Engaging Data Bites: What is Data Vault?

Engaging Data Bites: What is Data Vault?

Engaging Data Bites: What is Data Vault?


Another day, another Engaging Data Bites! Get ready to learn about DataVault! 

About Data Vault –  

Data Vault is a data modelling methodology and architecture for designing enterprise data warehouses. It is designed to provide a flexible, scalable, and extensible approach to data warehousing. 

In a Data Vault architecture, data is organized into three types of tables: Hubs, Links, and Satellites.  

  • Hubs – represent business entities, such as customers or products. 
  • Links – represent the relationships between hubs.  
  • Satellites – contain additional attributes and historical data related to the hubs and links. 

The Data Vault approach emphasises the use of automation and metadata to streamline the development and maintenance of Data Warehouses.  

It also supports agile development methodologies by allowing for incremental changes and additions to the Data Warehouse as new requirements arise. 

Overall, the Data Vault approach aims to provide a robust and adaptable foundation for Data Warehousing that can meet the evolving needs of modern businesses. 

Engaging Data Bites –

Come and join us for this Engaging Data Bites Sessions. Learn all about DataVault! 

It is happening on the 7th July at 12:30pm.  

This event will be hosted virtually on Microsoft Teams. You don’t even have to leave your office to attend!  

Just click the link below, register your place and keep an eye on your inbox for the invite! 

Get ready to ask some questions to ask during the Q&A too! Feast on knowledge about all things DataVault!   

We hope to see you there! 😎

The ED F1 Test Drive with WhereScape

The ED F1 Test Drive with WhereScape

The ED F1 Test Drive with WhereScape


Prepare to go full throttle!

You will be able to live life in the fast lane in the World’s First fully immersive Formula 1 Racing Simulation Experience too! As well as having food, drinks and networking opportunities. 

Accelerate your data projects with The ED F1 Test Drive.   

Join us on the 29th June for a fast-paced workshop and experience WhereScape Data Automation Software.  

The ED F1 Test Drive – 

Try out WhereScape Data Automation Software for yourself! 

Enjoy a fast-paced, interactive workshop using an automated code generator and best-practice templates to build a fully functional and documented data warehouse.  

Bring your machine and we will set you up with WhereScape and a target database via a virtual machine. Guiding you through real-world development scenarios as if you were part of a professional data engineering team.  

Be in pole position and experience the latest data automation technologies and how they can help you streamline your data architecture. 

By the end of this session, you will have built a Data Warehouse and understand the wider value of this approach to Data Vaults, Data Marts, and Data Lakes.  

The secrets to accelerating data projects and delivering in hours, not weeks or months, will have been revealed! You will know how to eliminate technology lock-in and future-proof your data architecture.

Things You Need to Bring – 

  • Your own device 
  • Your awesome driving skills  

Agenda –

13:45 – Arrival – Formation Lap 

14:00 – Test Drive Session 1 – Lights Out 

15:30 – Break – Box Box 

15:45 – Test Drive Session 2 – Hammer Time 

17:00 – Simulators & Networking (Food Served) – Podium 

Request your invitation for The ED F1 Test Drive with WhereScape!

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Why Your Data Warehouse is Failing

Why Your Data Warehouse is Failing

Why Your Data Warehouse is Failing.


 

Being a critical component of any data-driven organisation, a Data Warehouse is a necessity.  

However, you’re probably wondering why your Data Warehouse is the biggest pain in your life, or maybe you don’t even have one yet?! Unfortunately, there isn’t one quick fix to solve all your problems – as nice as that’d be!  

But it’s time to get real – most Data Warehouses are crap. And, ultimately, yours could be one of them.  

A poorly designed or maintained Data Warehouse can cause serious problems for your business, becoming a hindrance rather than a help. Which we’re sure you don’t want, and we certainly don’t want that for you!  

But why are you dealing with a crap Data Warehouse? It doesn’t have to be this way; you shouldn’t be suffering! 

