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The Power of Measuring What Matters and Using Data to Grow.
The Power of Measuring What Matters and Using Data to Grow. The world of business has changed drastically in recent years. A business can no longer survive by simply being good at what they do; instead, they need to be great at it. To be great, you...
3 Dangerous Outcomes of Information Gaps
3 Dangerous Outcomes of Information Gaps You’ve probably heard us talk about Information Gaps. Information Gaps occur when analytics break down in the cloud, due to implementation challenges, lack of data synchronization or an underdeveloped data culture at your...
What is an Information Gap?
What is an Information Gap? 5 Signs You Might Have One (Or More) Today’s businesses aspire to be “data-driven,” but what does that really mean? In today’s terms, a data-driven business is one that uses data across the organization to: Quickly iterate existing product...
The Problems Documenting a Data Warehouse
The Problem Documenting a Data Warehouse More data is being collected, stored, and analysed than ever before. One of the digital age challenges is how and where we store all this data safely and accessibly. A modern Data Warehouse can solve many of these issues, using...
Moving to the Cloud
Moving to the Cloud 7 Expert Tips for Selecting the Right Strategy and Tools Moving your data to the cloud can help manage costs and increase agility. In the cloud, you can scale up or down as needed to handle spikes in demand and control costs. The cloud also offers...
How is CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) Used to Modernise a Data Warehouse?
. How is CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) Used to Modernise a Data Warehouse? A specially designed type of data management, a data warehouse is a system that has been built to enable and support business intelligence and analytics. For...
The Gold Standard – A Comprehensive Guide
Engaging Data Explains : The Gold Standards in Data - A Comprehensive Guide Achieving an excellent level of data architecture is far from easy. But it is certainly possible if you implement certain guiding principles. Central to this is the implementation of a gold...
Gold Standards – Part 4
Engaging Data Explains : Creating The Gold Standards in Data - Part IV - Balancing Internal and External Considerations In this final part of our four-part blog on gold standards, we’re going to examine the importance of external considerations. These are factors...
Gold Standards – Part 3
Engaging Data Explains : Creating The Gold Standards in Data - Part III In this third part of our blog on gold standards, we’re going to assess the importance of processes in creating an ideal data environment. If you recall from previous parts of this blog, we have...
The Gold Standard – Part 2
Engaging Data Explains : Creating The Gold Standards in Data - Part II : Assessing the Gold In this second part of our four-part series on gold standards in data, we’re going to examine the importance of instilling a review process. Reviewing is never the most...
The Gold Standard – Part I
Engaging Data Explains : Creating The Gold Standards in Data - Part I Achieving an excellent level of data architecture is far from easy. But it is certainly possible if you implement certain guiding principles. Central to this is the implementation of a gold standard...
Peer Review
Engaging Data Explains : Peer Review One of the most useful aspects of Power BI is the ability to achieve Self Service business intelligence. This is achieved with the Power BI Reporting Server. So in this blog post, we’re going to discuss how this is set up, along...
Dealing with Data Masking
Engaging Data Explains : Dealing with Data Masking The Power BI Reporting Server is a powerful tool, and one of its most intuitive features is the ability to achieve true self-service business intelligence. So in this blog post we’re going to walk you through the...
How Jenkins Takes Wherescape to Another Level
Engaging Data Explains : How Jenkins Takes Wherescape to Another Level Data warehousing has grown in importance and popularity, as the global market for analytical systems continues to increase. The global market for data warehousing is expected to touch $30 billion...
Self-Service BI
Engaging Data Explains : Self-Service BI Self-service business intelligence is making a huge difference to companies across a variety of sectors, by helping to optimise data analysis. However, some businesses perceive that implementing a business intelligence approach...
High-Level Design Documentation
Engaging Data Explains: High Level Design Documentation - Have you ever needed to create high-level documents of your data automation that explains a project/sprint within your WhereScape Red repository? Maybe so it looks a little like the above? We recently worked...
Data Warehousing Concepts Explained
Engaging Data Explains: Data Warehousing Concepts Modern commerce is an environment in which companies are increasingly being required to make complex, data-backed decisions. Dealing with vast amounts of information has become an essential feature of a business, which...
Automated Deployment
Engaging Data Explains: Automated Deployment Continuous Delivery using Octopus Deploy With WhereScape RED Many companies are looking to make Code changes/deployment easier. Often the ability to deploy code to production is surrounded by red tape & audited control....
Documenting the Modern Day Data Warehouse
Engaging Data Explains: Documenting The Modern Day Data Warehouse When you're operating a modern-day data warehouse, documentation is simply part of the job. But it's not necessarily the easiest or most logistically straightforward part of the process, while also...
Big Data and DataVault
Engaging Data Explains: Big Data and DataVault Knowing how and where to find the needle more easily, and where in the specific haystack it resides Big Data has been a hot potato topic for more than a few years now, and this phenomenon will play a central role in the...
Data Masking
Read about how Engaging Data consultants used Redgate Data Masker used to create human readable values within a Data Warehouse. #datawarehouse #datascience #bigdata #data #dataanalytics #dataanalytics #datamanagement #datastrategy #analytics #datascientist #bigdataanalytics #bigdataanalytics #businessintelligence #datadriven #ml
Supporting Girls Football
Engaging Data will continue to support the team & mental health charity Young Minds in going into the 2020/21 season!
Redgate Partnership!
Engaging Data & Redgate Partnership! We are really excited to go into partnership with Redgate. Using the right tools for the data job. Find out more about them here. Redgate’s software can help from development to environment controls. Moreover, these tools are...