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  • Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

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    Summary: Tableau Conference 2019 allowed 18,000+ attendees to see over 650 presentations. Attendees described the event as fun, although more than a few were disappointed. There were major advances and capability announcements across the platform, including data management and augmented analytics. Some capabilities, such as write to database, require enterprises to take additional independent steps to avoid orphaned data copies and the related governance issues. The conference was notably inclusive, featuring closed captioning, signing and the story of the historical achievements by the group known as the Code Girls.

  • Conference Whispers: World Crypto Con Las Vegas 2019

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    World Crypto Con 2019 (WCC) was part of Vegas Blockchain Week, which also included CoinAgenda, WCC Mine and World Crypto Poker Tournament (WCPT0). WCC had 2,000 attendees and 137 speakers on panels in four major streams. The four streams at WCC included a Main Conference, Blockchain Developer Conference, Mining Conference and educational workshops. The conference had 85 sponsors and 40,000 net square feet of exhibits.

  • Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

    Conference Whispers: Teradata Universe 2019

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    Teradata Universe 2019 allowed 2,000+ attendees to see over 250 customer sessions and workshops highlighting Teradata’s technology in real-world, and often highly complicated, environments. Attendees felt their goal of seeing what worked for others was met by the conference. Major announcements by Teradata included their Cloud Forward/Cloud First initiatives and the introduction of Teradata Vantage to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Teradata Vantage, which can leverage object store in Azure and AWS, is available “as a service,” and can be purchased on a consumption basis. Teradata officially entered the analytics market with the announcement of Vantage Analysts and Teradata Customer Experience. Teradata’s Hadoop Migration Program announcement was well received by those with large installations.

  • Whisper Report: Decision Integrity Requires Data Validation

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    Digitally transformed organizations expect reliable, data-driven decisions, but data-driven decisions require reliable data if the business is to maintain decision integrity. Don’t stop short with only providing data quality that is responsible for standardizing data. All data integrations must be verified and transformations must be validated to ensure decision integrity. Historical methods of “stare and compare” or leveraging SQL scripts are not efficient, nor do they meet governance requirements. Some modern data validation tools can validate even the largest data sets.

  • Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019

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    PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 allowed 30,000+ attendees to see over 2,000 machine providers over 900,000 net square feet of exhibits. There were vendors ready for Industry 4.0 that could collect any and all of the data you would like – and those that weren’t. Some data requires a separate license, some is stored in historians, and some is stored in the cloud. There were machines that are reconfigurable and those that can teach themselves. There was even a robot with a neural network embedded on a chip that only needs to see examples to learn.

  • Whisper Report: Seven Security and Governance Data Space Issues CxOs Don’t Know About

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    CCPA and GDPR expect CxOs to be able to answer the question, “who shared what customer data with whom.” Unfortunately, due to configuration errors, missing driver updates, missing log files or lack of understanding of vulnerabilities, many CxOs are not aware of which data copies exist, let alone how they are being shared. This research shares seven security and governance issues in the data space that compromise security and governance, yet, unfortunately, remain generally unknown by CxOs. Remedies are also discussed.

  • Conference Whispers: Black Hat USA 2019

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    Black Hat USA 2019 provided 20,200+ attendees with an opportunity to dive into training, try their hand at white hat activities, attend briefings, listen to the keynote and attend a large variety of sponsored parties. Artificial intelligence-based security tools have arrived and may foreshadow the future state of cyber warfare. Solutions for data management and related actions focused on security operations centers were displayed. White hat tools to self-test Windows 10 against process injection and self-protecting data software development kits were announced, as were vulnerabilities in common consumer products. Finally, the gaping privacy loopholes created by GDPR were also presented.

  • Whisper Report: Six Data Engineering Capabilities Provided by Modern Data Virtualization Platforms

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    When creating your data architecture, it is valuable to understand the extent of data engineering capabilities provided by modern data virtualization platforms. Many data virtualization platforms provide data as a service, data preparation, data catalog, logically centralized governance, the ability to join disparate data sets and an extensive list of query performance optimizations.

  • Whisper Report: Digital Transformation Requires Modern Data Engineering

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    Digital transformation is a highly sought-after end-game for corporations. Scalable digital transformation cannot occur without the modernization of data management to enable business-led analytics. The most common, successful, and scalable data management modernizations involve data virtualization, IPaaS, and data hub technologies to provide a data layer.

  • Conference Whispers: Predictive Analytics World 2019

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    Mega-PAW 2019 clearly demonstrated that predictive analytics is ready for primetime and can lead to fantastic results, but success is far from guaranteed. The 720 attendees had seven tracks across five co-located conferences to choose from. With so much desired content, many found themselves missing a presentation if they hadn’t brought colleagues to cover concurrent sessions—a positive sign of a good conference. While there were some food misses, attendees found the conference interesting and had a takeaway from each speaker.