The world of healthcare never rests and one of the largest health insurance groups in the U.S. is not alone in wanting to provide, “quality care, better patient outcomes, and more engaged consumers.”   They achieve this through careful consideration as to how they manage their financial data.  This is the backbone of providing that quality care while also managing cost.  The future of healthcare data integration involves fully employing cloud technology to manage fina...

Save the date! Talend Connect will be back in London and Paris in October Talend will welcome customers, partners, and influencers to its annual company conference, Talend Connect, taking place in two cities, London and Paris, in October. A must-attend event for business decision makers, CIOs, data scientists, chief architects, and developers, Talend Connect will share innovative approaches to modern cloud and big data challenges,...

Recently I had the chance to talk to an SVP of IT at one of the largest banks in North America about their digital transformation strategy. As we spoke, their approach to big data and digital transformation struck me as they described it as ever evolving. New technologies would come to market which required new pivots and approaches to leverage these capabilities for the business. It is more important than ever to have an agile architecture that can sustain and scale with your data and analyt...

So far, our journey on using Apache Spark with Talend has been a fun and exciting one. The first three posts on my series provided an overview of how Talend works with Apache Spark, some similarities between Talend and Spark Submit, the configuration options available for Spark jobs in Talend and how to tune Spark jobs for performance. If you haven’t already read them you should do so before getting started here. Start with “...

The concept of cloud computing has been around for years, but cloud services truly became democratized with the advent of virtual machines and the launch of Amazon Elastic Compute in 2006. Following Amazon, Google launched Google App Engine in 2008, and then Microsoft launched Azure in 2010. At first, cloud computing offerings were not all that different from each other. But as with nearly every other market, segmentation quickly followed growth. In recent years, the c...

In an always-on, competitive business environment, organizations are looking to gain an edge through digital transformation. Subsequently, many companies feel a sense of urgency to transform across all areas of their enterprise—from manufacturing to business operations—in the constant pursuit of continuous innovation and process efficiency. Data is at the heart of all these digital transformation projects. It is the critical component that helps generate smarter, improved decisio...

In an always-on, competitive business environment, organizations are looking to gain an edge through digital transformation. Subsequently, many companies feel a sense of urgency to transform across all areas of their enterprise—from manufacturing to business operations—in the constant pursuit of continuous innovation and process efficiency. Data is at the heart of all these digital transformation projects. It is the critical component that helps generate smarter, improved decisio...

This edition of the Forrester Wave is yet another proof of the profound changes in the data market. New innovations are helping companies extract more value from data faster than ever before.  In just 18 months, a new wave is breaking. These are our 3 takeaways. << Download the Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018 Here>> 1) Legacy is out In a world wher...

In an era where food delivery competition ranges from your local grocery store to data-driven companies like Amazon, you need to stake out a competitive differentiator. Domino’s Pizza, founded in 1960, recognizes this and that’s why they remain remains the largest pizza company in the world, with a significant business in both delivery and carryout pizza. Relying on technology as a competitive differentiator helped Domino’s achieve more th...

[style-full-width-content type="video" url="https://youtube.com/embed/m8UDrlhLQUA"] In this episode of Craft Beer and Data, Mark and I travel just south of the Bay Area to chug some beer and talk data. Devil’s Canyon Brewery started in San Carlos, California, 15 years ago. We met with their Production Lead, Ryan Edmonds, to learn more about the Silicon Valley brewery. The motto of Devil’s Canyon is “Crafting Beer, Buildi...