We’ve all generally heard that data quality issues can be catastrophic. But what does that look like for data teams, in terms of dollars and cents? And who is responsible for dealing with data quality issues? To get to the bottom of these questions and more, we conducted a survey of 100 survey respondents, at least 63 […]
Data Literacy Training for Data Engineers
It may seem counterintuitive to think of data engineers needing to improve Data Literacy, the ability to read, work with, analyze, and argue with data. After all, data engineers apply technical Data Literacy skills to build and optimize operating systems and pipeline channels. At the same time, data engineers show gaps in using organizational Data Literacy and communicating […]
Data Management Is Dead – Data Empowerment Has Emerged
In my last DATAVERSITY article, “The Machine Economy Is Here – The Digital Transformation Era Is Over,” I discussed the end of digital transformation, the arrival of the machine economy, and the emergence of data empowerment. In this article, I follow up by laying out the problems with traditional Data Management and why data empowerment is now […]
Why Data Quality Problems Plague Most Organizations (and What to Do About It)
For business leaders to make informed decisions, they need high-quality data. Unfortunately, most organizations – across all industries – have Data Quality problems that are directly impacting their company’s performance. Case in point: In a recent survey conducted by my company, practitioners were asked about the issues that plague their work, how much they trust their organization’s […]
New Deep Learning Startup, OctoML, Launches to Automate Deployment of Deep Learning
According to a recent press release, “OctoML is leveraging the power and traction of Apache TVM, an open source project originated by the founding team, to enable companies of every size to harness the power of deep learning without the expensive heavy lifting of tuning and securing models to each hardware configuration that a customer […]
Tamr Launches Fall 2019 Data Unification System to Power Breakthrough Analytic Insights
According to a new press release, “Tamr, Inc. announced today the general availability of the Fall 2019 release of the company’s patented data unification system. Tamr is a data integration software platform that uses supervised machine learning to unify data silos. It enables data engineers (who aren’t data scientists) to harness the power of machine […]
Ascend Introduces Industry’s First Queryable Dataflows for Faster Pipeline Development
A new press release reports, “Ascend, provider of the world’s first Autonomous Dataflow Service, today released a technical preview of Queryable Dataflows, a new capability to accelerate end-to-end data development that brings the interactivity of data warehouses to the scale of data pipelines. For the first time, data engineers can directly query incremental stages of […]
Alluxio Delivers First Data Orchestration Platform Powering Multi-cloud Analytics and AI
According to a new press release, “Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration technology used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today announced at AWS Summit New York the availability of Alluxio 2.0 with breakthrough innovations for data engineers managing and deploying analytical and AI workloads in the cloud, particularly for hybrid […]
Talend Modernizes Data Pipelines for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
A new press release reports, “Talend, a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced the addition of Pipeline Designer to Talend Cloud, a unified, comprehensive, and highly scalable integration platform as-a-service (iPaaS). Talend’s new web-based graphical designer dramatically simplifies the creation of end-to-end data pipelines, giving customers the ability to preview […]
Data Strategy Trends in 2019
What do the world’s most successful digital organizations — companies like Amazon and Alphabet — have in common? The answer: A strong focus on data. Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, Ltd., says that the connection between excellent data utilization and business success is not a coincidence. The World Economic Forum, she reminds […]