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• AWS analytics tools help French utility go green

  The cloud computing giant's suite enabled Engie SA to transition away from fossil fuels and now helps the French utility manage a network of renewable energy sources.  Continue Reading

• What is a data warehouse analyst?

  Data warehouse analysts help organizations manage the repositories of analytics data and use them effectively. Here's a look at the role and its responsibilities.  Continue Reading

• Evaluating data warehouse deployment options and use cases

  There's still a place for data warehouses in data architectures. But first, ask whether your organization needs one and what type of technology platform is the best fit.  Continue Reading

• Mortgage data vendor uses Qlik to build analytics platform

  Polygon Research used tools from the analytics vendor to develop a SaaS platform consisting of nine dashboards that mortgage specialists can use to inform decisions.  Continue Reading

• What makes up an analytics pipeline?

  Analytics pipelines were traditionally hidden away, but they're changing as more organizations focus on agility for their data. Learn what makes up a successful analytics pipeline.  Continue Reading

• Election campaigns recognize need for analytics in politics

  Candidates are now using data to build profiles of potential voters and target their outreach in much the same way enterprises use BI tools to personalize marketing efforts.  Continue Reading

• Modernizing talent one of the keys to analytics success

  Adding a chief data officer, hiring data engineers and implementing a data literacy program are crucial aspects of reaching a desired level of data maturity.  Continue Reading

• How to reap the benefits of data integration, step by step

  A new book lays out a strong case for data integration and guides readers in how to carry out this essential process.  Continue Reading

• Marketing agency uses Looker to build data platform, grow

  When overhauling its analytics operations, a digital marketing agency turned to analytics vendor Looker's tools to build data marts and enable self-service exploration and analysis.  Continue Reading

• Accounting giant boosts efficiency with Alteryx automation

  Two years after starting a pilot program with the data and analytics vendor, the accounting firm has saved more than 100,000 work hours by automating repetitive tasks.  Continue Reading

• How Lufthansa is flying its data warehouse to the cloud

  Moving from an on-premises data system to the cloud can be a complex operation. Lufthansa is looking to remove some of the complexity with virtualization.  Continue Reading

• Ricoh modernizes its analytics with Qlik

  The information management and digital services company is beginning to develop a data culture, and the BI vendor's platform has enabled new efficiencies.  Continue Reading

• A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines

  The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future.  Continue Reading

• Intersport boosts analytics, marketing efficiency with Knime

  Using the BI vendor's platform, the sporting goods retailer has reduced staff needed to attend to data, decreased time to build data workflows and improved marketing campaigns.  Continue Reading

• Automation, more security and governance next big BI trends

  As many data preparation and management tasks get automated, insight generation and action are the next likely targets for automation. Another key trend is more data governance.  Continue Reading

• 5 business analytics trends that shaped the start of 2022

  While AI and machine learning capabilities continue to evolve, another major movement in BI so far in 2022 has been to enable users to take action directly from insights.  Continue Reading

• Databricks platform fuels analytics at State Department

  The vendor's AI and machine learning capabilities have enabled the government agency to improve the effectiveness of its data analysis technology and its overall efficiency.  Continue Reading

• LA County modernizes hiring with Azure and Databricks

  The HR department of the largest U.S. county revamped its analytics stack in order to help reduce hiring times that often took more than a year.  Continue Reading

• Scottish EPA rebuilds with Tibco Spotfire after cyber attack

  After almost all of the agency's data and analytics tools were wiped out, it survived and then thrived using the analytics platform to fuel data-driven decision-making.  Continue Reading

• Qlik fuels solar equipment maker IronRidge's insights

  The manufacturer is using the analytics vendor's platform to harness both internal and external data and inform decision-making throughout the solar firm's partner network.  Continue Reading

• Free business impact analysis (BIA) template with instructions

  If you need to perform a business impact analysis, this guide and our free, downloadable template will assist you in your business continuity planning.  Continue Reading

• Baseball's Rangers seek analytics edge with Tableau

  Although the game's governing body provides comprehensive stats, the franchise is using the analytics vendor's tools to deliver digestible daily reports to gain a competitive edge.  Continue Reading

• HP deriving value from data with ThoughtSpot

  After experimenting with a variety of BI platforms, the computer giant found success with the analytics vendor's platform given its ability to handle scale.  Continue Reading

• A free business continuity plan template and guide

  A business continuity plan is critical for an organization when an unplanned event occurs. Follow this template and BC planning guidelines to get on the right path to resilience.  Continue Reading

