There are a few standard structured data formats and discussions galore on which of them is more advantageous. Within Xplenty, users are able to process JSON and XML data formats with ease, and this article shares an example showing the functions that facilitate processing XML on Xplenty.
It's important to understand the uses and abuses of streaming infrastructure. Apache Kafka is a message broker that has rapidly grown in popularity in the last few years. Message brokers have been around for a long time; they're a type of datastore specialized for "buffering" messages between producer and consumer systems. Kafka has become popular because it's open-source and capable of scaling to very large numbers of messages.
Snowflake connected with Margaret Sherman of Sonos at Data Cloud Summit 2020 to hear how the company is using the Data Cloud to understand customer preferences and enhance listening experiences. In a world where people are surrounded by a lot of noise, purity of sound in music and other content we seek out in the comfort of our homes can offer a welcome respite. There are lessons to be learned from a company reinventing home audio for today and tomorrow—and using the Data Cloud to do it.
With automated data integration, CaliberMind uncovers data insights for customers. As a Customer Data Platform (CDP), CaliberMind delivers data-driven insights to its customers. To do so, it must connect to its customers’ data sources, extract, process and transform the data, run it through specially designed analytic models, and, finally, present data back to the customer as insights. CaliberMind uses Fivetran to offload the task of ingesting data from its customers’ applications.
Two years ago we wrote a research report about Federated Learning. We’re pleased to make the report available to everyone, for free. You can read it online here: Federated Learning. Federated Learning is a paradigm in which machine learning models are trained on decentralized data. Instead of collecting data on a single server or data lake, it remains in place—on smartphones, industrial sensing equipment, and other edge devices—and models are trained on-device.
As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting Government regulations and standards in our enterprise solutions, including data protection, Cloudera recently introduced a version of our Cloudera Data Platform, Private Cloud Base product (7.1.5 release) that can be configured to use FIPS compliant cryptography.
The ability to discover insights from past events, transactions and interactions is how many customers currently utilize Qlik. Qlik’s unique approach to Business Intelligence (BI) using an in-memory engine and intuitive interface has democratized BI for typical business users, who usually have little to no technical savvy. But, for many years, organizations have only been able to analyze metrics or KPIs of “what has happened” (i.e., descriptive analytics).
The ability to discover insights from past events, transactions and interactions is how many customers currently utilize Qlik. Qlik’s unique approach to Business Intelligence (BI) using an in-memory engine and intuitive interface has democratized BI for typical business users, who usually have little to no technical savvy. But, for many years, organizations have only been able to analyze metrics or KPIs of “what has happened” (i.e., descriptive analytics).
Every business wants to stay agile. They invest in analytics to learn about their customers and their internal state, and they use these insights to make bold and innovative decisions. But then they run into a common problem: how to put those decisions into action. This is where a solutions analyst comes in. These multi-talented creative thinkers will look at the current state of play and identify the smartest path forward.
