by Maxx Silver | Jun 1, 2023 | Data Engineer, Data Engineering
One of the big challenges of the modern data ecosystem is that it is in a constant state of change – from one paradigm to another, one platform to the next, tool after tool, day in and day out. Despite these fluctuations, the business users of data must be able to...
by Maxx Silver | Feb 15, 2022 | Data Engineer, Data Engineering, Data Management, Thought Piece
This was a comment made by a Senior IT Leader in a meeting of his organisation’s executives with BizCubed CEO, Zachary Zeus. We’ve thought a lot about that comment, largely because it reflects what we’ve seen in the market. Most organisations that have...
by Andrew Cave | May 14, 2018 | Data Engineer, How To
Creating a read-only user is one of those simple tasks you do once in a blue moon. Normally you can Google it and find somebody else’s script and away you go. Not the case with AWS Redshift! It’s spread all over the place, so I thought I would publish a...
by Andrew Cave | Apr 4, 2018 | Analytics at Operational Scale, Analytics Products, Data Engineer, How To, Main Blog
The Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) server is a production level application for storing, scheduling, creating and running all the Pentaho report types through your web-browser. But sometimes, you need to work on the commandline and put things precisely where you want...
by Zachary Zeus | Aug 31, 2017 | Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Life Cycle, Data Scientist, How To, Main Blog
From Analyst, to Scientist, to Engineer A common problem we see is that different roles are using different methods of preparing and reporting data. What occurs is that there is very little collaboration between key data driven roles within the organisations that we...