Reading Time: 2 minutes Public and private organizations around the world are opening doors to their data, and to data geeks like me, this is a very good thing. Data that was once locked within inaccessible corporate databases, flat files. or perhaps even spreadsheets…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Uber owns no fleet, and Airbnb owns no real estate. These and other companies have grown very quickly, with relatively little investment, by establishing thin customer-interface layers above complex systems of goods or services owned by third parties. Point is to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes LeasePlan is a Dutch automobile leasing and financial services provider that specializes in fleet management services. Since its establishment in 1963, LeasePlan has evolved into the world’s largest fleet management service company, currently operating in 32 countries across the globe….
Reading Time: 4 minutes Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to take advantage of scalable yet elastic computing and storage resources. The availability and economics of the cloud for flexible and scalable high-performance environments has radically changed the way information architects envision the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, the market offers a wide range of IaaS options for data storage, with several public clouds vying for the attention of enterprise customers. Still, on-premises systems remain an option, and several companies prefer to maintain their own private clouds….
Reading Time: 5 minutes Data virtualization has a privileged position in modern architectures for data discovery and use cases such as data fabric and logical data warehousing. Data virtualization provides unified data access, data integration, and a delivery layer, bridging the gap between distributed…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic caused considerable disruption, but as a result, it also accelerated cloud adoption. As we moved towards remote working and switched to online customer interactions, it became clear that the cloud was more than just a “nice to have,”…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this increasingly digital economy, we have seen major change in customer behavior over the last several years as customers switch from traditional channels to digital ones to interact and transact business. Today, the vast majority of purchases take place…
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Data mesh” is a new data analytics paradigm proposed by Zhamak Dehghani, one that is designed to move organizations from monolithic architectures such as the data warehouse and the data lake to more decentralized architectures. As long-time supporters of logical…
Reading Time: 3 minutes BITanium, based out of South Africa, is a longstanding Denodo partner. Here, I would like to highlight the stories of two companies that have leveraged our partnership to unlock the full power of data within their organizations. First, a little…
