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Surviving the Coming Data Governance Wave

A data governance wave is building in the United States. If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear it rumbling. It's inevitable that new regulations eventually will emerge that dictate how companies must ensure the Read more…

Data Warehousing with a Modern Twist

Bill Inmon is generally credited with inventing the phrase "data warehouse" in the early 1990s to describe the stockpiling of data using relational databases. It may be an older term, but the activity itself remains quit Read more…

Looker Spies Next Step In Data-Based Evolution

Every company evolves, and some evolve faster than others, which appears to be the case with Looker. At its JOIN 2018 conference here in San Francisco, Looker's next step seems tantalizingly close, just around the corner Read more…

Looker Joins Google in Launch of BigQuery ML

Looker, the data platform builder looking to expand the reach of its “horizontal” foundation, added another component this week with the integration of its tools with the beta release of Google’s cloud-based BigQue Read more…

BI Vendors Sliced and Diced on G2’s Grid

If you're on the hunt for better business intelligence software – and really, who isn't these days? – you likely are reading some analyst reports on the topic. But all too often, those reports don't reflect the exper Read more…

How Disney Built a Pipeline for Streaming Analytics

The explosion of on-demand video content is having a huge impact on how we watch television. You can now binge watch an entire season's worth of Grey's Anatomy at one sitting, if that suits your fancy. For a media giant Read more…

Data Prep Goes Serverless

The rise of platforms in which cloud providers manage the allocation of computing and storages resources has opened the door to new data services such as serverless data preparation tools. The list of self-service data p Read more…

Cloud In, Hadoop Out as Hot Repository for Big Data

If you're in charge of architecting a big data strategy for your organization, you have a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the easiest, however, may be to use cloud repositories to store and process the biggest set Read more…

Looker’s Audacious Moonshot to Outgrow Oracle

You may have considered Looker to be just another business intelligence tool. After all, that's the bucket analysts at Forrester and Gartner put the company in. But talk a bit with its founder, Lloyd Tabb, and you quickl Read more…

Why Big Data and Data Scientists Are Overrated

What does it take to get value out of data? Many organizations assume that you need a big collection of data and a highly skilled data scientist to spin all those 1s and 0s into dollar signs. In reality, companies need n Read more…

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