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New O'Reilly Report Explores Tools and Best Practices for Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
O'Reilly,
the premier source for insight-driven learning on technology and
business, today announced the results of its "Evolving
Data Infrastructure" survey, which explores the tools companies are
using for their advanced analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
projects - and the best practices they have acquired along the way.
The research, which will be released in full at O'Reilly's upcoming Strata
Data Conference in San Francisco, found that more than half (58
percent) of today's companies are either building or evaluating data
science platforms - which are essential for companies that are keen on
growing their data science teams and machine learning capabilities -
while 85 percent of companies already have data infrastructure in the
cloud.
Some of the key other findings from the research include:
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Companies are building or evaluating solutions in foundational
technologies needed to sustain success in analytics and AI. These
include data integration and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) (60
percent), data preparation and cleaning (52 percent), data governance
(31 percent), metadata analysis and management (28 percent) and data
lineage management (21 percent).
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Companies are building data infrastructure in the cloud. Eighty-five
percent indicated that they had data infrastructure in at least one of
the seven top cloud providers, with two-thirds (63 percent) using
Amazon Web Services (AWS). The results also showed that users of AWS,
Microsoft (News - Alert) Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tended to use multiple
cloud providers.
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The use of durable cloud storage is prevalent. Sixty-two percent of
all respondents indicated they used at least one of the following:
Amazon S3 or Glacier, Azure Storage, or Google (News - Alert) Cloud Storage.
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Data scientists and data engineers are in demand. When asked what
skills their teams needed to strengthen, 44 percent said data science
and 41 percent saiddata engineering.
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Respondents used a variety of streaming and data processing
technologies. Half of the respondents (49 percent) used either Apache
Spark or Spark Streaming, while other popular tools included open
source projects (Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop) and their related
managed services in the cloud (Elastic MapReduce, AWS Kinesis).
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Business intelligence uses a mix of open source and managed services.
When it comes to SQL, respondents favored open source tools (Spark
SQL, Apache Hive) and managed services in the cloud (AWS RedShift,
Google BigQuery).
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Although a majority (60 percent) aren't using serverless technologies,
one-third (30 percent) are already using AWS Lambda. In fact, 38
percent indicated that they were using at least one serverless
technology - a pattern that remained consistent across geographic
regions.
"It is clear that in 2019 companies are planning to invest in
implementing analytics, AI and automation tools," said Ben Lorica,
O'Reilly's chief data scientist and chair of the Strata Data Conference.
"However, in order to do so successfully, initial investments must be
made in the foundational technologies and infrastructure needed to
sustain success. Our research shows that a majority of companies
understand this and are already building - or at the very least
evaluating - platform solutions and tools to make this possible."
For more information and to register to download a copy of the report,
please visit: https://www.oreilly.com/data/free/evolving-data-infrastructure.csp.
O'Reilly will present the full research findings at the upcoming Strata
Data Conference, taking place March 25-28, 2019 in San Francisco at
the Moscone
Center. This year's conference will bring together cutting-edge
science and new business fundamentals to help attendees build a solid
foundation for their AI strategy and machine learning initiatives. The
event programming offers a deep dive into emerging data science
techniques and technologies, including case studies, in-depth tutorials
and emerging best practices.
Registration
is now open and a limited number of media
passes are available for qualified journalists and analysts. Follow @strataconf
or #StrataData on
Twitter (News - Alert) for the latest news and updates.
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