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March 2024

All You Need to Know About Data Completeness

Data completeness plays a pivotal role in the accuracy and reliability of insights derived from data, that ultimately guide strategic decision-making. This term encompasses having all the data, ensuring access to the right data in its entirety, to avoid biased or misinformed choices. Even a single missing or inaccurate data point can skew results, leading to misguided conclusions, potentially leading to losses or missed opportunities.

Data Ingestion vs. ETL: Understanding the Difference

Working with large volumes of data requires effective data management practices and tools, and two of the frequently used processes are data ingestion and ETL. Given the similarities between these two processes, non-technical people seek to understand what makes them different, often using search queries like “data ingestion vs ETL”.

What is a Data Catalog? Features, Best Practices, and Benefits

A data catalog is a central inventory of organizational data. It provides a comprehensive view of all data assets in an organization, including databases, tables, files, and data sources. Efficiently managing large amounts of information is crucial for companies to stay competitive. This practice is especially applicable to large organizations with scattered data.

Simplify Data Integration and Pipeline Creation I Astera's Data Pipeline Builder Demo

Discover Astera’s Data Pipeline Builder, the no-code solution for easy data integration in today's businesses. With its user-friendly drag-and-drop interface, integrating, cleaning, and transforming data has never been simpler. Watch our demo to see how Astera can automate your end-to-end data management lifecycle, boosting your organization's efficiency. Start watching to accelerate your data integration tasks!

Connecting to Salesforce Database in Astera Data Stack

In this video, we will learn how to seamlessly integrate Salesforce databases into Astera Data Stack for efficient data extraction and loading. This video provides step-by-step guidance on configuring the Salesforce Database connector. Learn the process of establishing a successful connection and leveraging Salesforce data within your dataflows.

Star Schema Vs. Snowflake Schema: 4 Key Differences

Organizations rely on high-performance data warehouses for storing and analyzing large amounts of data. An important decision in setting up a data warehouse is the choice between Star Schema vs. Snowflake Schema. The star schema simplifies the structure of a database by directly connecting dimension tables to a central fact table. The star shaped design streamlines data retrieval and analysis by consolidating related data points, thereby enhancing the efficiency and clarity of database queries.

BigQuery vs. Redshift: Which One Should You Choose?

Considering BigQuery vs. Redshift for your data warehousing needs? This guide is for you. Both BigQuery and Redshift stand as leading cloud data warehouse solutions each offering a multitude of features catering to multiple use cases. Google’s BigQuery offers seamless scalability and performance within its cloud platform, while Amazon’s Redshift provides great parallel processing and tuning options.

How to Load Data from AWS S3 to Snowflake

According to a study by Statista, the cloud storage market was valued at $90.17 billion in 2022 and will reach a value of $472.47 billion by 2030. These figures indicate a growing shift toward cloud computing and data storage solutions. A typical scenario in modern data management involves data transfer from cloud storage to cloud-based computing platforms. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is among the go-to options for the former, and businesses trust Snowflake for the latter.

What Is Data Governance and Why It Matters?

Data governance refers to the strategic management of data within an organization. It involves developing and enforcing policies, procedures, and standards to ensure data is consistently available, accurate, secure, and compliant throughout its lifecycle. At its core, data governance aims to answer questions such as.

Top 7 AWS ETL Tools in 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) ETL refers to a cloud-based set of tools and services that help extract data from different sources, make it usable, and store it in a way that makes it easy to analyze and make decisions based on it. AWS ETL tools offer a unique advantage for businesses seeking to streamline their data processes. These tools are efficient, scalable, and adaptable, making them ideal for a wide range of industries, from healthcare and finance to retail and beyond.

Automate Tax Form Data Extraction in 5 Easy Steps

A Smartsheet report found that over 40% of workers spend at least a quarter of their workweek manually extracting data. Tax specialists in many organizations spend hours or even days sorting through piles of paper or PDF documents, looking for relevant information, and entering it into spreadsheets or databases. That’s a lot of time and money wasted on a tedious and error-prone process. Fortunately, there is a better way to handle tax form data extraction.

Astera EDI Mapping and Processing Demo

Astera EDI: Streamline Your EDI Mapping and Processing - Discover how Astera EDIConnect empowers businesses to seamlessly build, parse, and process EDI documents with trading partners without any coding required. Learn how our intuitive, no-code platform can automate your EDI transactions, ensuring data quality, security, and efficient partner communication. From healthcare to retail, see how industries benefit from our scalable, enterprise-ready EDI solution.

Run Workflow Task Object in Astera Data Stack

In this video, we will learn the functionality of the Run Workflow task within Astera Data Stack. Learn how to seamlessly integrate nested workflows, enabling the execution of multiple workflows within a single workflow. Discover how to configure the Run Workflow task to execute nested workflows sequentially or in parallel, optimizing workflow management and automation.

Snowflake ETL Tools: Top 7 Options to Consider in 2024

Snowflake has restructured the data warehousing scenario with its cloud-based architecture. Businesses can easily scale their data storage and processing capabilities with this innovative approach. It eliminates the need for complex infrastructure management, resulting in streamlined operations. According to a recent Gartner survey, 85% of enterprises now use cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake for their analytics needs.

Best Practices for Enhancing Claims Processing Efficiency

In the insurance industry, the claims process plays a vital role in shaping an insurer's reputation, customer satisfaction, and financial performance. However, this process is primarily characterized by the substantial volumes of unstructured data that insurers must adeptly handle and leverage to enhance the customer journey and streamline claims lifecycle management.

Workplace Claims: A Close Look at the Importance of Quick Settlements

Workplace claims are legal actions or complaints that employees set forth against their employers due to violations of employment laws or contractual agreements. In recent times, employees feel encouraged to speak up for their rights with no workplace harassment, discrimination or unjust treatment. This increased awareness has raised legal standards and regulatory frameworks and thus, employees feel more empowered to report instances of harassment and discrimination.

Navigating AI-Driven Claims Processing

95% of insurers are currently accelerating their digital transformation with AI-driven claims processing. Traditionally, this process involved manual steps such as claim initiation, data entry, validation, decision-making, and payout, consuming significant time and resources. However, the introduction of AI has replaced tedious manual work, enabling companies to streamline their tasks efficiently.

A Simple Guide to Medical Insurance Claims

Insurance companies and third-party administrators are increasingly turning to automated data extraction to expedite the processing of medical insurance claims. This approach serves as a better alternative to time-intensive manual claim management. Leveraging AI technology allows them to efficiently extract crucial data from documents, eliminating manual data entry errors and significantly reducing processing times.

ETL Testing: Processes, Types, and Best Practices

ETL testing is a set of procedures used to evaluate and validate the data integration process in a data warehouse environment. In other words, it’s a way to verify that the data from your source systems is extracted, transformed, and loaded into the target storage as required by your business rules. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is how data integration tools and BI platforms primarily turn data into actionable insights.

Navigating Workplace Accident Claims with Astera

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the incidence rate of nonfatal workplace accidents has decreased over the years, which can be attributed to the implementation of preventive measures in private industry. Despite this positive trend, companies deal with large volumes of unstructured data that demand effective management. Addressing these complexities is easier with Astera’s unstructured data extraction solution.

Automated Claims Processing: A Comprehensive Guide

Claims processing is a multi-faceted operation integral to the insurance, healthcare, and finance industries. It’s a comprehensive procedure that involves carefully examining a claim. Claim processing is not a single-step process; instead, it involves multiple stages, each serving as a critical control point to ensure the accuracy and fairness of the claim resolution.