Top BI Trends for 2019

Modern enterprises are struggling to gain insights from an exploding number of database management systems and ever-growing data volumes. SQL Server 2019 can help you overcome the challenges of integrating data and bring AI and machine learning to all of your data, structured and unstructured. It can also help you better manage your relational data right now. In this webinar, Introduction to SQL Server 2019, hear from Debbi Lyons, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager, and Bob Ward, Principal Architect at Microsoft discuss the latest updates and features for the new SQL Server release, including introducing the new big data cluster with intelligence over any data, how SQL Server 2019 enhances the developer experience, and using tools including Azure Data Studio.

For most companies, data is viewed as a problem instead of an asset. Data is often stuck in systems that dont talk to each other, manual processes affect data quality, and analytics tools arent providing clear insights. But those companies who use their data to drive business strategy are out-performing their competitors. To be more competitive in any industry, you must take advantage of the ever-growing amount of available data and that starts with a Data Strategy. A documented roadmap that clearly defines company goals and the specifics on how to get there will put you on the path towards data driven decision making.

Join data management guru Dave Wells for this educational webinar on the data catalogs role, and how to get the best fit for your enterprise.Managing data in the age of big data and self-service analytics is a complex job. Managing data without a data catalog is difficult and fraught with risk. Data cataloging is the new gold standard for metadata and an essential component of modern data management. Data catalogs support data curation and data stewardship with intelligent and automated tagging, profiling, and linking to business glossary. They help business analysts and data scientists to quickly find data and evaluate the fit for their specific use cases. Strategically, cataloging is at the core of data asset management with direct impact for data governance, regulatory compliance, and analytic quality and efficiency.

Fanatics, a popular sports apparel website and fan gear merchandiser, needed to ingest terabytes of data from multiple historical and streaming sources transactional, e-commerce, and back-office systems to a data lake on Amazon S3. Once ingested, the data would be analyzed to better identify, predict, and fulfill customer needs related to the products Fanatics offers in over 300 online and offline stores. To accomplish this, Fanatics chose Attunity Replicate, a software solution featuring continuous data capture (CDC) and parallel threading for streaming data in real time from multiple sources into a data lake on Amazon S3. The data can then be consumed in Apache Kafka for real-time analytics. Attunity helps Fanatics avoid the heavy lifting of manually extracting data from disparate sources and enables the organization to see results in real time.