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Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s data economy depends on the data generated by people, and increasingly by the devices, appliances, and machines that make up the IoT. Data is enabling the granular targeting of people’s affinities, so people are expecting more personalized products. Although…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having advanced caching mechanisms is a key capability of an enterprise-class Data Virtualization platform. Cache in a data virtualization environment is used in different situations: Protect the data source from excessive loads or spikes of queries Avoid performing complex and/or…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Companies cannot make fast, effective business decisions if each department has a slightly different view of customers, products, and other core entities. But gaining a single, unified view is especially challenging when companies engage in rapid evolution, and they introduce…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In today’s world, the most important aspect of enhancing your consumer experience is understanding your customer—and the best way to understanding them is from their data. Master Data Management As consumers interact with your business, you capture data central to…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Big data infrastructures, supported by effective new data science tools and the IoT, are making it possible to understand the actions and proclivities of customers at a highly granular level. This is inspiring organizations to modernize their data architectures, with…
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog was penned by guest blogger, Thibault Perier, Data Scientist from Astrakhan Innovation Management. A typical company manages many disparate data sources, representing volumes that are only growing larger over time (all whilst big data repositories expand in capacity…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We make decisions every day: What am I going to wear? What am I going to have for dinner? Do I want dessert? Most of the time, we base our final decisions by weighing external factors: Is it cold outside?…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Savvy organizations know that business growth and success are intrinsically linked with an effective strategy for managing data. But as the big data momentum builds, more questions are raised. In this post, I’ll answer five of the most important ones….
Reading Time: 2 minutes Forrester Research recently published The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Virtualization, Q4 2017 report. The firm profiled 13 vendors in this report. The last Wave on this topic was published in March 2015 with 9 vendors. Here is an account of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The strength of Hadoop and NoSQL systems in supporting big data systems is indisputable. These big data technologies are designed, built, and optimized specifically for large-scale and high-performance environments. Their support for massively parallel hardware architectures and cheap commodity hardware…
