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Data warehouses and data lakes each evolved to meet a set of specific technology and business needs and values. As organizations often need both, there has been increasing demand for convergence of both technologies. Thus, the lakehouse was born. A lakehouse couples the cost benefits and versatility of data lakes with the data structure and high-performance data management capabilities of data warehouses into a single unified data store that can be consistently and efficiently accessed, governed, analyzed and consumed by AI applications. Lakehouses are designed to help organizations get more from their existing investment in data warehouses and data lakes. It supports the existence of both through access to and management of a larger variety of combined data for increased flexibility, enhancing business intelligence and AI initiatives by revealing deeper insights into an organization's data estates. This book is intended for technical communities, such as developers, data scientists, and C-level IT executives, as well as business communities, such as business managers requiring self-service analytics / AI, and C-level business executives.

This book on digital marketplaces primarily focuses on Knowledge Intensive Assets (KIAs) such as data, insights, models, digital twins, APIs, software applications, courseware, advertisements, games, and entertainment. KIAs are becoming significant in the world of trading and monetization. Marketplaces dealing with KIAs are just evolving, but they show the promise of notable growth rate. The steps to manage the trade of the KIAs--product validation, acquisition, pricing, and delivery--present challenges that are different than those of traditional commodities. The contents of this book present unique value in today's data- and AI-driven economy as all industry sectors are having to handle KIAs. This book provides a detailed look at the challenges and opportunities of marketplaces, especially those dealing with KIAs. As a compendium of marketplace functions, including monetization models and analysis of specific marketplace players, the contents of this book will be beneficial for industry practitioners, researchers, and business executives. The topics discussed include: Description of a broad spectrum of KIA products and their emerging market value Challenges in managing the KIA marketplaces Technology trends that support marketplace business The socio-economic impact of digital marketplaces