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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

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Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Ensure security and access controls.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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The requirements for the system stated that we need to create a test data set that introduces different types of analytic and numerical errors. This data would be utilized for different types of application testing.

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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

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To overcome those challenges and successfully scale AI enterprise-wide, organizations must create a modern data architecture leveraging a mix of technologies, capabilities, and approaches including data lakehouses, data fabric, and data mesh. Another challenge here stems from the existing architecture within these organizations.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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Jenga builder: Enterprise architects piece together both reusable and replaceable components and solutions enabling responsive (adaptable, resilient) architectures that accelerate time-to-market without disrupting other components or the architecture overall (e.g. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. With the 3.0 has to offer!

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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

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This is where Delta Lakehouse architecture truly shines. Approach Sid Dixit Implementing lakehouse architecture is a three-phase journey, with each stage demanding dedicated focus and independent treatment. Step 2: Transformation (using ELT and Medallion Architecture ) Bronze layer: Keep it raw.

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The future of data: A 5-pillar approach to modern data management

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The proposed model illustrates the data management practice through five functional pillars: Data platform; data engineering; analytics and reporting; data science and AI; and data governance. Not my original quote, but a cardinal sin of cloud-native data architecture is copying data from one location to another.

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Best Practices for Deploying & Scaling Embedded Analytics

Embedding analytics in your application doesn’t have to be a one-step undertaking. Read more about how to simplify the deployment and scalability of your embedded analytics, along with important considerations for your: Environment Architecture: An embedded analytics architecture is very similar to a typical web architecture.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Data teams in large enterprise organizations are facing greater demand for data to satisfy a wide range of analytic use cases. Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments.

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Build Your Open Data Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg

Speaker: Veena Vasudevan and Jason Hughes

With data stored in vendor-agnostic files and table formats like Apache Iceberg, the open lakehouse is the best architecture to enable data democratization. By moving analytic workloads to the data lakehouse you can save money, make more of your data accessible to consumers faster, and provide users a better experience.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data. The primary architectural principles of a true cloud data lake, including a loosely coupled architecture and open file formats and table structures.

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Modern Data Architecture for Embedded Analytics

Every data-driven project calls for a review of your data architecture—and that includes embedded analytics. Before you add new dashboards and reports to your application, you need to evaluate your data architecture with analytics in mind. 9 questions to ask yourself when planning your ideal architecture.

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Checklist Report: Preparing for the Next-Generation Cloud Data Architecture

Data architectures to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics have evolved dramatically over the past 10 years. Download this TDWI Checklist report to understand: How your organization can make this transition to a modernized data architecture. The decision making around this transition.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital.

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Product Transformation: Adapting Your Solutions for Cloud Models

Speaker: Ahmad Jubran, Cloud Product Innovation Consultant

Many do this by simply replicating their current architectures in the cloud. Those previous architectures, which were optimized for transactional systems, aren't well-suited for the new age of AI. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Take advantage of serverless application architecture. And much more!