Analytics

Top 5 Best Practices for Building Event-Driven Architectures Using Confluent and AWS Lambda

Confluent and AWS Lambda can be used for building real-time, scalable, fault-tolerant event-driven architectures, ensuring that your application logic is executed reliably in response to specific business events. Confluent provides a streaming SaaS solution based on Apache Kafka® and built on Kora: The Cloud Native Apache Kafka Engine, allowing you to focus on building event-driven applications without operating the underlying infrastructure.

Think Your Company Doesn't Need a Chief Data Officer? Here Are 7 Reasons Why It Does

Perhaps your C-suite is already a bit crowded. The typical hierarchy will include a CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CIO, and a few more. Adding another position may not be terribly appealing, but there is one C-suite role every company should consider—chief data and analytics officer (CDO or CDAO).

Yellowfin vs Power BI: What's the Difference?

Adopting a new business intelligence (BI) solution requires a thorough understanding of its feature-set and functionality in order to ensure analytics is integrated into your business as seamlessly as possible and that the value of your new tool is realized. Previously, we have covered how Yellowfin can be used with Power BI as a complementary solution.

What Is a Data-Driven Organization?

Organizations that consistently use data for decision-making and improving operations outperform their competition. In fact, B2B companies utilizing data experience above-market growth and earnings increases of 15 to 25%. McKinsey forecasts that by 2025, almost all employees will use data to support their work naturally and regularly. Compare that to how organizations currently apply data-driven approaches—sporadically throughout the organization.

Do the Benefits of Cloud Outweigh the Costs?

Companies are now making a decisive shift from traditional on-premises Oracle software to Oracle’s cutting-edge cloud solutions. In fact, a recent Gartner report on cloud expenditure found that cross-industry cloud spend has risen from 8% as a percentage of total IT spend in 2018 to 16% in 2022. Worldwide spending on public cloud services is expected to grow by 21.7% in 2023.

What Well-Designed Data Lake Architecture Looks Like

The importance of a well-structured data lake architecture cannot be overstated. As businesses work with an ever-increasing influx of data, the need for a robust, scalable, and efficient data storage solution becomes crucial. Let’s explore Data Lake Architecture Design—a concept revolutionizing how enterprises store, access, analyze, and compute their data.