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Medallion Architecture, From the Late 90's?
Much like AI is all-the-buzz today, the early 2000’s buzz tech was the Data Warehouse. Like AI today, everybody said they were doing it, but few were actually aware of what they were doing...
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What is a Partition?
Understanding the concept of database partitioning can be significantly illuminated by the historical context of hard drive defragmentation.
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The Narrow Case for Data-to-Information Company Acquisitions
The rumors about Salesforce acquiring Informatica bring up some interesting observations from past acquisitions of this nature.
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CI/CD for Data Projects
Despite its prevalence in software development, CI/CD is less common in data projects due to differences in pace and cultural perception. Discover the importance of implementing CI/CD in...
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Snowflake ProTalk | Next-Level Features: Cortex LLM, ASOF Join, & Hybrid Tables
Explore some of Snowflake's newest innovations with Cortex LLM, ASOF Join, & Hybrid Tables for data innovation!
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New Video: Modern center of excellence
Now more than ever, organizations need to stabilize and optimize their primary use cases to manage costs effectively, maximize technology, and foster a culture of innovation and efficiency.
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Modern center of excellence
Discover the transformative power of a Center of Excellence in optimizing cloud data operations. Explore the six pillars of a modern CoE and learn how they drive efficiency and innovation...
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Data for Breakfast - Cleveland
March 27 | Cleveland, OH | Join us for a morning of insights, inspiration, value—and breakfast—where you’ll learn how to set a data strategy to unlock AI innovation.
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When data gets creepy
Ever wonder how companies manage your data behind the scenes? Uncover how companies collect, enrich, and utilize your data, and the implications for privacy and marketing strategies.
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Data for Breakfast - Indianapolis
March 6 | Indianapolis, IN | Join us for a morning of insights, inspiration, value—and breakfast—where you’ll learn how to set a data strategy to unlock AI innovation.
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Data for Breakfast - Omaha
March 7 | Omaha, NE | Join us for a morning of insights, inspiration, value—and breakfast—where you’ll learn how to set a data strategy to unlock AI innovation.
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Why are analytics dying?
As AI gains prominence in answering natural language queries directly from databases, the role of traditional BI and analytics for decision-making could become obsolete.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Streamlit data application in Snowflake
Explore how Streamlit in Snowflake can revolutionize your approach to developing and deploying data applications, offering unparalleled flexibility and efficiency in handling diverse data...
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Widgets vs Code
Explore the advantages and disadvantages of using graphical widgets in traditional ETL tools versus coding in ELT. Shed light on aspects such as cost efficiency, performance tuning, and the...
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Is PySpark becoming the ETL standard?
Discover why PySpark is emerging as the go-to platform for ETL modernization. Explore its open-source adoption, compatibility with major cloud vendors, and the advantages it offers in terms...
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What's New in Snowflake August to November 2023
Going over the newest and most exciting releases in Snowflake from August through November 2023!
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What is touchpoint stitching? - New Video
From $12,000 to $12! Learn how organizations grapple with the complexities of analyzing volatile data with billions of records and the challenges of tying events to individuals or things.
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Do we need BI anymore?
Is BI becoming obsolete? Explore the future of Business Intelligence in the age of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on decision-making processes.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Unleash the potential of external network access in Snowflake
Unleash the power of External Network Access in Snowflake to redefine your data interactions. Secure, empower, and optimize with this groundbreaking feature!
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Salesforce would have failed
Discover how complex security compliance is reshaping the software landscape, affecting the growth of startups and innovation in the cloud software space.
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Is Snowflake an ETL tool?
Discover Snowflake's role in ETL processes. While not a conventional ETL tool, Snowflake may revolutionize the data transformation stage.
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Intricity101 Video: Python vs SQL
Discover the strengths and ideal use cases for both Python and SQL, while gaining insights into the mindsets of purists in each camp. Learn when to use each language based on your specific...
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What does Snowflake do?
Explore the capabilities of Snowflake, a cloud data platform that goes beyond storage. Learn about its scalability, data sharing, security, and cost-effectiveness.
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Python vs SQL
Discover how SQL and Python have transformed data development. Explore their unique strengths and developer cultures.
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Top 10 reasons your old code sucks!
What good is moving to the cloud if your code isn't using it? Sure it's easy to keep the old stuff, but what are you gaining from the cloud?
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Snowflake ProTalk: mastering dynamic tables and reference passing
Revolutionize data processing with Snowflake's dynamic tables. Define transformations effortlessly and free yourself from complex pipelines.
