The “Big Data era” has ushered in an avalanche of new technologies and approaches for delivering information and insights to business users. What is the role of the cloud in your analytical environment? How can you make your migration as seamless as possible? This closing keynote, delivered by Joe Caserta, a prominent consultant who has helped many global enterprises adopt Big Data, provided the audience with the inside scoop needed to supplement data warehousing environments with data intelligence—the amalgamation of Big Data and business intelligence.
This presentation was given as the closing keynote at DBTA's annual Data Summit in NYC.
Data Intelligence: How the Amalgamation of Data, Science, and Technology is C...Caserta
Joe Caserta explores the world of analytics, tech, and AI to paint a picture of where business is headed. This presentation is from the CDAO Exchange in Miami 2018.
The 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference took place in San Diego last month April 17-21. It is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world.
Joe Caserta was a featured presenter. His session “Evolving from the Data Warehouse to Big Data Analytics - the Emerging Role of the Data Lake," highlighted the challenges and steps to needed to becoming a data-driven organization.
Joe also participated in in two panel discussions during the show:
• "Data Lake or Data Warehouse?"
• "Big Data Investments Have Been Made, But What's Next
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
The document provides an introduction and agenda for a presentation on data science and big data. It discusses Joe Caserta's background and experience in data warehousing, business intelligence, and data science. It outlines Caserta Concepts' focus on big data solutions, data warehousing, and industries like ecommerce, financial services, and healthcare. The agenda covers topics like governing big data for data science, introducing the data pyramid, what data scientists do, and standards for data science projects.
Caserta Concepts, Datameer and Microsoft shared their combined knowledge and a use case on big data, the cloud and deep analytics. Attendes learned how a global leader in the test, measurement and control systems market reduced their big data implementations from 18 months to just a few.
Speakers shared how to provide a business user-friendly, self-service environment for data discovery and analytics, and focus on how to extend and optimize Hadoop based analytics, highlighting the advantages and practical applications of deploying on the cloud for enhanced performance, scalability and lower TCO.
Agenda included:
- Pizza and Networking
- Joe Caserta, President, Caserta Concepts - Why are we here?
- Nikhil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Datameer - Solution use cases and technical demonstration
- Stefan Groschupf, CEO & Chairman, Datameer - The evolving Hadoop-based analytics trends and the role of cloud computing
- James Serra, Data Platform Solution Architect, Microsoft, Benefits of the Azure Cloud Service
- Q&A, Networking
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/
Moving Past Infrastructure Limitations Presented by MediaMath
This presentation was given at a Big Data Warehousing Meetup with Caserta Concepts, MediaMath and Qubole. You can learn more about the event here: http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Warehousing/events/228372516/
Event description:
At Caserta Concepts, we are firm believers in big data thriving on the cloud. The instant-on, nearly unlimited storage and computing capabilities of AWS has made it the defacto solution for a full spectrum of organizations needing to process large amounts of data.
What's more, an ecosystem of value-added platforms has emerged to further ease and democratize the implementation of cloud based solutions. Qubole has developed a great platform for easily deploying and managing ephemeral and long-lived Hadoop and Spark clusters on AWS.
Moving Past Infrastructure Limitations: Data Warehousing at MediaMath
Over the past year and a half, MediaMath has undertaken a “data liberation” effort in an attempt to leave their bigbox, monolithic data warehouse behind. In this talk, Rory Sawyer, Software Engineer at MediaMath, will describe how this effort transformed MediaMath’s legacy architecture and legacy mindset, which imposed harsh inefficiencies on data sharing and utilization. The current mindset removes these inefficiencies and allows them to say “yes” to more projects and ideas.
Rory will also demo how MediaMath uses Amazon Web Services and Qubole so that infrastructure is no longer a limiting factor on what and how users query. This combination allows them to scale their resources up and down as needed while bridging different data sources and execution engines. Using and extending MediaMath’s data warehousing is no longer a privileged activity but an ability that every employee and client has.
General Data Protection Regulation - BDW Meetup, October 11th, 2017Caserta
Caserta Presentation:
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a business and technical challenge for companies worldwide - and the deadlines are coming fast! American institutions that do business in the EU or have customers from the EU will have their data practices affected. With this in mind, Caserta – joined by Waterline Data, Salt Recruiting, and Squire Patton Boggs – hosted a BDW Meetup on the GDPR, which is perhaps the most controversial data legislation that has been passed to date.
Joe Caserta, Founding President, Caserta, spoke on the basics of the GDPR, how it will impact data privacy around the world, and some techniques geared towards compliance.
During this Big Data Warehousing Meetup, Caserta Concepts and Databricks addressed the number one operational and analytic goal of nearly every organization today – to have complete view of every customer. Customer Data Integration (CDI) must be implemented to cleanse and match customer identities within and across various data systems. CDI has been a long-standing data engineering challenge, not just one of logic and complexity but also of performance and scalability.
The speakers brought together best practice techniques with Apache Spark to achieve complete CDI.
