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Reading Time: 3 minutes Organizations are rethinking their current data architectures. Unfortunately, the majority considers it a challenge. Obviously, one of the reasons is that they don’t do this every day. Also, insights about how to design them has changed over time. This article…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my last post, I covered some of the latest best practices for enhancing data management capabilities in the cloud. Despite the increasing popularity of cloud services, enterprises continue to struggle with creating and implementing a comprehensive cloud strategy that…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous post, we reviewed the value of APIs and how the data virtualization layer can be used as a data service provider. Another powerful way to use data virtualization and data services is to use the data virtualization…
Reading Time: 4 minutes With so much valuable data potentially available, it can be frustrating for organizations to discover that they can’t easily work with it because it’s stuck in disconnected silos. Limited data access is a problem when organizations need timely, complete views…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Too often the design of new data architectures is based on old principles: they are still very data-store-centric. They consist of many physical data stores in which data is stored repeatedly and redundantly. Over time, new types of data stores,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We make decisions every day: What am I going to wear? What am I going to have for dinner? Do I want dessert? Most of the time, we base our final decisions by weighing external factors: Is it cold outside?…
Reading Time: 3 minutes There was a time when developing a data warehouse was sufficient to quench the thirst for data, reporting, and analytics of most business users. Not anymore. Organizations have discovered that data can be a valuable business asset. It has taken…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One constant trend of society is its continuous evolution into more intricate systems, with processes, markets, products and consumer needs becoming more and more complex over time. A common strategy for organizations to handle this increasing complexity has been specialization:…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently there has been a lot of discussion around the concept of the logical data warehouse. What is the cause of this buzz? Why are logical data warehouses so important for data professionals? To understand this, we first need to…
