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Reading Time: 2 minutes The current data landscape is fragmented, not just in location but also in terms of shape and processing paradigms: data lakes, IoT architectures, noSQL and graph data stores, SaaS vendors, etc. are found coexisting with relational databases to fuel the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alice Well’s early successes as CIO at Advanced Banking Corporation (ABC) in solving the old problem of getting real-time data (Gaining Real Time Insight) to the call center and the newer opportunity presented by the data lake (A Warehouse in…
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 2019 is the year of the data-driven organization. The more data an organization collects, the more insights they will have, right? Well no actually, it’s more about how you glean the insights from the data rather than how much data…
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: 2 minutes Change is sometimes difficult to embrace, especially when it involves downtime. Autodesk, makers of world-renowned 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, wanted to change from perpetual licensing to subscription-based licensing, but knew that this change would likely impact the entire…
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 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: 2 minutes Ever since 2015, when the price of oil dropped precipitously, oil and gas companies have had to find every opportunity to reduce expenses while maximizing every available revenue source. For Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, this meant transforming its analytics capabilities, which…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is an influential series of reports published annually by the IT consulting firm Gartner, Inc. The latest edition of the MQ for Data Integration has been recently released (you can read it here) and it identifies…