• Understanding the benefits of a data quality strategy

  A data quality strategy can improve an organization's ability to generate value from data, but determining quality depends on the processes and use cases.  Continue Reading

• Best practices and pitfalls of the data pipeline process

  Developing an effective data pipeline process is a key step for organizations to manage data sources, flow and quality. A data pipeline also ensures approved data access.  Continue Reading

• How IT departments enable analytics operations

  IT departments enable analytics in organizations by ensuring that the data architecture is in place, including tools, processes and procedures.  Continue Reading

• Sound business process architecture requires key traits

  Business processes require a coherent enterprise-level architecture. In this excerpt from his new book, Roger Burlton identifies key traits business processes should share.  Continue Reading

• Databricks fuels analytics for Spain's top soccer league

  After prioritizing data-driven decision-making over the last decade, LaLiga is now using Databricks to inform its clubs and fans about play on the field.  Continue Reading

• ESPN improves app performance with Domo analytics tools

  The sports broadcasting giant is using a customer care application developed with the analytics vendor's tools to improve its app performance and streaming capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Seeking truth in crisis times shows importance of metadata

  Metadata gives context to data, and during crises like the war in Ukraine when it's difficult to know what news to trust, context can help distinguish truth from fiction.  Continue Reading

• New approaches create opportunity to turn data into value

  Bill Schmarzo, a data science industry thought leader, discusses how organizations can reframe their view of data using economic concepts to turn data into value.  Continue Reading

• Improve data value by relying on economic principles

  Bill Schmarzo, author of 'The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation,' discusses how organizations can improve data value by incorporating economic concepts.  Continue Reading

• Sisense analytics tools spur growth at Hastings Mutual

  The insurance company is using the BI vendor's tools to improve data-driven decision-making efficiency and identify sales opportunities leading to revenue growth.  Continue Reading

• How to manage disaster recovery in SQL Server

  SQL Server offers a platform for hosting relational databases. Enacting a disaster recovery plan that won't disrupt mission-critical SQL Server workloads is essential.  Continue Reading

• MetLife improves efficiency with Tibco Data Virtualization

  The insurance giant's investment management division has reduced its data integration process from weeks to hours since adopting the analytics vendor's technology in 2017.  Continue Reading

• The ultimate guide to big data for businesses

  Big data is the fuel for today's analytics applications. This in-depth big data guide explains how businesses can benefit from it and what they need to do to use it effectively.  Continue Reading

• The top backup and disaster recovery services of 2021

  Products of the Year winners in the backup and disaster recovery services category wowed judges with their innovation, ransomware protection and scalability.  Continue Reading

• Good data-driven decision-making avoids common pitfalls

  Avoiding cognitive biases that can lead to the use of incomplete or inaccurate data is crucial to the successful use of analytics.  Continue Reading

• Crate & Barrel modernizes with MicroStrategy BI platform

  The home decor chain added governance capabilities and sped time-to-insight by adopting the longtime analytics vendor's platform after 14 years using a legacy system.  Continue Reading

• Trusted data key to MicroStrategy platform plans

  The vendor plans to add new capabilities this year that will provide AI-generated guidance to better enable self-service users to take action using governed data.  Continue Reading

• Self-service data preparation: What it is and how it helps users

  Using self-service tools to properly prepare data simplifies analytics and visualization tasks for business users and speeds complex modeling processes for data scientists.  Continue Reading

• HomeToGo turns data into action with Sisu analytics platform

  Slowed by a rising volume of data, the vacation rental vendor adopted the startup analytics vendor's platform to speed time-to-insight and fuel its product and marketing decisions.  Continue Reading

• Tableau dashboard tips and tricks from an expert author

  In this excerpt from his new book on using Tableau CRM, data expert Mark Tossell takes readers step by step through best practices for dashboard creation.  Continue Reading

• NLP and AI boost the automated data warehouse

  Businesses are working to automate as many elements of their data warehouses as they can through nascent tools like augmented analytics and natural language processing.  Continue Reading

• Data access key to Regeneron's innovation efforts

  After developing a COVID-19 treatment in mere months, Regeneron adopted a data catalog and is developing a data governance framework to speed up its drug development pipeline.  Continue Reading

• Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar

  An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow.  Continue Reading

• 'Building the Data Lakehouse' explores next-gen architecture

  This book excerpt by 'father of the data warehouse' Bill Inmon and experts Mary Levins and Ranjeet Srivastava explores the latest methods for wrangling data into usable intel.  Continue Reading

• Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend

  Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture.  Continue Reading

• IT resilience management, planning top of mind for DR pros

  Resilience is a key issue for disaster recovery pros. This year, readers sought to build up their skills and learn more about the role of resilience in DR.  Continue Reading

• Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence

  Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow.  Continue Reading

• Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud

  In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well.  Continue Reading

• Data backup in 2021 emphasized data protection and privacy

  As organizations adopt new working models worldwide, data backup has changed too. Review options for data protection to ensure backups are optimized for security and privacy.  Continue Reading

• 8 analytics startups to watch over the next year

  Differentiation is key to the success of any new enterprise, and a crop of analytics vendors are delivering new capabilities to try to distinguish themselves.  Continue Reading

• Experts lay out data illiteracy's dangers, propose remedies

  In this excerpt from their new book 'Data Literacy,' top data management experts Peter Aiken and Todd Harbour outline a new way to gauge data learnedness.  Continue Reading

• 7 top predictive analytics use cases: Enterprise examples

  Across industries, companies are using predictive analytics to forecast future trends and actions. Learn about the most popular use cases for predictive analytics in 2022.  Continue Reading

• Harness the power of data literacy through democratizing data

  Author Jordan Morrow weighs in on enterprise strategies to improve democratizing data through expanded use of BI and augmented analytics.  Continue Reading

• Data literacy aids democratization of data

  In this excerpt from 'Be Data Literate,' author Jordan Morrow discusses how 'hyped' area of analytics such as BI and embedded analytics contribute to the democratization of data.  Continue Reading

• Data the difference at Olympics for Allyson Felix

  Frustrated after winning silver in the 200 meters at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, the sprinter used analytics to identify weaknesses and alter her training before winning gold in 2012.  Continue Reading

• Feeding America, Tableau use data to fight hunger together

  The nonprofit has partnered with the Tableau Foundation since 2015, and it is enabling its network of food banks to make data-driven decisions with the analytics vendor's tools.  Continue Reading

• QuickSight Q a potential winner for Amazon BI platform

  Since its introduction in 2016, Amazon QuickSight has offered solid but not top-of-market BI capabilities. The addition of a new natural language query tool could change that.  Continue Reading

• Knowing the right data enrichment techniques is crucial

  In 'The Enrichment Game,' the latest book by 'Data Guy' Doug Needham, you'll learn why and how to cull data to gain valuable insights and a business advantage.  Continue Reading

• Alation: How to develop a data governance framework

  Data governance should keep organizations from violating regulations while fostering data exploration and decision-making, but developing a strong set of guidelines is nuanced.  Continue Reading

• Rubrik delivers faster backup for Sunrise Express

  Sunrise Express switched from running Veritas Backup Exec and tape-based backup to cloud-based backup through Rubrik, where it achieved faster backup and recovery times.  Continue Reading

• New Balance managing the pandemic with Tibco Spotfire

  New Balance, a manufacturer and seller of athletic shoes and apparel whose in-store sales plummeted due to the pandemic, used Tibco's BI tools to develop its e-commerce strategy.  Continue Reading

• How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes

  DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines.  Continue Reading

• Uplevel analytics tools lift software engineering efficiency

  Uplevel, a startup vendor whose focus is on improving the efficiency of software engineers, unveiled a set of new capabilities that use data to monitor software design projects.  Continue Reading

• Future of analytics will close gap between data, decisions

  As data increases in complexity and volume, a gap is growing between data intake and data-driven decision-making that analytics tools will need to address and aim to close.  Continue Reading

• How VMware's CDO views data management

  The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance.  Continue Reading

• Oracle Analytics helps Northwell Health meet staffing needs

  In need of an efficient way to determine staffing needs when the pandemic struck, Northwell Health got help with an Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management dashboard.  Continue Reading

• How to choose exactly the right data story for your audience

  A data practitioner has two jobs: tell the right data story and in the right way to win over project stakeholders, data expert Larry Burns says in his latest book.  Continue Reading

• Dresner: Top analytics trend remains rate of adoption

  Increased investment in analytics and proliferation of data science capabilities are among the most significant ongoing trends in BI as the pandemic stretches into late 2021.  Continue Reading

• Data science vs. machine learning vs. AI: How they work together

  Data science, machine learning and AI are central to analytics and other enterprise uses. Here's what each involves and how combining them benefits organizations.  Continue Reading

• 14 most in-demand data science skills you need to succeed

  The demand for data scientists continues to grow, but the job requires a combination of technical and soft skills. Here are 14 key skills for effective data scientists.  Continue Reading

• How to increase the success rate of data science projects

  Most data science initiatives don't produce value due to obstacles like poor data quality, but CNN senior lead of product analytics Bryce Macher has a plan for success.  Continue Reading

