in file storage for the cloud era, today announced the availability of Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, providing enterprises unprecedented choice and flexibility for storing and managing billions of files. Qumulo extends its award-winning solutions across a variety of partners […]

Aug 21 Webinar: The Business Value of Data Modeling

By Monica Marcinko 3 months ago

DATE: August 21, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With changes in software development methodologies, the role of the data modeler has changed significantly. In many organizations, data modelers now find themselves on the outside looking in, relegated to […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 3 months ago

DATE: August 23, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data Lake or Data Swamp? By now, we’ve likely all heard the comparison. Data Lake architectures have the opportunity to provide the ability to integrate vast amounts of disparate data across the organization for strategic […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 4 months ago

DATE: September 5, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The Freddie Mac Single-Family Data Governance and Management (SF DG&M) department was established in 2014 to define how the business line should govern and manage their data. We were tasked with developing and implementing data […]

By Julie Lowery 4 months ago

DATE: September 6, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar These days, there are other database technologies at play besides Hadoop. As more raw data is converted to action and knowledge, finding and understanding data requires other kinds of database technology. The days of the […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 4 months ago

DATE: September 11, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The first step towards understanding what data assets mean for your organization is understanding what those assets mean for each other. Metadata—literally, data about data—is one of many Data Management disciplines inherent in good systems development, and is […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 4 months ago

DATE: September 20, 2018 TIME: 2 pm Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar There are two basic ways to measure the performance of a Data Governance program. The first way focuses on the acceptance of data governance into the organizational culture. The second way focuses on measuring the […]

By Monica Marcinko 4 months ago

DATE: September 25, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar As companies define their business objectives, they also need to establish business processes for the regulatory guidelines they will be required to meet, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, or SOX. Corporate […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 4 months ago

DATE: September 27, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Master Data Management (MDM) provides organizations with an accurate and comprehensive view of their business-critical data such as Customers, Products, Vendors, and more. While mastering these key data areas can be a complex task, the […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 4 months ago

DATE: October 3, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The Annual DGPO Data Governance Best Practice Award is given to the practitioners within an organization in recognition of the business value and technical excellence they have achieved in […]

What’s the Difference Between a Data Warehouse and Data Lake?

By Andrew Brust 2 days ago

By Bill Tolson 3 days ago

By David Schlesinger 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. Many readers of my previous blogs have failed to ask the question “Is there really an unbreakable cipher?” Even though they have been silent, I know some of them stayed awake nights with this provocative question – I will answer it below. In Hollywood movies, a bright hacker […]

By Michele Iurillo 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Oh. What a big question, I’m sure you’ve seen everything in your experience, but there are repeating patterns, taking some results of a recent Gartner survey, I’ll try to analyze the different problems. Projects that never end, erroneous reports, non-standardized data, difficulty in generating reports that say something, […]

By Laura Kahn 6 days ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 6 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]

By Mike Brody 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Have you ever called about a real estate listing only to learn that the house has been taken off the market? Or had to pick up mail that should have been routed to your new home? Sometimes our records don’t reflect reality, and bitemporality exists to keep track […]

By Patrick Hubbard 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Make no mistake, distributed application architectures can bring tremendous benefits for business. For example, actually using Cloud the way it’s designed can achieve the cost savings promised years ago. But for enterprise IT, distributed architectures can create a problem—many of the monitoring tools we’ve relied on for years […]

By Amar Arsikere 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Amar Arsikere. “What would you think if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on me?” The Beatles song everybody knows could also pass as the wilting rallying cry for Big Data, whose “tune” does seem out of sorts these days as more people question […]

By Dean Yao 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Dean Yao. The Embedded Analytics market is growing at a rapid rate and will be worth $51.78 billion by 2022, and over the next few years, most organizations will begin to transform their traditional analytical techniques for analyzing business data to more advanced techniques using Embedded Analytics. If they don’t, […]

Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 days ago

By Keith D. Foote 4 days ago

Merging the comfortable familiarity and efficiency of SQL with the flexibility and scalability of a non-relational systems is no easy task. CrateDB, offered by Crate.io, is a “distributed SQL database that is built on top of a NoSQL foundation.” It allows users who are comfortable using and SQL database to save and query machine data, […]

By Paramita Ghosh 5 days ago

Some of the latest buzz in the Big Data world is centered around the complexity of on-premises, Hadoop technology implementation, and so enterprises are getting restless and moving to the Cloud. In an increasingly Cloud-friendly business landscape, Serverless Computing may hold more promise than retrofitting Hadoop. More and more global businesses are moving to the […]

By Paramita Ghosh 1 week ago

The field of Data Science is in a transitional mode in terms of how the latest data technologies are being used to solve business problems for a strategic advantage. In the near future, Data Scientists will conduct their business very differently. As Big Data, algorithm economics, IoT, and Cloud continue to become mainstream across global […]

By Keith D. Foote 2 weeks ago

Microservices offer a number of benefits, which include helping release software faster, update software more frequently, and add new features more quickly. Microservices provide the flexibility to use different technologies and different programming languages, depending on the organization’s needs. The Microservice philosophy of decentralization effects the management and architecture of data. The traditional monolithic approach […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Too often professionals such as Data Analysts, Data Architects, and Compliance Specialists find themselves at a loss when it comes to being able, on their own, to discover, understand and use the rich Metadata within large enterprise ERP and CRM applications. It becomes complicated, costly, and time-consuming for these users to pull relevant business-context subsets […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) have gained importance in the field of Machine Learning (ML) due to the critical need to understand text, with its varying structure, implied meanings, sentiments, and intent. Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Generation have removed many of the communication barriers between humans and computers by […]

By Keith D. Foote 3 weeks ago

“The need to merge real-time analytical processing with on-the-spot transactional decision-making is a problem common to all industries,” noted Monte Zweben, Splice Machine’s cofounder and CEO in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. Intelligent predictive applications are trained to learn and to adapt, rather than simply being programmed with a limited series of responses. Predictive applications can […]

By Jennifer Zaino 3 weeks ago

The Leader’s Data Manifesto, originally unveiled at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference, continues to generate attention from data professionals. The Manifesto counts hundreds of signatories at this point, expressing their support of its vision for data and information to be truly valued and managed as a business asset. Signers-on include Data Quality managers, Chief […]

Vena Builds on Powerful Modeling Capabilities with New FP&A Product Release

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

According to a new press release, “NodeSource, the Node.js® company, today announced the release of a new, integrated product platform. Teams can now benefit from a more cohesive set of solutions for Engineering and DevOps, as well as a more streamlined user experience. This release also marks the first time NodeSource has offered a free-forever […]

By A.R. Guess 3 days ago

According to a new press release, “Paxata, the pioneer in self-service data preparation for analytics, today announced the general availability of its Fall ’18 release, the next major update to the company’s award-winning Adaptive Information Platform. The latest release includes a new Adaptive Workload Management capability, which delivers an elastic resource allocation service on a […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

According to a recent press release, “Figure Eight, the essential Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning platform, today released an enhanced enterprise-grade training data platform for customers with demanding security, scalability, and customization requirements in key industry sectors such as automotive, financial services, government, healthcare, media and entertainment, and technology industries. Figure Eight’s platform has created over 10 […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

A new press release reports, “Veriflow, the pioneer in automated network intent verification, today achieved another industry milestone, announcing that Pandora, the largest music streaming service in the U.S., has selected Veriflow to provide intent verification for Pandora’s multi-cloud environment. Multi-cloud adoption grew globally by 300 percent in 2017, with approximately 80 percent of IT […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

According to a new press release, “CognitiveScale Inc., the leader in augmented intelligence and responsible AI software, today announced that Dell selected CognitiveScale as a key partner to transform customer experience and marketing productivity through AI-powered, hyper-personalized customer journeys. Although customer experience has become the centerpiece of business strategy, expectations continue to outpace most companies’ […]