Today’s business landscape is more unpredictable than ever for IT leadership. Between the adoption of more sophisticated technologies and an ever-growing list of digital transformation initiatives, IT operations have become frustratingly complex. This is especially true when it comes to managing data flows and ensuring the precision of analytics insights. At a time when analytics […]
What Is Streaming Analytics?
Data intake is an ongoing process, so the filtering and analysis process works best when it is continuous. However, most organizations struggle with this aspect and instead process data in batches. Streaming analytics, also known as event stream processing, solves this issue by employing methods such as continuous queries to process and analyze data in real time. […]
What Is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) includes the technologies and tools used to analyze and report on different business operations. Business Intelligence uses raw data stored in varying data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and other storage platforms, and transforms it into actionable knowledge/information assets. Such elements include dashboards, spreadsheets, data visualizations, reports, and many others. According to […]
How is Bad Data Crippling Your Data Analytics?
Some striking evidence of the impact of bad data can be found in fake email IDs, impersonations on social media, or misuse of stolen financial or personal information. The more widespread harm can be caused by bad data in Data Analytics, where anything from the wrong medical diagnosis to incorrect interpretation of stock history can […]
From Minutes to Microseconds: How Can Businesses Speed up Real-Time Analytics?
Click to learn more about author Eric Raab. For many enterprises, conversations regarding data strategies have shifted from discussing big data to fast data. The ability to understand and act on real-time data insights – often adding the context from historical data – has become a critical differentiator for firms in almost every industry sector […]
A Bridge Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
Click to learn more about author Joan Fabregat-Serra. It has been ten years since Pentaho Chief Technology Officer James Dixon coined the term “data lake.” The term and its underlying technology have been thriving more than ever. While data warehouse (DWH) systems have had longer existence and recognition, the data industry has embraced the more […]
The Importance of Graph Databases in Business Analytics
Augmented analytics is one of the top 10 technologies Gartner identified with the potential to cause significant digital disruption in the next three to five years. The hallmark of augmented analytics is its high reliance on AI and ML technologies. AI and ML together will transform enterprise Data Management in the coming years, and many […]
Streaming Analytics: The Value is in the Action
“When we’re talking about streaming analytics, we’re talking about flipping our traditional paradigm a little bit and thinking about how we bring analytics to our data, and not necessarily data to our analytics,” said Kimberly Nevala, the Director of Business Strategies for SAS Best Practices, while discussing streaming analytics during the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Analytics Online […]
IIoT in Action: Improving Equipment Effectiveness in the Plastics Industry
Click to learn more about author Boris Shiklo. In this piece, we’ll explore how IIoT drives productivity in the plastics industry and provide an example of implementing an IIoT solution for monitoring equipment effectiveness at a plastic parts manufacturing enterprise. Volatile raw material prices, the lack of skilled labor, and the complexity of the global […]
GigaSpaces and OpenLegacy Partner
A recent press release reports, “OpenLegacy, the pioneer in digital-driven integration for legacy and core systems, has announced a partnership with GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics processing platform. As businesses embark on digital transformation initiatives and modernize their business operations, requirements are growing for strengthening business performance to enhance customer […]