The Complete Guide to Landing a Career in Data Platform

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Forrester Consulting provides independent and objective research-based consulting to help leaders succeed in their organizations. Ranging in scope from a short strategy session to custom projects, Forrester’s Consulting services connect you directly with research analysts who apply expert insight to your specific business challenges.

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

Enterprises today have to contend with exponentially increasing volumes of batch and streaming data, comprising a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi structured data types, and originating from an expanding number of disparate sources located on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge.

whitePaper | August 23, 2022

Digital transformation has moved businesses from a mode of retrieving and organizing critical information in conventional data stores to a new goal: capturing and storing every bit that passes through the business. The number and diversity of data sources are constantly expanding. New horizons are recognized in data as a raw resource with potential for value creation, even if specific points of value cannot yet be discerned.

whitePaper | August 10, 2022

Connected Data, though used synonymously with Big Data, is carefully created and curated for storage and reference during the customer’s lifetime. As we already know, enterprises need to carefully build and store Big Data to avoid creating a data swamp. Connected Data goes a step ahead of Big Data. It is customer-specific data built in a context-sensitive framework to ensure a 360-degree view of the customer profile, purchasing habits, preferences, etc., at a glance.

whitePaper | May 27, 2021

In many organizations, we need more collaboration between businesses, analytic teams, application developers and IT operations. These teams often work with data in silos and end up duplicating efforts, failing to integrate, or missing opportunities to deliver value from data. In addition to siloed efforts, data scientists are also faced with ever-increasing volumes and speeds of data. And the reality is they’re expected to answer questions just as fast as - or faster than - before. It’s important that we’re using the right data and the right techniques to ensure optimal outcomes. Download this guide to learn more about SAS and open source.

whitePaper | October 27, 2022

Data governance is on everyone’s mind as we move from a static model of data to a dynamic, living, breathing data architecture. As many brilliant people have already said, data — and knowledge in general — is full of “ghosts,” or implicit knowledge existing within any organization that never makes it to documentation. Ghosts affect companies in both data and people spheres, making it challenging to modernize legacy architectures or bring new talent on board. Even more, it makes using data a challenge.