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…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Today, many applications call themselves “data catalogs.” The idea seems, on the face of it, easy to understand: a data catalog is simply a centralized inventory of the data assets within an organization. Data catalogs also seek to be the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many businesses are moving towards a cloud-based approach in terms of managing their data, but that doesn’t mean that incorporating the cloud into businesses is an easy process. Also, after moving to a cloud-based environment, many organizations realize that their…
Reading Time: 3 minutes MultiChoice Group is a media and entertainment giant from South Africa that provides satellite television service with brands such as DStv and GOtv. With its Showmax brand, it also operates in the online subscription video-on-demand segment and competes with international…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The amount of expanding volume and variety of data originating from various sources are a massive challenge for businesses. In attempts to overcome their big data challenges, organizations are exploring data lakes as repositories where huge volumes and varieties of…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous post, I discussed the unbridled copying of data by IT and the new design principle called data minimization, and I said that it was time for data-on-demand architectures. In fact, the post was a plea for developing…