Speakers:
Joe Caserta, President, Caserta Concepts
Kevin Rasmussen, Big Data Engineer, Caserta Concepts
Vida Ha, Lead Solutions Engineer, Databricks
The sessions covered a series of problems that are adequately solved with Apache Spark, as well as those that are require additional technologies to implement correctly. Topics included:
· Building an end-to-end CDI pipeline in Apache Spark
· What works, what doesn’t, and how do we use Spark we evolve
· Innovation with Spark including methods for customer matching from statistical patterns, geolocation, and behavior
· Using Pyspark and Python’s rich module ecosystem for data cleansing and standardization matching
· Using GraphX for matching and scalable clustering
· Analyzing large data files with Spark
· Using Spark for ETL on large datasets
· Applying Machine Learning & Data Science to large datasets
· Connecting BI/Visualization tools to Apache Spark to analyze large datasets internally
The speakers also touched on data governance, on-boarding new data rapidly, how to balance rapid agility and time to market with critical decision support and customer interaction. They also shared examples of problems that Apache Spark is not optimized for.
For more information on the services offered by Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/
This presentation will discuss the stories of 3 companies that span different industries; what challenges they faced and how cloud analytics solved for them; what technologies were implemented to solve the challenges; and how they were able to benefit from their new cloud analytics environments.
The objectives of this session include:
• Detail and explain the key benefits and advantages of moving BI and analytics workloads to the cloud, and why companies shouldn’t wait any longer to make their move.
• Compare the different analytics cloud options companies have, and the pros and cons of each.
• Describe some of the challenges companies may face when moving their analytics to the cloud, and what they need to prepare for.
• Provide the case studies of three companies, what issues they were solving for, what technologies they implemented and why, and how they benefited from their new solutions.
• Learn what to look for one considering a partner and trusted advisor to assist with an analytics cloud migration.
Caserta Concepts, Datameer and Microsoft shared their combined knowledge and a use case on big data, the cloud and deep analytics. Attendes learned how a global leader in the test, measurement and control systems market reduced their big data implementations from 18 months to just a few.
Speakers shared how to provide a business user-friendly, self-service environment for data discovery and analytics, and focus on how to extend and optimize Hadoop based analytics, highlighting the advantages and practical applications of deploying on the cloud for enhanced performance, scalability and lower TCO.
Agenda included:
- Pizza and Networking
- Joe Caserta, President, Caserta Concepts - Why are we here?
- Nikhil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Datameer - Solution use cases and technical demonstration
- Stefan Groschupf, CEO & Chairman, Datameer - The evolving Hadoop-based analytics trends and the role of cloud computing
- James Serra, Data Platform Solution Architect, Microsoft, Benefits of the Azure Cloud Service
- Q&A, Networking
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/
Caserta Concepts, Datameer and Microsoft shared their combined knowledge and a use case on big data, the cloud and deep analytics. Attendes learned how a global leader in the test, measurement and control systems market reduced their big data implementations from 18 months to just a few.
Speakers shared how to provide a business user-friendly, self-service environment for data discovery and analytics, and focus on how to extend and optimize Hadoop based analytics, highlighting the advantages and practical applications of deploying on the cloud for enhanced performance, scalability and lower TCO.
Agenda included:
- Pizza and Networking
- Joe Caserta, President, Caserta Concepts - Why are we here?
- Nikhil Kumar, Sr. Solutions Engineer, Datameer - Solution use cases and technical demonstration
- Stefan Groschupf, CEO & Chairman, Datameer - The evolving Hadoop-based analytics trends and the role of cloud computing
- James Serra, Data Platform Solution Architect, Microsoft, Benefits of the Azure Cloud Service
- Q&A, Networking
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/
DataOps: Nine steps to transform your data science impact Strata London May 18Harvinder Atwal
According to Forrester Research, only 22% of companies are currently seeing a significant return from data science expenditures. Most data science implementations are high-cost IT projects, local applications that are not built to scale for production workflows, or laptop decision support projects that never impact customers. Despite this high failure rate, we keep hearing the same mantra and solutions over and over again. Everybody talks about how to create models, but not many people talk about getting them into production where they can impact customers.
Harvinder Atwal offers an entertaining and practical introduction to DataOps, a new and independent approach to delivering data science value at scale, used at companies like Facebook, Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, and eBay. The key to adding value through DataOps is to adapt and borrow principles from Agile, Lean, and DevOps. However, DataOps is not just about shipping working machine learning models; it starts with better alignment of data science with the rest of the organization and its goals. Harvinder shares experience-based solutions for increasing your velocity of value creation, including Agile prioritization and collaboration, new operational processes for an end-to-end data lifecycle, developer principles for data scientists, cloud solution architectures to reduce data friction, self-service tools giving data scientists freedom from bottlenecks, and more. The DataOps methodology will enable you to eliminate daily barriers, putting your data scientists in control of delivering ever-faster cutting-edge innovation for your organization and customers.
How do you balance the need for structured and rule-based governance to assure enterprise data quality - with the imperative to innovate in order to stay relevant and competitive in today's business marketplace?
At the recent CDO Summit in NYC, a range of C-Level Executives across a variety of industries came to hear Joe Caserta, president of Caserta Concepts, put it all in perspective.
Joe talked about the challenges of "data sprawl" and the paradigm shift underway in the evolving big data and data-driven world.
For more information or to contact us, visit http://casertaconcepts.com/
Joe Caserta, President at Caserta Concepts, presented "Setting Up the Data Lake" at a DAMA Philadelphia Chapter Meeting.
