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Reading Time: 4 minutes Many companies today are embarking on data governance initiatives to avoid drowning in big data. As explained here, data governance tries to establish an upfront agreement regarding: What the company needs to track How those things should be named What…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One constant trend of society is its continuous evolution into more intricate systems, with processes, markets, products and consumer needs becoming more and more complex over time. A common strategy for organizations to handle this increasing complexity has been specialization:…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The success and survival of business is becoming increasingly tied to the way in which companies understand and harness the data that they have access to. In Bernard Marr’s article “What is Data Virtualization and Why Does It Matter?” he…
Reading Time: 7 minutes How many users, inside and outside your organization, access your organization’s data? Dozens? More likely you have a hundred or more, each with his or her own structure and content requirements. Moreover, users probably have different rights, in terms of…
Reading Time: 6 minutes When creating an enterprise data layer using data virtualization some of the questions that usually came up are, what are the options for metadata management and how to provide data governance now that everything is accessed from a new unified…
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: 3 minutes There has been a lot of rhetoric around how data is the new oil and why it is the most critical asset and a resource that an enterprise owns. No doubt, enterprise data, today, is business capital. However making meaningful…
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: 2 minutes The Problem “How do I find mouse epithelial cell lines?” “I’m looking for a mus musculus prostate cell line—does anyone have one?” “I need some CRL-2731, where is it?” While scientists may recognize that these questions could all have the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Faster-than-enterprise-software Growth in Data Integration Market Coupled with Data Virtualization’s Rapid Adoption as an Alternative to Material Data Integration The 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration tools was just released, shedding new light on data integration market growth and…
