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Author: Carolyn Fernald

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Checklist for AI and ML Readiness

Enterprise AI and ML continues to gain momentum in data intensive industries, bringing with it a suite of transformative capabilities for enterprises. From uncovering hidden insights through complex pattern recognition to leveraging historical data with predictive analytics, AI is reshaping modern data management. Data classification categorizes information based on its features, making it easier to… Continue reading Checklist for AI and ML Readiness

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Snowflake Summit Recap: The Year of Enterprise AI  

We are back in the real world this week after an productive week in San Francisco at Snowflake Summit, which means we get to take all the announcements and fanfare and get ready to apply them to the real-world opportunities and concerns of our data-minded clients.   The Snowflake Keynote Stage was the epicenter of an… Continue reading Snowflake Summit Recap: The Year of Enterprise AI  

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How to Support Data as a Product in Your Organization

It’s time to start thinking about your Data as a Product.  The data being created in your organization is only growing, along with the different tools that both manage and create more data. It’s an alphabet soup of data sources – CRMs, ERPs, POSs, HRMSs, LMSs, R&D, FP&A – and inside each acronym lies a… Continue reading How to Support Data as a Product in Your Organization

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Banking Industry Panel – The Challenges to Modernization and How to Get Started with Immediate ROI

In a panel discussion at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, banking industry experts from Snowflake, ALTR, Passerelle, and Hanscom Federal Credit Union addressed the urgency of modernization efforts for banks and credit unions. The Panel consists of: James McGeehan, Head of Banking and Capital Markets at Snowflake, Paul Franz, VP of Business Development at ALTR,… Continue reading Banking Industry Panel – The Challenges to Modernization and How to Get Started with Immediate ROI

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“Schema Drift Watch Native App” Wins Inaugural Passerelle Hackathon 

Passerelle team members flexed their engineering and innovation muscles in a one-day Hackathon that created three Native Apps for the Snowflake Marketplace. Additional Hackathon projects included development of a Generative AI solution for structured and unstructured data in Snowflake, creation of an ALTR companion tool to streamline configuration by API, and integration of QlikSense in… Continue reading “Schema Drift Watch Native App” Wins Inaugural Passerelle Hackathon 

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Troy Carmichael Shares Secret to Success in Data Estate Modernization

Renasant Bank SVP of Enterprise Data Troy Carmichael shared the story of Renasant’s successful data estate modernization, alongside experts from Snowflake, Talend, Equifax and GrowthLoop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qur4W0btSfE&t During the event, Troy shared his thoughts on the strategic vision of Renasant Bank’s data management, alongside a panel of industry leaders. Topics included: Why is it important to… Continue reading Troy Carmichael Shares Secret to Success in Data Estate Modernization

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Agile Data Governance Month – Creating an Agile Data Governance Toolkit 

In the final installment of our series in Agile Data Governance Month, we will explore tools that can accelerate implementation of use cases and simplify core data governance tasks. While no technology should be viewed as cure-all when establishing your Data Governance posture, most organizations can benefit from tools that make it easier to implement… Continue reading Agile Data Governance Month – Creating an Agile Data Governance Toolkit 

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Agile Data Governance Month – 5 Questions to Find Your First Use Case

The biggest obstacle to establishing a Data Governance posture can be scale. Metaphors about boiling saltwater aside, most organizations on a Data Governance journey will find the most success by starting with smaller use cases and scaling out. We call this Agile Data Governance.  Can Agile Data Governance work for you? Ask yourself these challenger… Continue reading Agile Data Governance Month – 5 Questions to Find Your First Use Case

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Agile Data Governance Month – Can Data Governance be Agile?

When Data Governance initiatives fail or stall out, it is not because they aren’t viewed as important. Even with executive and stakeholder buy-in, Data Governance can be seen as too big a lift and might be deprioritized in favor of initiatives with more immediate ROI.   In Part 1 of this four-part series, we learned about… Continue reading Agile Data Governance Month – Can Data Governance be Agile?