For more information on the services offered by Caserta Concepts, visit our website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
Joe Caserta, President at Caserta Concepts presented at the 3rd Annual Enterprise DATAVERSITY conference. The emphasis of this year's agenda is on the key strategies and architecture necessary to create a successful, modern data analytics organization.
Joe Caserta presented What Data Do You Have and Where is it?
For more information on the services offered by Caserta Concepts, visit out website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
This document discusses balancing data governance and innovation. It describes how traditional data analytics methods can inhibit innovation by requiring lengthy processes to analyze new data. The document advocates adopting a data lake approach using tools like Hadoop and Spark to allow for faster ingestion and analysis of diverse data types. It also discusses challenges around simultaneously enabling innovation through a data lake while still maintaining proper data governance, security, and quality. Achieving this balance is key for organizations to leverage data for competitive advantage.
Smart Data Webinar: Choosing the Right Data Management Architecture for Cogni...DATAVERSITY
Once developers have a knowledge management model - covered in our August webinar - they still have to deal with real world implementation constraints. Big data is a fact of life for most modern AI/cognitive computing apps, which usually means ingesting, sampling, or analyzing large data sets from disparate sources, ranging from IOT sensors to social media streams to news feeds and weather forecasts. Frequently, historical data in legacy systems will also be required to generate new insights.
This webinar will present a framework to help participants evaluate streaming data management tools, IOT technology stacks, and graph databases as support tools for their modern AI/cognitive computing projects. They will also learn about emerging open source projects and ecosystems that can help kick start their projects today.
Against the backdrop of Big Data, the Chief Data Officer, by any name, is emerging as the central player in the business of data, including cybersecurity. The MITCDOIQ Symposium explored the developing landscape, from local organizational issues to global challenges, through case studies from industry, academic, government and healthcare leaders.
Joe Caserta, president at Caserta Concepts, presented "Big Data's Impact on the Enterprise" at the MITCDOIQ Symposium.
Presentation Abstract: Organizations are challenged with managing an unprecedented volume of structured and unstructured data coming into the enterprise from a variety of verified and unverified sources. With that is the urgency to rapidly maximize value while also maintaining high data quality.
Today we start with some history and the components of data governance and information quality necessary for successful solutions. I then bring it all to life with 2 client success stories, one in healthcare and the other in banking and financial services. These case histories illustrate how accurate, complete, consistent and reliable data results in a competitive advantage and enhanced end-user and customer satisfaction.
To learn more, visit www.casertaconcepts.com
Defining and Applying Data Governance in Today’s Business EnvironmentCaserta
This document summarizes a presentation by Joe Caserta on defining and applying data governance in today's business environment. It discusses the importance of data governance for big data, the challenges of governing big data due to its volume, variety, velocity and veracity. It also provides recommendations on establishing a big data governance framework and addressing specific aspects of big data governance like metadata, information lifecycle management, master data management, data quality monitoring and security.
Enterprise Search: Addressing the First Problem of Big Data & Analytics - Sta...StampedeCon
Enterprise search aims to identify and enable content from multiple enterprise sources to be indexed, searched, and displayed. It faces challenges like unifying diverse data sources, identifying relevant information in real-time, and providing action-oriented insights. Machine learning techniques can help by automatically classifying and clustering data, extracting entities and sentiments, and personalizing search results. Case studies demonstrate how enterprise search has helped organizations in healthcare, telecommunications, finance, and sports improve productivity, customer service, and data-driven insights.
Cloud Computing System models for Distributed and cloud computing & Performan...hrmalik20
Advantage of Clouds over Traditional
Distributed Systems,Clouds,Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Layered Architecture,Performance Metrics and Scalability Analysis,System Efficiency,Performance Challenges in Cloud Computing,What is cloud computing and why is it distinctive?,CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY MODELS AND THEIR
PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES,Cloud computing security,What does Cloud Computing Security mean,Cloud Security Landscape,Distinctions between Security and Privacy,Energy Efficiency of Cloud Computing,How energy-efficient is cloud computing?
This document compares the features of vSphere with Operations Manager Enterprise Plus and vCloud Suite Standard. vCloud Suite Standard includes additional features over vSphere with Operations Manager such as built-in high availability, customizable dashboards and reports, and monitoring of OS resources for vRealize Operations Manager. vCloud Suite Standard also includes the full versions of vRealize Business Edition and vRealize Log Insight for additional cloud management and log analysis capabilities. Overall, vCloud Suite Standard provides a more comprehensive cloud management platform than vSphere with Operations Manager alone.
Architecting Security and Governance Across Multi AccountsAmazon Web Services
Whether it is per business unit or per application, many AWS customers use multiple accounts to meet their infrastructure isolation and billing requirements. In this session, we discuss considerations, limitations, and security patterns when building out a multi-account strategy. We explore topics such as identity federation, cross-account roles, consolidated logging, and account governance.
At the end of the session, we present an enterprise-ready, multi-account architecture that you can start leveraging today.
Poor mans spy vs spy using open source tools to detect attackersDerek Banks
This document describes a simulated cyber attack scenario called "Operation WannaBe" that was carried out in a lab environment. Various free and open source tools were used to detect the attack, including Bro, Sysmon, Nxlog, GRR, and Volatility. The attack began with a phishing email containing a malicious macro that established a connection out and downloaded additional malware. This initial foothold allowed the attackers to move laterally within the network and exfiltrate sensitive data from an SQL server. The free tools were able to detect the key stages of reconnaissance, command and control connections, lateral movement, and data exfiltration based on logs and forensic artifacts.
