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Reading Time: 3 minutes According to Gartner, 60% of all the big data projects fail and according to Capgemini 70% of the big data projects are not profitable. There can only be one conclusion, big data projects are hard! There is not one specific…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently published The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018 highlights the need for an integrated infrastructure – the ‘fabric’ – to support your big data. In the headlong rush to create data lakes and other big data architectures, organizations…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was surfing the Tableau website and recently spotted a testimonial on their partner pages stating “Tableau Partners are an extension of our team, enabling people all over the world to achieve better insights from their data.” Working in the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Savvy organizations know that business growth and success are intrinsically linked with an effective strategy for managing data. But as the big data momentum builds, more questions are raised. In this post, I’ll answer five of the most important ones….
Reading Time: 3 minutes The strength of Hadoop and NoSQL systems in supporting big data systems is indisputable. These big data technologies are designed, built, and optimized specifically for large-scale and high-performance environments. Their support for massively parallel hardware architectures and cheap commodity hardware…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have entered an almost unprecedented era where data threatens to overwhelm us. We need efficient data management, but it all comes down to this: Without a way to simplify our consumption of this onslaught of data, businesses are in…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The big-data-world, it seems, is jumping on the data-virtualization-bandwagon. According to Gartner, “By 2018, organizations with data virtualization capabilities will spend 40% less on building and managing data integration processes for connecting distributed data assets.”1 This solidifies data virtualization as…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Challenges to Enterprise-wide Adoption of Big Data Technologies Lack of comprehensive strategic planning is proving to be the greatest impediment to enterprise-wide adoption of big data technologies. While organizations are quick to invest in new technologies like Hadoop cluster and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Big data has entered many companies’ data centers and is already transforming whole business models. The grade of adoption varies from initial test and educational projects towards fully-fledged big data landscapes; on-premise or leveraging the flexibility and power of cloud…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…
