Denodo TechTalks: Product Deep-Dive Series

Building an Augmented Data Lakehouse with the Denodo Embedded MPP

The data lakehouse is fast becoming one of the most popular analytics data architectures today. Based on distributed object storage and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake, it is considered a practical and scalable alternative to traditional data warehouses.

End-to-End Data Product Lifecycle Management with Denodo

Data Products are more than just curated datasets—they are living assets that evolve through collaboration, governance, and consumption. In this session, we’ll walk through the full lifecycle of a Data Product, powered by Denodo’s Logical Data Management platform. From ideation and development to access control, publishing, and consumption, discover how different roles interact to bring data products to life.

Denodo Agora: the consumption-based and managed service Denodo Platform

You are looking to simplify your data infrastructure while accelerating your enterprise data access? Managed services handle complex data infrastructure, reducing costs and operational burden. They provide expert support, accelerating data delivery and freeing organizations to focus on strategic business outcomes, ensuring agility and scalability without in-house strain.

Building an Intelligent Data Fabric with Denodo Assistant

A semantic layer is key in Data Fabric for letting people discover and understand your data. Denodo makes it easy to connect all your data in one place and leverage your data's metadata to build the semantic layer. This will help to better understand data structure and lineage, optimize performance, and give context for business users.

Denodo Data Catalog Delivers Data at the speed of Business at your Fingertips

Data Discovery and Self Service have always been challenging for business users who must dig through technical aspects of data sets, navigate using different tools, and learn new cataloging techniques. The Innovative Denodo Data Catalog ensures a truly business user-friendly experience for data analysts, business users, and anyone in your organization to discover, utilize, trust and share the data insights.  

Elevating Security: A Look at Denodo's Latest Security Features

Organizations are increasingly prioritizing security as it is one of the core pieces of practice for any sector. Are you looking to define a good security practice for your organization based on the best practices? Wondering if the current configurations set are good enough? Are you utilizing all the security-based features as expected? 

Join Varun P K, Technical Consultant at Denodo, to learn more about the key new features added in Denodo concerning Security in recent times.

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Building an Observability Framework for Denodo with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Observability has become a cornerstone of modern data management, enabling organizations to gain deeper insights into their systems' performance and reliability.

Join this session with David Fernandez, Technical Account Manager at Denodo, and Raúl Marín, Solutions Engineer at Grafana, to explore how to implement an observability framework within Denodo, leveraging Grafana for powerful visualizations and OpenTelemetry for robust data collection and tracing.

Denodo Resource Management: Aligning Data Performance with Business Needs

As Denodo administrators, aligning resource optimization with business goals is a constant challenge. The Resource Manager offers a practical approach to balancing workloads and setting dynamic resource plans. By leveraging its capabilities, administrators can address common bottlenecks and meet critical SLAs.

Leverage Query RAG and the Denodo AI SDK to deploy intelligent data agents

Query RAG is an emerging implementation pattern that allows developers to ground LLM and AI agents using enterprise data. With the release of Denodo 9.1 and the Denodo AI SDK, we have simplified the development efforts in how Denodo customers can implement Query RAG and integrate the Denodo Platform with the broader AI ecosystem.

Join this session with Felix Liao to learn about Query RAG and how the Denodo AI SDK can help deploy next generation AI chatbot and agents that are robust, accurate and secure.
 

Improving Denodo's Development Practices Using Version Control

In the ever-evolving data landscape of an organization, multiple development teams usually work to simultaneously deliver the value of their data. There are a lot of challenges surrounding parallel developments, conflict resolution, and code management. Version Control System is one of the key components that helps to build a good development practice in an organization.

