This Week in Data Preparation (Apr 3, 2020)
In this week’s news: (i) Collibra and CData raise capital, (ii) Palantir teams up with Britain’s NHS, (iii), Hitachi Vantara acquires Waterline Data, (iv) DataRobot and Databricks help virus-related research (v) an analysis of the data integration market is discussed, and finally (vi) two opinion articles, on data integration for Business Intelligence, and on data leadership.
All news items have appeared since last week’s post.
Collibra, the Belgian data intelligence company, closes a $112.5 million round in funding.
CData Software, a Chapel Hill-based startup which offers cloud data connectivity and integration solutions, receives a $20M investment.
Palantir, the Silicon Valley data-analysis company, teams up with Britain’s National Health Service.
Hitachi Vantara acquires Waterline Data, a provider of intelligent data cataloging solutions.
DataRobot announced it will provide the DataRobot enterprise AI platform free of charge to those interested in using it to help with the COVID-19 virus response effort. In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DataRobot’s COVID-19 response program provides free access to DataRobot’s automated machine learning and Paxata data preparation solutions to those participating in the Kaggle competition sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for COVID-19 related research.
Databricks presents how it uses Apache Spark to analyze huge data sets in the healthcare world. Frank Nothaft, technical director of healthcare and life sciences at Databricks, said that Apache Spark’s distributed data processing engine is perfect for running complex queries at large scale, which is the computational power required to analyze data sets related to drug development.
The state of Enterprise Data Integration is discussed in this Forbes article, based on a market analysis by Dresner. “Over 80% of enterprise Business Operations leaders say data integration is critical to ongoing operations”, is one of the study’s insights.
Ibrahim Surani, CEO & President, Astera Software discusses best practices to create data integration processes for Business Intelligence.
In this article, Algmin, founder and CEO of Algmin Data Leadershipand author of the book “Data Leadership: Stop Talking About Data and Start Making an Impact! “, discusses data leadership. “Data Leadership is how we choose to apply our limited energy and resources toward creating data capabilities to influence our business,” he said in an interview with Dataversity.
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