Keep scrolling (and reading, obviously) and you will learn why your Data Warehouse is failing and how to eliminate your Data Warehouse pain and experience Data Warehouse pleasure.  


 

With a mass of legacy code built up over a significant amount of time, by an amalgamation of different developers, consultants, freelancers or even monkeys – your Data Warehouse has no coding standards. Each individual has their own way of working and different approaches to answering your technical problems, which causes points of concern.  

Arguably, this doesn’t solve any of the technical problems you have encountered within your Data Warehouse. It just raises more problems!  

With the different processes, different ways to answer problems and no coding standards, from these individuals, it makes the support process a massive pain. Resulting in your having to sift through the code, try to understand what is happening, why it is happening, how it is happening, where it is happening… you get the picture.  

Consequently, it takes hours to try and figure out what caused the problem in the first place! And in that time, you’ve probably encountered even more issues which you need to spend even more time trying to fix. It’s a vicious cycle, to be honest! 

As if this wasn’t enough, the support overhead for this is massive! Having to do these manual and repeatable tasks is time-consuming and a huge strain on your resources. Let’s face it, do you really enjoy doing these mundane tasks? 

 


Repetitive tasks kill productivity.  

The more time that is being spent on doing mundane, repeatable tasks the less time you spend on the things that matter and benefit your organisation’s growth and overall success. 

Why are you doing repeatable tasks? You could spend your time wisely, and more efficiently, by building out new data features and data products that will help your business advance and contribute to the building of a data-driven culture. Oh wait, you don’t have the time because of these mundane, repeatable tasks!  

Why waste time and money when you can automate these processes? Seems simple, right? 

 


 

Data is clearly vital to your organisation, which is why you need to stop wasting time processing data and struggling to build new data processes. You need to start spending your time being laser-focused on delivering data-driven analytics. 

This is where we can help you!  

At Engaging Data, our experience with Data Automation tools has helped us build many different data platforms for our clients.  

Working closely with you, we’re here for a good time not a long time! Taking your data and requirements and transforming them into usable assets in a matter of weeks – not months.


If you don’t experience this at the moment and your Data Warehouse is failing or if it is the biggest pain within your organisation, we have something for you! 

 Start experiencing Data Warehouse pleasure instead of Data Warehouse pain.  

Get our FREE DOWNLOAD on the 10 Reasons Why Your Data Warehouse is Killing You and stop your Data Warehouse from failing!   

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Engaging Data Bites: WhereScape

Engaging Data Bites: WhereScape

Engaging Data Bites: WhereScape


Our next Engaging Data Bites is happening! This time with our partner WhereScape! Join us on the 7th June at 12:30!  

Don’t miss out, save your spot and get ready to feast on knowledge about WhereScape and their Data Automation Software. 

About WhereScape –  

WhereScape allows you to increase productivity, scale with standards, foster collaboration and continuity across your data community and own your data!  

Organisations across the globe, of all sizes, rely on WhereScape Data Automation Software.  

From Data Warehouse and Vaults to Data Lakes and Marts, WhereScape helps you deliver data infrastructure and big data integration fast.  

Eliminate hand-coding, automate data and documentation and focus on the work that drives you towards business success!  

Want to learn more about WhereScape? Click the button below!

 

Engaging Data Bites –

Are you wanting to join us for our Engaging Data Bites with WhereScape?  

Well, it is happening on the 7th June at 12:30 BST.  

This event will be hosted virtually on Microsoft Teams. You don’t even have to leave your office to attend!  

Just click the link below, register your place and keep an eye on your inbox for the invite! 

 Oh, don’t forget to think of some questions to ask during the Q&A too! 

Get ready to feast on knowledge about all things WhereScape!  

We hope to see you there! 😎

How Data Automation Will Optimize Your Organisation

How Data Automation Will Optimize Your Organisation

How Data Automation Will Optimize Your Organisation


 

In today’s world it is arguably that the backbone of every organisation is Data.  

