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Reading Time: 3 minutes With data becoming the brain food to the intelligence of every organization, regardless of size or sector, it has become crucial to harness this data to achieve the best results, make the most informed decisions and improve productivity. However, with…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fresh from her success in supplying real-time transaction data to the call center using the Denodo Platform, Alice Well, recently appointed CIO of Advanced Banking Corporation (ABC), hears the three familiar, demanding raps on her office door. She glances toward…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Allow me to introduce the (fictitious) Advanced Banking Corporation, or ABC for short. It may be advanced in name, but its IT systems are anything but. ABC will be our constant companion as we explore all three scenarios for data…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the previous article we reviewed the architectural elements of the virtual data lake, and will discuss why a virtual data lake can play a key role for the data scientist. In this post, we will review why it plays…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The concept of big data is funny to me. It is funny because there isn’t any small data when it comes to large corporations. 99% of the companies we work with have big data and it is getting bigger. Companies’…
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2018 is exactly thirty years since I published the first data warehouse architecture. The core concepts of the architecture remain strong and viable. However, the evolution of both business needs and technology solutions over the intervening decades has led to…
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the previous article we reviewed the architectural elements of the virtual data lake, dug deeper into its technical implications. In this post, we will review the architectural elements of the virtual data lake, and will discuss why a virtual…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous article we reviewed some of the pros and cons behind the data lake ideas, as well as the reasons why a logical architecture like the virtual data lake addresses some of those issues. In this section, we…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, I will introduce the idea of the logical data lake, a logical architecture in which a physical data lake augments its capabilities by working in tandem with a virtual layer. In subsequent posts in this series, I’ll…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many organizations today have either already created or are in the process of creating a data lake. There are of course multiple configurations of a data lake including: A centralized data lake typically on a single data store such as…
