White Paper

“Why Did This Happen?” New Horizons in Root Cause Analysis

Learn about core concepts of root cause analysis, the advantages and disadvantages of the most popular tools and techniques in the field and find out what the cutting-edge looks like.

Cloud Data Warehouse Benchmark 2023

Compare the cost-to-performance relationship of the most popular managed/serverless cloud warehousing solutions and get insights on the value of individual features.

Automating BI Analytical Tasks with Anomaly Detection and NLG Summation

Learn how to design and implement a complex solution that automatically identifies anomalies in organizational data, provides relevant context and communicates it all in an easy-to-consume form to augment analysts' work.

Cloud Security Best Practices That Organizations Often Overlook When Migrating

This white paper goes beyond cloud providers' documentation to introduce best practices that will help your organization ensure a comprehensive security solution for a cloud environment at optimal long-term cost. 

Effective Location Data Monetization: Strategic and Technical Enablers

Geolocation data provides invaluable insights into the habits and preferences of users, customers and audiences. This white paper helps understand the fundamental opportunities and challenges inherent in using location data for business-critical processes in any industry.

Focusing Data Platform Modernization Efforts to Address Modern Business Challenges

For businesses seeking to grow their competitive advantage, the challenge today is clear: build more and better digital products while relying less on large teams and deep technical expertise. This white paper looks at why and how you should think about data platform modernization to achieve speed at scale with fewer resources.

An Agile Framework for BI Dashboard Development

Learn how to applying Agile methods and principles to BI dashboard development to ensure higher-quality outcomes and more time- and cost-effective delivery compared to traditional waterfall-style project management.

Five Ways Leading Businesses Use Tableau Write-Back Extensions

Forward-thinking organizations see investing in a Tableau license as just the start. They realize that customizing your Tableau deployment to your unique use cases is the key to making the most of the platform, and one way to do this is to streamline the communication and write-back processes to optimize workflows.

Five AI Trends in Healthcare to Watch in 2022

AI is transforming healthcare, unlocking unprecedented opportunities for enabling easier discovery of deeper insights that drive innovation – but the available technologies can very greatly in their maturity and domain-specific applicability. This white paper introduces five proven, future-resilient solutions to challenges that healthcare providers face today.

Understanding Topic Modeling and Planning Its Implementation

Topic modeling enables the analysis of text-based data to leverage insights that are difficult to extract and understand to help you optimize costs, improve operations and drive innovation. Read this white paper to understand the fundamentals of topic modeling and learn how to get started implementing it.

Optimizing Cloud Services for Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings

Cloud opens up a wealth of opportunities and can drastically reduce operational costs in the long-term — especially if you know where to look. This white paper introduces the most common strategies for ensuring that you get the most value from your move to the cloud.

Machine Learning Applied to Customer Targeting for Direct Sales

Using ML to effectively target the right customer at the right time with the right information can make a big difference in how effective your campaign is. This short white paper discusses some of the approaches and demonstrates how one company achieved a 6x uplift in conversions by apply ML to customer targeting.

Demand Forecasting with Latent Matrix Factorization

For many businesses, demand planning is essential. Profitability, cash flow, and customer satisfaction and retention all hinge on getting this right. This white paper will introduce latent matrix factorization to model demand curves and discuss how it can be used to achieve these outcomes.

Starschema HealthLake

Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) is an indispensable part of managing and delivering healthcare services but patient data handling is highly regulated, presenting a challenge to practitioners. Learn how Starschema HealthLake can ensure compliance with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) while streamlining analytics.

Machine Learning for Business Leaders

From recommender systems on streaming services to personal assistants like Siri or Alexa, ML is nearly everywhere today. This white paper demystifies machine learning for non-technical business stakeholders to better collaborate in, and derive more value from, data science initiatives.

Opening the Black Box - Learn how to think about AI and thrive in data-driven cultures of today and tomorrow

Machine Learning models can be so complex that they seem like a magical black box with inputs and outputs, but little understanding of how the outputs are derived. In this white paper,

Eszter Windhager-Pokol, Starschema head of data science, explains the concept of interpretability and several methods to address the problems posed by black box models.

Starschema Antares iDL™

A fully automated, compliant-by-design intelligence data lake architecture with real-time ingestion and best-of-breed standardization and audit features.

Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing

Data scientists and manufacturing specialists can examine production lines to determine what data can be used to predict future failures and how to best collect it. A recent (2018) report on the manufacturing industry saw 31% of manufacturing CEOs expecting artificial intelligence and machine learning to contribute to a reduction in operating costs. Learn how predictive maintenance helps make this reality.