Many companies are confusing adopting big data technology with creating a coherent big data strategy and in the process are creating big data debt. In this paper we present our remedy for big data debt – a data and analytics centric approach. This approach is a set of concepts and guidelines that allow us to invest in big data and get increasing long-term returns rather than spending money to get short-term payback that creates long-term debt.
Teradata Cloud: Analytics in Action
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This paper documents the experiences of nine Teradata Cloud customers based on anonymous interviews with knowledgeable persons. The table below lists the companies, along with their specific challenges.
Data Lake: The Definitive Guide
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This paper provides the definitive guide on the critical areas of importance to bring data lake organization, governance, and security to the forefront of the conversation.
Data Lakes Principles and Economics
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This Checklist Report discusses what your enterprise should consider before diving into a data lake project, no matter if it’s your first or second or even third major data lake project. Presumably, adherence to these principles will become second nature to the data lake team and they will even improve upon them at some point.
Data Architecture in an Evolving Eco-system Topology
September 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
With today’s needs for complicated data architecture systems and the business’s need to make sure that their data is on the most economical platform, moving away from EDW to platforms like Hadoop can be more than daunting to an organization. This whitepaper walks you through how Teradata customers have used the services team to help them migrate to new platforms seamlessly and why it’s important to have a strategic partner like Teradata when taking on this data movement project.
The Importance of Late Binding for Big Data Analytics
September 30, 2013 by
The true value and innovation in big data analytics comes from the ability to extract value from non-traditional data that does not necessarily fit cleanly into a relational model. This gives rise to a new approach for acquisition of data into an analytic repository using “NoETL” techniques whereby structure is not added to the data at load time – but rather at query time using a late binding style of data access.
