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The Data Challenges of a Return to Service

Click to learn more about author Kaycee Lai. COVID has been particularly rough on companies that provide in-person entertainment experiences–theme parks, cruise lines, movie theatres, casinos, concert promoters, resorts, etc. With summer approaching, we’re seeing signs that some of these companies may be opening up operations again. Disneyland, for instance, just announced it is reopening […]

ETL vs. Data Preparation

Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) technologies, managed exclusively by IT, have until recently been the primary tool used to combine data from multiple sources and thus provide the ability to drive important business decision making for organizations. But, with the advent of self-service data preparation, business users and subject matter experts (SMEs) can find those […]

How Mature is Your Data Preparation?

Click to learn more about author Farnaz Erfan. The traction for self-service data prep initially started in the context of business analytics as a productivity and enablement tool for an analyst who is developing insights. However, as Gartner recently pointed out, the market has now evolved to use cases that require platform capabilities such as […]

Case Study: Unilog Leverages Data Preparation to Monetize Upstream Data

“Paxata has facilitated the monetization of our data,” said Noah Kays, Director of Content Subscriptions, at Unilog. Unilog is a global technology company specializing in e-commerce solutions and content for business-to-business distributors in the industrial products (electrical, plumbing, etc.) market. The solution includes Product Information Management system (PIM), a Content Management System (CMS), helping distributors […]

Trifacta Accelerates Data Preparation for Regulatory Reporting Among Financial Institutions

A recent press release reports, “Trifacta, the global leader in data preparation, today announced that use of its Wrangler products is increasing among financial services organizations to address increasingly demanding risk and compliance initiatives, such as CCAR, BCBS 239, and AML. Trifacta’s momentum in regulatory reporting illustrates the company’s growing presence in the financial services […]

Looker Accelerates and Simplifies Data Science Workflows

A new press release reports, “Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced tools and integrations that optimize data science workflows. Looker accelerates the data science stack by removing the struggle to prepare data and freeing up time for data scientists to use their unique skill set to perform higher-value tasks. Looker already delivers reliable, […]

Infographic: Nearly 40% of Data Professionals Spend Half of Their Time Prepping Data

by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “TMMData, creator of flexible data integration and preparation platform Foundation, partnered with the Digital Analytics Association to survey its community about data priorities and challenges. The survey revealed that data access, quality and integration present persistent, interrelated roadblocks to efficient and confident analysis across industries. Most […]