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Reading Time: 3 minutes In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, organizations are always looking for new ways to make the most of their data while keeping it accessible, secure, and cost-effective. That’s where combining a logical data abstraction layer with Snowflake’s powerful data capabilities comes…
Reading Time: 5 minutes For years, organizations have been managing data by consolidating it into a single data repository, such as a cloud data warehouse or data lake, so it can be analyzed and delivered to business users. Unfortunately, organizations struggle to get this…
Reading Time: 5 minutes The data landscape has evolved and become more complex as organizations recognize the need to leverage data and analytics. Generative artificial intelligence has further put pressure on organizations to manage this complexity. At TDWI, we see companies collecting traditional structured…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Leveraging enterprise data for generative AI and large language models presents significant challenges related to data silos, quality inconsistencies, privacy and security concerns, compliance with data regulations, capturing domain-specific knowledge, and mitigating inherent biases. Organizations must navigate the complexities of…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI marks a significant leap in technology, promising to deliver transformational automation and innovation across diverse industries and use cases. Having said that, as everyone races to develop next generation AI…
Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). It was written by L. Delport. Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”….
Reading Time: 6 minutes Data Governance as a concept and practice has been around for as long as data management has been around. It, however is gaining prominence and interest in recent years due to the increasing volume of data that needs to be…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Consider a business scenario in which a user wants to determine the sales per month at a product level, and the filter conditions vary for different cases and across different users (So it would require multiple ad hoc queries). If…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Learn in 12 minutes: What makes a strong use case for data virtualisation How to come up with a solid Proof of Concept How to prepare your organisation for data virtualisation You’ve already read all about data virtualisation and you’ve…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Including external data in many forms of analytics and reporting can provide significant enrichment. New business insights can be discovered that would be impossible to unearth by working exclusively with internal data. The good news is that external data is…