Denodo Supercharges AI for Enterprises with NVIDIA's NIM Integrations

Please join us for a session that will cover how Denodo and NVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA inference microservice) integration provides the fastest easiest way to stand up Generative AI applications across any domain to generate intelligence from enterprise data – at the speed of business

Unleash the Power of your Data Products with The Denodo Data Catalog

Data Products enable business users to gain valuable insights into available data, evolve it to create new data products, prepare the data for the consumers, and collaborate across the organization.   Minimizing time to data is a critical initiative for a successful enterprise to capitalize on the data democratization.

Using the Denodo Platform to Simplify and Accelerate RAG Implementations

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI possess significant transformative potential for various industries but face challenges due to their lack of intrinsic business-specific knowledge. The Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG) architecture offers a solution by equipping these AI models with contextual knowledge, thereby enhancing their effectiveness within enterprise settings.

How Denodo is helping Sicredi in Data Democratization

Data Virtualization allows you to enable data delivery and access in an Easy, Organized and Governed manner, allowing users more autonomy to explore and analyze data, increasing the potential for decision-making.

Want to know more about how Sicredi evolves with Data Virtualization using Denodo? Join us in a session with Marcos Sakada and Scheila Bacim, clarifying Governance and Best Practices adopted by Sicredi for the delivery of data through Denodo.

Denodo Solution Manager: A Deep-Dive into Promotion Best Practices

Developers work hard to create data models that address various use cases. However, those models are only useful if they are made available in production for end users' benefit. As promotion plays a pivotal role in the product life cycle, a system that governs this is necessary for a more stable and reliable implementation.

Join us for the session with Nikhil Nair, Senior Data Engineer at Denodo, who will usher you into the world of Denodo metadata promotion, providing guidelines and suggestions you could follow for the best outcome possible.

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Maximizing Data Governance Efficiency with Denodo and Collibra

Data governance strategies play a crucial role in streamlining workflows, enhancing data quality, and accelerating time-to-insight. 

Join us for an enlightening session featuring Antonio Castelo from Collibra and Raúl Beiroa from Denodo. Together, they will explore how this integration fosters seamless communication and collaboration, streamlines governance processes, enforces policies, and ensures efficient data access. Whether you’re a data architect, data steward, or business intelligence analyst, this webinar offers invaluable insights for optimizing your data ecosystem.

Laying down the upgrade path for your existing enterprise software

When a new version of enterprise software is released, it is not a matter of just getting the new software. Any organization needs to be ready for it from multiple other aspects such as infrastructure, team, and related costs. This requires planning and interactions between the different stakeholders months in advance.

Data Quality Upside Down - How a Denodo customer didn’t fall into the trap

Data quality (DQ) is ensuring that data is fit for the purpose it is used. Poor DQ may come from human errors, technical conversion errors or inappropriate usage of data. Data quality initiatives aim to improve DQ within an enterprise to support the business. But both experience as well as science show that there is something wrong with how enterprises run data quality initiatives.

Enterprise Monitoring and Auditing in Denodo

Proper monitoring of an enterprise system is critical to understanding its capacity and growth, anticipating potential issues, and even understanding key ROI metrics. This also facilitates the implementation of policies and user access audits which are key to optimizing the resource utilization in an organization. Do you want to learn more about the new Denodo features for monitoring, auditing, and visualizing enterprise monitoring data? 

Drive Data Privacy Regulatory Compliance

The ability to recognize and flag sensitive information within corporate datasets is essential for compliance with emerging privacy laws, for completing a privacy impact assessment (PIA) or data subject access request (DSAR), and also for cyber-insurance compliance. During this session, we will discuss data privacy laws, the challenges they present, and how they can be applied with modern tools.

Enabling Data Catalog users with advanced usability

Data catalogs are increasingly important in any modern data-driven organization. They are essential to manage and make the most of the huge amount of data that any organization uses. As this information is continuously growing in size and complexity, data catalogs are key to providing Data Discovery, Data Governance, and Data Lineage capabilities.