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What is an API?
Clearly, APIs play an important role, but which exactly? And how does a RestAPI differ?
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The zero maintenance hoax
"Our database requires ZERO maintenance." Anyone telling you this doesn't know what they're talking about. Discover the opportunities waiting for you when you see past the hoax.
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Live Snowflake masterclass
*POSTPONED* New Date TBD - Queens, NY | Discover the secrets of optimizing table organization and query performance during this comprehensive hands-on lab.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Visual studio code extension demystified
Equip yourself with the skills to transform your data operations with Visual Studio Code! Transform the way you interact with your data.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Snowflake summit summary
Explore newly announced features from Snowflake Summit and their impact on customers. Stay ahead with exclusive insights for future ProTalk sessions!
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Data governance - defining roles and responsibilities
What are some of the signs that a company does not have data governance roles and responsibilities defined or needs to revisit them? Here are the signs:
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Data compliance with the right to be forgotten
Are you data compliant? With GDPR and CCPA legislation, it is crucial that businesses meet the requirements for properly handling their customers' data.
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What are enterprise data apps?
Enterprise data apps simplify IP management & licensing, allowing devs to focus on creating excellent data apps. Will it be game-changing or a side hustle?
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Snowflake ProTalk: Native python worksheets
Learn how to work with the new Python worksheets in Snowflake. With this feature, you can perform your development without needing to install dependent libraries.
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ChatGPT and data management
Many weeks ago, quite a number of folks asked what was going to happen to Snowflake & Databricks now that ChatGPT is around. Here are our thoughts:
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Launching the Snowflake ProTalk Library
Discover our entire Snowflake ProTalk library! Including webinar recordings, in-depth demos, interactive cheat sheets, and code samples.
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Cleveland data for breakfast
Cleveland, OH | Snowflake & Intricity present your first taste of the data cloud.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Mastering access history and column lineage
Become a master at access history and column lineage in Snowflake. Join our Snowflake Pros and learn more!
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Code modernization
In the last 4 years, the data management space has seen massive modernization. But with all this comes a big question: What do we do with our legacy systems?
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Snowflake ProTalk: Four new features in Snowflake
Learn about the new feature additions to Search Optimization, Sending Email Notifications, Tracking Notification History and Anonymous Procedures.
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Snowflake Holidata in Cleveland
Cleveland, OH | Snowflake & Intricity invite you to celebrate the Holidata with us!
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Case Study: Migration of Netezza and Informatica to Snowflake
The Client was met with an upcoming renewal deadline for its Netezza data warehouse appliance. The cost to renew would be in the millions.
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Snowflake ProTalk: SQL REST API
Think of SQL REST API as the remote control for Snowflake, which allows you to monitor and interact with Snowflake remotely and more.
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New Video: What is a CDP?
CDP has become one of those overused terms that people can't even accurately describe. Everybody is selling it, but what is it?
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Only the Nerds Care About Data Quality
People are very trusting when it comes to data. Most don’t hear statistics on the news or see graph visualizations and think, “I bet the data is wrong.”
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October Snowflake ProTalk: Practical Data Governance
Snowflake currently has many data governance solutions, however, this tempts companies to throw everything into those systems. Learn what to do!
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Practical Automation for Code Modernization
In the last 4 years, the data management space has seen more modernization than the prior 20 years combined. What do we do with our legacy systems?
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Webinar: Snowflake-Powered ID Resolution with Truelty & Message Gears
Discover the missing link for Snowflake-connected apps with our sister company, Truelty.
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August Snowflake ProTalk: Python for Snowpark UDFs & UDTFs
Learn how to work with Python UDFs and UDTFs. We will show you the power of creating custom functions that will open up a huge array of abilities.
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Case Study: Retiring On-Prem Systems & Migrating to Snowflake
Home insurance company needed to retire its on-prem systems, namely Hadoop and Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse, in order to migrate to Snowflake and the cloud.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Snowpark Stored Procedures for Python
Using a Snowflake warehouse as the compute framework, you can build and run your data pipeline in Snowflake.
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Databricks Migration Journey Webinar Series
Watch the replay - Intricity present alongside BladeBridge to discuss migrating ETL pipelines and scaling without limits.
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June ProTalk: After Snowflake Summit
After Snowflake Summit, the Intricity team discusses the new technologies announced and also what that will mean for future ProTalks this year.
