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Data governance frameworks play a critical role in helping organizations use their data assets to their fullest potential. They provide direction and structure for how an organization can collect, store, and utilize data while ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.

This is a guest post by Bill Inmon, known as the father of the data warehouse. In this article, he will discuss how IT organizations often resist text analytics even though it can bring great business value. The article will then go into Bill Inman's experience with IT organizations and text analytics, highlighting the importance of text analytics and how it can be used to gain valuable insights for businesses.

The practice of DevOps — development operations — has taken organizations by storm. According to a 2021 report by Redgate Software, 74 percent of enterprises surveyed say they now use DevOps in some form or fashion, compared with just 47 percent in 2016. DevOps practitioners seek to improve the software development lifecycle by fostering closer collaboration between developers and IT operations teams.

A database allows multiple users to maintain, update, and edit stored information quickly, securely, and efficiently. That makes a database useful for a host of real-life cases such as keeping track of corporate accounting records, storing huge amounts of data from a network of IoT devices, tracking your company's inventory systems, or building a web application.

A data lakehouse is a data storage repository designed to store both structured data and data from unstructured sources. It allows users to access data stored in different forms, such as text files, CSV or JSON files. Data stored in a data lakehouse can be used for analysis and reporting purposes.

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipelines are standard data management techniques among data engineers. Indeed, organizations have long been using these processes to create effective data models. However, there has recently been a remarkable rise in the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based customer relationship management (CRM) apps, such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Hubspot, Zoho, etc., to store and analyze customer data.

Overview With the increasing use and discussion surrounding ChatGPT and its applications, I decided to test out what it says about important skillsets for data engineers. I conducted a search about both soft and hard skills and here is what it came up with. I have added a lot of commentary to each of the 13 skills identified.