Bitwise: Cloud Data Warehouse Modernization - Inside Look at Talend Connect London

With expectations of business users evolving beyond limitations of traditional BI capabilities, we see a general thrust of organizations developing a cloud-based data strategy that enterprise users can leverage to build better analytics and make better business decisions. While this vision for cloud strategy is fairly straightforward, the journey of identifying and implementing the right technology stack that caters to BI and analytical requirements across the enterprise can create some stum READ ARTICLE

Why Cloud-native is more than software just running on someone else’s computer

The cloud is not “just someone else’s computer”, even though that meme has been spreading so fast on the internet. The cloud consists of extremely scalable data centers with highly optimized and automated processes. This makes a huge difference if you are talking about the level of application software. So what is “cloud-native” really? “Cloud-native” is more than just a marketing slogan. And a “cloud-native application” is not simply a co READ ARTICLE

How GDPR Can Empower Travel, Transport and Hospitality Firms and Their Customers

This post was authored by Jean-Michel Franco, Laurent Deheuvels and Shashin Shah, Director, OnePoint Ltd. What were the two biggest recent disruptions of the travel, transport & hospitality i READ ARTICLE

Organizational Structures and Leadership in Times of Digital Disruption

The number of studies that substantiate Germany’s digital deficit is striking. Depending on the population parameter, Germany’s rank varies from 11th place (EU Commission) to 17th ( READ ARTICLE

Danger Zone: How Big is Your GDPR Blind Spot?

Authored by Niamh Walsh, Sales & Marketing Director, Advanced Metadata A blind spot in a car is considered to be a location in your viewpoint for which you don’t have a direct view. Knowing the location of your car’s blind spot is an essential part of safe driving and the blind spot is different for every model of car. Similarly, the new READ ARTICLE

An Intro to Digital Twin Technology: A Step Towards Fully Maximizing Industrial IoT

About the Author: Dimitri Volkmann, Digital Twin Thought Leader, GE Digital This article assumes you have a certain familiarity with the Digital Twin concepts, if you don't, start with this shorter article. The Digital Twin &am READ ARTICLE

Step-by-Step: How to Check Data Quality with Talend Using Your Own RegEx Pattern Library

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 of document types. Let's begin by utilizing those data sets and see what we come up with. READ ARTICLE

Data, Insight, Action: Turning the Cycle to your Competitive Advantage

Authored by Dr. Gero Presser, CEO of Quinscape GmbH in Dortmund. We are living in an era where data has become a critical competitive factor. In the words of Talend CEO Mike Tuchen: “Data is the new battl READ ARTICLE

How to Seamlessly Include GeoSpatial Data and Operations Into Your Data Integration Process

With the increased availability of data through sensors, inter-connected mobile devices, social media and private or public spatial data sets, the demand for a seamless integration of spatial information into data-driven decision-making processes has reached a new high. We consider spatial data as any kind of data supplemented with additional information about the location and shape of objects on earth. One simple example would be the general information of companies, buildings, perso READ ARTICLE

ETL, ELT, and UPM for Data Warehousing with Google BigQuery

Authored by Darius Kemeklis, Myers-Holum, Inc It’s hard to believe that Data Warehousing (DW) has been around since 1970 when Bill Inmon first defined the term.  The 1990’s saw Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball dueling on two different Data Warehousing approaches, READ ARTICLE