Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Center(DC) is the on-premises release of Cloudera Data Platform. CDP DC combines the best services and components from Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub and Hortonworks Data Platform Enterprise along with new features and enhancements across the stack to deliver the premier on-premises enterprise data platform . This unified distribution is a scalable and customizable platform where you can securely run many types of workloads.

In addition to the very real negative impact on every person around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is driving business disruptions and closures at an unprecedented scale. Enormous government stimulus programs are resulting in explosions in fiscal deficits, regulators are relaxing capital constraints on banks and central banks are supporting economic stability with a range of interest rate cuts and other stimulus measures.

“Build vs Buy” is an important decision every technology strategist has to make. With the rise of open source and the wealth of freely available software, organizations have the flexibility to build custom solutions when off-the-shelf solutions don’t directly address their needs. In the domain of enterprise data platforms, many organizations have leveraged the open-source ecosystem to build tailored solutions, expending a lot of resources in the process.

Banking and financial services organizations are all about customer relationships. By connecting with customers and assisting alongside their financial journeys, these organizations become trusted partners. Building trust and confidence increases the share of wallet and lifetime value. To achieve that on a global scale, you need to leverage big data and predictive analytics. As customers navigate their personal finances, they are looking for a bank they can trust.

Clive Humby stated, as far back as 2006, “data is the new oil.” The quote really took off following this 2017 report from The Economist. As a former chemical process engineer, oil immediately makes me think of refining it. Today’s analytics platform for the complete data lifecycle does the same for data as the refinery distillation columns does for crude oil: distilling value.

The Oil and Gas industry is arguably more familiar with managing an array of changing risk factors than almost any other sector in the United States. The industry is used to facing strong headwinds and has proven itself adept at adjusting to often rapidly shifting business conditions, whether that is regulatory change, big fluctuations in supply and demand, or evolving security supply chain concerns.

Classic data modeling and history-based actuarial models do not comprehensively work anymore. In order to get useful insights that can be implemented to support customers and the business, insurers must rapidly incorporate new data sources in their analysis. Current events that are different than anything we have seen in recent history force us to get used to a new world that cannot totally be evaluated and analyzed based on historical experience and knowledge.

Guest post by Mark Ferman, Sr. Oil & Gas Analytics Advisor Oil and Gas companies operate within one of the most demanding business environments on the planet with an array of complex challenges that regularly test their ability to innovate, plan, and execute strategic objectives.

This blog post is part of a series on Cloudera’s Operational Database (OpDB) in CDP. Each post goes into more details about new features and capabilities. Start from the beginning of the series with, Operational Database in CDP. This blog post gives you an overview of the NoSQL, component integration, and object store support capabilities of OpDB.

While cloud providers and data analytics firms are proliferating across markets and landscapes, what distinguishes one from another? How can you know which one holds the keys to your agency’s digital transformation? The reality is that no matter how slick the advertising, how pervasive the presence across conferences and webcasts, or how high the C-suite’s former government offices … it’s the offerings that matter most.