Make Big Data Work in the Cloud

The Internet of Things, social media and enterprise content all have one thing in common: they generate vast quantities of data — ever-faster. So much so that picking out relevant information and assembling it into meaningful patterns is a tall order. These new data sources also present another challenge. They generate unstructured data - such as text and emojis - that don’t fit neatly into traditional database structures. This data can however hold valuable insights on important and hard-to-quantify concepts such as social sentiment.

Do you have data governance on your mind? Do you envision an environment where people are held formally accountable for the data they define, produce and use? Does metadata play a big role in that governed environment? Of course, it does. To manage any “thing” requires that you have quality information about that thing. Join Bob Seiner, of KIK Consulting and TDAN.com, with Gal Alon, Senior Director of Business Development for an industry leading metadata management automation software provider Octopai, as they discuss the who’s, what’s, why’s and how’s of automating and leveraging your metadata environment to successfully govern your organization’s data. Bob and Gal will spend the hour chatting about the role metadata management plays in data governance as well as discuss specific use cases to improve probability of Data Governance success.

As more companies are leveraging the Data Lake to run their warehouse workloads, we’re seeing many companies move to an Open Data Lakehouse stack. The Open Data Lakehouse brings the reliability and performance of the Data Warehouse together with the flexibility and simplicity of the Data Lake, enabling data warehouse workloads to run on the data lake.

Generating incremental sales is always a priority for CPG companies. Over the past twelve months, there have been significant structural changes in the industry forcing CPG’s companies to reconsider their sales strategies to drive growth. Ultimately, the industry needs to respond to changing shopper behaviour and to redeploy resources to ensure on-shelf availability in retail is strengthened.