Bal Heroor works as a CEO and Principal Consultant at Mactores. Mactores is a trusted leader among businesses in providing modern data platform solutions. Since 2008, we have been enabling businesses to accelerate their value through automation by providing End-to-End Data Solutions that are automated, agile, and secure. We collaborate with customers to strategize, navigate, and accelerate an ideal path forward with a digital transformation via assessments, migration, or modernization

Blogs and Articles

Right Use Cases For Relational DB, Document DB, Graph DB, Time Series DB, and In-Memory DB

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The right database solution is essential for businesses aiming to grow in a competitive environment. The heart of any information system, the databa...

Mar 20, 2024 by Bal Heroor

8 Techniques to Minimize Downtime During Database Migration

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As data fuels decision-making and drives innovation, the significance of minimizing downtime during a database migration cannot be overstated. Every m...

Mar 20, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Optimizing Production Lines with GenAI: A Manufacturing Game-Changer

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The manufacturing landscape is transforming with the integration of Generative AI (GenAI). As a manufacturing company, you get a smarter and more effi...

Mar 7, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Future-Proof Your Database: Generative AI for Oracle Migration to AWS

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The digital landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation driven by the ever-increasing volume and complexity of data. As organizations strive to rem...

Mar 1, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Automated MLOps: Scaling AI from Experimentation to Production

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The promise of AI to revolutionize industries is undeniable. From optimizing supply chains to predicting customer behavior, its potential applicatio...

Feb 23, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Automated MLOps: Data Science to Operations Excellence

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Imagine a bustling city where data scientists are architects, engineers are builders, and business stakeholders are residents. Each group speaks its o...

Feb 21, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Simplified ML with Automated MLOps: Navigating Complexity

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The adoption of ML is skyrocketing across industries, with Statista predicting global market volume to reach an astounding $528.10 billion by 2030. Ho...

Feb 16, 2024 by Bal Heroor

The Impact of Automated MLOps on Business Efficiency and Innovation

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The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution reshapes industries, drives innovation, and unlocks new possibilities. However, harnessing the true potent...

Feb 16, 2024 by Bal Heroor

Essential Data Governance Strategies for your Data Stack

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According to a report by Forbes, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created daily, which continues to grow exponentially. Moreover, with the increasing...

Jun 15, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Data Lakehouses in Healthcare and what are it's Benefits

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A data lakehouse is a relatively new type of data architecture that can overcome many of the data management challenges currently facing traditional h...

Jun 15, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Manufacturing Companies' 2023: Insights & Strategies

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Manufacturing companies are increasingly embracing digital transformation and data analytics to enhance their operations and their competitiveness. Da...

Jun 14, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Healthcare Companies' 2023 Plans: Exclusive Surge Data Insights

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Jun 14, 2023 by Bal Heroor

The Impact of Data Security Breaches on Company Value

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Keeping a business secure is a never-ending race, with cyber attackers and bad actors seemingly always one step ahead. While business organizations ar...

Jun 14, 2023 by Bal Heroor

How Companies Can Perform Analytics on Blockchain Transactions

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Over the last two decades, the rapid pace of technological advancement has led to the widespread adoption of technologies that are changing how we liv...

Mar 19, 2023 by Bal Heroor

How to Launch a Modern Data Platform in 90 Days

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Are you looking to create a modern data platform? Let’s look at what a data platform can do for you and how you can build a modern data platform in 90...

Feb 1, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Are You Unlocking the Power of Your Data? Enhance your Analytics with Mactores Aedeon Data Lake

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The Mactores Aedeon Data Lake is a scalable, secure, and resilient data lake platform that enables various types of analytics, such as predictive, pre...

Feb 1, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Analytics for Inventory Optimization for Competitive Pricing

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Inventory optimization with analytics is a necessary part of any supply chain system. Businesses need to be able to estimate what they need and what t...

Jan 31, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Trade Risk and Pricing Analytics Platforms

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Pricing analytics platforms automate pricing by analyzing market trends, user behavior and competition strategies to optimize a company's pricing mode...

Jan 31, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Deep Dive: Enterprise Data Warehouse Migrations

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An enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is a central repository for an organization's structured data to support business intelligence (BI) activities, suc...

Jan 31, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Getting Business Value from Predictive Analytics

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Predictive analytics is a powerful tool for businesses to gain insights and make better decisions. This is a data analytics model that uses your histo...

Jan 17, 2023 by Bal Heroor

7 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Taking Over the Manufacturing Industry

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Artificial intelligence has quietly been taking over the manufacturing industry, and it’s having a major impact. Take a look at the key benefits of AI...

Jan 5, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Fully managed and scalable modernized data streaming platform

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Streaming services must ensure that their data is secure, highly available, and accessible. Apache Kafka can deliver on that promise. That's why it's ...

Aug 17, 2022 by Bal Heroor

How to modernize your data platform faster with cloud-based ETL

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Your data is growing exponentially and coming from new and diverse sources. Leveraging data for competitive advantage demands that people with varied ...

Aug 17, 2022 by Bal Heroor

Flipboard Partners with Mactores to Migrate High Volume Cloudera HBase Data Platform to a Fully-Managed Amazon EMR Service

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The social media company Flipboard started with a mission to create a user-centric news curation platform that connects every user with the most relev...

Aug 16, 2022 by Bal Heroor

Efficient Hadoop EMR Migration: Automation for Development & Cost

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You’ve already chosen Apache Hadoop because it’s one of the best frameworks for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. But there are many challeng...

Aug 16, 2022 by Bal Heroor

Migrating from Oracle database to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL using AWS DMS

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Synaptics is a California-based human interface hardware and software developer, including touchpads for laptops, touch, display drivers, and smartpho...

May 18, 2021 by Bal Heroor

3x Performance: Oracle to Amazon Redshift Migration with Zero Downtime

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A large manufacturing company faced many challenges with their Oracle data warehouse, which was deployed on-premises in 2009 with about 120 GB of data...

Jan 18, 2021 by Bal Heroor

Critical Data Governance Strategies for your Data Stack

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Learn about the Data Governance Strategies that one should consider for their data stack

Apr 12, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Data Lake houses in Healthcare and their benefits

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Discover how data lake houses can be beneficial in healthcare industries

Apr 11, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Government Data Breaches in today's age and the ways to combat them

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Explore the Government Data Breaches in today's age and the tips to combat them

Apr 7, 2023 by Bal Heroor

Challenges for Startups in Adopting AI and Data Analytics

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Learn about the common obstacles that new companies encounter, including limited resources, technical expertise, and data ...

Mar 9, 2023 by Bal Heroor

How IoT Architects Can Tap into the Benefits of a Data Lakehouse

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This article explores the key features and benefits of data lakehouses and provides best practices for IoT architects to u...

Mar 6, 2023 by Bal Heroor

How Data Security Breaches Affect a Company’s Value

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This article discusses the potential financial risks and costs associated with data breaches for businesses, and ways that...

Jan 14, 2023 by Bal Heroor

How Data Security Breaches Affect Your Company’s Value

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Learn how do data breaches like this happen and what can organizations do to better protect themselves?

Jan 12, 2023 by Bal Heroor