Pitney Bowes Introduces The Knowledge Fabric

May 01, 2018 by Stephen J. Smith in Predictive Analytics Trends

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The need for a 360 degree view of the customer, channel-less interaction, and customized experience conflict with consumer privacy requirements. Pitney Bowes is providing an integrated and complete platform for managing customer experience through their concept of ‘The Knowledge Fabric’ by...

The Ultimate Guide to Data Catalogs: Key Things to Consider When Selecting a Data Catalog

Apr 30, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Without a data catalog, analysts don’t have visibility into the datasets that exist.

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...