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Authored by: James Scherer   If your organization is on the road to digital transformation, there could be a Grand Canyon-size training gap up ahead just waiting to derail your strategy. It’s called data governance, and it’s an aspect of the digital environment...

The last time you contacted your pharmacy or telecoms provider, did you interact with a chatbot or a live person? These days it can be hard to tell the difference, and that’s the point. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology – defined as a machine doing something a...

I know what you’re thinking: Another article on data warehouses….. snoozeville.  Snowflake, I promise you, is about to shake things up. Picture neon signs flashing “Pay as you go!” and “Data access for all!”   Snowflake is a data warehouse built for, and in, the...

The right data visualizations can provide powerful analysis and actionable insights. Tools like Tableau enable developers and their audiences to explore, analyze, and present their data in countless new ways. These innovative approaches to data visualizations are...

One of the most powerful steps organizations can take today to modernize their business intelligence (BI) capabilities is integrating predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is a practice that encompasses a variety of statistical techniques that analyze current and...

Authored by: Kelly Ross   As a development platform for data management, Talend was already in a class by itself before its recent update. With 1,091 existing connectors, it can ingest almost any kind of data.   Talend 7.0.1 adds features and functionality that...

Is the data lake the data warehouse 2.0? Or is it something we’ve seen before? And why is the term data swamp everywhere lately? The term data lake has become a catch-all for any data management concept that doesn’t fit into data warehousing, and unfortunately, it...

These days it’s rare to find a company that doesn’t have some type of digitization underway to reduce costs and improve operations. The new challenge for companies is digital transformation. I like the way MIT’s Jeanne Ross describes the distinction: “A digital...

In my last blog post, I described methods for compiling and presenting results from your cloud data warehouse testing. I provided a framework for single-stream timing and workloads under concurrency. In this blog entry, I’ll focus exclusively on evaluating the...