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Reading Time: 2 minutes In today’s increasingly fractured data environment, data is dispersed across multiple on-premise and cloud environments. In such scenarios, it is unreasonable to believe that all of an organization’s data will be stored in a single repository. With this now being…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Enterprises are under pressure to more effectively monitor, manage, and extend their sustainability initiatives. They also need to demonstrate them to customers, partners, and regulators. But just why is data so critical in these “green” goals? IDC data shows that…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, many businesses are modernizing their on-premises data warehouses or cloud-based data lakes using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. Whether or not they begin with on-premises systems, such modernization efforts often involve the implementation of hybrid configurations. Unfortunately, with data spread…
Reading Time: 4 minutes An organization’s data consists of an extensive network of spreadsheets, databases, graphs, and charts. However, such resources are just the connecting dots in a vast data ecosystem. Before we look at how modern data ecosystems can drive business value, let’s…
Reading Time: 3 minutes We are naturally inclined to think that our relationship with data develops solely in the world > data > use direction, in which data captures what happens in the world, and we use data to understand events in the world…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the biggest challenges for organizations is to integrate data from various sources. Despite modern advancements such as big data technologies and cloud, data often ends up in organized silos, but this means that cloud data is separated from…
Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). It was written by L. Delport. Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”….
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the last few years, there has been a strong focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. ESG represents the standards used by socially conscious investors to screen potential investments. It takes a holistic view that sustainability extends beyond…
Reading Time: 3 minutes With the gradual rise in digitization across many organizations, the approach towards customer engagement has drastically evolved over the years. Particularly in recent times, there has been an ever-growing demand for organizations to be able to provide unified, effective and…
Reading Time: 4 minutes My previous post explained that, in my mind, the data lakehouse differs hardly at all from the traditional data warehouse architectural design pattern (ADP). It consists largely of the application of new cloud-based technology to the same requirements and constraints…
