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Designing a Medallion Architecture in Snowflake for Investment Data: A Technical Blueprint
The Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) is widely adopted across modern data platforms
These 6 Power Apps Features Help You Build Consistent, Scalable Applications
Many organizations start using Power Apps to build internal tools like forms, approvals, and day-to-day workflows
Why There Has Been A Massive Shift To Self-Service BI?
Collecting, managing, and presenting data from different sources has been around for quite a while, but it’s seen significant changes. Because of the constant increases in Business Intelligence, that has been a tremendous change in the way businesses accumulate,...
Ethical Algorithms For Green Investing
Could the technology behind Siri help funds invest more sustainably? Under the specter of climate change, investors are putting pressure on asset managers to invest more ethically. A recent study by McKinsey & Company puts assets that consider environmental,...
How To Jump-Start Your Firm’s Analytics Journey In Just One Day
Do you think your firm is too late to kick-start its analytics journey? (or) Your firm is already using BI and analytics to a limited extent, but facing delay in achieving the desired outcome due to inconsistencies in data structure and format across disparate...
Asset Managers Are Hunting For Unique Data To Get An Edge – Is It Worth It?
By 2020, it’s estimated that 4.4 terabytes of data will be generated each month for every human on earth. From cell phone calls to social media, credit card purchases to satellite images, the human race is creating data at an unprecedented rate. In every sector of...
Why Asset Managers Are Migrating To Cloud Data Warehousing
Cloud data warehousing is more than just a buzz word. It is the underpinning of a giant technological shift in the way all kinds of firms store, process, and analyze the ever-growing amounts of data critical to their business. Capital markets firms have traditionally...
3 Pre-Requisites For Data Management In Asset Management Firms
Asset managers make critical data-driven decisions on every business day, unlike other industries where such decisions are made relatively less frequently. In the case of asset management firms, when there is a change in the rating of a security, it has greater...
Setting Up Data Integration For Asset Management Firms
Having a centralized data repository (CDR) fitted with a data quality business rules engine sets asset management firms on the path to better data management. The next step is to integrate the data between the source and target systems via the CDR. This step would...
GIPS 2020 Standards – One Size Doesn’t Fit All
The Background It’s been almost a decade since the CFA Institute unleashed the 2010 Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) to homogenize the way asset management firms calculate and report performance to investors. As we head into 2019, the powers that be are...
Data Quality Framework For Asset Management Firms
The Centralized Data Repository (CDR) setup for asset management firms acts as the foundation for the data management initiatives. This is the first step towards achieving a single source of truth and eliminating siloed operations. The next step is to ensure the...