• Metals manufacturer uses Sisu analytics tools to spur growth

  In need of identifying repeat business opportunities, startup metals manufacturer Fractory used Sisu's platform to automate complex data queries and develop key metrics.  Continue Reading

• Bill Inmon's data warehouse approach tackles text analysis

  Learn the fine points of a concept at the heart of 'The Textual Warehouse' a new book that aims to help organizations profit through textual analysis.  Continue Reading

• MongoDB CTO's view of data challenges

  The database vendor CTO discusses cloud migration, organizational structure and collaboration, go-to-market challenges organizations face, and the value of a chief data officer.  Continue Reading

• MicroStrategy analytics platform helps Medibank add value

  An Australian insurance company recently migrated its data operations to the cloud and, using MicroStrategy and AWS, has reaped benefits including improved efficiency.  Continue Reading

• Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization

  With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together.  Continue Reading

• Embedded analytics leads to improved productivity

  With many enterprises still in the early stages of using AI technologies, embedded BI remains a key means of making data accessible to a broad array of potential users.  Continue Reading

• Druva CEO talks COVID-19 cloud rush, data protection, roadmap

  Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh discusses the challenges posed by the recent uptick in cloud adoption, the company's product plans for Kubernetes on AWS and its backup security measures.  Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of big data outsourcing

  More companies are seeking outside help to capitalize on data's value. Examine the benefits and drawbacks that come with outsourcing big data processing projects.  Continue Reading

• Data protection experts weigh in on SaaS backup confusion

  Recent research from ESG shines a light on a potentially troublesome misunderstanding about SaaS data backup and protection.  Continue Reading

• The value of PDF data extraction: Sifting for hidden data

  During the process of data cleaning, there's a way to extract valuable hidden data. Learn how in this excerpt from 'Cleaning Data for Effective Data Science.'  Continue Reading

• Enabling collaboration a rising analytics trend

  A proliferation of tools that enable collaboration is an emerging trend among BI vendors as 2021 passes its midpoint. Adding AI capabilities, meanwhile, remains a major trend.  Continue Reading

• Top trends include value of analytics getting recognized

  The high valuations investors are placing on data and analytics vendors, as well as the importance of AI and self-service BI amid the pandemic, marked the first half of 2021.  Continue Reading

• Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform

  Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system.  Continue Reading

• Data and analytics key to ensuring water quality

  In an interview, Meena Sankaran, founder and CEO of water intelligence vendor Ketos, discusses water safety and how data can help monitor water quality and prevent problems.  Continue Reading

• EY CTO outlines data governance challenges

  Multinational professional services firm EY has taken a strategic view of how to manage and use data in a federated approach powered by a trusted data fabric.  Continue Reading

• Top 5 benefits of augmented analytics

  Learn how augmented analytics helps make companies more agile by expanding employee access to data and speeding the decision-making process -- all while saving costs.  Continue Reading

• Business continuity interview questions for aspiring managers

  Business continuity managers must be ready for anything, and that includes interviewing for the role. Here are some common business continuity interview questions to prepare for.  Continue Reading

• Consider unique business needs when hiring a data scientist

  The experience and educational requirements common to data scientist roles have changed rapidly in recent years. Here's how to hire the right data scientist for your business.  Continue Reading

• What an automated data integration implementation means

  Automated data integration can reduce time spent by data professionals on repetitive tasks. Learn about strategies to help implement automated data integration.  Continue Reading

• Organizational resilience questionnaire for recovery teams

  Following organizational resiliency standards such as ISO and BSI can prepare organizations for disaster. These questions provide a starting point to validate OR readiness.  Continue Reading

• Data governance and your master data management strategy

  Strong data governance and master data management strategies typically go hand in hand. Read on to see how key factors of data governance can support your master data management.  Continue Reading

• Zerto keeps Texas bank from being left in the cold

  During Winter Storm Uri, Woodforest National Bank enacted its DR plan and used Zerto to bring its servers back online shortly after its primary data center went completely dark.  Continue Reading

• Does hiring a freelance data scientist make sense for you?

  Enterprises need to make the right hiring choices when it comes to supporting their data projects. Here are some reasons your company may or may not consider hiring a freelancer.  Continue Reading

• Edge data protection tips and tricks

  Edge computing is on the rise, and more IT teams are looking for ways to protect decentralized data. Our experts look at some ways to protect and store data generated at the edge.  Continue Reading

• Citizen data scientist training for augmented analytics

  Augmented analytics have made data analysis more accessible and led to the rise of citizen data scientists. But using these tools still require extensive training.  Continue Reading