Journey to the Cloud, Self-Service BI, and Data Lakes with Data Virtualization

The evolution of sensors, smart phones, medical devices, and wearables all collecting and uploading information in real-time has led to the rapid accumulation of health-related data, or Big Data. The sheer volume, velocity, and variety of the data being collected poses challenges for harnessing and ensuring its validity to benefit both the macro, population-level health and the micro, evidence-based precision medicine. Join Dr. Eric Louie, Chief Medical Officer, and Jessica Baker, Associate, as they discuss changes in healthcare data over time and how to overcome human biases, curate meaningful data sets, and better inform actionable decisions in the healthcare setting.

• The top ten strategic data and analytics technology trends and what they enable. How these trends enable you to build an intelligent and emergent data and analytics portfolio of capabilities that scale to the needs of digital business. Why these trends are growing and having an impact now. How these trends will change your organization, data and analytics program and skills needed. Strategic technology trends have significant disruptive potential over the next 5 years. You must examine your business impacts of these trends and appropriately adjust investments, business models and operations or else your company is at risk of losing competitive advantage to those who do. Data and analytics leaders cannot afford to ignore these 2019 top data and analytics trends.

Data pipelines facilitate information flows and data exchange for a growing number of operational scenarios, including data extraction, transformation, and loading ETL into data warehouses and data marts, data migrations, production of BI reports, and application interoperability. When data engineers develop data pipelines, they may devise a collection of tests to guide the development process, but ongoing tests are not often put in place once those pipelines are put into production.

Our architecturally solid stool requires three legs: people, process, and technologies. This webinar looks at the most misunderstood of these three components: technology. While most organizations begin with technologies, it turns out that technologies are the last component that should be considered. This webinar will survey a range of Data Management technologies that can be used to increase the productivity of Data Management efforts.