Apache Beam is an open-source, unified programming model for batch and streaming data processing pipelines that simplifies large-scale data processing dynamics. The Apache Beam model offers powerful abstractions that insulate you from low-level details of distributed data processing, such as coordinating individual workers, reading from sources and writing to sinks, etc.
Domino’s Pizza, one of the world’s top restaurant brands, already knows how to translate data into great customer experiences and stronger sales with Talend. Over the past five years, the company has used Talend to integrate 100’s data sources into a single source of customer information — and has harnessed that data to improve everything from personalized promotions to logistics to financial forecasting. The latest ingredient to their success?
In its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools report, Gartner® observes that “organizations are increasingly seeking a comprehensive range of improved data integration capabilities to modernize their data, analytics and application infrastructures.”
We’re back with another Job of the Week – but this time, we’re taking a step back to cover a concept we’ve skipped over in previous segments: OAuth2 authentication. Richard’s demonstrations often show simpler shortcuts to accessing data – but these shortcuts may not always be practical in real-world examples. Never fear! We’ll arm you with the know-how you need to make your data hacks just as impressive in real life.
We all make daily decisions with the help of AI, perhaps without even realizing it. Advanced automation technologies using data from smart devices and social networks make it easier than ever to offload your decision-making to an algorithm. Recommended posts, ads, suggested products — none of this is possible without automation. But machines can only get us 90% there. They’re great at consuming and analyzing large volumes of data, but still have trouble with edge cases.
In the ever-expanding world of IoT, no industry is left untouched and the growth potential shows no sign of slowing down. According to a report published by GlobalData in May 2021, the global Internet of Things market is expected to reach more than a trillion dollars by 2024. Predictive maintenance, optimized energy consumption, road traffic management – the use cases are virtually endless! Meanwhile, that connectivity is generating a goldmine of data for your business.
With data becoming a more important business resource by the day, organizations are increasingly turning to their leaders to ensure data excellence. Mark Fazackerley, Regional Vice President ANZ at Talend, outlines how the growingly popular Chief Data Officer role can help lay the groundwork for an effective data strategy and culture.
If there is a single most delicate aspect to the balance of data sharing and compliance, it lies in the process of creating a single source of truth. This project involves many departments across the company: sales, customer support, and of course, IT. The more stakeholders are involved, the more project's complexity rises, as it contains different objectives from different parties.
Data governance was an exclusive set of skills and tools based on old-school rules until a few years ago. Today, that's changed. While people who manage data still need tools, rules, and protocols to control and secure data use and sharing, three major trends have transformed the data ecosystem. First, the explosion of data from many nontraditional sources (personal devices, sensors, social data, etc.) provided businesses with massive and unprecedented information to dig for insight.
GEODIS Distribution & Express, a subsidiary of GEODIS, is the leader in France for reliable last-mile delivery service (deliveries within 24 to 48 hours). In 2020 alone, its 115 agencies handled 100 million parcels and carried out 5,000 rounds per day in more than 35 countries across Europe. Nathalie Mandjee, Business Intelligence Manager at GEODIS Distribution & Express, discovered that this part of the company was growing into a profit center for the larger business.
