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Data Analytics: Beyond the Hype – A Survey by Dimensional Research

This report is based on a survey of 376 individuals with responsibility for data initiatives including 104 executives. The goal of the survey was to understand current experiences, challenges and trends with data analytics initiatives.

Key Findings:

Data initiatives are important, but have serious issues

  • 100% say data analytics is important
  • 48% of executives characterize data analytics as “critically important”
  • 88% have faced “failures” with recent data initiatives

Inflexibility of data infrastructure is the underlying cause of many challenges

  • Data inflexibility tops list of challenges faced by data and analytics
  • 59% of executives say their existing analytics infrastructure is too inflexible
  • 75% of executives are prevented from acting on business requests because their data infrastructure is too inflexible

Cloud-based analytics could help address barriers to data analytics

  • 99% find potential benefits of cloud analytics to be compelling
  • 92% would try more things in a pay-as-you-go model licensing
  • 74% of those that have adopted cloud analytics intend to grow use in the coming year

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SIGMOD Paper: The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse

“The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse” at SIGMOD

Snowflake’s paper “The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse” was accepted for publication and presentation at SIGMOD 2016, a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.

Please register to receive a complimentary copy of the paper, which provides an in-depth look at the innovative technology behind Snowflake’s cloud data warehouse offering. In this paper you’ll learn about:

  • Why Snowflake built a unique new architecture for data warehousing
  • How Snowflake’s new design enables capabilities including dynamic resizing, diverse data support, heterogeneous workloads, and more
  • How Snowflake’s design differs from other cloud data processing systems such as Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery

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CIO’s 15th annual State of the CIO study – Special Foreword from Snowflake

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CIO’s 15th annual State of the CIO study – Special foreword from Snowflake Computing

CIO’s 15th annual State of the CIO study finds that IT executives are under intense pressures as they work strategically to digitally transform their businesses and defend company-sensitive information from cyberattacks, all while also trying to build an IT organization that can keep up with the pace of change.

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Check out Snowflake’s exclusive foreword to the 2016 State of the CIO Survey, authored by Jon Bock, VP of Marketing and Products.

Abstract:

“Today, technologies such as the cloud, big data, andanalytics are blurring the lines between IT and business roles—mostly for the good, but not without challenges. The “2016 State of the CIO Survey” reveals the good in those blurred lines: IT executives who have strong relationships with business stakeholders fare better as they deal with the
challenges that accompany digital transformation and all it entails, from cybersecurity to complexity and loss of control.”

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Where Do I Go from Here?

Overcoming the reality gap of big data

The ability to access and analyze data is the critical foundational element for competing in new and old industries alike. Yet, a recent survey of IT executives finds that most are still struggling— and frustrated—with widely used data analytics tools.

Survey findings:

Ease of use is top requirement

For data users, far too much time is spent waiting to get access to the data.

Conventional data warehouses were architected for static, predictable workloads, but organizations today are trying to accommodate dynamically changing data and the growing desire for more analytics-based applications and processes.

Cloud Data Platform Security

Financial Services organizations that deal with sensitive data are paradoxically finding themselves under pressure to make that data more accessible to authorized stakeholders and to find more practical and seamless ways to share it securely with users inside and outside the organization.

The threat of a data security breach, someone gaining unauthorized access to an organization’s data, is what keeps CEOs and CIOs awake at night. Such a breach can quickly turn into a public relations nightmare and result in lost business and steep fines from regulatory agencies.

In this whitepaper you will understand the ways that the cloud addresses these issues and how the right cloud data platform partner can provide a secure and protected environment for customer data, protecting data in-transit and at rest from current and evolving threats.