Data lakes improve business decision making

The data lake has long been a powerful tool for data scientists and engineers. But today’s business environment often requires users without coding or scripting skills to access the data stored in lakes. A new study from analytics and business intelligence specialist Arcadia Data  looks in detail at the use of data lakes and the analytical tools that surround them. The results show that most organizations (62 percent) deploy their lakes on Hadoop clusters. 61 percent of all respondents said, "business users can author and edit reports and dashboards without coding." In addition 76 percent of respondents believe, "BI/analytics for… [Continue Reading]