Data Services and Data Mesh projects made easy using Top-Down Modeling

In Data Services and Data Mesh Projects, decoupling the work of the Developer from that of the Data Architect or data products owner helps in speeding up the overall delivery of the project. It can be achieved by using Top-Down design. Do you want to follow Top-Down design in the Data Services or Data Mesh projects? Do you want to transform an existing Data Model into a Data Service Model easily? In the context of the Data Mesh project, do you want to make several teams create data products independently?

Unleashing the Super Powers of Monitoring & Workload Management

Real-time monitoring is the delivery of continuously updated data about systems, processes or events. Such monitoring enables quick detection of anomalies, performance issues and critical events. In addition to that, the other concern in a multi-user environment is to achieve a balance in the workload by distributing the available resources. In this session, we will learn about how Denodo addresses both these topics.

Converting SAP Business Objects to a New Architecture Solution

Over the years, customers have implemented BI solutions using SAP Business Objects that span from departmental solutions to enterprise-wide deployments. For many customers, these BI solutions have been and are critical to the operations and management of the business. The users, through IT support, have become accustomed to ad-hoc reporting using Universes along tools like Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports. Based on recent news from SAP, these customers will now have to look for a alternate architectures that does not include traditional SAP Business Objects.

Empowering Data Processes with Stored Procedures

Ensuring consistent, accurate, and complete data is essential for any organization that relies on data to drive business decisions. SQL Stored Procedures are a powerful tool that allow to bundle multiple operations in a single unit for code reusability and have easier maintenance while also providing other features such as transaction management and exception handling.

How to build Virtual Data Products in Denodo

Building reusable, trusted and consumable Data products is the new way the best data teams are delivering high-quality data, quicker and easier than ever before…

What is a Data Product? It's a reusable data asset, built to deliver a trusted dataset, for a specific purpose.

Teams that use data products spend less time searching for data, ensuring data quality, or building new data pipelines, and those time savings become significant when added up across your data ecosystem and lifecycle.

Unlocking the Power of Apache Kafka: How Kafka Listeners Facilitate Real-time Data Enrichment

In today's fast-paced, data-driven world, organizations need real-time data pipelines and streaming applications to make informed decisions. Apache Kafka, a distributed streaming platform, provides a powerful solution for building such applications and, at the same time, gives the ability to scale without downtime and to work with high volumes of data. At the heart of Apache Kafka lies Kafka Topics, which enable communication between clients and brokers in the Kafka cluster.

Approaching the Center of Excellence from the Team Roles perspective on a Modern Data Architecture

Having a clear understanding of the roles needed to manage a Modern Data Architecture would be critical for ensuring that your organization can meet its business goals. Who needs to be involved? What are the roles and responsibilities of each team member? What are the tools that they need to use?

Join us for this session with María Sousa, Technical Enablement Director at Denodo, to get guidance and best practices on how to structure these roles within your organization to ensure the most effective use of Denodo and have a starting point to implement your Operational Model.

Agile Development Lifecycle and Best Practices with Denodo

Can you follow agile methodologies in Denodo development? What are the activities of the different teams in a sprint? What are the best ways to manage your development, testing, and promotion?

Join us for this session with Princess Jamelyn Ramos, Technical Consultant at Denodo, to get insights on how to plan and manage your sprint activities in Denodo development with recommended best practices.

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• Sprint timeline and activities
• Suggested automation for continuous integration
• Promotion process and continuous delivery

Unraveling the Data Lake: MPP integration within a Logical Data Fabric

With the appearance of cloud object storage services like AWS S3 or Azure ADLS, the data lake has seen an upturn in usage as some of the challenges of the original idea were addressed. However, companies across the globe still find it challenging to adopt data lakes into the corporate data ecosystem. While almost infinite in storage, data retrieval from these sources and integration of the data with the corporate ecosystem is still an arduous task for data engineers.

Design Guidelines for Data Mesh and Decentralized Data Organizations

In recent years, there has been a significant push towards decentralized data organizations where different domains are partially or fully responsible for exposing their own data for analytics.

