As your organization moves its data into the cloud, you face the challenge of balancing productivity and efficiency gains with tremendous compliance and security ...

Data Industry Trends

Cloud Security Best Practices

By Cheryl Adams   |   October 25, 2017

Managing big data is a never-ending challenge. Extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes serve as the traditional foundation for enterprise data warehousing. However, ...

Data Industry Trends

ETL: Will it survive big data?

By Cheryl Adams   |   October 17, 2017

Is it easy to connect to a data warehouse? Selecting the right tool can help make this connection attainable. Tableau Desktop makes this connection easy, from opening ...

Data Warehousing

Connecting to Data Warehouses in Tableau

By Cheryl Adams   |   October 6, 2017

If you ask a group of big data analysts what are some of the top professional challenges they face, you can easily imagine which challenges are consistently shortlisted. ...

Being Data-Driven

How To Get People to Share Data

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 27, 2017

There are many risks involved with data security. Storing data in the cloud might seem like a safe bet, and for most users it is. But risks will always exist. Below we ...

Best Practices

Top Cloud Data Security Risks, Threats, and Concerns

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 27, 2017

As more organizations begin their journey to the cloud, they need to plan how they will apply the best practices of data management to ensure that cloud-based, ...

Best Practices

Data Management Best Practices for Cloud Computing

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 19, 2017

There’s no question that the cloud offers many potential benefits. Major companies everywhere are lining up to reap the benefits by moving their back-office systems to ...

Data Warehousing

Enterprises Eye Big Benefits from Cloud Data Warehouses

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 12, 2017

Are you considering a career as a BI Architect? You have made an excellent choice. Business Intelligence Architects are some of the leading minds in business and ...

Analytics Leadership

Business Intelligence Architect: Defining the Role

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 12, 2017

Long before there was big data, there were computing solutions designed to store, organize, and analyze data. But just like the job of a big data architect, it's both ...

Data Stack

Selecting a Big Data Solution: Top 10 Questions to Ask

By Cheryl Adams   |   September 5, 2017

Organizations looking to leverage big data impose a larger and different set of job requirements on their data architects versus organizations in traditional ...

Working in Data

How To Become a Big Data Architect: A Guide

By Cheryl Adams   |   August 24, 2017