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It's a done deal: The digital product passport (DPP) is coming. It's quite an elaborate affair, but also a huge opportunity for marketing and sales! As part of a planned Ecodesign Directive, the EU will, from 2027, oblige companies in almost all sectors which manufacture, commission or sell goods and products in the EU to introduce the DPP. Experts predict that five trillion DPPs will be issued annually across the EU in the future. This figure gives an idea of the implications of the EU's decision. Which legally mandatory information the DPP must contain is still being clarified. But one thing is already clear: The DPP will massively change the economy – and in doing so, it offers a completely new touchpoint to the customer.

With the Q2 2023 updated titled "New optimized story experience - unified strories and applications", SAP analytics cloud offers users new ways to develop reports and dashboards even more flexibly and easily in an integrated design enviroment. We'll showyou which new features theupdate provides and how it supports you in creating reports,

Microsoft Fabric Is Now Available! Does It Make Sense To Migrate Now?

The new SaaS solution from Microsoft has the potential to change the world of data. But should you migrate now? If so, what is the best approach? A lakehouse or warehouse? And what must you consider with OneLake? Where are the current hurdles? And what about Azure Synapse? We’ll address all these aspects in this article.

First, there’s a key message for all Azure Synapse customers: Synapse will continue to be fully supported and is not being discontinued. Microsoft has no plans to do so! But we’ll tell you where it still makes sense to look ahead.

Ever since ChatGPT was introduced in late 2022, we have all been thrilled about the possibilities of generative AI and large language models (LLMs). What intrigues people is the incredible ease of generating high quality texts and getting responses to questions, code fragments, etc. You simply write a prompt, which is a text input, feed it to the ChatGPT’s API, and voilà, you have a response.

We are still very much in a generative AI hype cycle, where the benefits of a technology are typically overstated. For businesses, it is important to avoid the attendant pitfalls, and to understand when and how to best use ChatGPT or generative AI solutions. In this blog, we look beyond the hype, and show you an approach to evaluate and implement LLM-based Gen AI use cases.

As an AWS advanced partner, our intention is to regularly document our findings on solutions for data & analytics solutions in this blog and share them with parties interested in AWS. As a cloud provider, AWS offers us and our clients an ecosystem and services allowing very useful solutions for modern data architecture. Our goal here is not to repeat generally accessible AWS documentation. We instead want to condense our technical and professional experience "on paper".

This blog series starts with the topic: "Sizing a Redshift database for a cloud DWH".

Since the release of ChatGPT and the attention drawn to large language models, we have seen a rapid increase in releases of more models and a rapidly evolving market associated with a use of LLMs. A model's suitability for utilization in a business context depends heavily on the respective use case. In this blog post, we shall take a closer look at the currently most important models, and compare them on the basis of enterprise-relevant criteria so that you can maintain a better overview.

Many users of Google's IoT Core are currently looking for a successor to this service which will expire in August 2023. This blog post shows how Stackable's data platform can be used to create a highly scalable open-source alternative to Google's IoT Core.

The topic of planning is often left out of the definition of a data strategy. Planning is perceived as "too special" because it is strongly departmental, existing concepts can only be applied to a limited extent for planning, and the employed BI tools are often unsuitable for planning. As a result, potential remains untapped. This blog shows how you can fix this, even retroactively.

We have demonstrated in part 1 & part 2 how an AWS data lake is built from scratch and how the data is ingested in a Data Lakehouse. In this blog, we describe how to enforce GDPR law, the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF), in a Data Lakehouse. We make both the data lake and the data warehouse built in the previous blogs compliant with having a user exercise their Right to be Forgotten. Let us first understand what RTBF is.

As we have seen in the previous blog post, we should now have our transformed data in the data lake and have it available in the Glue Data Catalogue. In this blog post, we will first discuss what AWS Lake Formation is and see how we can use it to securely share access to the data.

Currently, a popular component of Cloud Data Platform Architectures is a Data Lake. If you are curious about the implementation and services for a Data Lake with AWS, have a look at those blogposts. An architecture which provides transparency about the Data in the Data Lake and makes it smoothly available for further analytics in a Data Warehouse, is called a Data Lakehouse. Click here.

The data mesh is a current technical and organizational concept to enable greater business proximity and more scaling for large organizations involved in data & analytics. Consistent implementation here proves revolutionary and requires change management.