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Snowflake Retail & CPG Competency Press Release June 2022
Intricity provides seamless data share across ecosystems in near real-time for customers. Intricity is awarded the Snowflake Retail & CPG Competency badge.
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Celebrating the Launch of Truelty
Truelty, Identity Resolution powered by Snowflake, makes its debut at Snowflake Summit 2022. Intricity is proud to introduce this tool to the public.
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Intricity Jared Hillam as Guest Speaker on Hedgeye Technology Podcast
Jared Hillam discussed the future of Best of Breed software versus IaaS product and more on the Hedgeye Technology podcast on June 1st, 2022.
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Era of Enterprise Data Apps
Imagine being able to connect apps for the very function you need and have them run within your existing data landscape. That is an Enterprise Data App.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Serverless Data Pipelines - Part 2
Part 2: Continued coverage on Snowflake’s Serverless Data Pipelines. Learn how to build it and optimize price and performance.
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Video: Future of the Cloud
Check out our latest video, shedding light on the question 'what do you think is going to happen to the cloud in 10 years?'
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Lunch & Learn: Migration Edition with Snowflake!
In this Snowflake-hosted webinar, learn how to leverage SAP data for better analytics and faster reporting.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Serverless Data Pipelines - Part 1
Snowflake is releasing Serverless Pipelines which will enable far more price and performance optimization for loading data into Snowflake.
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Case Study: Snowflake Compute Costs Optimized by 25%
Weightloss brand's increasing compute costs caught the attention of their executive stakeholders as it was trending to millions of dollars in cost overruns.
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Case Study: Netezza & DataStage to Snowflake & Talend Code Conversion
Fashion retailer used DataStage extensively for years, but the cloud created a landscape that DataStage was not originally designed for. Check out this migration.
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Zero to Snowflake Rochester
Learn how to harness the full capabilities of Snowflake's Data Cloud in a cost-effective way without compromising performance.
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Zero to Snowflake Albany
Learn how to harness the full capabilities of Snowflake's Data Cloud in a cost-effective way without compromising performance.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Advanced Use of Snowflake Scripting
Discover more advanced uses of the new Snowflake Scripting. We show end-to-end automated solutions using Scripting, Tagging, and more.
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Snowflake Data for Breakfast - Little Rock
Join Snowflake and Intricity in Little Rock for a morning of insights, inspiration, value—and breakfast—where you’ll learn all about the Snowflake Data Cloud.
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Snowflake Data for Breakfast - Oklahoma City
Join Snowflake and Intricity in Oklahoma City for a morning of insights, inspiration, value—and breakfast—where you’ll learn all about the Snowflake Data Cloud.
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SqlDBM-Hosted Joint Webinar
Join Intricity and our partner SqlDBM as we go through the ground zero assets that build the consensus needed for automation in a data model.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Stored Procedures
Snowflake has native stored procedures! Learn how it differs from the JS Stored Procedures and understand blocks in Snowflake Scripting.
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Snowflake ProTalk: The New World of Tagging
Snowflake has now given us a deeply meaningful structure around tagging that supports all the Snowflake objects. Come explore tagging and how to use them.
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Case Study: Large Scale Entity Resolution Powered By Snowflake
The Client is a leader in transaction data analytics for the Financial Services industry and house analytics for large-scale fortune organizations.
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Video: What is a Data Frame?
Check out our latest video: What is a Data Frame? Discover what a "data frame" is and how it helps data scientists and engineers design data processing programs.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Row & Column Level Security
Learn the new Row Level security features which make such a task doable without major gymnastics. Plus security updates, object tagging, and more.
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Case Study: Top Speed Migration of SQL Server to Snowflake in 60 Days
The Client is one of the most well-known high-end performance sports car brands in the world. Their portfolio of cars span the supercar category.
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Snowflake ProTalk: Complex Data Pipelines
Learn about challenges that occur with complex data pipelines and how to take alternative approaches which don’t bog down the Snowflake optimizer.
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Case Study: Membership Resolution Powered By Snowflake
The Client is a global not-for-profit organization focused on helping young girls maximize their potential through STEM, life skills, and entrepreneurship.
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Fivetran-Hosted October 2021 Webinar
How can you convert these rigid environments into agile code that can be managed in a CICD development environment using DBT and Fivetran?
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Video: What is DAG?
Check out our latest video: What is DAG? Learn what a Directed Acyclic Graph or DAG is, and some of the guidelines for its use in data pipelines.
