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Winter '23: Accelerate time to value and data modernization efforts

We recognize that extracting the most return from your data isn’t always easy. In fact, for many organizations, it rarely is. According to a recent survey, 97% of respondents said they face challenges using data effectively. And NewVantage Partners found that only 24% of executives say their organizations are data-driven. There are simply too many data sources, too much data volume, and too few resources for these organizations to effectively manage the growing demand for trusted data.

The Role Data Will Play In Driving Future Growth In The Telecom Industry

What will it take for companies in the telecom industry to return to top-line growth? According to Karl Bjurstrom, EVP and Global Head of Tech & Telecom Industries at Capgemini Invent, it’s all about the data. Capgemini is a leading strategic partner to companies worldwide looking to effect a digital transformation of their businesses. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” host Ryan Green asks Bjurstrom for his insights on the challenges and opportunities for growth in the telecom industry.

Three Ways to Use Data to Drive a More Strategic Approach to People In 2023

Business priorities, and therefore people priorities, are shifting at a pace like never before thanks to increasing interest rates, energy prices, political uncertainty, global supply constraints, and issues finding and funding expensive talent. People and HR leaders are going to be under considerable pressure to adapt and evolve quickly throughout 2023 in order to support their CEO’s much bigger focus on the workforce.

Snowflake Workloads Explained: Data Lakes

Snowflake’s cross-cloud platform breaks down silos by supporting a variety of data types and storage patterns. Data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and developers across organizations can access governed structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for a variety of workloads, without resource contention or concurrency issues.

Power BI Data Preparation in 5 steps

Microsoft Power BI is a fantastic tool for data visualization and business intelligence. But as any data analyst can attest, before you can build metrics and dashboards, you need to spend more than 1/3 of your time preparing and cleaning the dataset for your Power BI instance. Luckily, there is a better way to cut down on this time-consuming task. In this article you will learn.

Transaction Support Using Apache Phoenix

This video provides a short demo on Apache Phoenix transaction support in Cloudera Operational Database (COD). COD supports Apache OMID (Optimistically Transaction Management In Datastores) transactional framework. The transaction support in COD enables you to perform complex distributed transactions and run atomic cross-row and cross-table database operations. The atomic database operations ensure that your database operations must either be completed or terminated.

DataFinOps: More on the menu than data cost governance

IT and data executives find themselves in a quandary about deciding how to wrangle an exponentially increasing volume of data to support their business requirements – without breaking an increasingly finite IT budget. Like an overeager diner at a buffet who’s already loaded their plate with the cheap carbs of potatoes and noodles before they reach the protein-packed entrees, they need to survey all of the data options on the menu before formulating their plans for this trip.