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Reading Time: 6 minutes When creating an enterprise data layer using data virtualization some of the questions that usually came up are, what are the options for metadata management and how to provide data governance now that everything is accessed from a new unified…
Reading Time: 4 minutes First there was EII (Enterprise Information Integration) otherwise known as data federation. Data federation technologies allow one central data store (virtual or physical) to link to one or more remote data sources. The central store allows the consuming application to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve had several conversations with BI practitioners recently around the need to provision data agilely in order to support Self-Service Business Intelligence initiatives. Many have been confused as to the roles that some of the great data blending tools out…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Problem “How do I find mouse epithelial cell lines?” “I’m looking for a mus musculus prostate cell line—does anyone have one?” “I need some CRL-2731, where is it?” While scientists may recognize that these questions could all have the…
