Modern data analytics platforms that fuel enterprise-wide data hubs are critical for decision making and information sharing. The problem? Integrating legacy data stores into these hubs is just plain hard, and there is no magic bullet. However, the best data hubs include ALL enterprise data.
So how can you ensure that you are building the best modern data analytics platform possible?
Join this webinar to learn more on:
- Best practices for integrating legacy data sources, such as mainframe and IBM i, into modern data analytics platforms such as Cloudera, Databricks, and Snowflake
- How Syncsort Connect customers are incorporating legacy data sources into enterprise data hubs to inform strategic use cases such as claims, banking, and shipping experiences
[DSC Europe 22] Lakehouse architecture with Delta Lake and Databricks - Draga...DataScienceConferenc1
Dragan Berić will take a deep dive into Lakehouse architecture, a game-changing concept bridging the best elements of data lake and data warehouse. The presentation will focus on the Delta Lake format as the foundation of the Lakehouse philosophy, and Databricks as the primary platform for its implementation.
The document discusses migrating a data warehouse to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. It outlines why legacy data warehouses are struggling, how the Databricks Platform addresses these issues, and key considerations for modern analytics and data warehousing. The document then provides an overview of the migration methodology, approach, strategies, and key takeaways for moving to a lakehouse on Databricks.
This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on building a data lake on AWS. The agenda includes reviewing data lakes, modernizing data warehouses with Amazon Redshift, data processing with Amazon EMR, and event-driven processing with AWS Lambda. It discusses how data lakes extend traditional data warehousing approaches and how services like Redshift, EMR, and Lambda can be used for analytics in a data lake on AWS.
Data Warehouse Design and Best PracticesIvo Andreev
A data warehouse is a database designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. An appropriate design leads to scalable, balanced and flexible architecture that is capable to meet both present and long-term future needs. This session covers a comparison of the main data warehouse architectures together with best practices for the logical and physical design that support staging, load and querying.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r1)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. I’ll include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs.
Introdution to Dataops and AIOps (or MLOps)Adrien Blind
This presentation introduces the audience to the DataOps and AIOps practices. It deals with organizational & tech aspects, and provide hints to start you data journey.
In this session we will introduce key ETL features of AWS Glue and cover common use cases ranging from scheduled nightly data warehouse loads to near real-time, event-driven ETL flows for your data lake. We will also discuss how to build scalable, efficient, and serverless ETL pipelines.
[DSC Europe 22] Lakehouse architecture with Delta Lake and Databricks - Draga...DataScienceConferenc1
Dragan Berić will take a deep dive into Lakehouse architecture, a game-changing concept bridging the best elements of data lake and data warehouse. The presentation will focus on the Delta Lake format as the foundation of the Lakehouse philosophy, and Databricks as the primary platform for its implementation.
The document discusses migrating a data warehouse to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. It outlines why legacy data warehouses are struggling, how the Databricks Platform addresses these issues, and key considerations for modern analytics and data warehousing. The document then provides an overview of the migration methodology, approach, strategies, and key takeaways for moving to a lakehouse on Databricks.
This document provides an agenda and overview for a workshop on building a data lake on AWS. The agenda includes reviewing data lakes, modernizing data warehouses with Amazon Redshift, data processing with Amazon EMR, and event-driven processing with AWS Lambda. It discusses how data lakes extend traditional data warehousing approaches and how services like Redshift, EMR, and Lambda can be used for analytics in a data lake on AWS.
Data Warehouse Design and Best PracticesIvo Andreev
A data warehouse is a database designed for query and analysis rather than for transaction processing. An appropriate design leads to scalable, balanced and flexible architecture that is capable to meet both present and long-term future needs. This session covers a comparison of the main data warehouse architectures together with best practices for the logical and physical design that support staging, load and querying.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r1)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. I’ll include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs.
Introdution to Dataops and AIOps (or MLOps)Adrien Blind
This presentation introduces the audience to the DataOps and AIOps practices. It deals with organizational & tech aspects, and provide hints to start you data journey.
In this session we will introduce key ETL features of AWS Glue and cover common use cases ranging from scheduled nightly data warehouse loads to near real-time, event-driven ETL flows for your data lake. We will also discuss how to build scalable, efficient, and serverless ETL pipelines.
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and Data Architecture. William will kick off the fourth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
This document discusses implementing a data lake on AWS to securely store, categorize, and analyze all types of data in a centralized repository. It describes key attributes of a data lake like decoupled storage and compute, rapid ingestion and transformation, and schema on read. It then outlines various AWS services that can be used to build a data lake like S3, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Glue, and Kinesis. It provides examples of streaming IoT data into a data lake and running queries and analytics on the data.
Delta Lake brings reliability, performance, and security to data lakes. It provides ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and unified handling of batch and streaming data to make data lakes more reliable. Delta Lake also features lightning fast query performance through its optimized Delta Engine. It enables security and compliance at scale through access controls and versioning of data. Delta Lake further offers an open approach and avoids vendor lock-in by using open formats like Parquet that can integrate with various ecosystems.
Architect’s Open-Source Guide for a Data Mesh ArchitectureDatabricks
Data Mesh is an innovative concept addressing many data challenges from an architectural, cultural, and organizational perspective. But is the world ready to implement Data Mesh?
In this session, we will review the importance of core Data Mesh principles, what they can offer, and when it is a good idea to try a Data Mesh architecture. We will discuss common challenges with implementation of Data Mesh systems and focus on the role of open-source projects for it. Projects like Apache Spark can play a key part in standardized infrastructure platform implementation of Data Mesh. We will examine the landscape of useful data engineering open-source projects to utilize in several areas of a Data Mesh system in practice, along with an architectural example. We will touch on what work (culture, tools, mindset) needs to be done to ensure Data Mesh is more accessible for engineers in the industry.
