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Reading Time: 6 minutes Ok, forgive the hyperbole in the title since data virtualization doesn’t actually have magic powers to keep you safe from getting ticketed by the police. However, in one specific series of incidents that I recently encountered which did involve getting…
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to Gartner, 60% of all the big data projects fail and according to Capgemini 70% of the big data projects are not profitable. There can only be one conclusion, big data projects are hard! There is not one specific…
Reading Time: 4 minutes To know and knowing to know, that is, one more word for a profoundly different meaning, which introduces that awareness of knowledge, which is a key element for its sharing and, furthermore, the foundation to derive from it that value…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Data are the eyes with which we look at reality. They are the means – not the only one – with which every company can aspire to have full awareness of itself and of the context in which it operates…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have long been an advocate of integrating data quality techniques as a core component of an organization’s end-to-end data processes. When I began evangelizing data quality management about twenty years ago, the common practices for data quality involved post-processing…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oil and gas companies rely on timely intelligence to guide daily drilling, investment, and business development decisions. This is why Enverus, which gathers information from a variety of sources and leverages it to develop enriched intelligence, packaged specifically to meet…
Reading Time: 3 minutes When E.F. (Ted) Codd developed the relational model in the early 1970s, he had a dream. He wanted applications to be independent of the data storage and data access layer. Changes made to one should not lead to changes to…
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: 5 minutes Founded in the Black Forest in Germany in 1987, Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer (GFT) has grown to become a highly trusted, international consulting company focused on the financial industry. Now a trusted Denodo Partner, GFT is bringing the benefits of data…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The current data-volume explosion can be traced back to a time when our society began to focus more on customers as individuals. We see ourselves as independent, unique people with free will, not bound by social conformity. Catering to that…
