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The business climate today feels a bit like a battleground, and everyone’s feeling the pressure. A recession looms, competition is fierce, ongoing supply chain issues wreak havoc, and customer expectations are higher than they’ve ever been. Dodge left, dodge right……
Data federation tools are often touted for their ability to unify and query data in a variety of sources and formats using virtualization. The technology, the theory goes, provides a single, unified view of data without requiring you to manage…
In this post, we will take a look at best practices for integrating StreamSets Data Collector Engine (SDC), a fast data ingestion engine, with Kafka. Then, we’ll dive deep into the details of connecting Kafka to Amazon S3. But first, it’ll…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a line of business user go rogue and create a dataset without telling you. Don’t be shy… You’re in good company. In a recent survey of over 650 data decision-makers and practitioners, 68%…
Cloud data migration is on the rise, with cloud adoption expected to nearly double in the next five years. It's no surprise that cloud data migration is increasing, as many business benefits exist. In this piece, we’ll explore why organizations…
Standing for Extract, Transform, and Load, the acronym ETL describes the process of extracting data from a target, transforming it, and sending it on to load into a destination. The barest definition of ETL doesn’t include details about the nature…
In a highly competitive environment, making smarter decisions faster dramatically impacts both the top and bottom lines. According to Forrester, advanced insights-driven businesses (IDBs) — firms that use data, analytics, and software in closed, continuously optimized loops to differentiate and…
Machine learning has become an integral part of organizations looking to do everything from improve customer experience to make product recommendations to target advertisements. The machine learning (ML) pipeline defines the steps that help create the models used for ML…
Data governance is essential for all businesses, but especially for enterprise companies with their petabytes of data. Properly governing your data can ensure it is accurate, consistent, and secure. This helps to protect your company from data breaches and other…
In the simplest terms, schema is the structure of data inside a database. The structure of data can include things like field and table names, views, indexes, and snapshots. The definition of schema will often expand to include the relationships…