The audience will leave with a good understanding of the benefits of Data Mesh architecture, common challenges, and the role of Apache Spark and other open-source projects for its implementation in real systems.
This session is targeted for architects, decision-makers, data-engineers, and system designers.
Capgemini Cloud Assessment - A Pathway to Enterprise Cloud MigrationFloyd DCosta
Capgemini Cloud Assessment offers a methodology and a roadmap for Cloud migration to reduce decision risks, promote rapid user adoption and lower TCO of IT investments. It leverages pre-built accelerators such as ROI calculators, risk models and portfolio analyzers and provides three powerful deliverables in just six to eight weeks:
Building the Data Lake with Azure Data Factory and Data Lake AnalyticsKhalid Salama
In essence, a data lake is commodity distributed file system that acts as a repository to hold raw data file extracts of all the enterprise source systems, so that it can serve the data management and analytics needs of the business. A data lake system provides means to ingest data, perform scalable big data processing, and serve information, in addition to manage, monitor and secure the it environment. In these slide, we discuss building data lakes using Azure Data Factory and Data Lake Analytics. We delve into the architecture if the data lake and explore its various components. We also describe the various data ingestion scenarios and considerations. We introduce the Azure Data Lake Store, then we discuss how to build Azure Data Factory pipeline to ingest the data lake. After that, we move into big data processing using Data Lake Analytics, and we delve into U-SQL.
Putting the Ops in DataOps: Orchestrate the Flow of Data Across Data PipelinesDATAVERSITY
With the aid of any number of data management and processing tools, data flows through multiple on-prem and cloud storage locations before it’s delivered to business users. As a result, IT teams — including IT Ops, DataOps, and DevOps — are often overwhelmed by the complexity of creating a reliable data pipeline that includes the automation and observability they require.
The answer to this widespread problem is a centralized data pipeline orchestration solution.
Join Stonebranch’s Scott Davis, Global Vice President and Ravi Murugesan, Sr. Solution Engineer to learn how DataOps teams orchestrate their end-to-end data pipelines with a platform approach to managing automation.
Key Learnings:
- Discover how to orchestrate data pipelines across a hybrid IT environment (on-prem and cloud)
- Find out how DataOps teams are empowered with event-based triggers for real-time data flow
- See examples of reports, dashboards, and proactive alerts designed to help you reliably keep data flowing through your business — with the observability you require
- Discover how to replace clunky legacy approaches to streaming data in a multi-cloud environment
- See what’s possible with the Stonebranch Universal Automation Center (UAC)
Introducing Snowflake, an elastic data warehouse delivered as a service in the cloud. It aims to simplify data warehousing by removing the need for customers to manage infrastructure, scaling, and tuning. Snowflake uses a multi-cluster architecture to provide elastic scaling of storage, compute, and concurrency. It can bring together structured and semi-structured data for analysis without requiring data transformation. Customers have seen significant improvements in performance, cost savings, and the ability to add new workloads compared to traditional on-premises data warehousing solutions.
In the past few years, the term "data lake" has leaked into our lexicon. But what exactly IS a data lake? Some IT managers confuse data lakes with data warehouses. Some people think data lakes replace data warehouses. Both of these conclusions are false. Their is room in your data architecture for both data lakes and data warehouses. They both have different use cases and those use cases can be complementary.
Todd Reichmuth, Solutions Engineer with Snowflake Computing, has spent the past 18 years in the world of Data Warehousing and Big Data. He spent that time at Netezza and then later at IBM Data. Earlier in 2018 making the jump to the cloud at Snowflake Computing.
Mike Myer, Sales Director with Snowflake Computing, has spent the past 6 years in the world of Security and looking to drive awareness to better Data Warehousing and Big Data solutions available! Was previously at local tech companies FireMon and Lockpath and decided to join Snowflake due to the disruptive technology that's truly helping folks in the Big Data world on a day to day basis.
The document discusses a presentation about modern data platforms on AWS. It provides a brief history of major big data releases from 2004 to present. It then discusses how data platforms need to scale exponentially to handle growing amounts of data and users. The remainder of the document discusses various AWS databases, analytics tools, data lakes, data movement services, and how they can be used to build flexible, scalable data platforms.
Introduction SQL Analytics on Lakehouse ArchitectureDatabricks
This document provides an introduction and overview of SQL Analytics on Lakehouse Architecture. It discusses the instructor Doug Bateman's background and experience. The course goals are outlined as describing key features of a data Lakehouse, explaining how Delta Lake enables a Lakehouse architecture, and defining features of the Databricks SQL Analytics user interface. The course agenda is then presented, covering topics on Lakehouse Architecture, Delta Lake, and a Databricks SQL Analytics demo. Background is also provided on Lakehouse architecture, how it combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, and its key features.
An AI Maturity Roadmap for Becoming a Data-Driven OrganizationDavid Solomon
The initial version of a maturity roadmap to help guide businesses when adopting AI technology into their workflow. IBM Watson Studio is referenced as an example of technology that can help in accelerating the adoption process.
resentation of use cases of Master Data Management for Customer Data. It presents the business drivers and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them.
