The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
Topics: Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data, Digital Technology, data operations, Analytics & Data
The 15th annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Awards showcase professional leadership and their use of business applications or technology that led to improved organizational efficiency, productivity and performance. These leaders and pioneers have contributed to their organization’s success and championed improvements across people, processes, information and technology.
Topics: Cloud Computing, Data Management, Data, Digital Technology, data operations, Analytics & Data
Data lakes began to emerge 10 years ago in response to the desire for analytic data platforms that could economically store and process large volumes of raw data. These platforms access data from multiple operational applications in a variety of formats to be queried by multiple business departments for a variety of analytic workloads.
Topics: business intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Governance, Data Management, AI & Machine Learning, Analytics & Data, analytic data platforms
Organizations face a variety of data and analytics challenges resulting from growth and increased scale. Multiple tools and techniques are needed to derive value from various databases. But, adding more systems means adding more complexities, which can slow operations and add costs for maintaining additional systems. SQL databases have been very popular among organizations for storing and managing data. These databases enable workers to manage and analyze massive volumes of data quickly and reliably.
Topics: business intelligence, Data Management, AI and Machine Learning, analytic data platforms
Improving the quality of information is cited by organizations as the leading benefit of data preparation activities. Data quality efforts are focused on clean data, but increasingly, the importance of bad data is also recognized. To be more accurate, the original data as recorded by an organization’s various devices and systems is important. To fully perform data preparation, organizations must know what data exists – both good and bad.
Topics: Data Governance, Data Management, Data Preparation, Data, Data Pipeline