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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO

One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists. But there are right and wrong ways to deploy and use self-service analytics.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. Database-centric: In larger organizations, where managing the flow of data is a full-time job, data engineers focus on analytics databases. What is a data engineer? Data engineer job description.

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A Case Study on Building Modern Analytics Architectures That Scale

Datavail

As data volumes continue to grow, the systems and architectures need to evolve. This is especially important for companies that rely on analytics to drive business insights and executive decisions. Most likely, your company has shifted their approach to data and analytics. Recognizing the Need for Change.

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Modernizing Data Analytics Architecture with the Denodo Platform on Azure

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, many businesses are modernizing their on-premises data warehouses or cloud-based data lakes using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. Whether or not they begin with on-premises systems, such modernization efforts often involve the implementation of hybrid configurations. Unfortunately, with data spread.

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How to Democratize Data Across Your Organization Using a Semantic Layer

Speaker: speakers from Verizon, Snowflake, Affinity Federal Credit Union, EverQuote, and AtScale

Join this webinar panel for practical advice on how to build and foster a data literate, self-service analysis culture at scale using a semantic layer. Driving a self-service analytics culture with a semantic layer. Using predictive/prescriptive analytics, given the available data.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO

The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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Ardoq, the enterprise architecture startup, raises $125M to help organizations make sense of their networks

TechCrunch

As organizations continue to build out their digital architecture, a new category of enterprise software has emerged to help them manage that process. The longer-term goal is to build more predictive analytics and modeling tools that leverage the “digital twin” that Ardoq builds of a network.