This Week in Data Preparation (Jan 17, 2020)
Several links are included in this week’s post, featuring: (i) discussions on generating value from AI, on geospatial data analytics and on IIoT data integration, (ii) two announcements on software that became available in AWS by KNIME and Vidora, respectively, (iii) Dremio’s view on getting rid of time-consuming and wasteful ETL mechanisms, (iv) Informatica reengineering its IPaaS service, (v) Sisense raising more capital, and (vi) an article on Alteryx’s valuation and prospects.
An analysis on generating value from AI, featuring opinions from quite a few industry experts, commenting on why some efforts succeed, but many more fail.
An interesting blog post on trust and quality of geospatial data analytics.
Richard Roberts, Manufacturing Execution Systems Manager and Senior Consultant at industrial automation company ZI-ARGUS, argues you shouldn’t implement IIoT data integration products without considering these issues.
KNIME, a software platform for creating and productionizing AI/ML is now available on Amazon Web Services.
Vidora, a company enabling organizations to deploy machine learning with end-to-end pipelines, also listed its platform on the Amazon Web Services.
Dremio, a company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, started in 2015 by former MapR employees, wants to kill all the data warehouses. The data warehouse startup argues that analytics should work directly on source data in the cloud.
Informatica reengineers its IPaaS cloud service, providing a good example of how cloud-native architecture can transform traditionally monolithic, silo’ed enterprise data and application integration services.
Sisense raises more than $100 million in new venture capital. The company offers a single platform that runs on in-chip technology for visual data discovery on web-based dashboards.
Alteryx is a company with an established market presence, offering self-service data analytics software that includes accessing various data sources, cleaning and preparing data, and performing a variety of analyses. This is an article on Alteryx’s valuation and prospects.
