This Week in Data Preparation (Dec 27, 2019)
While reflecting on the past year and looking forward to an exciting 2020, we list below a couple of interesting articles published last week related to data preparation. We will catch up again on the developments in the data preparation world in two weeks. Until then, wishing everyone a happy and prosperous new year!
In an article regarding predictions on what will 2020 bring for big data, Haoyuan Li, founder and CTO of Alluxio, wonders whether Hadoop is really dead. In the same article, ThoughtSpot ‘s CEO, Sudheesh Nair, writes that “[becoming a Big Data company] is a requirement to operate in today’s business landscape.”. Todd Wright, head of data management and data privacy solutions at SAS adds that 2020 “will bring a renewed focus on data orchestration, data discovery, data preparation, and model management”.
Neerav Shah (General Manager, SnapLogic EMEA) discusses the role of data, AI and automation in the financial services digital transformation. Shah says that their research found that “82% of financial organisations have more data than ever before, but are struggling to harness it to generate useful business insights”.
Finally, here is a nice infographic on the history of Salesforce, a leading CRM company, whose recent growth as a whole is largely due to the acquisitions of Tableau (web analytics) and Mulesoft (data integration), and the AI-enabled product Einstein.
