The Role of Big Data and Data Warehousing in the Modern Analytics Ecosystem

Apr 26, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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This report explores the promise and reality of both traditional data warehouses running on relational databases and data lakes running on Hadoop. Each environment has unique capabilities that make it ideal for supporting different kinds of use cases and workloads. This report examines the...

Leave Your Data Warehouses and ETL Tools Behind With Dremio 2.0

Apr 25, 2018 by Henry H. Eckerson in Industry News and Analysis

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Launched in July 2017, Dremio is a new self-service data platform that provides business users and data scientists virtual access to any data source, eliminating the need for data marts, cubes, BI extracts, and many ETL tasks. Dremio recently shipped version 2.0 that includes Starflake Data...

Automation and Intelligence Infiltrate BI

Apr 19, 2018 by Henry H. Eckerson in Industry News and Analysis

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BI vendors continue to make their tools as smart and informative as possible. As a result, organizations increasingly ask for predictive analytics and data science capabilities and expect a certain amount of automation and intelligent features in their BI tools. Domo is a good example of a BI...

Cloudera Targets Data Warehousing

Apr 17, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Cloudera plans to disrupt the data warehousing market by using its enterprise data platform.

Joe Caserta: Comparing Cloud Offerings and Understanding AI

Apr 16, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and Henry H. Eckerson in Secrets of Data & Analytics Leaders

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In this podcast, Wayne Eckerson and Joe Caserta discuss data migration, compare cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and define and explain artificial intelligence.