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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Xebia

The following is a review of the book Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley, published by O’Reilly in June of 2022, and some takeaway lessons. The authors state that the target audience is technical people and, second, business people who work with technical people. Nevertheless, I strongly agree.

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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand how to make use of new business intelligence tools Image Credit: deepak pal. Modern CIOs need to understand that Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an company’s strategic and tactical business decisions.

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Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses

TechCrunch

An alumni of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator and backed by LocalGlobe , Dataform had set out to help data-rich companies draw insights from the data stored in their data warehouses. Mining data for insights and business intelligence typically requires a team of data engineers and analysts.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO

But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. Self-service analytics typically involves tools that are easy to use and have basic data analytics capabilities. Users have freedom to slice and dice the data without technical know-how,” he says.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Increasingly, businesses are realizing they need to invest in skills development to leverage emerging technologies, agrees SPR’s Mead.

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Top Data Science experts you should know about

Apiumhub

Borba has been named a top Big Data and data science influencer and expert several times. He has also been named a top influencer in machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), business intelligence (BI), and digital transformation. Jen Stirrup is a top influencer in Big Data and Business Intelligence.

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DataOps Gives You an Advantage—We Know Because We do it Ourselves

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

.” In the last half of last year we applied DataOps to consolidate our enterprise reporting systems into one data lake. 32 data domain owners from governance, pricing, services, procurement, partners, sales, marketing, supply planning and IT were involved. Business owners reported immediate benefits from this implementation.