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Organizations face challenges in accessing and analyzing governed data across multiple sources through their preferred business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools while maintaining security and governance. They need a seamless way to connect their familiar tools (like Tableau, Power BI, Excel) to Amazon SageMaker‘s data assets without compromising data governance and security protocols.

Artificial intelligence discovery will play a meaningful role in this year’s retail holiday season, with 72% of U.S. consumers regularly or at least occasionally tapping AI tools for ideas and recommendations.

Data models map the relationships between data entities and attributes in a way that “captures the business meaning of data,” according to consultant Peter Aiken. And they need to change as the makeup of an organization’s data changes, he said in a Dataversity webinar on data architecture and data modeling best practices.

In our last three meetings in this virtual space, we spent quality time getting to know Excel’s Power Query tool. We saw how Power Query transforms data and how accountants can use it to automate bank reconciliations. I also had the privilege of introducing you to my favourite Excel feature, which resides in Power Query.