Data2030 Summit MEA: Data Chaos to Data Culture March 2023Matt Turner
There is much more to becoming truly data driven and delivering the value of data investments. Overcoming the “Data Chaos” means making data accessible with data governance, creating a data culture, sharing knowledge through collaboration and data literacy to put data into action. This session will help enrich your data strategy and enable your organization to deliver data value.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Building a Data Lake for Your Enterprise, ft. Sysco (STG309) - AWS re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
Data lakes are transforming the way enterprises store, analyze, and learn insights from their data. While data lakes are a relatively new concept, many enterprises have already generated significant business value from the insights gleaned. In this session, AWS experts and technology leaders from Sysco, a Fortune 50 company and leader in food distribution and marketing, explain why Sysco decided to evolve its data management capabilities to include data lakes and how they customized them to support diverse querying capabilities and data science use cases. They also discuss how to architect different aspects of a data lake—ingestion from disparate sources, data consumption, and usability layers—and how to track data ingestion and consumption, monitor associated costs, enforce wanted levels of user access, manage data file formats, synchronize production and non-production environments, and maintain data integrity. Services to be discussed include Amazon S3 and S3 Select, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.
Productionalizing Machine Learning Solutions with Effective Tracking, Monitor...Databricks
Intuit products increasingly rely on AI solutions to drive in-product experiences and customer outcomes (a realization of Intuit’s AI-driven expert platform strategy). In order to provide complete confidence to Intuit customers through reliable and predictable experiences, we need to ensure the health of all AI solutions by continuously monitoring, managing and understanding them within Intuit products.
At Intuit, we have deployed 100’s of Machine Learning models in production to solve various problems as below:
Cash Flow forecasting
Security, risk and fraud
Document understanding
Connect customers to right agents
With so many models in production, it becomes very important to monitor and manage these models in a centralized manner. With very few open source tools available to monitor and manage ML models, data scientists find it very difficult to properly track their models. Moreover, different personas in the organization are looking for different information from the models. For example, the DevOps team is interested in operational metrics. Financial analysts are interested in determining the operational cost of a model and the legal and compliance teams might want to find if the models are explainable and privacy compliant.
At Intuit, we have designed and developed a system that tracks and monitors ML Models across the various Model development lifecycle stages. In this Summit, we will be presenting the various challenges in building such a central system. We would also share the overall architecture and the internals of this system.
A dive into Microsoft Fabric/AI Solutions offering. For the event: AI, Data, and CRM: Shaping Business through Unique Experiences. By D. Koutsanastasis, Microsoft
Building Modern Data Platform with Microsoft AzureDmitry Anoshin
This document provides an overview of building a modern cloud analytics solution using Microsoft Azure. It discusses the role of analytics, a history of cloud computing, and a data warehouse modernization project. Key challenges covered include lack of notifications, logging, self-service BI, and integrating streaming data. The document proposes solutions to these challenges using Azure services like Data Factory, Kafka, Databricks, and SQL Data Warehouse. It also discusses alternative implementations using tools like Matillion ETL and Snowflake.
Foundational Strategies for Trust in Big Data Part 1: Getting Data to the Pla...Precisely
Teams working on new business initiatives, whether for enhancing customer engagement, creating new value, or addressing compliance considerations, know that a successful strategy starts with the synchronization of operational and reporting data from across the organization into a centralized repository for use in advanced analytics and other projects. However, the range and complexity of data sources as well as the lack of specialized skills needed to extract data from critical legacy systems often causes inefficiencies and gaps in the data being used by the business.
The first part of our webcast series on Foundation Strategies for Trust in Big Data provides insight into how Syncsort Connect with its design once, deploy anywhere approach supports a repeatable pattern for data integration by enabling enterprise architects and developers to ensure data from ALL enterprise data sources– from mainframe to cloud – is available in the downstream data lakes for use in these key business initiatives.
Bring Your Mission-Critical Data to Your Cloud Apps and Analytics Precisely
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
It is a fascinating, explosive time for enterprise analytics.
It is from the position of analytics leadership that the mission will be executed and company leadership will emerge. The data professional is absolutely sitting on the performance of the company in this information economy and has an obligation to demonstrate the possibilities and originate the architecture, data, and projects that will deliver analytics. After all, no matter what business you’re in, you’re in the business of analytics.
The coming years will be full of big changes in enterprise analytics and Data Architecture. William will kick off the fourth year of the Advanced Analytics series with a discussion of the trends winning organizations should build into their plans, expectations, vision, and awareness now.
This document discusses implementing a data lake on AWS to securely store, categorize, and analyze all types of data in a centralized repository. It describes key attributes of a data lake like decoupled storage and compute, rapid ingestion and transformation, and schema on read. It then outlines various AWS services that can be used to build a data lake like S3, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Glue, and Kinesis. It provides examples of streaming IoT data into a data lake and running queries and analytics on the data.
Delta Lake brings reliability, performance, and security to data lakes. It provides ACID transactions, schema enforcement, and unified handling of batch and streaming data to make data lakes more reliable. Delta Lake also features lightning fast query performance through its optimized Delta Engine. It enables security and compliance at scale through access controls and versioning of data. Delta Lake further offers an open approach and avoids vendor lock-in by using open formats like Parquet that can integrate with various ecosystems.
Architect’s Open-Source Guide for a Data Mesh ArchitectureDatabricks
Data Mesh is an innovative concept addressing many data challenges from an architectural, cultural, and organizational perspective. But is the world ready to implement Data Mesh?
In this session, we will review the importance of core Data Mesh principles, what they can offer, and when it is a good idea to try a Data Mesh architecture. We will discuss common challenges with implementation of Data Mesh systems and focus on the role of open-source projects for it. Projects like Apache Spark can play a key part in standardized infrastructure platform implementation of Data Mesh. We will examine the landscape of useful data engineering open-source projects to utilize in several areas of a Data Mesh system in practice, along with an architectural example. We will touch on what work (culture, tools, mindset) needs to be done to ensure Data Mesh is more accessible for engineers in the industry.
