According to Pat Patterson, Community Champion at StreamSets, “data drift” is such a problem now that “only about one fifth of a data analyst’s time is actually spent analyzing the data.” The remainder is spent “wrangling it into shape and getting it from where it is to the actual analysis platform.” Speaking at the Enterprise […]
Leverage Your Data to Get a Holistic Customer View
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani Today, data is the center of everything. Therefore, it’s only natural for organizations to leverage it to create a data-centric customer strategy that aims to optimize sales and marketing processes. Every customer action, ranging from the first touchpoint to the purchase, creates a digital footprint. These interactions […]
Data Integration for Business Intelligence: Best Practices
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani In this technology-driven world, the influx of data can seem overwhelming, if not properly utilized. With data coming in from so many different sources, the only way to extract real insights from these raw inputs is through integration. Properly integrated data has a trickle-down effect on all […]
Safeguarding Against the Risks of Self-Service Data Preparation
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Let me be the first to acknowledge that agility is important. BI product’s should be predicated on the idea that end users should have direct control over their own data. I believe that it’s better for business professionals to answer their own analytical questions than to inundate IT […]
Blockchain in the Insurance Industry: What to Expect in the Future?
Click to learn more about author Amit Dua. Ever since its introduction, Blockchain technology has caught the fancy of various industries. The initial success of crypto-currencies being the primary reason behind it. But since then, Blockchain has come way forward. Many industries are looking to commercialize Blockchain technology. They are taking services of expert Blockchain […]
Data Lakes: Cleaning Up Data’s Junk Drawer
Click to learn more about author Paul Brunet. We all have that place where we end up stashing those things we think we’ll need or want someday. Some of us throw the stuff in a junk drawer in the kitchen. Others squirrel it away to the attic or into a closet in the spare bedroom. […]
The Ongoing Debate Between Centralized and Distributed Data
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Though Bon Jovi is no longer the band they were when I was a teenager, they definitely hit the nail on the head with the lyric, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” from their 2010 Greatest Hits album. This paradigm rings true […]
Five Data Migration Best Practices to Ensure a Successful Move
Click to learn more about author Duncan Bradley. At some point, every enterprise must move their documents from one ECM or system to another. Businesses get acquired, organizations move, and enterprises outgrow the processes that once sustained them. Eventually, the content your enterprise generates will outpace the resources at your disposal—if it hasn’t already—leaving you […]
DevOps, DataOps, and Data Repositories
Click to learn more about author Paul Stanton. There is a disconnect between the goals of DevOps, and the realities of working with relational data. Relational databases are core to many enterprise applications, and the Gartner Group projects that 80% of new projects will rely on relational data through 2020 (available courtesy of Microsoft here). […]
Stop Chasing the Specter of a Single Monolithic Data Repository
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Back in the 1980s, when databases first enabled us to store megabytes of data, we were enthralled because we could store what seemed to be large volumes of data in a single place. Since then, we continue to try to collect our data in a single place for […]