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Reading Time: 3 minutes Geospatial data and the data virtualization world Geospatial data is information about a physical entity that can be represented by a set of values in a coordinate reference system. This kind of data is today very commonly used for enriching…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Many organizations have made it a high priority to implement a data virtualization solution. This makes sense, since traditional data warehouses can no longer keep pace with the explosive growth in data volumes and user queries. The logical data warehouse…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have entered an almost unprecedented era where data threatens to overwhelm us. We need efficient data management, but it all comes down to this: Without a way to simplify our consumption of this onslaught of data, businesses are in…
Reading Time: 4 minutes It seems at present there is huge amount of hype on big data and the concept of a data lake related to data virtualisation. Already however there is confusion as to what a data lake is with multiple different definitions…
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is no discussion about the business value of a data lake for data scientists. Everyone understands that bringing all the data together in one place makes access to data easy and quick for data scientists. Studies have shown that…
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: 2 minutes UPDATE: This event has now passed but you can watch all the sessions on-demand now by following this link. Last year we held the world’s first conference on fast data strategy, and it was an outstanding success. We presented over…
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: 7 minutes How many users, inside and outside your organization, access your organization’s data? Dozens? More likely you have a hundred or more, each with his or her own structure and content requirements. Moreover, users probably have different rights, in terms of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Typical estimates for the development of a new small molecule drug are that it involves preparation and testing of more than a thousand candidate molecules and results in a New Drug Application of over 100,000 pages. The data supporting such…