The audience will leave with a good understanding of the benefits of Data Mesh architecture, common challenges, and the role of Apache Spark and other open-source projects for its implementation in real systems.
This session is targeted for architects, decision-makers, data-engineers, and system designers.
Capgemini Cloud Assessment - A Pathway to Enterprise Cloud MigrationFloyd DCosta
Capgemini Cloud Assessment offers a methodology and a roadmap for Cloud migration to reduce decision risks, promote rapid user adoption and lower TCO of IT investments. It leverages pre-built accelerators such as ROI calculators, risk models and portfolio analyzers and provides three powerful deliverables in just six to eight weeks:
Building the Data Lake with Azure Data Factory and Data Lake AnalyticsKhalid Salama
In essence, a data lake is commodity distributed file system that acts as a repository to hold raw data file extracts of all the enterprise source systems, so that it can serve the data management and analytics needs of the business. A data lake system provides means to ingest data, perform scalable big data processing, and serve information, in addition to manage, monitor and secure the it environment. In these slide, we discuss building data lakes using Azure Data Factory and Data Lake Analytics. We delve into the architecture if the data lake and explore its various components. We also describe the various data ingestion scenarios and considerations. We introduce the Azure Data Lake Store, then we discuss how to build Azure Data Factory pipeline to ingest the data lake. After that, we move into big data processing using Data Lake Analytics, and we delve into U-SQL.
Putting the Ops in DataOps: Orchestrate the Flow of Data Across Data PipelinesDATAVERSITY
With the aid of any number of data management and processing tools, data flows through multiple on-prem and cloud storage locations before it’s delivered to business users. As a result, IT teams — including IT Ops, DataOps, and DevOps — are often overwhelmed by the complexity of creating a reliable data pipeline that includes the automation and observability they require.
The answer to this widespread problem is a centralized data pipeline orchestration solution.
Join Stonebranch’s Scott Davis, Global Vice President and Ravi Murugesan, Sr. Solution Engineer to learn how DataOps teams orchestrate their end-to-end data pipelines with a platform approach to managing automation.
Key Learnings:
- Discover how to orchestrate data pipelines across a hybrid IT environment (on-prem and cloud)
- Find out how DataOps teams are empowered with event-based triggers for real-time data flow
- See examples of reports, dashboards, and proactive alerts designed to help you reliably keep data flowing through your business — with the observability you require
- Discover how to replace clunky legacy approaches to streaming data in a multi-cloud environment
- See what’s possible with the Stonebranch Universal Automation Center (UAC)
Introducing Snowflake, an elastic data warehouse delivered as a service in the cloud. It aims to simplify data warehousing by removing the need for customers to manage infrastructure, scaling, and tuning. Snowflake uses a multi-cluster architecture to provide elastic scaling of storage, compute, and concurrency. It can bring together structured and semi-structured data for analysis without requiring data transformation. Customers have seen significant improvements in performance, cost savings, and the ability to add new workloads compared to traditional on-premises data warehousing solutions.
In the past few years, the term "data lake" has leaked into our lexicon. But what exactly IS a data lake? Some IT managers confuse data lakes with data warehouses. Some people think data lakes replace data warehouses. Both of these conclusions are false. Their is room in your data architecture for both data lakes and data warehouses. They both have different use cases and those use cases can be complementary.
Todd Reichmuth, Solutions Engineer with Snowflake Computing, has spent the past 18 years in the world of Data Warehousing and Big Data. He spent that time at Netezza and then later at IBM Data. Earlier in 2018 making the jump to the cloud at Snowflake Computing.
Mike Myer, Sales Director with Snowflake Computing, has spent the past 6 years in the world of Security and looking to drive awareness to better Data Warehousing and Big Data solutions available! Was previously at local tech companies FireMon and Lockpath and decided to join Snowflake due to the disruptive technology that's truly helping folks in the Big Data world on a day to day basis.
The document discusses a presentation about modern data platforms on AWS. It provides a brief history of major big data releases from 2004 to present. It then discusses how data platforms need to scale exponentially to handle growing amounts of data and users. The remainder of the document discusses various AWS databases, analytics tools, data lakes, data movement services, and how they can be used to build flexible, scalable data platforms.
Introduction SQL Analytics on Lakehouse ArchitectureDatabricks
This document provides an introduction and overview of SQL Analytics on Lakehouse Architecture. It discusses the instructor Doug Bateman's background and experience. The course goals are outlined as describing key features of a data Lakehouse, explaining how Delta Lake enables a Lakehouse architecture, and defining features of the Databricks SQL Analytics user interface. The course agenda is then presented, covering topics on Lakehouse Architecture, Delta Lake, and a Databricks SQL Analytics demo. Background is also provided on Lakehouse architecture, how it combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, and its key features.
An AI Maturity Roadmap for Becoming a Data-Driven OrganizationDavid Solomon
The initial version of a maturity roadmap to help guide businesses when adopting AI technology into their workflow. IBM Watson Studio is referenced as an example of technology that can help in accelerating the adoption process.
resentation of use cases of Master Data Management for Customer Data. It presents the business drivers and how Talend platform for MDM can adress them.
Data2030 Summit MEA: Data Chaos to Data Culture March 2023Matt Turner
There is much more to becoming truly data driven and delivering the value of data investments. Overcoming the “Data Chaos” means making data accessible with data governance, creating a data culture, sharing knowledge through collaboration and data literacy to put data into action. This session will help enrich your data strategy and enable your organization to deliver data value.
Emerging Trends in Data Architecture – What’s the Next Big Thing?DATAVERSITY
With technological innovation and change occurring at an ever-increasing rate, it’s hard to keep track of what’s hype and what can provide practical value for your organization. Join this webinar to see the results of a recent DATAVERSITY survey on emerging trends in Data Architecture, along with practical commentary and advice from industry expert Donna Burbank.