Agile Operations Keynote: Redefine the Role of IT Operations With Digital Tra...CA Technologies
The document discusses how digital transformation initiatives are redefining the role of IT operations. As companies adopt new technologies like cloud, analytics, microservices and software-defined networks, IT operations faces greater complexity in monitoring applications and infrastructure. This introduces more monitoring challenges and blind spots. The presentation argues that IT operations must adopt new approaches using predictive analytics to correlate user experiences, applications and infrastructure insights. It provides examples of how CA technologies help organizations achieve this through application performance management and infrastructure monitoring solutions.
This document discusses data center strategies for fast growing businesses and outlines Oracle's cloud offerings. It begins with an overview of public, private and hybrid cloud models and Oracle's cloud leadership. It then covers trends in enterprise computing like data growth, mobility and the move to the cloud. The document discusses how different decisions need to be made in small and medium businesses compared to larger enterprises. It provides examples of cloud use cases and an overview of Oracle's platform as a service and infrastructure as a service offerings. Key considerations for workload analysis and cloud selection are also outlined.
How Localytics uses metrics to impact outcomes. The key takeaways are:
1. Think about metrics from the start
2. Mine for metrics within your org
3. Be very thoughtful about your key metrics
4. Instrument internal systems
Praktiline pilvekonverents - IT haldust hõlbustavad uuendusedPrimend
IT halduse lihtsustamiseks on lisandunud mitmeid mõnusaid uuendusi. Andres Nurk rääkis põhilisematest nagu: Windows Server 2016, Windows 10 E3, ATP, OMS. Uuenduste tuules on muutunud ka WinServeri litsentsimine. Aleksei Räim andis kiire ülevaate, mida peab silmas pidama.
The document discusses building artificial intelligence with a Raspberry Pi by using TensorFlow to perform deep learning tasks like convolutional neural networks (CNN), recurrent neural networks (RNN), and speech recognition. It provides an overview of TensorFlow and machine learning/deep learning concepts like supervised learning, and outlines future plans to improve the system by using a GPU processor or machine learning cloud services.
The document discusses the tradeoffs involved in the decision to build a real-time streaming analytics (RTSA) platform in-house versus buying a pre-built solution from a vendor. Building internally provides more customization and control but risks delays and lack of expertise, while buying from a vendor is faster to implement but risks vendor lock-in. The document proposes a third alternative of using a platform like StreamAnalytix that is based on open source technologies but also provides enterprise-level support.
This document discusses applied data science and machine learning. It begins by introducing the author and then discusses machine learning concepts like learning from data and choosing the best predictive model. It explains that data science is about creating value from data using machine learning, analytics, and visualization. However, many companies struggle to operationalize data science projects and end up with only prototypes instead of production systems. The document outlines three common hurdles - oversimplifying requirements, focusing only on model accuracy instead of practicality, and having insufficient data engineering skills. It advocates for taking a more holistic, business-focused approach to applied data science.
Disruptive Data Science - How Data Science and Big Data are Transforming Busi...EMC
The document discusses how CareCore National evolved to utilize data-driven transformations, highlighting EMC's analytics platforms, tools, and services that can assist organizations in building their data science capabilities and teams to leverage big data and drive business value through predictive analytics and data mining. It also outlines the key components needed for a successful analytics transformation, including establishing a clear vision, understanding platform dependencies, embracing unified analytics platforms, building data science skills, and delivering initial wins to socialize analytics.
2017-10-03 Session aOS - Back from Ignite - MS ExperiencesPatrick Guimonet
This document discusses Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for small and medium businesses. It provides details on the different plans including Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft 365 Enterprise, and Office 365 Business Premium and Enterprise E3/E5. It also discusses how to choose the right plan based on a customer's needs and capabilities. Additional topics covered include multi-geo deployment capabilities for Office 365 and new features for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online administration, and Office 365 Groups.
Smarter Analytics and Big Data
Building The Next Generation Analytical insights
Joel Waterman, Regional Director of Business Analytics for the Middle East and Africa, discusses how IBM is making significant investments in smarter analytics and big data through acquisitions, technical expertise, and research. IBM's big data platform moves analytics closer to data through technologies like Hadoop, stream computing, and data warehousing. The platform is designed for analytic application development and integration using accelerators, user interfaces, and IBM's ecosystem of business partners.
The Data Lake - Balancing Data Governance and Innovation Caserta
Joe Caserta gave the presentation "The Data Lake - Balancing Data Governance and Innovation" at DAMA NY's one day mini-conference on May 19th. Speakers covered emerging trends in Data Governance, especially around Big Data.
For more information on Caserta Concepts, visit our website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
Building the Artificially Intelligent EnterpriseDatabricks
Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited and specializes in business intelligence/analytics and data management. He discusses building the artificially intelligent enterprise and transitioning to a self-learning enterprise. Some key challenges discussed include the siloed and fractured nature of current data and analytics efforts, with many tools and scripts in use without integration. He advocates sorting out the data foundation, implementing DataOps and MLOps, creating a data and analytics marketplace, and integrating analytics into business processes to drive value from AI.
