Achieving Compliant Data Residency and Security with Azure

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

With the 2022 data and analytics edition, we further expand our series of Horizon Reports to focus on an emerging area of practice that is driving institutional decision-making and strategic planning for the future—the trends, technologies, and practices that are shaping the world of postsecondary data and analytics. Based on a methodology that grounds the findings in the perspectives and expertise of a panel of leaders in higher education data and analytics, in this report we summarize the panel’s input on the major trends shaping higher education, including panelists’ reflections on the implications of this research for the future of higher education for particular institutional roles.

whitePaper | November 15, 2019

Fault-tolerance is the ability for a system to remain in operation even if some of the components used to build the system fail. Even with very conservative assumptions, a busy e-commerce site may lose thousands of dollars for every minute it is unavailable. This is just one reason why businesses and organizations strive to develop software systems that can survive faults. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a platform that is ideally suited for building fault-tolerant software systems. The AWS platform enables you to build fault-tolerant systems that operate with a minimal amount of human interaction and up-front financial investment.

whitePaper | November 18, 2022

Data lakes have enormous potential as a source of business intelligence when included as part of an advanced open data architecture. Organizations use data lakes to efficiently store and process a combination of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data at scale, powering multiple business intelligence and data science initiatives to support a variety of business units across an organization.

whitePaper | February 10, 2022

Modern data governance leaders are searching for the role that governance should play in delivering high-quality data.

whitePaper | June 16, 2022

It seems like the business world has gone crazy for machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), viewing the technologies as the essential keys to the very future of the enterprise. In fact, a recent survey from ESIThoughtLab found that two-thirds of business leaders see AI as critically important for their future. And yet, the respondents report that only 25% of AI projects are in widespread deployment and 40% of all projects are generating negative or no returns.

whitePaper | August 12, 2021

This BARC Score report will evaluate BI & analytics platforms on a range of features, from data visualization capabilities to semantic modeling abilities, performance and speed to automation capabilities.