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Algorithms That Run The World
There are thousands of algorithms that have had a huge influence on the world. Here are some of the algorithms that act as the heartbeat of the world we occupy.
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SqlDBM + BladeBridge Webinar
Learn about the migration process with Intricity, SqlDBM, and BladeBridge. Discover how to prepare for code migration, team member roles, and code conversion automation.
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Roadmap for Hands on Keyboards
In the end, the organization must be good at two things: whatever their customer pay them for and turning data into information. Learn how with a roadmap.
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Snowflake ProTalk on Table + Column Performance
Table and column performance is key to a healthy and cost-efficient data estate. How do you know what action to take?
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SqlDBM-Hosted Joint Webinar
Learn how CI/CD is impacting solution architectures, how teams are being structured to maximize adaptability, and more with SqlDBM and Intricity.
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Matillion-Hosted Joint Webinar
Learn how to size a conversion project, how code conversion tooling accelerates the process and how to get started, and more with Matillion.
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Making Information Real
What exactly is information? What really differentiates data from information? Not surprisingly information can be broken up as "in" and "formation".
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Where Data and Process Meet
Big Data was a scam. Those are strong words, but Big Data lured business stakeholders into a "pixie dust" belief system about the data-to-information process.
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What Questions Do You Ask?
To some technical stakeholders, the prospect of interviewing can be intimidating. One of the common questions we hear is, "What questions do you ask?"
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The Data Lakehouse...Your Daily Dose of Buzzword Ambrosia
True innovations in data are so difficult to come by. The latest buzzword being evangelized is the Data Lakehouse.
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ProTalk: Future of ELT and ML Processing on Snowflake
Recently, Snowflake made mention of a feature that got too little press regarding Asynchronous Queries when leveraging Python & Snowflake.
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Video: Managing Unlimited Scale
Check out our latest video: Managing Unlimited Scale, which addresses how to adapt your practices to an unlimited data estate.
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The Huge Feature Snowflake Slipped In
Snowflake made mention of a feature that got way too little press. The mention was so slight that only hardcore Snowflake aficionados rang alarm bells.
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Snowflake Customer Maturity
Learn about the stages of a Snowflake customer from adoption to full participant in the Data Cloud ecosystem.
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On-Prem to Cloud: How to Justify Data Integration Conversion
Looking to move an on-prem data warehouse to the Snowflake data cloud? You should consider moving the data integration with Talend.
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April Blizzard Forecasted
Each of our April webinars will involve the Snowflake Data Cloud Platform. Join us, along with our partners, Snowflake, Talend, and BladeBridge!
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Maturity Journey of a Snowflake Customer
Learn about some of the maturity stages that Snowflake customers undergo as they grow in size.
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Snowflake is a Semi, not a Motorcycle
When leveraging Snowpark, it's important to remember that Snowflake is more of a semi-truck than a motorcycle when it comes to delivering information.
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March Webinars with Our Partners
Join us for our upcoming webinars with Fivetran and StreamSets. We also have our Snowflake ProTalk – this time with Arkady Kleyner joining Rich Hathaway.
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Here's What's Coming in February
Here are the upcoming events in February. Check out previous webinars and our latest white paper content here as well.
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ProTalk: Advanced Access Control & Taking Role-Based Security to the Next Level
Solve the one-role-at-a-time dilemma for Snowflake's access control.
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Case Study: 10X Improvement in Snowflake Performance
See how Intricity's best practices helped their Client go from a strained Snowflake relationship to a highly performant, on-budget, data consumption machine.
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Case Study: Transforming Water with Snowflake's Data Platform
Read about how the Snowflake data platform is being leveraged by Intricity and its client to deliver efficiencies in water networks
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What Analysis Tool Has The Most Users?
Learn about which analysis tool has the most users and what challenges that introduces into an organization.
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Case Study: Snowflake Financial Services End-to-End Deployment
Intricity Financial Services roll out of Snowflake. A strategy to execution case study.
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What is Access Control
Learn what Access Control is and how it can enable an organization to consume relevant information and why it has become really critical.
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Here's What's Coming Up in the New Year!
Here's what's coming up in January 2021. We have a new Data Sharks videocast plus two webinars!
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INTRICITY Makes Top 10 Most Promising System Integrator List
Intricity makes Top 10 Most Promising System Integrator list for 2020.
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What is a Data Silo?
Learn about how to transition data survivalists that maintain data silos into members of a collaborative data management team, with our guest speaker Lee Green
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Three Upcoming Webinars For November
We have three new webinars for November. Make sure to register because you don't want to miss any of them!