Architecting for Big Data: Trends, Tips, and Deployment OptionsCaserta
Joe Caserta, President at Caserta Concepts addressed the challenges of Business Intelligence in the Big Data world at the Third Annual Great Lakes BI Summit in Detroit, MI on Thursday, March 26. His talk "Architecting for Big Data: Trends, Tips and Deployment Options," focused on how to supplement your data warehousing and business intelligence environments with big data technologies.
For more information on this presentation or the services offered by Caserta Concepts, visit our website: http://casertaconcepts.com/.
BAR360 open data platform presentation at DAMA, SydneySai Paravastu
Sai Paravastu discusses the benefits of using an open data platform (ODP) for enterprises. The ODP would provide a standardized core of open source Hadoop technologies like HDFS, YARN, and MapReduce. This would allow big data solution providers to build compatible solutions on a common platform, reducing costs and improving interoperability. The ODP would also simplify integration for customers and reduce fragmentation in the industry by coordinating development efforts.
Slides from a recent Big Data Warehousing Meetup titled, Big Data Analytics with Microsoft.
See Power Pivot/ Power Query/ Power View/ Power Maps and Azure Machine Learning be used to analyze Big Data.
One challenge of dealing with Big Data project is to acquire both structured and instructed information in order to find the right correlation. During the event, we explained all the steps to build your model and enhance your existing data through Microsoft's Power BI.
We had an in-depth discussion about the innovations built into the latest stack of Microsoft Business Intelligence, and practical tips from Technology Specialist’s from Microsoft.
The session also featured demos to help you see the technology as an end-to-end solution.
For more information, visit www.casertaconcepts.com
Introduction to Data Science (Data Summit, 2017)Caserta
This document summarizes an introduction to data science presentation by Joe Caserta and Bill Walrond of Caserta Concepts. Caserta Concepts is an internationally recognized data innovation and engineering consulting firm. The agenda covers why data science is important, challenges of working with big data, governing big data, the data pyramid, what data scientists do, standards for data science, and a demonstration of data analysis. Popular machine learning algorithms like regression, decision trees, k-means clustering and collaborative filtering are also discussed.
The document discusses the challenges of maintaining separate data lake and data warehouse systems. It notes that businesses need to integrate these areas to overcome issues like managing diverse workloads, providing consistent security and user management across uses cases, and enabling data sharing between data science and business analytics teams. An integrated system is needed that can support both structured analytics and big data/semi-structured workloads from a single platform.
In this presentation at DAMA New York, Joe started by asking a key question: why are we doing this? Why analyze and share all these massive amounts of data? Basically, it comes down to the belief that in any organization, in any situation, if we can get the data and make it correct and timely, insights from it will become instantly actionable for companies to function more nimbly and successfully. Enabling the use of data can be a world-changing, world-improving activity and this session presents the steps necessary to get you there. Joe explained the concept of the "data lake" and also emphasizes the role of a strong data governance strategy that incorporates seven components needed for a successful program.
For more information on this presentation or Caserta Concepts, visit our website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
Data-Ed Slides: Data Architecture Strategies - Constructing Your Data GardenDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. Without proper structure and efficiency in organization, data assets cannot be utilized to their full potential, which in turn harms bottom-line business value. When designed well and used effectively, however, a strong data architecture can be referenced to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems commonly encountered in organizations.
The goal of this webinar is not to instruct you in being an outright data architect, but rather to enable you to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will maximize your organization’s competitive advantage.
With that being said, we will:
- Discuss data architecture’s guiding principles and best practices
- Demonstrate how to utilize data architecture to address a broad variety of organizational challenges and support your overall business strategy
- Illustrate how best to understand foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA DMBOK)
DataEd Slides: Unlock Business Value Using Reference and Master Data Manageme...DATAVERSITY
Data tends to pile up and can be rendered unusable or obsolete without careful maintenance processes. Reference and Master Data Management (MDM) has been a popular Data Management approach to effectively gain mastery over not just the data but the supporting architecture for processing it from a master/transaction perspective. This webinar presents MDM as a strategic approach to improving and formalizing practices around those data items that provide context for organizational transactions – its master data. Too often, MDM has been implemented technology-first and achieved the same very poor track record (1/3 succeeding on-time, within budget, achieving planned functionality). MDM success depends on a coordinated approach involving typically Data Governance and Data Quality activities. Program learning objectives include:
• Understanding foundational reference and MDM concepts
• Why they are an important component of your Data Architecture
• Awareness of Reference and MDM Frameworks and building blocks
• What consists of MDM guiding principles and best practices
• How to utilize Reference and MDM in support of business strategy
Data-Ed Slides: Data Modeling Strategies - Getting Your Data Ready for the Ca...DATAVERSITY
Because every organization produces and propagates data as part of their day-to-day operations, data trends are becoming more and more important in the mainstream business world’s consciousness. For many organizations in various industries, though, comprehension of this development begins and ends with buzzwords: “Big Data”, “NoSQL”, “data scientist”, and so on. Few realize that any and all solutions to their business problems, regardless of platform or relevant technology, rely to a critical extent on the data model supporting them. As such, data modeling is not an optional task for an organization’s data effort, but rather a vital activity that facilitates the solutions driving your business.