Building a Data Lake for Your Enterprise, ft. Sysco (STG309) - AWS re:Invent ...Amazon Web Services
Data lakes are transforming the way enterprises store, analyze, and learn insights from their data. While data lakes are a relatively new concept, many enterprises have already generated significant business value from the insights gleaned. In this session, AWS experts and technology leaders from Sysco, a Fortune 50 company and leader in food distribution and marketing, explain why Sysco decided to evolve its data management capabilities to include data lakes and how they customized them to support diverse querying capabilities and data science use cases. They also discuss how to architect different aspects of a data lake—ingestion from disparate sources, data consumption, and usability layers—and how to track data ingestion and consumption, monitor associated costs, enforce wanted levels of user access, manage data file formats, synchronize production and non-production environments, and maintain data integrity. Services to be discussed include Amazon S3 and S3 Select, Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon EC2, and Amazon Redshift Spectrum.
Productionalizing Machine Learning Solutions with Effective Tracking, Monitor...Databricks
Intuit products increasingly rely on AI solutions to drive in-product experiences and customer outcomes (a realization of Intuit’s AI-driven expert platform strategy). In order to provide complete confidence to Intuit customers through reliable and predictable experiences, we need to ensure the health of all AI solutions by continuously monitoring, managing and understanding them within Intuit products.
At Intuit, we have deployed 100’s of Machine Learning models in production to solve various problems as below:
Cash Flow forecasting
Security, risk and fraud
Document understanding
Connect customers to right agents
With so many models in production, it becomes very important to monitor and manage these models in a centralized manner. With very few open source tools available to monitor and manage ML models, data scientists find it very difficult to properly track their models. Moreover, different personas in the organization are looking for different information from the models. For example, the DevOps team is interested in operational metrics. Financial analysts are interested in determining the operational cost of a model and the legal and compliance teams might want to find if the models are explainable and privacy compliant.
At Intuit, we have designed and developed a system that tracks and monitors ML Models across the various Model development lifecycle stages. In this Summit, we will be presenting the various challenges in building such a central system. We would also share the overall architecture and the internals of this system.
A dive into Microsoft Fabric/AI Solutions offering. For the event: AI, Data, and CRM: Shaping Business through Unique Experiences. By D. Koutsanastasis, Microsoft
Building Modern Data Platform with Microsoft AzureDmitry Anoshin
This document provides an overview of building a modern cloud analytics solution using Microsoft Azure. It discusses the role of analytics, a history of cloud computing, and a data warehouse modernization project. Key challenges covered include lack of notifications, logging, self-service BI, and integrating streaming data. The document proposes solutions to these challenges using Azure services like Data Factory, Kafka, Databricks, and SQL Data Warehouse. It also discusses alternative implementations using tools like Matillion ETL and Snowflake.
Foundational Strategies for Trust in Big Data Part 1: Getting Data to the Pla...Precisely
Teams working on new business initiatives, whether for enhancing customer engagement, creating new value, or addressing compliance considerations, know that a successful strategy starts with the synchronization of operational and reporting data from across the organization into a centralized repository for use in advanced analytics and other projects. However, the range and complexity of data sources as well as the lack of specialized skills needed to extract data from critical legacy systems often causes inefficiencies and gaps in the data being used by the business.
The first part of our webcast series on Foundation Strategies for Trust in Big Data provides insight into how Syncsort Connect with its design once, deploy anywhere approach supports a repeatable pattern for data integration by enabling enterprise architects and developers to ensure data from ALL enterprise data sources– from mainframe to cloud – is available in the downstream data lakes for use in these key business initiatives.
Bring Your Mission-Critical Data to Your Cloud Apps and Analytics Precisely
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
Overcoming Your Data Integration Challenges Precisely
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
Delivering Modern Apps and Analytics That Include All Your Mission-Critical DataPrecisely
This document summarizes a webinar about delivering modern analytics platforms that leverage mission-critical data. It discusses the benefits of modernization, challenges such as integrating different systems and data accessibility, and provides steps to successfully leverage mission-critical data such as eliminating silos, replicating data in real-time, scaling analytics, and modernizing applications. It also shares a customer story of how Sky used Precisely Connect to automatically feed Snowflake with real-time data from IBM i systems, enabling new analytics applications.
Address Your Blind Spots Around Mission-Critical Data Precisely
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
Accelerate Innovation by Bringing all Your Mission-Critical Data to Your Clou...Precisely
This webinar discusses accelerating innovation by bringing mission-critical data into cloud strategies. It highlights the benefits of modernization but also the challenges, particularly around integrating complex mission-critical assets. The document outlines steps to overcome challenges like eliminating silos, replicating data in real-time instead of batches, and identifying opportunities to scale up usage of the data. It provides an example of a company that used a data replication tool to modernize and populate their analytics platform with real-time, error-free data from their IBM i systems.
Accelerate Cloud Migrations and Architecture with Data VirtualizationDenodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3N46zxX
Cloud migration brings scalability and flexibility, and often reduced cost to organizations. But even after moving to the cloud, more often than not, organizational data can be found to be siloed, hard to access and lacking centralized governance. That leads to delay and often missed opportunities in value creation from enterprise data. Join Amit Mody, Senior Manager at Accenture, in this keynote session to learn why current physical data architectures are hindrance to value creation from data, what is a logical data fabric powered by data virtualization and how a logical data fabric can unlock the value creation potential for enterprises.
