There’s no doubt that AI has usurped big data as the enterprise technology industry’s new favorite buzzword. After all, it’s on Gartner’s 2017 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies, for a reason. While progress was slow during the first few decades, AI advancement has rapidly accelerated during the last decade. Some people say AI will augment humans and maybe […]
If you didn’t catch it, the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools published in early August and what was most notable about this year’s report is that many of the legacy vendors in the Leaders’ Quadrant moved down and back, causing the entire competitive landscape to shift. Download the 2017 Gartner Magic […]
In this example, I have been asked to check if the corporate standard for naming employee documents has been adhered to. If not, I then want to know how many deviations are in the dataset. You have in your database a table of employees, employee documents (contracts of employment, performance reviews etc.), and a table […]
In my years at Talend as a Support Engineer, before I moved into the Customer Success Architect team, customers often asked about Talend’s capabilities with Apache Spark. When we talk about Spark the first thing that always comes to mind is the command Spark submit that we use to submit our Spark jobs. So, […]
Google has been using machine learning to improve its business analytics for years, and judging from all the recent excitement about the technology, you’d assume enterprises everywhere would be following suit. Yet, the reality is somewhat different. According to some studies, only 22 percent of companies are already using machine learning’s analytical power by implementing […]
The digital-era is in full force. CEOs no longer fear technology, they now fear missing out on the potential impact technology could bring to their organizations. However, many face hurdles integrating the various digital initiatives across their business in order to increase revenue and customer satisfaction. So who within the organization is ultimately responsible for […]
When one company acquires a smaller entity or engages in a merger of equals, it’s important for both sides of the organization to come to the table and outline how said merger will impact everything from people, systems, brand, products, and services all the way down to real-estate. When companies merge, they can make […]
In an earlier blog, I shared some key tips that a company needs to keep in mind while designing data quality (DQ) processes in Hadoop. The data processes and frameworks I mentioned in that blog are important not only because it impacts your data quality program, but also your data governance program – if […]