Instead of the technical minutiae of data modeling, this webinar will focus on its value and practicality for your organization. In doing so, we will:
- Address fundamental data modeling methodologies, their differences and various practical applications, and trends around the practice of data modeling itself
- Discuss abstract models and entity frameworks, as well as some basic tenets for application development
- Examine the general shift from segmented data modeling to more business-integrated practices
Workshop with Joe Caserta, President of Caserta Concepts, at Data Summit 2015 in NYC.
Data science, the ability to sift through massive amounts of data to discover hidden patterns and predict future trends and actions, may be considered the "sexiest" job of the 21st century, but it requires an understanding of many elements of data analytics. This workshop introduced basic concepts, such as SQL and NoSQL, MapReduce, Hadoop, data mining, machine learning, and data visualization.
For notes and exercises from this workshop, click here: https://github.com/Caserta-Concepts/ds-workshop.
For more information, visit our website at www.casertaconcepts.com
Self-Service Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Munging, and Data Modeling –...DATAVERSITY
This document summarizes a presentation on self-service data analysis, data wrangling, data munging, and how they fit together with data modeling. It discusses how these techniques allow business stakeholders and data scientists to prepare and transform data for analysis without extensive technical expertise. While these tools increase flexibility, they can also decrease governance if not used properly. The document advocates finding a balance between managed data assets and exploratory analysis to maximize insights while maintaining data quality.
Data-Ed Online Webinar: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
The document presents information on data architecture requirements. It introduces Bryan Hogan, a certified data management professional with experience in organizational data assessments, strategy development, and software solutions. It then provides details on speakers Peter Aiken and his extensive experience in data management. The final sections discuss how data is an organization's most important strategic asset and how data architecture is critical to unlocking business value from data assets.
Accelerate Self-Service Analytics with Data Virtualization and VisualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3fpitC3
Enterprise organizations are shifting to self-service analytics as business users need real-time access to holistic and consistent views of data regardless of its location, source or type for arriving at critical decisions.
Data Virtualization and Data Visualization work together through a universal semantic layer. Learn how they enable self-service data discovery and improve performance of your reports and dashboards.
In this session, you will learn:
- Challenges faced by business users
- How data virtualization enables self-service analytics
- Use case and lessons from customer success
- Overview of the highlight features in Tableau
Incorporating the Data Lake into Your Analytic ArchitectureCaserta
Joe Caserta, President at Caserta Concepts presented at the 3rd Annual Enterprise DATAVERSITY conference. The emphasis of this year's agenda is on the key strategies and architecture necessary to create a successful, modern data analytics organization.
Joe Caserta presented Incorporating the Data Lake into Your Analytics Architecture.
For more information on the services offered by Caserta Concepts, visit out website at http://casertaconcepts.com/.
The document discusses the Common Data Model (CDM) and how to use it. It describes CDM as an open-sourced definition of standard business entities that provides a common data model that can be shared across applications. It outlines how CDM allows building applications faster by composing analytics, user experiences, and automation using integrated Microsoft services. It also discusses moving data into CDM using the Data Integrator and building applications with CDM using PowerApps, the CDS SDK, Microsoft Flow, and Power BI.
Data-Ed Webinar: Data Architecture RequirementsDATAVERSITY
Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though this is important, not all data architectures are used effectively. This webinar describes the use of data architecture as a basic analysis method. Various uses of data architecture to inform, clarify, understand, and resolve aspects of a variety of business problems will be demonstrated. As opposed to showing how to architect data, your presenter Dr. Peter Aiken will show how to use data architecting to solve business problems. The goal is for you to be able to envision a number of uses for data architectures that will raise the perceived utility of this analysis method in the eyes of the business.
Takeaways:
Understanding how to contribute to organizational challenges beyond traditional data architecting
How to utilize data architectures in support of business strategy
Understanding foundational data architecture concepts based on the DAMA DMBOK
Data architecture guiding principles & best practices
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3. Create a data entry application
4. Create the data dictionary
5. Create the data entry forms
6. Enter data
7. Add Edits to the Data Entry Application
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The major outcome of our work is the successful creation and deployment of a data service for the MAST (Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak) experiment [2], leading to substantial enhancements in data discoverability, accessibility, and overall data retrieval performance, particularly in scenarios involving large-scale data access. Our work follows the principles of Analysis-Ready, Cloud Optimised (ARCO) data [3] by using cloud optimised data formats for fusion data.