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How to Botch a Snowflake Deployment in 3 Easy Steps
Learn the 3 big mistakes that Snowflake deployments make which create organizational complexity, higher costs, and user confusion.
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Top 10 Mistakes in a Data Migration
Learn some of the top mistakes that can be made while migrating code during a data migration project.
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Don't Miss Our Upcoming Webinar in October
Continuing the Snowflake ProTalk series in October. Missed our events in September? Find them here.
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What is a Data Warehouse?
Learn what a Data Warehouse is, what it's not, and the process to deploy this powerful solution within an organization.
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Why a 'Snowflake Killer' is so Hard
Why is it that Snowflake seems to persist despite the big cloud vendors multiple attempts to unseat them as the leader?
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Data Detective Board
Learn how Graph Databases work and how to frame its use for executives.
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What is a Graph Database?
Learn the basics of what a Graph Database is and the type of function it plays in a Data Management Architecture.
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Case Study: IoT Strategy to Execution
Learn how this widely recognized manufacturer built a dynamically scalable infrastructure to support Internet of Things (IoT) data feeds with Intricity.
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Secure Sensitive Data Analytics in the Cloud
Our partnership with SecuPi provides a Secure and easy way to migrate and manage your data in Snowflake.
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SAP Data Lake Powered by Snowflake
Webinar on SAP Data Lakes and how to use automation to auto-deploy them on Snowflake.
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Data Migration Series
Featuring Belk, learn how you can escape the constraints of legacy technology and reinvent your data analytics with Snowflake, the Cloud Data Platform.
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What Causes Data Hoarding?
Learn why organizations start creating factions and stop sharing information
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Next Generation Data Architecture
A four-part video series on the Next Generation Data Architecture using the cloud. Featuring Snowflake as the target platform due to its game-changing features.
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Identity Resolution Powered by Snowflake
The identity issue has always been: how do we identify that this record is the same as another if we do not have a “key” to match them on?
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What is Data Orchestration?
Data Orchestration is a critical part of setting up cloud data ingestion frameworks. In this video, Jared will be reviewing what Data Orchestration is.
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The Commoditization of Networks
While presenting at one of our workshops, we had an attendee ask us, “What do you see happening with cloud in 10 years?”
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The Code Liquidity Problem
How does an organization divest itself from these old architectures in favor of more agile cloud solutions when the code is built for a legacy platform? Or in other words, how can we solve...
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The Code Liquidity Problem
I want to borrow this term, liquidity, to talk about the logical assets that your organization has embarked on.
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What is a Database Schema?
This video shares what a database schema is, and how it differs for different use cases.
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What Data Science Isn't
Data Science is an exciting space, but just as important as it is to learn Data Science, it's also important to understand what Data Science is not.
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Case Study: 1200 Kafka Streams to Snowflake
The Client quickly pushed the limits of traditional databases with its constant flow of over 1200 Kafka streams.
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Case Study: Snowflake Streams & Tasks
The cruise industry faces a difficult set of unique challenges due to the remote nature of how data is ultimately acquired off ships.
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Case Study: University Data Sharing Foundation
Universities have a complex ecosystem of Schools that need data. Read more about this strategic approach for making that sharing occur across Schools.
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MDM vs MM
What's the difference between Master Data Management and Metadata Management? Intricity breaks this down in this short video.
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Case Study: Do-No-Harm DW Migration
Although an important part of the Client's administration platform, Reporting and Analytics were bottlenecked by the limitations imposed by SQL Server.
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The Do-No-Harm DW Migration
Primum non nocere (First Do No Harm) should be an oath for IT professionals also. Intricity conducts strategy engagements based on the existing landscape.
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Case Study: ERP Real Time Integration
The Client leveraged SAP for their ERP, however after acquiring another medical device, they inherited a second massive JD Edwards implementation.
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The Next Cloud Licensing Evolution
Many think that the cloud is the last frontier. But even the cloud is going through a licensing evolution which will leave SaaS laggards behind.
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What Data Science Isn't
Learn where Data Science shouldn't be chosen go-to solution, and where it should.
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ETL Explosion
The ETL market is undergoing a major transition fueled by some disrupting trends. Learn what some of these latest trends are.
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Case Study: Redshift migration to Snowflake
Within a day of focused work, Intricity conducted a cold migration of their Redshift environment to Snowflake
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Code Generators
Learn how the Data Warehouse Automation industry has changed over the years, and how it's changing the speed of deploying a data project.