Including All Your Mission-Critical Data in Modern Apps and AnalyticsPrecisely
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
Including All Your Mission-Critical Data in Modern Apps and AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
To stay competitive, you need to swiftly deliver innovative web and mobile apps and analytics solutions that include all your critical data—including mainframe and IBM i. Join us to hear how forward-thinking companies are using modern cloud-based platforms to deliver solutions that drive better customer experiences and greater insight—all while extending the value of their core systems.
Integrating IBM Z and IBM i Operational Intelligence Into Splunk, Elastic, an...Precisely
Whether your organization is moving more IT operations to the cloud or enhancing its deployments on-premises, it’s critical to understand the impact of excluding essential data points from legacy systems has on your bottom line. That said, optimizing your cloud deployment isn’t just about cost reduction — it can also positively enhance how you deliver services to your business.
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- The operational and financial ROI of using Ironstream to integrate legacy systems into modern IT platforms
- How Ironstream customers have benefited from bringing in IBM Z platform (mainframe) and IBM i machine/log data into Splunk, Elastic, and Kafka
Foundational Strategies for Trusted Data: Getting Your Data to the CloudPrecisely
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Digital Transformation: How to Run Best-in-Class IT Operations in a World of ...Precisely
IT leaders looking to move beyond reactive and ad hoc troubleshooting need to find the intersection of maintaining existing systems while still driving innovation - solving for the present while preparing for the future. Identifying ways to bring existing infrastructure and legacy systems into the modern world can create the business advantage you need.
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• Achieving an end to end view of IT operations and application performance with machine learning
The Shifting Landscape of Data IntegrationDATAVERSITY
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Webinar: The 5 Most Critical Things to Understand About Modern Data IntegrationSnapLogic
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Data Mesh in Azure using Cloud Scale Analytics (WAF)Nathan Bijnens
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Big Data Made Easy: A Simple, Scalable Solution for Getting Started with HadoopPrecisely
With so many new, evolving frameworks, tools, and languages, a new big data project can lead to confusion and unwarranted risk.
Many organizations have found Data Warehouse Optimization with Hadoop to be a good starting point on their Big Data journey. Offloading ETL workloads from the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) into Hadoop is a well-defined use case that produces tangible results for driving more insights while lowering costs. You gain significant business agility, avoid costly EDW upgrades, and free up EDW capacity for faster queries. This quick win builds credibility and generates savings to reinvest in more Big Data projects.
A proven reference architecture that includes everything you need in a turnkey solution – the Hadoop distribution, data integration software, servers, networking and services – makes it even easier to get started.
Looking to the Future: Embracing the Cloud for a More Modern Data Quality App...Precisely
This document summarizes a presentation about Precisely's Data Integrity Suite. The presentation discusses how the Suite can help organizations future-proof their investments by moving strategic initiatives and data to the cloud. It highlights the modular and interoperable nature of the Suite's 7 modules for data integration, observability, governance, quality, addressing, analytics, and enrichment. The presentation provides examples of how different industries can benefit and concludes by discussing how Precisely's services can help optimize customers' data initiatives.
It is no longer efficient, nor even possible, to properly manage your infrastructure with manual processes performed in an ad hoc, incident-based manner. You must be able to continuously monitor, assess, adjust and restructure every part of your multiplatform, distributed, interconnected and internet-dependent cyber-multiverse to respond to constantly changing business requirements.
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This document presents a comprehensive analysis of the Fuxnet malware, attributed to the Blackjack hacking group, which has reportedly targeted infrastructure. The analysis delves into various aspects of the malware, including its technical specifications, impact on systems, defense mechanisms, propagation methods, targets, and the motivations behind its deployment. By examining these facets, the document aims to provide a detailed overview of Fuxnet's capabilities and its implications for cybersecurity.
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Making the Case for Legacy Data in Modern Data Analytics Platforms
1. Making the Case for
Legacy Data in
Modern Data Analytics
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3. Unites and integrates
data from across the
enterprise, making data
available for a variety
of projects and business
needs in one place
5. What Can You Do with Modern Analytics
Platforms?
Centralized BI and
analytics
Data discovery Data
democratization
with governance
Next-gen projects
– AI and ML
6. What are the
benefits of a
modern
analytics
platform?
Visibility into
all data
Sets course
for real-time
pipelines
Limits skills
gaps
Removes
data silos
7. Reality is not so simple
Silos of multi-
structured data
Legacy IT
infrastructure
Data archives
Employees
8. Value that Data from
Legacy Systems Brings
• Holds important transaction data
• Most core business applications
running on legacy systems
• High volumes of data
9. What happens to legacy data
sources?
Ignore data sources
for inclusion
Homegrown
solutions
Rely on existing
investments
13. Shipping Company requires real-time delivery
status
Top level mandate driven by customer demands to:
1. Integrate customer and shipment information that resides on multiple
systems of record
2. Improve integration of mainframe systems with analytics platform
3. Replicate changes of mainframe data to larger business in real-time
Challenge: Mainframe data not readable for downstream tracking dashboards
14. Precisely makes mainframe data readable
in snowflake for real-time tracking
Solution
• Connect (ETL + CDC)
• Snowflake
Results
• Power business user and customer dashboards with
the latest shipment information
• Report shipment information in ways that give
business competitive edge
• Integrate and replicate hundreds of z/OS Db2
tables to Snowflake
• All data is integrated and readable across platforms
15. Lessons learned for enacting this best practice
• Have a clear idea data delivery SLAs: is data required in near-real-time, once an hour, or
only once a day?
