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Reading Time: 2 minutesChallenges to Enterprise-wide Adoption of Big Data Technologies Lack of comprehensive strategic planning is proving to be the greatest impediment to enterprise-wide adoption of big data technologies. While organizations are quick to invest in new technologies like Hadoop cluster and…
Reading Time: 7 minutesHow many users, inside and outside your organization, access your organization’s data? Dozens? More likely you have a hundred or more, each with his or her own structure and content requirements. Moreover, users probably have different rights, in terms of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe hear a lot about data ‘in the cloud’, and if you’re working in a regulated environment like biotech/pharma, the idea of your data floating around in the ether may have you a little freaked out. But, whether your data…
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen using Data Virtualization as your Enterprise data layer there are certain security aspects that need to be taken into account so the access to the virtual views and the connected data sources is secured. This post will describe the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen 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 minutesFirst 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 minutesI’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 minutesThe 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…
