This is the second post in a series about data modeling and data governance in the cloud from Snowflake’s partners at erwin. See the first post here. As you move data from legacy systems to a cloud data platform, you need to ensure the quality and overall governance of that data. Until recently, data governance was primarily an IT role that involved cataloging data elements to support search and discovery.
In recent years, organizations have been making massive investments in data analytics to transform their growing volume of data into actionable insights to inform decision-making. However, the pursuit of becoming data-driven has uncovered challenges earlier in the data pipeline that are preventing companies from reaping all the benefits from their data.
Since 2013 the UK Government’s flagship ‘Cloud First’ policy has been at the forefront of enabling departments to shed their legacy IT architecture in order to meaningfully embrace digital transformation. The policy outlines that the cloud (and specifically, public cloud) be the default position for any new services; unless it can be demonstrated that other alternatives offer better value for money.
Software vendors often ask me when is the ideal time to swap out a legacy analytics solution that they’ve embedded into their application. There's five key signs that can tell you your embedded solution isn’t right anymore and it’s time to switch.
In August 2020, Snowflake announced several new features, all in preview, that make its cloud data platform easier to use, more powerful for sharing data, and more usable via Snowflake-supported languages. These innovations mean you can bring more workloads, more users, and more data to Snowflake, helping your organization solve your most demanding analytics challenges. Multi-Cloud, Cross-Cloud, and Pattern-Matching Support in Snowpipe
In our previous blog post we introduced Cloudera Data Visualization in Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) available in tech preview, in CDP Public Cloud. This blog will help you get started with Cloudera Data Visualization, so you can start building interesting and powerful applications on all types of data.
The Unravel 4.6.2.0 release, now generally available, builds on our previous 4.6 release with a new UI/UX, multi-cluster support, monitoring for ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), and a new installer that makes Unravel available in minutes.
