Reading Time: 4 minutes “Le roi est mort, vive le roi.” This phrase—the king is dead, long live the king—marks the transfer of power from one monarch to the next. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these…
Reading Time: 4 minutes To understand how to accelerate and simplify cloud data integration and leverage cloud marketplaces, we first need to understand: What exactly is cloud data integration? It is nothing more than a consolidation of data from disparate data sources in which…
Reading Time: 3 minutes At the heart of every organization lies a data architecture, determining how data is accessed, organized, and used. For this reason, organizations must periodically revisit their data architectures, to ensure that they are aligned with current business goals. Here, as…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A recent post, on the cost and impact of persisted data, got me thinking: If data is the new oil, as some believe, then data virtualization is akin to the electrification of gas/petrol-powered cars. An Inconvenient Truth Cloud migration strategies,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Clouds in Africa only bring rain” – A former business partner said this to me about five years ago, before I worked at Denodo, about the future of cloud technology in Africa. Recently we held our first Denodo user group…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Business competition is fiercer than ever, especially in the digital space. The only way to differentiate your business is by adding value through data analysis to better understand customers and adapt strategy for rapid success. This entry reviews the 3…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the years, there has been a significant increase in regulations, specifically in the financial services industry, to curb the illicit activities that aid corruption, money laundering, and sanctions-busting. These regulations have particularly increased in the aftermath of the 2008…
Reading Time: 4 minutes When you need to write code to access data, it is hard to beat the flexibility of SQL. SQL allows you to ask for exactly the data you need, for example to combine data from multiple tables and target precisely…
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the core company and product missions here at Denodo is to enable end-to-end self-service BI by democratizing data management. We believe analytics today is being held back by data management complexity and challenges, and it is through data…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month, IDC announced that LeasePlan, a car-as-a-service company, was the winner of IDC’s European Data Strategy and Innovation awards, in the category of Data Management Excellence, for LeasePlan’s logical data fabric. This is a testament to the maturity of…
