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        Matt Aslett's Analyst Perspectives

        As I explained in our recent Buyers Guide for Data Platforms, the popularization of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has had a significant impact on the requirements for data platforms in the last 18 months. While there is an ongoing need for data platforms to support data warehousing workloads involving analytic reports and dashboards, there is increasing demand for analytic data platform providers to add dedicated functionality for data engineering, including the development,...

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        Topics: Analytics, natural language processing, AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Generative AI, Model Building and Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations

        Enterprises face a bewildering level of choice in relation to data platforms, as evidenced by the number of software providers and products assessed in our recent Data Platforms Buyers Guide. There are numerous data platform providers and products to choose from, but also a diverse array of functional and architectural options. Is the workload primarily operational or analytic? Will it be deployed on-premises or in the cloud? Should it be distributed or centralized? Data warehouse or data...

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        Topics: AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Data Intelligence, Analytics and Data

        I have written on multiple occasions about the increasing proportion of enterprises embracing the processing of streaming data and events alongside traditional batch-based data processing. I assert that, by 2026, more than three-quarters of enterprises’ standard information architectures will include streaming data and event processing, allowing enterprises to be more responsive and provide better customer experiences.

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        Topics: AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Analytics & Data, Streaming Data & Events

        The artificial intelligence and machine learning landscape was profoundly altered by the emergence of generative AI into the mainstream consciousness during 2023. The widespread availability of GenAI models and cloud services has lowered the barriers to individuals and enterprises engaging with AI for various use cases, including generating content, querying data, writing code, preparing data for analysis, documenting data pipelines and using software products more effectively. The impact that...

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        Topics: AI & Machine Learning, Analytics & Data

        Enterprises are embracing the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver improvements in productivity and efficiency. As they move from initial pilots and trial projects to deployment into production at scale, many are realizing the importance of agile and responsive data processes, as well as tools and platforms that facilitate data management, with the goal of improving trust in the data used to fuel analytics and AI. This has led to increased attention on the role of data...

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        Topics: data operations, AI & Machine Learning, Analytics & Data

        The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has significant implications at all levels of the technology stack, not least analytics and data products, which serve to support the development, training and deployment of GenAI models, and also stand to benefit from the advances in automation enabled by GenAI. The intersection of analytics and data and GenAI was a significant focus of the recent Google Cloud Next ’24 event. My colleague David Menninger has already outlined the key...

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        Topics: Analytics, natural language processing, AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Analytics & Data, Generative AI

        I recently wrote about the development, testing and deployment of data pipelines as a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies as well as the importance of data orchestration to accelerate analytics and artificial intelligence. As I explained in the recent Data Observability Buyers Guide, data observability software is also a critical aspect of data-driven decision-making. Data observability addresses one of the most significant impediments to generating value from data by providing an...

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        Topics: Analytics, Data Ops, data operations, AI & Machine Learning, Analytics & Data, Generative AI, Machine Learning Operations

        I recently wrote about the development, testing and deployment of data pipelines as a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies. As I explained in the 2023 Data Orchestration Buyers Guide, today’s analytics environments require agile data pipelines that can traverse multiple data-processing locations and evolve with business needs.

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        Topics: Analytics, data operations, AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Analytics & Data, Generative AI, Data Intelligence

        I wrote recently about the role that data intelligence has in enabling enterprises to facilitate data democratization and the delivery of data as a product. Data intelligence provides a holistic view of how, when, and why data is produced and consumed across an enterprise, and by whom. This information can be used by data teams toensure business users and data analysts are provided with self-service access to data that is pertinent to their roles and requirements. Delivering data as a product...

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        Topics: Analytics, Data Ops, data operations, AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Analytics & Data, GenAI, Data Intelligence

        The development, testing and deployment of data pipelines is a fundamental accelerator of data-driven strategies, enabling enterprises to extract data from the operational applications and data platforms designed to run the business and load, integrate and transform it into the analytic data platforms and tools used to analyze the business. As I explained in our recent Data Pipelines Buyers Guide, data pipelines are essential to generating intelligence from data. Healthy data pipelines are...

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        Topics: Analytics, AI, data operations, AI & Machine Learning, Data Platforms, Analytics & Data, Data Intelligence
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