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[1] Wilkinson, M., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci Data 3, 160018 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
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Introduction to Data Science
1.1 What is Data Science, importance of data science,
1.2 Big data and data Science, the current Scenario,
1.3 Industry Perspective Types of Data: Structured vs. Unstructured Data,
1.4 Quantitative vs. Categorical Data,
1.5 Big Data vs. Little Data, Data science process
1.6 Role of Data Scientist
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About Joe Caserta
Launched Big Data practice
Co-author, with Ralph Kimball, The Data
Warehouse ETL Toolkit (Wiley)
Data Analysis, Data Warehousing and Business
Intelligence since 1996
Began consulting database programing and data
modeling 25+ years hands-on experience building database
solutions
Founded Caserta Concepts in NYC
Web log analytics solution published in Intelligent
Enterprise magazine
Launched Data Science, Data Interaction and Cloud
practices
Laser focus on extending Data Analytics with Big Data
solutions
1986
2004
1996
2009
2001
2013
2012
2014
Dedicated to Data Governance Techniques on Big
Data (Innovation)
Awarded Top 20 Big Data Companies 2016
Top 20 Most Powerful
Big Data consulting firms
Launched Big Data Warehousing (BDW) Meetup NYC:
2,000+ Members
2016 Awarded Fastest Growing Big Data Companies
2016
Established best practices for big data ecosystem
implementations
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About Caserta Concepts
– Consulting Data Innovation
– Award-winning company
– Internationally recognized work force
– Strategy, Architecture, Implementation, Governance
– Innovation Partner
– Strategic Consulting
– Advanced Architecture
– Build & Deploy
- Leader in Enterprise Data Solutions
– Big Data Analytics
– Data Warehousing
– Business Intelligence
Data Science
Cloud Computing
Data Governance
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Why is Data so Important?
1500s
Printing Press
1840s
Penny Post
1850s
Telegraph
1850s
Rural Free Post
1890s
Telephone
1900s
Radio
1950s
TV
1970s
PCs
1980s
Internet
1990s
Web
2000s
Social Media, Mobile, Big Data, Cloud
98,000+ Tweets
695,000 Status Updates
11 Million instant messages
698,445 Google Searches
168 million+ emails sent
1,829 TB of data created
217 new mobile web
users
Every 60 Seconds
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Understanding the Customer
Awareness Consideration Purchase Service
Loyalty
Expansion
PR
Radio
TV
Print
Outdoor
Word of Mouth
Direct Mail
Customer Service
Physical Touchpoints
Digital Touchpoints
Search
Paid Content
email
Website/
Landing Pages
Social Media
Community
Chat
Social Media
Call Center
Offers
Mailings
Survey
Loyalty Programs
email
Agents
Partners
Ads
Website
Mobile
3rd Party Sites
Offers
Web self-service
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Life As We Know It
Business: “I need to analyze some new data”
IT collects requirements
Creates normalized and/or dimensional data models
Profiles and conforms and the data
Sophisticated ETL programs and quality standards
Loads it into data models
Builds a BI semantic layer
Creates dashboards and reports
IT: “You can access your data in 3-6 months to see if it has value!
– Onboarding new data is difficult!
– Rigid Structures and Data Governance
– Disconnected/removed from business
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The Problem: Shadow IT = Data Sprawl
• There is one application for every 5-10 employees generating copies of
the same files leading to massive amounts of duplicate idle data strewn
all across the enterprise. - Michael Vizard, ITBusinessEdge.com
• Employees spend 35% of their work time searching for information...
finding what they seek 50% of the time or less.
- “The High Cost of Not Finding Information,” IDC
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The New Data Paradigm
OLD WAY:
• Structure Data Ingest Data Analyze Data
• Fully Governed
• Monolith
NEW WAY:
• Ingest Data Analyze Data Structure Data
• Just Enough Governance
• Dynamic
RECIPE:
• Data Officer & Data Organization
• Enterprise Data Lake
• Corporate Data Pyramid
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Business Value
Cloud-based Data Lake
Big Data Analysis: The Ecosystem of the future
Analyze
Persist
DeployIngest
Data Integration
Identity Resolution
Data Quality
Discovery Exploration
Machine Learning
Models Development
Reports / Dashboards
Applications
APIs
Structured Data
Unstructured Data
SQL, NoSQL, Object Store
Find Share Collaborate
Data Engineer Data Scientist Business Analyst App Developer
Provides innovative and industry
leading technologies to rapidly be
applied to the business without
having to manage compatibility and
data complexity.
Technical Value
Provides an open framework
to reduce the number of
integration points and testing
environments to deliver
business solutions.
or
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Ingest Raw
Data
Organize, Define,
Complete
Munging, Blending
Machine Learning
Data Quality and Monitoring
Metadata, ILM , Security
Data Catalog
Data Integration
Fully Governed ( trusted)
Arbitrary/Ad-hoc Queries
and Reporting
Usage Pattern Data Governance
Metadata, ILM,
Security
Corporate Data Pyramid (CDP)
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Cloud Component AWS Google Microsoft
Scalable distributed storage S3 GCS Azure Storage
Pluggable fit-for-purpose processing EMR DataProc HDInsight
Compute Services EC2 GCE VMs
Consistent extensible framework Spark Spark Spark
Dimensional MPP Data Warehouse Redshift BigQuery
Azure SQL Data
Warehouse
Data Streaming Kenesis PubSub Azure Stream
Common Interface Jupyter DataLab Azure Notebook
The Data Lake on the Cloud
• Remove barriers between data ingestion and analysis
• Democratize data with Just Enough Data Governance (JEDG)
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The Clouds Coalesce
Percent of organizations with AWS as primary, also
uses GCP
Percent of organizations with AWS as primary,
also uses Azure
Percent of organizations with GCP as primary, also
uses AWS
41%
32%
31%
Source: Clutch, 2016
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• Development local or distributed is identical
• Beautiful high level API’s
• Full universe of Python modules
• Open source and Free
• Blazing fast!
Spark has become our default processing engine for a data engineering & science
Why Spark?
