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Reading Time: 4 minutes The awareness of what we know is not just a nice-to-have, but the very essence of knowledge itself. Knowledge does not exist by acts of faith; it requires transparency, trust, and communicability. “Knowing something” means knowing the entire path that…
Reading Time: 3 minutes The star of SnowflakeDB keeps rising. This cloud-based, analytical SQL database server offers a set of powerful features, not in the least of which is high performance, end-to-end encryption, cloud platform independency, a self-driving engine, automatic scalability (up or down),…
Reading Time: 4 minutes According to CIO magazine, the first chief data officer (CDO) was employed at Capital One in 2002, and since then the role has become widespread, driven by the recent explosion of big data. The CDO role has a variety of…
Reading Time: 4 minutes What do data virtualization, streaming, and extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes have in common? They all deliver data from disparate sources to the business intelligence (BI), analytics, and other applications used by businesspeople, data scientists, and analysts. Like utilities,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes These days, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) seem to be everywhere around us, answering questions, designing components, and even driving cars. Can they also help with data virtualization? For sure. But first, let’s make sure that when we…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Illumina, a San Diego-based biotech company, tasked the company that I work for, Analytica Consulting, with creating a Denodo data virtualization layer to support the data access needs of Illumina’s Global Quality Operations department. Now that the implementation is complete,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes For Google Cloud fans, the wait is over. You can now take advantage of the Denodo Platform’s data virtualization capabilities via offerings on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. With Denodo’s connector for Google BigQuery, you can experience a whole…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Plastics Between Challenge and Opportunity K 2019, which took place end of October this year in Dusseldorf, is a gigantic trade fair for the plastics industry. If you were a data anthropologist, you would not merely visit to smell the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apache Spark and data virtualization enables us to extract data from heterogeneous data sources, integrate and process that data, and make it available for a wide range of reporting and analytics tools. Both do so without the need to store…
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Barry Devlin “I want it all, and I want it now,” sang Freddie Mercury in “I Want It All.” Today’s businesspeople, it turns out, feel just the same way. The pace of business has ramped up dramatically over the…
