Data is a critical competitive factor and is becoming more and more crucial for achieving success. In theory, hardly anyone disputes this to any extent. But in practice there are some very different levels of maturity when it comes to handling data. Based on practical experience …
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With the continued growth in Cloud computing, more and more organizations are moving their data to Software as a Service (SaaS) providers such as Salesforce. If you’re about to embark on a Data Migration or Data Integration project, and you’re used to working with a traditional …
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With the Euro 2016 tournament now drawing to a close, and having two kids of my own in a competitive soccer league, even a French husband; I now live and breathe football (or soccer depending on your frame of reference) almost every single day. Soccer, much …
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Engineering a big data ingestion pipeline is complicated – if you don’t have the right tools. All data, be it big, little, dark, structured, or unstructured, must be ingested, cleansed, and transformed before insights can be gleaned, a base tenet of the analytics process model. Talend, …
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In the beginning of ETL…. When I started my IT career over 15 years ago I was nothing more than a “Fresh-out” with a college degree and an interest in computers and programming. At that time, I knew the theories behind the Software Development Life Cycle …
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Bereits heute verbindet das Internet der Dinge die digitale mit der physischen Sphäre und schließt die Lücke zwischen Informationssystemen und der Außenwelt. Noch vor kurzem gab es eine Kluft zwischen diesen beiden Bereichen, da Daten aus der physischen Welt sich nicht mit IT-Systemen integrieren ließen. In der …
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As part of a POC of Talend v6.1 Big Data capabilities, I was asked by one of our long-time customers, a major e-commerce company, to present a solution for aggregating huge files of clickstream data on Hadoop. The input data was a giant clickstream file (larger than …
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In my previous post about data quality in the Big Data era, we’ve seen some of the challenges raised by the recently born data operating system that came with Hadoop 2.0 and YARN . In Part 2 of this series, I’d like to explore how this new framework changes …
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With the world becoming more connected and data savvy with every passing year, there’s a rising need for businesses to efficiently manage the trillions of bytes of data that they capture, and gain insights from them. Talend helps businesses do exactly this while boosting developer productivity …
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In my previous blog “Beyond ‘The Data Vault’” I examined various data storage options and a practical architecture/design for an Enterprise Data Vault Warehouse. As you may have realized by now I am quite smitten with this innovative data modeling methodology and recommend to anyone who …
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