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Reading Time: 6 minutes Across all vertical markets, organizations adopt data virtualization as a core part of their IT infrastructure because data is becoming more distributed, more heterogeneous, and larger in volume. The pressures on business to be more competitive are continually growing, so…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Forrester report “Predictions 2018: A year of reckoning” predicted that 80% of firms affected by the GDPR will not be able to comply with the regulation by the time it comes into force on May 25. Of those noncompliant…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on May 25th, 2018, and all businesses that serve European Union customers will be required to comply. Companies that fall short of compliance with GDPR will be subject…
Reading Time: 4 minutes First there was EII (Enterprise Information Integration) otherwise known as data federation. Data federation technologies allow one central data store (virtual or physical) to link to one or more remote data sources. The central store allows the consuming application to…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine you’ve been walking in the Alps on a hot summer’s day, you’ve reached the highest point of your trek and you come across the crystal clear water of a mountain lake, who wouldn’t want to jump in? In the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Business users across the enterprise require access to complete and related information, and they need access to this data in real-time, they need Fast Data. For example, in order to understand and identify opportunities for cross-sell and up-sell, customer facing…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve had several conversations with BI practitioners recently around the need to provision data agilely in order to support Self-Service Business Intelligence initiatives. Many have been confused as to the roles that some of the great data blending tools out…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the best parts of my job is helping customers realise their goals of turning a theoretical proposed enterprise architecture with all its promise into a reality by deploying an Enterprise Data Access Layer. It’s a tenuous link, but…
