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Skills and Tools Every Data Engineer Needs to Tackle Big Data

Sisense

Hadoop is known to be fast, meticulous, and low cost, making it a favorite choice among enterprise companies that want to leverage their Big Data for better business decision making. MapReduce : The distributed processing framework of the Hadoop ecosystem, MapReduce is often referred to as the heart of the system.

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Three Best Practices for ASC 718 Reporting

Insight Software

Unfortunately, at the time that so many tech startups were springing up in the early 2000s, accounting practices related to the expensing of equity-based compensation were not well standardized. Many emerging companies, in their zeal to appear as profitable as possible, chose not to recognize such expenses at the time they were incurred.