• Based on your SLA, select the right data extraction mechanism for your data sources of
interest
• Remember that, distributed cloud architectures promise agility but may not readily integrate
with existing infrastructure
17. Creating enterprise claims hub, required
quickly adding new targets
Strategic decision to use data to:
1. Improve the claims experience for end customers
2. Identify of patterns in claims to alert the business to unexpected severe claims
3. Automate the fast-tracking of low dollar claims without the need for an adjuster
Challenge: Current methods of integrating mainframe data
18. Precisely and Databricks helps to create high
performance data hub
Solution
• Connect (ETL)
• Databricks
Results
• No downtime or rework for implementing a new
approach to legacy source integration
• Ability to meet requirements of high-volume
processing for data hub
• Faster time to close claims and improved customer
experiences
19. Lessons learned for enacting this best practice
• Clearly define the goals of your modernization efforts: are you trying to save costs, improve
performance, or something else?
• Chose data integration solutions that allow you to easily expand for new use cases
• New requirements for modern data platforms may break current data integration architectures
• Select a tool that solves your integration problems across the hybrid landscape, from datacenter
to public cloud
21. Financial Services Company needs to build a
real-time AML process
Top level mandate driven by regulatory demands to:
1. Have consolidated, clean, verified data for all analytics and reporting
2. Provide alerts to any suspicious activity in real-time
3. Integrate mainframe data to analytics but also maintain an unmodified
copy of mainframe data stored
Challenge: Disparate systems and slow time to update mainframe data caused
major process delays in meeting AML monitoring
22. Precisely and Cloudera enable AML with
timely delivery
Solution
• Connect (ETL + CDC)
• Trillium
• Cloudera
Results
• High performance AML results
• Faster time to value
• Data lake is trusted source
• Data feeding critical machine learning-based
fraud detection
Looking forward…
• Expanding to additional Customer Engagement
solutions and applications
23. Lessons learned for enacting this best practice
• Select solutions that guarantee data delivery and have reliable transfer of information
• Ensure that your change detection mechanism has a lightweight, negligible impact on your
production systems, to minimize business disruption
• Assess how your overall cloud strategy can support real-time data delivery by selecting
technologies that can handle data in motion
• DI solutions with native integrations to modern analytics platforms help to speed results
25. Credit Union looks to enable a data hub for
all lines of business
Top level mandate to open up data across the organization:
1. To improve customer banking experiences
2. Provide transparency of data to lines of business for analytics and BI
3. Enable AI/ML use cases with richer legacy data sets
Challenge: Core banking functions run on mainframe but lack of skills in house
incurred high development costs and made it difficult to scale
26. By the numbers…the cost of legacy data
$95
per hour
40
hour work week
$3800
cost per week
6 months
average project time
2
programmers
$7600
cost per week
$7600
cost per week
$197,600
cost per project
27. Connect’s ETL helps to lower costs and solve
skills gap
Solution
• Connect (ETL)
Results
• Reduced costs to development
• Leverage existing skills in house and enable
• Delivers all enterprise data for distribution across an
proprietary analytics platform
28. Lessons learned for enacting this best practice
• “Homegrown” is not always free
• Look for solutions that help you leverage the existing skills you have in house with minimal
retraining
• While solutions can ease a skills burden, good documentation is also critical to decrease risk
and facilitate knowledge sharing
29. What you can do in the next 90 days…
• Assess how you are currently using mainframe and IBM i data today
• Look at ways in which you can leverage data from legacy systems to maximize impact
• Keep both best practices and lessons learned in mind when developing your approach!
• Remember Precisely is here to be your partner in innovation!
All of these platforms are providing a way to approach the streamlining and unification of data for analytics based projects such as AI, machine learning, and business insights.
Centralized business insights – central management of business insights, helps to shift insights from one offs in isolation to
Data discovery - business end-users can work with large data sets and get answers to questions they are asking. Data Discovery is helping the enterprise lose some of the bulk when it comes to running analytics.
Data democratization – enables more users to have autonomy with data but without the risk of exposing sensitive data in a way that could violate regulations or internal best practices
Visibility into all data – it provides views that make data look simpler and more unified than it actually is in today's complex, multiplatform data environments
Sets course for real-time pipelines - the modern hub, it regularly instantiates data sets quickly on the fly. It may also handle terabyte-scale bulk data movement. Either, way a modern data hub requires modern pipelining for speed, scale, and on-demand processing.
Limits skills gas - The IT world is full of old-fashioned data hubs that are homegrown or consultant-built. Support advanced forms of orchestration, pipelining, governance, and semantics, all integrated in a unified tools
Removes data silos - Again, this is accomplished without consolidating silos. Think of the data views, semantic layers, orchestration, and data pipelines just discussed. All these create threads that weave together into a data fabric, which is a logical data architecture for all enterprise data that can impose functional structure over hybrid chaos
When it comes to building up unified analytics platforms there is a level of complexity that exists across an enterprise
We have silos of multi-structured data difficult to integrate (ERP, CRM, mainframes, RDBMS, Files, logs, cloud data sources)
heterogeneous legacy IT infrastructure (EDWs, data lakes, marts, severs, storage, archives and more)
and thousands maybe more of employees and lots of inaccessible information
Your traditional systems – including mainframes, IBM i servers & data warehouses – adapt and deliver increasing value with each new technology wave
Even with the growth of next-gen technologies, legacy systems (i.e. mainframes and IBM i) still play an important role within many businesses. More than 70% of Fortune 500 enterprises continue to use mainframes for their most crucial business functions. Mainframes often hold critical information – from credit card transactions to internal reports.
Most large enterprises have made major investments in mainframe data environments over a period of many years and will not be leaving these investments anytime soon. It is estimated that 2.5 billion transactions are run per day, per mainframe across the world.
