OTTO is one of Europe’s most successful e-commerce companies and Germany’s biggest online retailer. In the past financial year, 6.6 million customers ordered online from OTTO. Like virtually every other retailer with an online presence, OTTO competes against Amazon for customers and mindshare. To hold their own, they knew they needed to use and analyze data t...

This post was authored by Venkat Sundaram from Talend and Ramu Kalvakuntla from Clarity Insights. This is the second part in a series of blogs that discuss how to successfully build governed data lakes. To all those who have read...

In 2012 when I worked at Lenovo, the company set out on a journey to create the Lenovo Unified Customer Intelligence (LUCI) platform. The decisions we made with regard to people and technology involved in that project helped to shape my self-development, relationships with others on the team, and relationship with executives. Data management leaders today are still faci...

This post is co-authored by Jorge Villamariona and Anselmo Barrero at Qubole. A popular term emerging from the software industry over the last few years is serverless computing, more commonly referred to as just “...

Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, with an enrollment of nearly 41,000 students.  Success in recruiting qualified students in sufficient numbers is the lifeblood of any university. In its efforts to aggregate data related to admissions, Kent State found itself dealing with a “spaghetti mess”, further complicated by its hybrid environment. Currently, the university relies on an on-premises Banner ERP syst...

Let’s be honest, the ‘Data Lake’ is one of the latest buzz-words everyone is talking about. Like many buzzwords, few really know how to explain what it is, what it is supposed to do, and/or how to design and build one.  As pervasive as they appear to be, you may be surprised to learn that Gartner predicts that only 15% of Data Lake projects make it into productio...

This post was authored by Venkat Sundaram from Talend and Ramu Kalvakuntla from Clarity Insights. With the advent of Big Data technologies like Hadoop, there has been a major disruption in the information management industry. The excitement around it is not only about the three Vs –...

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...