In a data-driven business climate, data is playing a key role in capturing market intelligence and “actionable insights” to augment business operations. Thus, Data Management platforms, tools, and associated technologies are increasingly getting a global focus. Two Data Management technologies have created controversies and have become the topic of hot debates: the data lake and […]
Using a Data Lake Engine to Provide Self-Service Insights
Understanding and fulfilling customer needs is the key to business success, and customer data is the foundation upon which that success is built. Accessing and analyzing data is almost always dependent on data engineers and other IT staff, while decision-makers wait to receive insights. One way to skip the wait, and deliver data directly to […]
Data Management vs. Business Intelligence
What is a company to do when Business Intelligence (BI), designed to leverage data as an asset, costs too much time and money due to failures in traditional Data Management processes, such as the prepping and cleaning of data? Should a business analyst, wanting to produce ad-hoc reports, have to be tech-savvy or wait for […]
How Mature is Your Data Preparation?
Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. The traction for self-service data prep initially started in the context of business analytics as a productivity and enablement tool for an analyst who is developing insights. However, as Gartner recently pointed out, the market has now evolved to use cases that require platform capabilities such as […]
Information Builders Delivers Self-Service Data Quality With Omni-Gen Personal Edition
According to a new press release, “Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), analytics and data management solutions, announced the launch of Omni-Gen™ Personal Edition. Building on Information Builders’ line of industry-recognized data management solutions, Omni-Gen Personal Edition provides business users with a robust self-service tool to perform data quality activities in the absence […]