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Reading Time: 4 minutes LDTI is the most significant change in decades to the existing accounting requirements under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (USGAAP) for long duration contracts that are non-cancellable or guaranteed renewable contracts such as life insurance, disability income, long-term care, and…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The best technology acts without having to manage it, or worse, having to familiarize oneself with it more than it seems necessary. In some industrial sectors, this has already happened. We simply consume electricity, without being forced to know the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Software systems designers often structure their thinking around the underlying functional and data/information components of their desired applications. This approach—analogous to the scientific method of breaking a system into its smallest sub-parts in order to understand how it works—forms the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The world is becoming more and more digital, isn’t it? But do you wonder what the future of data strategy looks like? Data exploration and analysis can bring enormous value to a business. End consumers and institutions can both benefit…
Reading Time: 7 minutes In the last few years, data virtualization technology has experienced tremendous growth, emerging as a key component for enabling modern data architectures such as the logical data warehouse, data fabric, and data mesh. Gartner recently named it “a must-have data…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Since its first incarnation almost 35 years ago in my IBM Systems Journal article, the data warehouse (DW) has remained a key architectural pattern for decision-making support. By decision-making support, I mean everything from simple reporting and querying to AI-based…
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: 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 Konecranes is an industry-leading group of lifting operations, with a broad customer base that includes engineering and process industries, shipyards, and ports. The company delivers productivity-enhancing solutions and services for lifting equipment of all sizes. In 2020, Konecranes had a…