 From small startups to large corporations, data is everywhere and should be used effectively. For making informed business decisions, understanding customer behaviour, and improving overall efficiency – data is essential to drive further success.  

Yet, manually collecting, analysing and interpreting data can be a time-consuming and error-prone process due to the flawed nature of the human intervention. This is where Data Automation can be hugely beneficial to you and your whole organisation.  

Data Automation is the process of collecting, processing and presenting data using automated tools, instead of performing these tasks manually. Data Automation eliminates the reliance on manual labour with bots that do the job for you: more efficiently.  

With almost no human intervention, the automated process of collecting, transforming, storing and analysing data using well-designed methods, software and Artificial Intelligence will optimize your organisation.    

 


 

 

 

Data Automation can…

Save Time and Money:

With a plethora of automation tools on the market and being more accessible than ever before – why are you yet to adopt the technology that saves you time and money.  

Data Automation is designed with what people want in mind, making their lives simpler, eliminating the need to do manual, mundane tasks, and instead focusing on tasks where their skillsets are utilised effectively and proactively.  

It is easy to locate opportunities and areas for Data Automation on your own – once you know what to look for. A task that can allow for data automation usually involve:  

  • A lot of data entry 
  • Repeatable and repetitious actions 
  • Any margin for error 

Stop doing tasks manually and automate them. Optimize your team’s time with more meaningful work and reduce costs across your organisation.

Create Accurate and Fast Data:

The value of data comes from its quality. With mundane, time-consuming, and costly manual tasks completed by teams, it creates these processes to be slower and less accurate.  

With the adoption and implementation of Data Automation within your organisation, mundane tasks will become obsolete and replaced with automated processes.  

Data Automation can help analyse data faster and more effectively. With the ability to do a variety of tasks, Data Automation is especially helpful and can be used for data discovery, data preparation and data warehouse maintenance.  

Not only does Data Automation allow for your team to focus on more meaningful tasks which use their skillsets more effectively, but it bridges the gap and makes your data faster and more accurate – garnering more business success.  

Pairing Data Automation with Data Streaming and Data Quality tools will make your data faster and even more accurate, also allowing for: 

  • Durability 
  • Reliability 
  • Scalability 
  • ETL Capabilities 

Create Better Documentation:

Raise your hand if you enjoy data documentation? Let’s be real; documentation isn’t the most exciting part of working with data. However, its importance cannot be understated.  

The data documentation process can be difficult and not the most enjoyable. However, automating data documentation is an obvious solution to the problem that you face when working with data.  

Removing manual work of maintaining the documentation and creates a consistent process, overall ensuring reliable and trustworthy data and insights across your organisation.  

Documentation is one of those things you’d thank your past self for doing, it is always a great resource to look back on.  

Understandably, you’re probably too busy to document everything like decisions, statuses and steps for handling repetitive tasks. So, why don’t you automate it!  

Automating your documentation process will: 

  • With a single source of truth, save time and energy  
  • Improve quality and process control 
  • Cuts down duplicative work 
  • Makes hiring and onboarding simpler 
  • Make everyone in your organisation market with a single source of truth. 

Teams who are yet to start automating their data documentation are missing out on serious time, capacity and data literacy opportunities.  

Make all your Data in One Central Repository:

Imagine having one single place where you would have one single source of information. Sounds like a dream, right?  

Well, make that dream a reality with the implementation of a central Data Repository.  

A central data repository is a collection of stored data from existing databases merged into one so that it may be shared, analysed or updated throughout your entire organisation. It is essentially created by integrating the data from all available sources. 

Having all your data in a central repository allows for your data to be easily organised, analysed and secured. As well as this, it can help your business fast-track decision-making by offering a consolidated place to store data critical to your business operations.  

With ETL Data Automation tools, you can Extract, Transform and Load data seamlessly and efficiently into a central data repository, whether that is a Data Warehouse or a Data Lake, for example. 

