“Metadata is hotter than ever,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy. “And there’s data to back up that assertion.” Speaking at DATAVERSITY® Database Now Online 2017 Conference, Burbank was referring the survey findings of the research report Emerging Trends in Metadata Management. 80 percent of survey respondents said that Metadata is as […]
Streamlining Real-Time Data Integration and Analytics: The Struggle is Over
Data Architects and CDOs today face a variety of demands, including delivering Real-Time Analytics, predicting customer behavior, or operationalizing Machine Learning. All of these initiatives share one critical requirement: real-time data. But to get value from real-time data, they must enable continuous collection of data, and on-the-spot integration in-flight across heterogeneous systems. For years, companies […]
Data Modeling and NoSQL: Innovation and Flexibility
Hackolade offers an array of Data Modeling tools designed for various NoSQL databases. Their software is user-friendly, while providing powerful graphics. These features, combined with flexible HTML model documentation, provide a visual blueprint for each application. Hackolade’s output is similar to a CAD printout produced by a draftsman or architect. The blueprint promotes discussion. Pascal […]
From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here
There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]
Augmented Analytics Use Cases
In an era where Business Analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks, Augmented Analytics promises hopes for the future generation of Citizen Data Scientists. In Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques together achieve automated Data Preparation and Business Intelligence. This innovative technology offers sophisticated tools to […]
A Brief History of Non-Relational Databases
First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]
Case Study: Artificial Intelligence Helps Bike Share Programs Get Smart
The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]
Data Lake vs. Data Swamp: Leveraging Enterprise Data
One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]
The Impact of Data Quality in the Machine Learning Era
A significant issue in Enterprise Data Management today is Data Quality, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any Analytics or Business Intelligence system. In an era of automated and Self-Service Business Analytics, Data Quality has assumed even more importance as average business users do not often have […]
Bringing Data Preparation to Everyone in the Enterprise
“Whether you’re working with Big Data, or whether you’re working with very small data sets, you always need to prepare data for anything that you’re doing with it,” said Paige Schaefer, Product Marketing Manager for Trifacta. Schaefer and colleague Matt Derda, Senior Customer Success Manager, recently talked with DATAVERSITY® about Trifacta’s Data Wrangling technologies. “Data […]