The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore manages all data and AI assets across different workspaces and storage locations. Providing this level of access control substantially increases the quality of governance while reducing the workload involved. There is an additional target o ..read more

Informatica World takes place May 8-11 at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas and we can’t wait to meet you there! Perficient is a proud sponsor of Informatica’s largest event, which brings together customers and partners from across the globe. Perficient is a global digital consultancy, an Informatica Platinum Enterprise Partner, and the 2022 Cloud Modernization Channel Partner of the Year. We’ve delivered strategy and implementation for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid solutions. Our investment and commitment to our Informatica partnership is extensive, with hundreds of dedicated consultants and m ..read more

Amazon recently released a new data tool called DataZone, which allows companies to share, search, and discover data at scale across organizational boundaries. It offers many features such as the ability to search for published data, request access, collaborate with teams through data assets, manage and monitor data assets across projects, access analytics with a personalized view for data assets through a web-based application or API, and manage and govern data access in accordance with your organization’s security regulations from a single place. DataZone may be helpful for IT leaders becau ..read more

In “Behind the Golden Arches” by John Love, the author shares an anecdote of how in the early days of McDonald’s, the company was having cashflow problems despite its being a significant source of revenue for many farmers. In a meeting with a particularly large farmer who had made significant money from selling tomatoes, lettuce, and especially potatoes to McDonald’s, Ray Kroc asked for a cash infusion, and without hesitation, the farmer wrote him a $25 thousand-dollar check on the spot (a very significant sum of money for the time). Ray Kroc realized the suppliers of McDonald’s were making m ..read more

Inflation reached a forty-one-year high in June, and according to the Consumer Price Index, prices have remained elevated. Many are struggling to make their dollars stretch and are looking to their financial institutions for guidance on how to better manage spending and stay afloat financially. Financial firms cannot singlehandedly control inflation, of course, but they can position themselves as knowledgeable partners that customers can depend on to be in their corner. Here are four ways financial institutions can better support struggling customers during periods of high inflation: 1. Harne ..read more

Data lineage is the process of understanding, recording, and visualizing metadata as it flows from the originating data source to consumption. Using a data lineage tool can expedite the processes, however, it is a common misconception that a data lineage tool can automatically generate data lineage between several applications with the push of a button. Data lineage platforms offer significant benefits, but like any other artificial intelligence solution, they require human input to be successful. The technical capabilities of the data lineage tool are important, but the essentiality of human ..read more

The purpose of BCBS 239 (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s standard number 239) is to ensure that systemically important banks’ risk data aggregation capabilities and internal risk reporting practices give thorough insight into the risks to which they are exposed. BCBS has a total of 14 principles, summarized in the four sections below: I. Overarching governance and infrastructure A bank’s risk data aggregation capabilities and risk-reporting practices should be subject to strong governance arrangements. Data architecture and IT infrastructure should fully support its risk data ag ..read more

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage that rings very true to those of us who are vision-driven learners. Simply hearing and reading about a solution is usually not enough. Many of us “need to see to believe” the benefits being promised by any solution. Oracle and Perficient understand this concept very well. Many times we have partnered to provide insightful demos of a multitude of solutions to organizations across various industries. As valuable as demos are for customers, they sometimes require a high level of effort to coordinate schedules, attendee lists, video conferencing t ..read more

Security and governance are the cornerstones of foundational cloud implementation. Microsoft provides powerful services to support deploying, integrating, operating, governing and securing cloud environments to meet any organization’s unique requirements. Whether your organization uses Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Azure Security Center is a centralized and unified security management service for your cloud environment. The Azure Security Center is responsible for continuously scanning your Azure resources. Security Center provides recommendat ..read more

Data plays an essential role in today’s digital economy and keeping up with modern data management processes is key to staying competitive. In fact, enterprises with advanced data practices are more productive, innovate faster, are able to enter new markets quickly, and are more likely to be directly monetizing their data compared to their less-mature peers. But achieving that level of competency often requires the assistance of a data management service provider. Partnering with a data management service provider can help your organization: Establish a strategy and operating model for data ..read more