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DW vs MDM
What's the difference between a Data Warehouse and a Master Data Management solution? That turns out to be a great question which we address in this video.
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What Makes Data “Yours”?
Executive briefing for those concerned about putting their data in the cloud.
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Loose Coupling – Data Architecture from the 1700’s?
Understanding coupling comes in handy when you’re setting up a system to turn data into information.
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Data Warehouse vs Master Data Management
If you can make this distinction then you have some of the fundamental tools to describe Master Data and Transaction Data.
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Case Study: SQL Server Refactoring to Snowflake
The CLIENT was still in the early evaluation stage of determining what platform they would be moving to.
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Case Study: eCommerce Strategy to Execution
The eCommerce vendor’s market execution grew between 10-20% per month and onboarded new enterprise-scale systems would help them keep pace.
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Case Study: Hadoop to Snowflake
CLIENT measures how consumers shop across all channels, sourcing data from both retailers and consumers to quantify sales, share, distribution and velocity
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What is Cloud Refactoring?
Learn what cloud refactoring means from a data warehousing perspective, and how the cloud can change the footprint of data.
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Data Maturity: $200-$1B in Revenue
This is the third in our Data Maturity video series. In this series, we will be reviewing companies that are up to 200 million to - 1 billion dollars in size and some of the challenges they...
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Data Maturity: $100M-$200M in Revenue
This is the second in our Data Maturity video series. In this series, we will be reviewing companies that are up to 100-200 million dollars in size and some of the challenges they often...
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Data Maturity: $50M in Revenue
This is the first in our Data Maturity video series. In this series, we will be reviewing companies that are up to 50 million dollars in size and some of the challenges they often have.
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Data for the Factory Floor
One of the common challenges in the manufacturing space is that the machinery for the factory floor represent a massive investment.
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Database vs Data Warehouse
What's the difference between a Database and a Data Warehouse? I had an attendee ask this question at one of our workshops. In this short video, I explain the distinction.
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Where should logic live?
In this video, we share some rules of thumb about where logic should live within a data-to-information landscape.
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What is a Data Catalog?
What does a Data Catalog do for your organization? What is its history, and why are they so important today? Intricity explores these topics in its latest video.
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What is a Data Moat?
Artificial Intelligence isn't generated from thin air. It requires data to learn from. If you want to develop a solid Artificial Intelligence backbone you need a Data Moat. Learn more about...
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Amazon BI Tech Talk
Jared had the opportunity to speak at the Amazon BI Tech Talk today. Was great fun with hundreds in attendance, and even more who will review the recording!
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Data Junkyard
Do you have a Data Junkyard? Learn about what happens when organizations fail to build data conformity logic.
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What Makes Data Yours?
The traditional notions of what makes data ours have changed over the years. In this video, we uncover why this has happened and why executives need to often rethink their stance on what...
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What is Low Code
Learn what Low Code is and how it is changing the way organizations fix their process challenges.
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Cloud Data Streaming
Ever wonder how Cloud Data Streaming works? See our new video on the topic.
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Data Lake VS Data Warehouse
Data Lake VS Data Warehouse - Both have roles, they aren't replacements for each other.
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Data as... Plastic?
Data is its own animal, it has strange quirks that make it hard to compare to anything we see in the physical world. In this video, I'm going to outline an analogy that covers a lot of...
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Data as Plastic?
Providing analogies that can help people understand the different functions of a Data Architecture is difficult. We may have found a good one in Plastic.
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Data Architecture Lessons from the 1700’s?
Data Architecture Lessons from the 1700’s? - This video gives some examples of tightly coupled scenarios in the data management and BI space.
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Goldilocks Guide to Enterprise Analytics
Learn how other organizations evolve through various Business Intelligence solutions on the hunt for conformed information. See what is often missing.
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What is BI Metadata?
Learn about the mechanism that some of the world's largest BI deployments hinge on... a Metadata Layer.
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Growing Pains in Data
What happens when your organization grows organically without any strategic data management backbone? Well, in short, it becomes a bottleneck.
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Phase 0
Avoid impulsive maneuvers at the most critical moment in deploying your Data to Information solution.
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Transportation Analytics
transDASH is a powerful joint offering from TransPro and Intricity which provides rich transportation analytics which allows agencies to compare common performance metrics across the nation.