This high volume of data is one that organizations cannot choose to ignore or neglect. Additionally, mainframes often have no peer when it comes to the volume of transactions they can handle and cost-effectiveness.
As a result, these environments contain the data that organizations run on, and in turn, power the strategic big data initiatives driving the business forward – machine learning, AI and predictive analytics.
Business insights, artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts are only as good as the data that is being fed in and out of them. Leaving mainframe data out of the equation when building strategic initiatives risks omitting critical information that could greatly influence business outcomes.
Specifically, neglecting mainframe data from strategic initiatives results in:
• The value of an organization’s big data investments being diminished
• Analytics that are not accurate or complete• Large, rich enterprise datasets that never even get analyzed
From speaking with Precisely customers and prospects, we have found these 3 things happen when it comes to approaching legacy data
So how do we get around these and make a true enterprise data hub? Let’s take a look
Break down legacy data silos – removing the barriers that come with accessing and integrating data from legacy data stores, mainframe, IBM i and more
Rethink – sometimes you might be already doing something with legacy data, you have the access but the needs of the organization may be changing causing you to think about how you might implement a new solution in line with or to replace existing
Real-time, data is only as good as how quickly it is delivered, to do this you need to have a way to build real-time delivery of changes in legacy systems to
One of the biggest hinderances to unified analytics hubs can be the lack of skills or costs associated with accessing legacy data
This company wants to vastly improve its tracking and package visibility. They feel that they need to offer customers more visibility into the movement of goods. Pushing the status of goods to customer dashboards will give them the ability to provide more real-time location and updates to transit time and delivery.
This concept is familiar to consumer shipping, we know when and where our package is in real-time, not so much when it comes to freight. To accomplish this, they needed data from disparate data sources, including DB2/z and SQL Server. They connect their legacy sources and their target Snowflake.
Understand what real-time means to your business, for this customer updating dashboards every few hours was good enough for customers to get what they need
Based on what you need, your choice for the data extraction mech might be different, do you want to do real-time CDC or batch delivery, what works best to meet the SLA?
In the case of Snowflake, it cannot natively read MF data, so you need to prepared for such a road block
Repeatable
An American insurance company wanted to take a variety of data from across their organization to build an enterprise-wide claims data lake. The purpose of the claims data lake was to receive data from across the lines of business and improve analysis of customer activity, historical data, and richer analytics. In its ideal scenario, the claims data would help identification of patterns in claims to alert the business to unexpected severe claims or to automate the fast-tracking of low dollar claims without the need for an adjuster.
Data funneling into the hub would include information from core systems such as actuary, call center, claims, and billing different departments. Most of this data existed on mainframes. Mainframe data file formats included EBCDIC-encoded VSAM data with binary and packed data types mapped by multiple complex copybooks. When it came time to integrate all these data sources, the insurance company struggled to get data from the mainframe to its data lake. Getting mainframe data into the data lake meant that they had to spin up an entirely separate process for data ingestion. As a result, the insurance company had a siloed process that caused lost time, delayed delivery, and incomplete claims analytics.
Once mainframe data ingest was complete, the insurance company then needed to modernize its ETL processes to scale within Databricks. The insurance company had been using Precisely Connect with Spark on Azure HDInsights for ETL transformation on its claims data hub data and determined a need to move these existing workflows into Databricks. However, the insurance company did not want to perform any rework to their data integration workflows, especially as many had complex data transformations upon the mainframe data.
Using Precisely Connect, the insurance company built ETL processes that took a design-once, deploy anywhere approach, and as a result, had no rework or redesigns required to migrate the Azure HDInsights pipelines to run on Databricks. Data migration from Hive on HDInsights to Delta Lake was achieved via JDBC connectivity and the Precisely Connect high-performance integration engine to sufficiently parallelize the data load. Furthermore, Precisely Connect was able to produce the high-performance, self-tuning sorts, joins, aggregation, merges, and look-ups required for the organization to get the data they needed in the right way. Precisely Connect’s ability to run natively in the Databricks run-time also ensured they were able to optimize the data integration workflow for the high-volume requirements of the claims data hub.
Meet AML transaction monitoring and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) compliance
Challenges
Data volume too large, diversely scattered to analyze
Disparate data sources – Mainframe, RDBMS, Cloud, etc.
Maximize the value/ROI of the data lake
Requirements:
Consolidated, clean, verified data for all analytics and reporting.
MUST have complete, detailed data lineage from origin to end point
MUST be secure: Kerber-ose and LDAP integration required
Need unmodified copy of mainframe data stored on Hadoop for backup, archive
Connect to create “Golden Record” on Hadoop for compliance archiving
Trillium for cluster-native data verification, enrichment, and demanding multi-field entity resolution on Spark framework
Cloudera provides end….
Full end-to-end lineage from all sources, through transformations, to data landing,
Benefits:
Ensure Anti-Money Laundering regulatory compliance is met through financial crimes data lake – high performance results at massive scale.
Achieve fast time to value with flexible deployment and ease of use
Ensure the data lake is trusted source of data feeding critical machine learning-based fraud detection
Expanding use to additional Customer Engagement solutions and applications.
Ensure – not using triggers for change detection and make sure you’re using CDC solutions that use zIIP processors on the mainframe to lessen the MIPS load
Needed to access Db2 and VSAM files need to be accesses for AI/ML use cases
Current solution that they had for DI was complex and not dynamic
Connect helped to extract COBOL program on mainframe making it scalable for big data platforms
Decided to attempt doing the work in house with contractors…..
Per project prior to Connect required 1-2 programmers @ $95/per hour they were hired for 6-8 months, roughly cost savings is $104K per project – could not quantify the overhead related to systems
Assuming 26 weeks in a 6 month period