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Agile Data Governance Month – A Data Governance Primer

It’s Agile Data Governance Month! During the month of September, Passerelle will release a weekly serial discussing Agile Data Governance. By looking at Data Governance as an iterative process, you can work within a common project delivery mindsight, starting small and building Data Governance into the foundation of your data management practices. Can’t wait to read… Continue reading Agile Data Governance Month – A Data Governance Primer

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Demo: Data Quality Watch

Cloud data management unlocks the power of transformative technologies, including prescriptive AI solutions, advanced analytics and 3rd party data enrichment. But you can’t use new technologies or tools on data you can’t trust. Data Quality Watch™ is an automation solution that used Talend to profile the quality and usability of data within the Snowflake Data… Continue reading Demo: Data Quality Watch

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Regional Banking Leaders Share Insights into Data Estate Modernization

Regional Banking Leaders from Camden National Bank, Renasant Bank and Berkshire Bank discussed opportunities and challenges in data estate modernization at an April 27 Regional Banking Roundtable, hosted by Passerelle. During the event, panelists exchanged ideas on the following questions: For insights to these questions, and more, watch the Regional Banking Roundtable. When you’re ready… Continue reading Regional Banking Leaders Share Insights into Data Estate Modernization

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Regional Banking Roundtable Supports Community Nonprofits

When community banks talk about creating a better banking experience for account holders, it’s not simply a business proposition. Regional banks strive to give better products and services to people and businesses in their communities – neighbors and business owners, families and retirees, business leaders and teachers, little league coaches and firefighters – the people… Continue reading Regional Banking Roundtable Supports Community Nonprofits

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Point Systems Might Be Hindering Data Strategy at Banks and Credit Unions – Here’s What to Do About It 

Improving the customer experience has been top of mind for banks and credit unions for years, leading to expansive technology investments. Financial institutions have implemented targeted point solutions or microservices for virtually every aspect of the banking experience, from online application platforms to customer relationship management (CRM) to fraud detection. While each serves a functional… Continue reading Point Systems Might Be Hindering Data Strategy at Banks and Credit Unions – Here’s What to Do About It 

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Data for Breakfast Ottawa – Community Giveback

We love swag and we love to share – if you’d like something that is branded with our lovely logo or name, let us know. But this year, we’re going to focus our “giveaways” on the communities we visit as we turn Data to Action. Find us in the Talend Booth at Data for Breakfast… Continue reading Data for Breakfast Ottawa – Community Giveback

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Talend and Passerelle to Sponsor Higher Education Data Warehouse Conference

Passerelle and Talend are cosponsors of the Higher Education Data Warehouse Conference, being held April 23-26 in Ogden, Utah. The Higher Education Data Warehouse (HEDW) Conference attracts data management professionals from colleges and universities throughout the United States, with a mission of sharing knowledge about data management, best practices, data warehousing designs, institutional reporting strategies… Continue reading Talend and Passerelle to Sponsor Higher Education Data Warehouse Conference

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Demo: Mastered Data Framework

Passerelle’s Senior Engineering Consultant Guillaume Durand walks through Data Rocket’s Data Mastering Framework using a manufacturing scenario in this demo video.  Guillaume shows how the manufacturer could use the Data Mastering Framework, built on Talend and Snowflake, to create a single version of the truth from three distinct ERP and CRM source systems. Additionally, you… Continue reading Demo: Mastered Data Framework

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Passerelle Awarded Snowflake Financial Services Competency Badge for Accelerating Innovation in the Data Cloud 

Passerelle received Snowflake’s Financial Services Competency badge, after demonstrating repeated success implementing the Snowflake Data Cloud at financial services institutions across the United States and Canada.   The Snowflake Partner Network Competency Program validates Snowflake partners for the depth of their Snowflake expertise and commitment to driving customer impact across the Data Cloud ecosystem. Most of… Continue reading Passerelle Awarded Snowflake Financial Services Competency Badge for Accelerating Innovation in the Data Cloud 

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Passerelle Named Talend’s 2022 Innovation Partner of the Year (Americas)

Talend presented Passerelle with an award for Innovation Partner of the Year at its 2023 Talend Engage event in Nashville, Tennessee. The award honors Passerelle’s continued development of Data Rocket® – an accelerated modern data stack built on Talend and Snowflake. Additionally, Passerelle develops Highline products and services that accelerate technology implementation, including Talend Cloud… Continue reading Passerelle Named Talend’s 2022 Innovation Partner of the Year (Americas)

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Data Rocket Releases dbt cloud Integration 

Why is Data Transformation Essential?  Data Transformation is essential to transform raw data into a form that can be used by advanced data applications, such as Dataiku ML models, or Flywheel Customer Activation. Raw data from multiple sources can be disorganized and difficult to leverage. Data transformation organizes and prepares the data, creating mature data… Continue reading Data Rocket Releases dbt cloud Integration