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Transforming Transportation
Learn about how conformed data and analytics can make the difference for a Transportation Agency
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Data Sharing, the Easy Way
Sharing data no longer has to be a total nightmare. Discover the latest capabilities available in the cloud which will completely change the data syndication industry.
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Data Sharing, the Easy Way
WHITEPAPER: Sharing data no longer has to be a total nightmare. Discover the latest capabilities available in the cloud which will completely change the data syndication industry.
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Data Governance Spectrum
You might be surprised to find out that not every data governance program is the same. Over the last 4 years, there has been a change in the balance of power in Data Governance spheres....
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Data and the Balance of Power
Learn how Data Governance strategies have changed over time due to the consumption methods being sought after.
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Data Deduplication factory
Duplicate records and their variations are the banes of most companies' existence. They gum up aggregations in reports and create confusion inside organizations. See how Intricity uses some...
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Spreadsheet Nightmare
So you've got multiple people sending you spreadsheets of data? Does each spreadsheet have nuanced differences that you have to fix? Do you get these spreadsheets regularly? We have a fix!
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The Fragility of Code
When you're in the early stages of a tech startup, you're at a unique and golden moment. Let us provide 3 signs that you've done your homework.
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Mistakes in Customer Facing BI
Any time you are presenting information in a custom application or printing a statement for a customer, you’re conducting Business Intelligence.
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Turning Data Into Information
How do you go from Raw Data into Actionable Information? Well, asking somebody to do this as a side job, just means they won't have time for their real job.
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Beware the BI Demo
There's still no pixie dust solution to Business Intelligence. In this video, Jared provides some warnings for customers looking to purchase a business intelligence solution. Avoid a BI...
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BI Still no Pixie Dust
Learn why Business Intelligence and Analytics are only half of the equation for successfully deploying a Data-to-Information pipeline.
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Analytics = Fake News?
Where did your data come from? How much work did you do to get the data to integrate? Is that data already integrated somewhere?
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Analytics = Fake News?
Where did your data come from? How much work did you do to get the data to integrate? Is that data already integrated somewhere?
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Intricity Custom Video
If you are familiar with Intricity's videos, then you know we can help you simplify a complex message. You can leverage this expertise from Intricity.
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People Process Technology AND...
Learn about the 4th critical component to any strategy. People, Process Technology and... Culture
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The Link Between Data & Culture
The more influential your culture, the less you’ll have to create process controls and other expensive gatekeeping measures to achieve success. But can your data be a factor in people...
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The Data + Culture Link
The small decisions add up to your organization posting a profit, loss, or any number at all. Culture must be considered for organizational improvements.
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Security: Cloud vs Firewall
In this video, we share how a serverless architecture can be more secure than a persistent architecture behind a firewall. You also learn some interesting things about cloud services.
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What is a Data Lake?
Learn fundamentally what a Data Lake accomplishes for your organization.
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What’s stopping cloud adoption?
Uncover what forces are holding back the adoption of cloud-based architectures and some of the driving forces that are overcoming some of the technical and cultural restraints.
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Customer Scoring as a Service
Intricity's Customer Scoring as a Service is designed to help you predict who will buy from you in the future.
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Customer Scoring as a Service
How do you segment your customers in a more accurate way? Why not use Machine Learning to uncover this?
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External Business Intelligence
We think of BI being something designed for bean counters in the back office. But imagine what kind of impact your customers can get from having best of breed BI? This video explores that...
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What is Data Science?
Data Science doesn't have to be such a mystical practice. Watch our latest video that pieces apart from the aspects of Data Science, including Intricity's Customer Scoring as a Service...
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Growing Self Service BI
Learn how to scale the efforts made in a self-service BI platform. Also, we discuss what components are most critical in the self-service BI platform to successfully grow the data delivery...
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How ETL in the Cloud Works
Ever wondered how ETL in the cloud works? Does it mean that you're shipping all your data into the cloud? ETL in the cloud turns out to be an incredibly effective way to deliver data...
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Case Study: Healthcare Data Ingestion
Intricity healthcare case study for onboarding sensitive patient records into a HIPPA compliant data distribution hub.
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Should You Trust the Cloud?
This article is for all those business executives that are being pitched a move to the cloud, but feel uneasy about it
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ETL vs ESB
We describe some of the simple differences between Extract Transform and Load vs Enterprise Service Bus.
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What is NoSQL?
What is unique about a NoSQL database? In this video, we talk about some of the features that make NoSQL an excellent place for scalability and flexibility.
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What is an API?
