Reading Time: 2 minutes Companies cannot make fast, effective business decisions if each department has a slightly different view of customers, products, and other core entities. But gaining a single, unified view is especially challenging when companies engage in rapid evolution, and they introduce…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, I will introduce the idea of the logical data lake, a logical architecture in which a physical data lake augments its capabilities by working in tandem with a virtual layer. In subsequent posts in this series, I’ll…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many organizations today have either already created or are in the process of creating a data lake. There are of course multiple configurations of a data lake including: A centralized data lake typically on a single data store such as…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recently published The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q2 2018 highlights the need for an integrated infrastructure – the ‘fabric’ – to support your big data. In the headlong rush to create data lakes and other big data architectures, organizations…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Founded in the Black Forest in Germany in 1987, Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer (GFT) has grown to become a highly trusted, international consulting company focused on the financial industry. Now a trusted Denodo Partner, GFT is bringing the benefits of data…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The current data-volume explosion can be traced back to a time when our society began to focus more on customers as individuals. We see ourselves as independent, unique people with free will, not bound by social conformity. Catering to that…
Reading Time: 2 minutes No one likes to wait for IT to deliver reports that are critical for analysis. And certainly, no analyst can afford to wait while emails are sent back and forth, just so they can get the data they need. Unfortunately,…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May 2018. The new legislation means that organizations will have to comply with more stringent requirements for the protection of personal data. In previous posts, we explained how to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A plan for migrating organizational data to the cloud is often motivated by three key factors: Economics: In many cases, the costs of “renting” cloud storage and computing power is much less than the cost of purchasing (and then depreciating)…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Forrester report “Predictions 2018: A year of reckoning” predicted that 80% of firms affected by the GDPR will not be able to comply with the regulation by the time it comes into force on May 25. Of those noncompliant…
