Reading Time: 4 minutes In many businesses today, data complexity is already a challenge with more and more data stores both on-premises and in the cloud as well as thousands of possible data sources. The days of just having a data warehouse and some…
Reading Time: 2 minutes People looking to purchase licensed music, and music authors looking to sell their music, both require a trusted intermediary to bring them together. We provide that critical function in Germany. GEMA (In English, the acronym stands for the Society for…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The current data landscape is fragmented, not just in location but also in terms of shape and processing paradigms: data lakes, IoT architectures, noSQL and graph data stores, SaaS vendors, etc. are found coexisting with relational databases to fuel the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we began consolidating our technology and AI predictions for 2019, what stood out to me were the ways in which artificial intelligence can be used for social good in 2019 and beyond. In 2018 the CDC determined that approximately…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Professional cyclists need to combine training, tactics, and aerodynamic gear to cross the finish line first. The same applies when you consider your data-driven business, only the most agile data management system will see your organization ride to victory. New…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some still think it makes sense to compare ETL tools with data virtualization servers. Let me be clear, it really doesn’t. Unquestionably, both tool categories belong to the class of data integration tools, like data replication tools, data wrangling tools,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes A deliberately rhetorical question, given that my position in this regard is that of a firm and convinced yes, recognizing in data virtualization the ideal place to realize the syntactic transformation, semantically invariant, which allows sharing and disseminating the company’s…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alice Well’s early successes as CIO at Advanced Banking Corporation (ABC) in solving the old problem of getting real-time data (Gaining Real Time Insight) to the call center and the newer opportunity presented by the data lake (A Warehouse in…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ok, forgive the hyperbole in the title since data virtualization doesn’t actually have magic powers to keep you safe from getting ticketed by the police. However, in one specific series of incidents that I recently encountered which did involve getting…
Reading Time: 3 minutes With data becoming the brain food to the intelligence of every organization, regardless of size or sector, it has become crucial to harness this data to achieve the best results, make the most informed decisions and improve productivity. However, with…