Learn what an API is and how it can be used to quickly communicate with your applications.
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Top 5 Data Science KPI's for Marketing and Sales
Discover the Top 5 Data Science KPI's for Marketing and Sales
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Data Replication with Salesforce
Glenn Hillam shares the simplicity of replicating data from salesforce.com to your on premise databases using Informatica cloud. Glenn walks through the process of setting up this...
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DQ vs MDM
What is the difference between Data Quality tools and Master Data Management tools? Dive into how these two tools differ from each other in tackling the trustworthiness of your data.
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What's the difference between MDM & Data Quality?
What is the difference between Data Quality tools and Master Data Management tools? Dive into how these two tools differ from each other in tackling the trustworthiness of your data.
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What is Hadoop: Scalability
A simplified explanation of how Hadoop addresses the bottlenecks found in traditional databases and how these are overcome in HDFS.
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What is Hadoop?: SQL Comparison
Learn the 3 main differences between Hadoop and SQL Sources. While a great many differences exist, this hopefully provides a little more context to bring mere mortals up to speed.
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What is Metadata Management?
Learn how organizations manage their sources of metadata to define where their data comes from and what its meaning is.
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What is a Data Model?
Why is a Data Model so important? What is a packaged Data Model? How does a Data Model fit into a Data Warehousing Project?
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What is Data Governance?
Understand what problems a Data Governance program is intended to solve and why the Business Users must own it. Also, some sample roles that each group might need to play.
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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Management
Come learn about the mistakes we most often see organizations make in managing their data.
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How to Build a Data Warehouse
Learn how to build a Data Warehouse. This is a video that reviews what occurs during a Data Warehouse Strategy Engagement.
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What is PIM?
See how Product Information Management can deliver agility to your organization's marketing and supply chain teams.
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Master Data VS Transaction Data
Come learn how Master Data and Transaction Data differ from each other, also learn what challenges each data type introduces to an organization.
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What is Budgeting and Planning?
The value of Corporate Performance Management tools, also known as Budgeting and Planning tools - an essential part of any kind of organization.
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Why don’t we have automated Data Integration and Management yet?
I can’t say WHEN this will happen, but someday, data integration will be a completely automated process...
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What is Data Replication?
Businesses want real-time updates to their data, but they don't want to tie up the application systems that create that data, because it slows down the organization's core processes.
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salesforce ≠ Data Warehouse
This video clarifies the differences between a data warehouse and a transaction system by sharing a recent example with salesforce.com
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What is Data Virtualization?
Data Virtualization has changed the process of acquiring data by simplifying the data-gathering steps. Come see how you can create an Agile BI Development process within your current...
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What is Complex Event Processing
Processes in organizations sometimes break, often with little consequence. However, at times a broken process can lead to a catastrophe.
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What is Hadoop?
You've heard of it, maybe even used it... but what really is Hadoop? Come explore the what, why, and how of this happy elephant.
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Benefits of Data Masking
You will be surprised why most corporate data gets hacked. This video identifies some of the common ways data breaches occur, and how to defend against them.
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What is an ETL Tool?
What is an ETL tool, why is it important to have and how do you decide which is best for your organization?
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What is Business Intelligence?
This is a video for the average Joe about Business Intelligence. Finally, I have a place to send people for small talk :)
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Data Governance: The Cat Herders Toolbox
Learn about the process controls that you can use to prepare your business for better Data Governance.
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Retiring Inactive Data
Discover an Application Retirement Strategy Intricity often conducts. I've been amazed at how little attention this topic gets. Especially when you consider how predictable it's ROI is.
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What is a Columnar Database?
This short video provides a simple explanation of what a Columnar Database is. It also walks through a simple exercise to outline it's advantages.
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What is OLAP?
Explore OLAP's history, where this solution might be applicable, and where it might not be a fit. Additionally, we investigate an alternative/complement called a Relational Dimensional...
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What are Dimensions and Measures?
This short video provides a business friendly description of Dimensions, Measures, Hierarchies, and Data Grain.
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What is Master Data Management?
This is a short video on the benefits of an MDM solution.
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Benefits of a Data Warehouse
This video outlines some of the benefits of implementing a data warehouse.
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What is Metadata?
This short video, will explain what Metadata is and why it's important to businesses.
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Dirty Data- Why You Should Care
It seems sometimes that companies just don't care about dirty data. This video talks about why you SHOULD care.
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Information and Data Lifecycles
This short video reviews the lifecycle of data and the differences between data and information.
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