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Analytics Development Lifecycle
• Data Science is performed in the ephemeral workspaces
• The work products of data science is promoted from “insights” to real applications.
• Rigorous Data Governance applied
• Processes must be hardened, repeatable, and performant
Big$
Data$
Warehouse$
Data$Science$Workspace$
Data$Lake$–$Integrated$Sandbox$$
Landing$Area$–$Source$Data$in$“Full$Fidelity”$
New
Data
New
Insights
Governance
Refinery
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Global economics
Intensity of competition
Reduce costs
Move to cross-functional teams
New executive leadership
Speed of technical change
Social trends and changes
Period of time in present role
Status & perks of office/dept under threat
No apparent reasons for proposed changes
Lack of understanding of proposed changes
Fear of inability to cope with new technology
Concern over job security
Forces for Change Forces Resisting Change
Status Quo
Moving the Status Quo
http://www.change-management-coach.com/force-field-analysis.html
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Introducing the Chief Data Officer
• Evangelize a data vision for the organization
• Support & enforce data governance policies via outreach, training & tools
• Monitor and enforce data quality in collaboration with data owners
• Monitor and enforce data security along with Legal/Security/Compliance
• Work with IT to develop/maintain an enterprise repository of strategic data
• Set standards for analytical reporting and generate data insights
• Provide a single point of accountability for data
initiatives and issues
• Innovate ways to use existing data
• Enrich and augment data by combining internal and
external sources
• Support efficient and agile analytics through training
and templates
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The CDO: The Whole Brain Challenge
Front
Back
Analytics Oriented
• Data Science
• Research
Process Oriented
• Data Governance
• Compliance
Operations Oriented
• Shared Services
• Data Engineering
Revenue Oriented
• Revenue Goals
• Monetizing Data
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Chief Data Organization (Oversight)
Vertical Business Area
[Sales/Finance/Marketing/Operations/Customer Svc]
Product Owner
SCRUM Master
Agile Development Team
Business Subject Matter Expertise
Data Librarian/Data Stewardship
Data Science/ Statistical Skills
Data Engineering / Architecture
Presentation/ BI Report Development Skills
Data Quality Assurance
DevOps
IT Organization
(Oversight)
Enterprise Data Architect
Solution Engineers
Data Integration Practice
User Experience Practice
QA Practice
Operations Practice
Advanced Analytics
Business Analysts
Data Analysts
Data Scientists
Statisticians
Data Engineers
Planning Organization
Project Managers
Data Organization
Data Gov Coordinator
Data Librarians
Data Stewards
Agile Data Teams
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Caution: Assembly Required
Some of the most hopeful tools are brand new or in
incubation
Enterprise big data implementations typically combine
products with custom built components
The Buildout
People, Processes and Business commitment are still critical!
Data Integration & Quality Data Catalog & Governance Emerging Solutions
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What the Future Holds
• DevOps for Analytics
• Search-Based BI (NLP)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Virtual Reality BI (VR)
• Virtual Assistant BI (Voice)
• Reporting/Predictions Converge
• Citizen Data Scientists Emerge
Capture, Analyze, influence, and maximize every touchpoint online and offline
Ask DG effectiveness questions.
Recent article - Oct 21, 2015
80% of all business are doing something
The paradigm shift is in the way we onboard and process data:
Formerly, we structured data before we would ingest and analyze it, Now, we ingest and analyze data, and then structure it.
This allows immediate access for both analysts and data scientists
Streamlines the path to cash register
We have also moved from fixed capacity to on-demand infrastructure
Large datasets and new datasets are being added at a rapid rate
They could grow or shrink on demand; many of the providers are startups
This minimizes the cost of operation
From Monolith to Ecosystem
No one set of tools will solve everything
Use a diverse set of technologies, and let them evolve over time
Solve for this using a combination of three concepts:
Cloud Computing, Data lake, and the Polyglot Warehouse.
Data has different audience and usage patterns each tier.
All tiers work cohesively to comprise the Big Data Ecosystem
All tiers are governed. Only the top tier is fully governed
When to use late bind, decided when to structure on case by case.
7 components of gov: Org, Metadata, Security, DQ, Business Integration, MDM, ILM
Organization
This is the ‘people’ part. Establishing Enterprise Data Council, Data Stewards, etc.
Metadata
Definitions, lineage (where does this data come from), business definitions, technical metadata
Privacy/Security
Identify and control sensitive data, regulatory compliance
Data Quality and Monitoring
Data must be complete and correct. Measure, improve, certify
Business Process Integration
Policies around data frequency, source availability, etc.
Master Data Management
Ensure consistent business critical data i.e. Members, Providers, Agents, etc.
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
Data retention, purge schedule, storage/archiving
“Big Box” tools vs ROI?
Prohibitively expensive limited by licensing $$$
Typically limited to the scalability of a single server
Cascading, Zementis
I’ve been doing it this way for 15 years. It works, don’t mess with it! People must learn: Evolution is inevitable. Evolve or die.
Kurt Lewin’s Force Field analysis
Data Governance
Data Insight
Generate Revenue
Reduce Risk
Over the course of my 30-year career, more change has occurred in the last three years, than in the previous 27 combined. This has been the most disruptive period in data science that I’ve seen.