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Reading Time: 2 minutes It was 1970 when Simon and Garfunkel released their recording ‘Keep the Customer Satisfied’ on the record-breaking album Bridge Over Troubled Water. The idea of customer satisfaction in those days was met through a smile and the prompt service from…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The success and survival of business is becoming increasingly tied to the way in which companies understand and harness the data that they have access to. In Bernard Marr’s article “What is Data Virtualization and Why Does It Matter?” he…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just like any other software project, a data virtualization project is likely to face challenges related to changes of control. A key tool to address this challenge is by implementing a Version Control System (VCS). The key functionalities of a Version…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Intelligent caching is a key capability of an enterprise class data virtualization platform. Caching serves many purposes: one of the common uses is to enhance performance when dealing with sources with varying latencies, an increasingly common situation with data virtualization…
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is data virtualization? Here’s an analogy using a concept that we can all relate to: a supermarket. Picture the scene: Shopping list in one hand, shopping basket in the other, you’re ready to tackle your weekly shopping in your…
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is OData? The Open Data Protocol (OData), currently in version 4, is an open data exchange protocol maintained by the OASIS Consortium as a standard. Originally proposed by Microsoft in 2009 (and maintained by them until version 3), it…
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are a number of terms that have been coined to describe the process of collecting and compiling data—data integration, data federation, data virtualization….the list goes on. To an extent, the confusion across these terms is understandable as they all…
Reading Time: 5 minutes We have been talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) for many years now. But just how many “things” are we talking about? Last year, Gartner estimated that 20 billion things will be connected by 2018. These “things” are connected…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anyone working in business intelligence and analytics must count themselves lucky. And I’m feeling lucky too. We were here when Tableau and Qlik set a seismic market shift in motion, from reliance on IT to business user independence, creating the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Data virtualization receives its deserved recognition, as the market has significantly matured over the past few years. For the first time, Gartner has published a data virtualization specific Market Guide1, which particularly focuses on why data virtualization should be considered…
