Does Cost Reduction Play a Role in Digital Transformation?
Digital transformation. Everyone has their own ideas about what digital transformation means, so I decided to look up a few definitions.
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How to build a self-service BI strategy
Think about the times you've wished you had more insight into your business data. Or all of the times you wished you could answer questions about your business performance without waiting for someone else to get back to you. Gone are the days when businesses rely solely on IT staff to provide reports and analytics. With self-service business intelligence (BI), users can create their own reports, dashboards, and data visualizations without relying on IT help.
AI Infrastructure Alliance: Transforming Snowflake into an MLOps 'Feature Factory' using Iguazio
A demo showing how to use our feature store in conjunction with Snowflake. Focusing on.
What Challenges Are Hindering the Success of Your Data Lake Initiative?
Conventional databases are no longer the appropriate solution in a world where data volume is growing every second. Many modern businesses are adopting big data technologies like data lakes to counter data volume and velocity. Data lake infrastructures such as Apache Hadoop are designed to handle data in large capacities. These infrastructures offer benefits such as data replication for enhanced protection and multi-node computing for faster data processing.
Ep 59: New Zealand's Crown Research Institute CDAO, Jan Sheppard on Treating Data as a Treasure
Treating data as a treasure is a foundational principle for Jan Sheppard, the Chief Data and Analytics officer at New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR.) This agency leads ongoing research in public health, environmental health, and forensics for the country of New Zealand. Like many other CDAOs, her role is relatively new. But the unique values she applies to data can be traced back many hundreds of years to the indigenous Maori people of her country. Through her work, Jan recognizes the profound impact data can have on people and their environments for generations to come.
Get Ready for the Next Generation of DataOps Observability
I was chatting with Sanjeev Mohan, Principal and Founder of SanjMo Consulting and former Research Vice President at Gartner, about how the emergence of DataOps is changing people’s idea of what “data observability” means. Not in any semantic sense or a definitional war of words, but in terms of what data teams need to stay on top of an increasingly complex modern data stack.
3-Minute Recap: Unlocking the Value of Cloud Data and Analytics
DBTA recently hosted a roundtable webinar with four industry experts on “Unlocking the Value of Cloud Data and Analytics.” Moderated by Stephen Faig, Research Director, Unisphere Research and DBTA, the webinar featured presentations from Progress, Ahana, Reltio, and Unravel. You can see the full 1-hour webinar “Unlocking the Value of Cloud Data and Analytics” below. Here’s a quick recap of what each presentation covered.
Developing More Accurate and Complex Machine-Learning Models with Snowpark for Python
Sophos protects people online with a suite of cybersecurity products. Hear Konstantin Berlin, Head of Artificial Intelligence at Sophos, explain how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps Sophos increase the accuracy of their machine-learning models by allowing data scientists to process large and complex data sets independent of data engineers. Through Snowpark, data scientists can run Python scripts along with SQL without having to move data across environments, significantly increasing the pace of innovation.
How ThoughtSpot Uses ThoughtSpot for Field Marketing
As ThoughtSpot’s SVP of Corporate Marketing I oversee a field marketing team that acts as the glue between our Marketing and Field Sales teams. When people talk about field marketing, they’re often just thinking of events — but we have a far broader remit than that. Each member of the Field Marketing team sits within a specific sales region, acting as a kind of regional CMO.
Enterprise data and analytics in the cloud with Microsoft Azure and Talend
The emergence of the cloud as a cost-effective solution to delivering compute power has caused a paradigm shift in how we approach designing, building, and delivering analytics to business users. Although forklifting an existing analytics environment into the cloud is possible, there’s substantial benefit for those that are willing to review and adjust their systems to capitalize on the strengths of the cloud.