Make your Data Storage System Scalable:

The need for a secure, reliable and efficient data storage solution has increased. Yet, businesses struggle with data storage as a result of the proper infrastructure to handle growing data. 

With the fluctuation and expansion of business, a scalable data storage system is a necessity to cope with needs and the quickly changing nature of business.  

Using Data Automation software, it is ready to scale as your business expands, as well as balancing your team’s workloads, highlighting bottlenecks and reducing resource consumption.  

Scalable data storage solutions are flexible, easy to manage and can handle exponential growth – far superior to outdated, traditional solutions with limited functionality.  

The data storage solution you choose should be reliable and efficient to allow your business to thrive.  

It can be difficult to choose with a plethora of storage solutions on the market, yet working with us, the Experts behind Data Automation, we will make the solution simple and adhere to your specific requirements. 

Modernise your Legacy Data Warehouse:

Organisations in today’s modern business world are being bombarded with data from various sources. Data which you need to collect, analyse, store and ultimately use in order to drive business decisions.  

Legacy Data Warehouses weren’t built with today’s digital capabilities and requirements.  

They are slow, rigid and generally expensive, with upfront and ongoing maintenance costs. This results in a more limited set of analytical capabilities, and it is slower to uncover business insights – making the decision-making process significantly slower. 

Modernising your Legacy Data Warehouse is a necessity for your organisation. Despite it not being the easiest process, you will benefit hugely from the modernisation of your Data Warehouse. 

Here some benefits of Modernising your Data Warehouse and working with the Experts behind Data Automation, to achieve this modernisation: 

  • Cost Reduction 
  • Improved Profitability 
  • Sales Projections  
  • Standardized Processes  
  • Improved Efficiencies  

With data growing significantly, your business will need an infrastructure that can manage and store this data to provide you with valuable insights and stay ahead within the competitive marketplace.  

Modern Data Warehouses are more flexible, intuitive, and efficient when it comes to storing and managing data. 

Increase Productivty within Your Organisation:

In search of optimisation and efficiency within business, Data Automation is the way forwards, and your company should embrace it.

Data Automation has always been propelled by the desire to get more done, reduce costs and limit human error, simultaneously.  

Create a higher level of efficiency with Data Automation. 

Eliminate Data Silos:

When it comes to decision-making, intuition is fine, but data is even better – you should rely on it. 

However, Data silos are a pain point for a lot of companies. Being a big blocker for decision-making, Data silos often get in the way of your business success.  

A data silo is a repository of data that’s controlled by one department or business unit and isolated from the rest of an organization. Often common in bigger companies, data silos can arise in any sized company and cause huge issues: 

  • Give an incomplete view of your business 
  • Create a less collaborative environment 
  • Lead to poor customer experience 
  • Slow the pace of your company’s growth and development 
  • Create security risks 
  • Threaten the quality and accuracy of your data 

With the implementation of Data Automation, Data silos will become obsolete, breaking down Data Silos and connecting data assets by: 

  • Data integration 
  • Data Storage 
  • Enterprise Data Management & Governance 
  • Culture Change surrounding data 

With all these benefits it is simple to say that implementing Data Automation within your organisation is a no brainer! It is a powerful tool to have in your organisation’s toolbelt. 

 It can optimize your organisation by streamlining data collection, improving accuracy, enhancing data analysis, increasing productivity and improving decision-making.  

By automating your data processes, you can save time, reduce errors and make better use of resources.  

At Engaging Data, we understand that you need data built efficiently to gain value quickly.  

Using innovative Data Automation tools, we will help you seamlessly integrate your data into accessible and secure platforms.  

Building Data for a purpose, we only process your relevant information to achieve your goals.  

Do more with less effort.  

If you haven’t already implemented Data Automation in your organisation, now is the time to consider doing so.


 

 Implement Data Automation within your organisation and work with The Experts behind Data Automation.

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