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August 2021

Spark vs. Tez: What's the Difference?

Let's get started with this great debate. First, a step back; we’ve pointed out that Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce are two different Big Data beasts. The former is a high-performance in-memory data-processing framework, and the latter is a mature batch-processing platform for the petabyte scale. We also know that Apache Hive and HBase are two very different tools with similar functions. Hive is a SQL-like engine that runs MapReduce jobs, while HBase is a NoSQL key/value database on Hadoop.

The Importance of CDC for ETL

The growth of corporate data and the need for more corporate applications and systems are not trends that will soon slow down. Data has become an essential component of commercial success and a measure of the value of a company. Investing in platforms, processes, and people that can effectively protect, transform, and leverage data is the hallmark of a modern data-driven enterprise.

What is the Best Way to Move My Data Securely?

Moving data from an organization’s systems into data warehouses and data lakes are essential to fuel business intelligence and analytics tools. These insights guide businesses into making decisions backed by data, allowing them to choose actions that have the best chance of positive growth. However, getting data from the source systems to these data stores can be a harrowing process.

What is REST API Design?

Modern business requires a range of digital components to communicate effectively when transferring data and delivering critical messages. Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are sets of rules that regulate exactly how certain apps or machines connect. If you work with data at all, you’ll have heard of REST or RESTful, and REST APIs — but what is REST API design? We explain below.

10 Predictions for the Future of Data Governance

According to TechTarget , data governance is managing the integrity, security, availability, and usability of data in an organization's system. Effective and efficient data governance makes sure data is accurate and consistent. There are several predictions regarding data governance you need to know.

What is Data Portability and Why is It Important?

Businesses are now storing more personal data on their customers than ever before—from names, addresses, and credit card numbers to such as IP addresses and browsing habits. Understandably, many consumers are speaking up and pushing back on how these businesses use their data—including an insistence on the “right to data portability.” Data portability is an essential issue for companies that must comply with regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA.

Understanding Operational Analytics

Most companies have had to adjust to the big data push. Some have learned to fully leverage data to get a comprehensive view of their business and make long-term plans for their processes. However, it can be a long way from there to fueling minute-by-minute processes with quality data. Operational analytics allows your company to be at its most effective on a real-time basis. How does operational analytics (also called continuous analytics) offer an advantage to your company and how do you implement it?

The NetSuite integration guide

One of the most important things to consider is the cost of the platform coupled with the cost of the integration. Now that we have understood what NetSuite integration is, some of the drawbacks, and why you should consider an integration, we are going to delve into how to do the integration itself. The approach you are going to take to do the integration is determined by the technical expertise if any, the application to be connected with NetSuite, and your budget.

The Ultimate Salesforce Developers Guide

Salesforce enables companies of all sizes to build amazing app experiences that drive stronger customer relationships. Heroku makes it easy to deliver engaging apps on the public cloud that integrate customer data. Heroku Connect is an easy way to keep your Salesforce data up-to-date with practically unlimited scaling, containers, and support for various application frameworks.

The Citizen Integrator: Key to Business Agility

With the rapidly changing pace of innovative technology, companies must be able to pivot quickly or perish. The ability to adapt to change is critical to a company’s success. A key factor in the ability to pivot is access to real-time information to facilitate data-driven decisions. Traditionally, that data has existed across multiple systems with no simple method for bringing it all together meaningfully.

Transforming Customer Data for Salesforce

CRM (customer relationship management) software is the lifeblood of any modern B2C company. By monitoring and storing all of your interactions with prospects and customers—from their first visit to your website to their most recent purchase—CRM software makes it dramatically easier to segment your customer base, identify hidden trends in the data, make smarter predictions, and forecasts, and much more.

Building an ETL Pipeline in Python

Thanks to its user-friendliness and popularity in the field of data science, Python is one of the best programming languages for ETL. Still, coding an ETL pipeline from scratch isn’t for the faint of heart — you’ll need to handle concerns such as database connections, parallelism, job scheduling, and logging yourself. The good news is that Python makes it easier to deal with these issues by offering dozens of ETL tools and packages.

What Is Homomorphic Encryption?

Data encryption is one of the smartest things any organization can do to protect the privacy and security of confidential and sensitive data. Using a unique encryption key, data is converted to an intermediate representation known as “ciphertext,” which usually appears as a jumbled mixture of letters and numbers to the human eye. This encrypted data will be meaningless to anyone without the corresponding decryption key—even malicious actors who breach an organization’s defenses.

SFDC Integrations

Do you need to integrate your Salesforce data into other systems? SFDC Integrations can offer your company a reliable, secure data infrastructure to transfer SFDC data into other systems. Data integration is a key component for any business that wants to get ahead and stay competitive in today's marketplace. That's why so many companies have used ETL tools like SFDC integrations software from Xplenty. Integrating with SFDC has never been easier than it is now.

How to Implement Change Data Capture in SQL Server

Every organization wants to stay on the cutting edge of technology, making smart and data-driven decisions. However, ensuring that company information and data integration remains up to date can be a very time-consuming process. That is where CDC can make all the difference. Change data capture or CDC allows for real-time data set changes, ensuring that company data is always up to date. Change data capture can transform the way companies make data-driven decisions.

What Is NetSuite Software? What Is NetSuite Database?

Streamlining and optimizing its business workflows and processes is one of the most valuable things any organization can do behind the scenes. That’s where ERP (enterprise resource planning) software comes in. With use cases ranging from sales and finance to logistics and human resources, ERP platforms help integrate, standardize, and centralize all of your processes and data.

Why You Need a REST API

Imagine you were suddenly transported to a foreign city where you don’t speak the language—in fact, every person you encounter speaks a different language, and you aren’t even sure which one they are. That’s the situation faced by many developers and users today as they try to integrate different software and systems. One of the greatest challenges of modern computing is its complexity.

Complete Guide to NetSuite Development

NetSuite is a powerful, real-time, cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) software. And NetSuite development is knowing how to use NetSuite efficiently. When NetSuite is used to its full capacity, it is a powerful tool for highlighting strengths and exposing weaknesses. It is capable of providing detailed reports in real-time for every department of your company.

Why Data Governance is the Future

Businesses today are powered by data. This data needs to be high quality and manageable but also compliant with rules and regulations. In order to ensure data is manageable and secure, data governance protocols provide better control and organization. The process of data governance refers to the effective management of technology, processes, and even people within a company or organization. Read on to learn why it's the future of business.

What Is Needed for an SFTP Connection?

Along with its security benefits, an SFTP connection is the quickest and most efficient way to transfer files between two local or remote systems. When transferring files or data from one server to another, using an SFTP connection is one of the best options to ensure this data remains untampered. Utilizing an SFTP connection is especially beneficial for commonly used data integration systems like ETL and Reverse ETL. So what makes SFTP so great, and what is even needed for an SFTP connection?

How to Operationalize Your Data Warehouse

More and more businesses are opting to use data lakes or, more likely, data warehouses these days, which allow them to store, analyze, and utilize their data from one convenient destination. But beyond creating reports and in-depth analytics, how can you truly operationalize your data warehouse into an even more vital part of your business's digital stack? Reverse ETL could provide some opportunities to do just that.

Data Science + Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is at a critical turning point, especially in the wake of the global lockdown that caused companies worldwide to conduct more online business than ever before. No organization is immune to data breaches, as hackers are using more sophisticated techniques — such as artificial intelligence — to perform these cyberattacks.