Securitizing data using fine-grained privileges in multi-layered virtual models

Securitizing data is one of the most important tasks in an organization. Denodo can offer a wide range of data, gathering data from different sources, and delivering this data to many client applications and final users. When returning the data, Denodo provides several options to securitize the data, and just let the right users and client applications read this data. One of the options for achieving this purpose is using fine-grained privileges over the view.

Surpassing Element by Element Access Control: Semantic-Based Security Policies

Security of data in an organization is becoming more and more important. With a plethora of tools for storing and accessing many different data sets, securing an organization's data assets can quickly become a daunting task. Not only will this be hard on database administrators and data engineers, but it could also lead to mistakes and in the worst case data breaches.

Development Strategy and Best Practices with Denodo

Are you looking to define a development strategy for your organization based on the best practices? Thinking about how to establish a structure for your project? Are you modeling the metadata in the right way?

Join Varun Prasan Keshar (Data Engineer, Denodo) to get directions on how different development strategies can be implemented with Denodo along with the Best Practices.

This session would revolve around the following topics:

• Organizing Projects with Denodo
• Structuring the Metadata
• View Development

Denodo Solution Manager: Best Practices for Promotion

Accelerate your Data Science Ops using Denodo

Data Scientists are often in need of data from many datasets to get proper insights for their AI / ML needs. Even if they figure out the location of their datasets, accessing, transforming and having the ability to store in a single place for frequent access is often difficult and time intensive. With Denodo Platform, you can easily apply the transformations and then make it available for your end users. Additionally, you can also automate this process using our Scheduler jobs.

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Self Service Analytics enabled by Data Virtualization from Denodo

Self-service Analytics BI is often quoted by many - ie, allow users to discover and access data without having to ask IT to create a data mart, or by allowing users to directly export/copy the data from the data sources themselves into their analytics tools and systems.

Maximizing Data Lake ROI with Data Virtualization: A Technical Demonstration

Companies with corporate data lakes also need a strategy for how to best integrate them with their overall data fabric. To take full advantage of a data lake, data architects must determine what data belongs in the Lake vs. other sources, how end users are going to find and connect to the data they need as well as the best way to leverage the processing power of the data lake. This webinar will provide you with a deep dive look at how the Denodo Platform for data virtualization enables companies to maximize their investment in their corporate data lake.

Enabling Real-Time Analytics in Today's Complex Enterprise Data Environments

Achieving the goals of real time analytics in today's increasingly complex enterprise data environments poses numerous challenges. Most organizations today require efficient access to integrated data assets across a wide variety of on-prem and cloud data sources.

Building a Consistent Hybrid Cloud Semantic Model In Denodo

Many businesses are moving to the Cloud. This process can take many years with data spanning On-Prem and Cloud. When Denodo needs to be deployed in a Hybrid Cloud Architecture, how should one implement that?

Join this session to get a deep dive look at how to create a shared Virtual Database that exposes a consistent Semantic Model using Denodo’s Interfaces. Both On Prem and Cloud will have their own Virtual Databases.

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Denodo: 3 Key Data Fabric Operational Features

In Gartner's 2020 research paper: Demystifying the Data Fabric, Gartner discusses that the core of the data fabric is able to consolidate many diverse data sources in an efficient manner by allowing trusted data to be delivered from all relevant data sources to all relevant data consumers through one common layer.

Denodo Design Studio: Modeling and Creation of Data Services

Change is the only constant and it is very important for enterprises to keep up with the changing times in an agile fashion. To ensure faster time to market, quick business insights and rapid data driven decision making, it is important that the Data Delivery channel is optimized in the best way possible.

Denodo’s Data Catalog: Accelerate AI/ML Modeling with Faster Access to Datasets

Data Scientists spend most of their time looking for the right data and massaging it into a usable format. How can the Denodo platform enable the data scientist and data engineer?