Migros is the largest retailer in Turkey, with more than 2500 outlets selling fresh produce and groceries to millions of people. To maintain high-quality operations, the company depends on fresh, accurate data. And to ensure high data quality, Migros depends on Talend. The sheer volume of data managed by Migros is astonishing. The company’s data warehouse currently holds more than 200 terabytes, and Migros is running more than 7,000 ETL (extract, transform, load) jobs every day.

Every enterprise is trying to collect and analyze data to get better insights into their business. Whether it is consuming log files, sensor metrics, and other unstructured data, most enterprises manage and deliver data to the data lake and leverage various applications like ETL tools, search engines, and databases for analysis. This whole architecture made a lot of sense when there was a consistent and predictable flow of data to process.

Modern engineering has revolutionized almost every complex human endeavor. From lean manufacturing to globe-wide telecommunications; from software and IT bringing the world to our fingertips to medical devices discovering previously invisible diseases, there is no human endeavor that engineering has not changed for the better. But engineers don’t only build complex systems and tools that help the world run around. They’re also the first line of defense when things turn south.

Hopefully you’ve been following along with our BigQuery Admin series and are well on your way to getting ramped up with BigQuery. Now that you’re equipped with the fundamentals, let's talk about something that’s relevant for all data professionals - data governance.

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.

In my previous blog post, I shared examples of how data provides the foundation for a modern organization to understand and exceed customers’ expectations. However, the important role data occupies extends beyond customer experience and revenue, as it becomes increasingly central in optimizing internal processes for the long-term growth of an organization.

The arrival of more and more data in all segments of the enterprise started out as an embarrassment of riches, but quickly transformed into something close to a nightmare of dark data. However, a raft of new technologies and the processes embodied in DataOps are charting a path forward in which a much higher percentage of data becomes useful. The challenge most companies face is how to manage and get access to all the data flooding in from all directions.

For a long time, many in the analytics and business intelligence (BI) industry, including most of our competitors, have loosely labelled data visualization in the form of charts and dashboards as ‘data storytelling’.

In this episode of Data+AI Battlescars, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Unravel Data’s CDO, speaks with Samir Boualla, CDO at ING Bank France, one of the largest banks in the world. They cover his battlescars in Driving Data Governance Across Business Teams and Building Data Products. At ING Bank France, Samir is the Chief Data Officer. He’s responsible for several teams that govern, develop, and manage data infrastructure and data assets to deliver value to the business.

We all know data is the new oil. Both data and oil are valuable resources and share a common quality; if unprocessed they cannot be used. Data and oil have to be broken down and built up again to create true value for the business. There is, however, one key difference. Whereas oil is tangible, data is not. This means that the flow of low-quality oil is traceable and will be noticed in the production process. But, what happens if there is a bad data flow in your organization?