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Reading Time: 3 minutes The phrase “survival of the fittest” originated from Darwin’sevolutionary theory, describing the mechanism by which natural selection occurs. In business, the same principles apply; fast moving markets, new trends, new methods of customer engagement, new emerging technologies, all favour organisations…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I want to talk about a simple but powerful concept in business intelligence and analytics called a “unified semantic layer.” You might be a business user or analyst who works with a variety of tools, like Tableau…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In his recent blog post, Angel Vina, the founder and CEO of Denodo Technologies, introduced the Denodo Coronavirus Data Portal (CDP). He talked about why we, as a company, undertook this initiative to help fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Angel explained…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Denodo Platform enables seamless access to data views via GraphQL. No coding is required; the GraphQL API is generated by Denodo Platform metadata on the fly. You simply declare the data you want in a POST request to the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At UCB, a biopharma company based in Belgium, our core purpose is to improve the lives of people with severe diseases in the focus areas of immunology and neurology. Data is critical to this core purpose, as it guides important…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The star of SnowflakeDB keeps rising. This cloud-based, analytical SQL database server offers a set of powerful features, not in the least of which is high performance, end-to-end encryption, cloud platform independency, a self-driving engine, automatic scalability (up or down),…
Reading Time: 4 minutes According to CIO magazine, the first chief data officer (CDO) was employed at Capital One in 2002, and since then the role has become widespread, driven by the recent explosion of big data. The CDO role has a variety of…
Reading Time: 4 minutes What do data virtualization, streaming, and extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes have in common? They all deliver data from disparate sources to the business intelligence (BI), analytics, and other applications used by businesspeople, data scientists, and analysts. Like utilities,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Illumina, a San Diego-based biotech company, tasked the company that I work for, Analytica Consulting, with creating a Denodo data virtualization layer to support the data access needs of Illumina’s Global Quality Operations department. Now that the implementation is complete,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the Bronze age, recycling became large-scale, opening the doors to cross-border trade and collaboration across nations. Unwanted bronze implements were melted down and poured into a mold to make new implements, and thus the manufacturing technology of the bronze…
