Transformation isn’t easy, but increasingly, enterprises are realizing that making their business more data-driven is imperative to gaining a competitive edge on the market. As in any business transformation, aligning people, processes and technology is essential to drive organizational change, but these can also be the most challenging aspects to modify. In order for […]
Transformation isn’t easy, but increasingly, enterprises are realizing that making their business more data-driven is imperative to gaining a competitive edge on the market. As in any business transformation, aligning people, processes and technology is essential to drive organizational change, but these can also be the most challenging aspects to modify. In order for […]
Talend and MapR share a common vision around enabling businesses to utilize data as a strategic asset in their armory, so they can be more agile and remain competitive in the big data era. A recent survey of CIOs found that up to 80 percent are planning to deploy at least one (if not […]
The current wave of digitalization is vigorously stirring up the core dimensions of business: i.e. value propositions, peoples & skills, processes, and technologies. This is especially true for the manufacturing industry: The Industrial IoT is in the starting blocks and will go far beyond current machine-to-machine applications. The first game-changing consequence of IoT is […]
This article was written using the open source version of Talend Open Studio for Big Data which can be downloaded below: Download >> Talend Open Studio for Data Integration I am looking into ways to map relational data models into MongoDB, and am starting off simple to test a few methods. To begin with I […]
In my last blog, I highlighted some of the Data Governance challenges in Big Data and how Data Quality (DQ) is a big part of Data Governance. In this blog, I wanted to focus on how Big Data is changing the DQ methodology. Big Data has made Machine Learning (ML) mainstream and just as DQ has impacted ML, ML […]
One of my favorite new TV shows is APB, a story about a billionaire tech entrepreneur who goes into one of Chicago’s most crime-infested districts and changes things around. He roots out inefficient processes and legacy equipment by bringing in state-of-the-art technology such as drones, enhanced body armor, supercharged police cars, and the ability for […]
This blog is the second part of a three-part series looking at Data Matching. In the first part, we looked at the theory behind data matching. In this second part, we will look at the tools Talend provides in its suite to enable you to do Data Matching, and how the theory is put into […]
We live in a world surrounded by data. From our daily grocery shopping, to our mobile phone usage, fitness regime tracker, bank accounts, social media etc., practically everything we do is either driven by or a contributor to data volumes. In this blog I would like to reiterate the importance of data and data preparation […]
In this blog, I’ll be discussing how I expanded the recommendation demo provided in Talend’s Big Data Sandbox to influence my promotional Twitter campaign. Enterprises are now taking data-oriented approaches when defining their social strategy as they find new and interesting influencers around their business. It is critical to implement plans that utilize this […]
