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Reading Time: 5 minutesBusiness Intelligence (BI) is critical for the success of today’s enterprise. However, many companies still struggle to figure out how to use analytics to take advantage of their data. It is not the informational BI tools they have; it’s simply…
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne could almost call it tunnel vision. The way that we consistently hold on to one way in which to fulfil each and every need for information: data copying, transformation and integration in one physical database. We consider it almost…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCan you set your enterprise data free and make it dance to your tunes? Tunes that range from self-service BI to predictive analytics? Yes you can, with the help of the logical data warehouse powered by data virtualization. What is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Hadoop ecosystem is here to stay, for long. Having been one of the most important big data enablers in the recent years and in position to continue being so in the years to come, Hadoop is nowadays one of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesData science disciplines have evolved rapidly in recent years. Fueled by the rise of big data and the internet of things, advanced analysis of large data sets are driving science, business and marketing decisions. At the same time, the exponential…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2013, Gartner issued the CIO Agenda Report. In this report, CIOs ranked Analytics and Business Intelligence as their number 1 technology priority. Separately, just a few months ago, Forbes magazine confirmed that 89% of business leaders believe big data…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHadoop makes it possible for any organization to analyze huge amounts of data, at low cost and on commodity hardware. This is a major improvement from the past, when data analysis involved expensive servers – and therefore big budgets. Now,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesShort answer: Technology vision, unflinching execution, and team’s backing. That’s what BJ Fesq at CIT Group did, and he won the prestigious Computerworld technology leader award this year! I have known BJ Fesq for more than a year. He has…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHow does data virtualization guarantee quality of service in your business apps? This is something I am frequently asked, so I’ve decided to provide some insights. Data virtualization provides an abstraction layer over disparate heterogeneous data sources and offers a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’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…
