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Data-Federation-Data-Integration-Evolution
Data Governance

The 3 Stage Evolution of Data Federation

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…

Big Data Requires the Context of Small Data
Cloud

Big Data Requires the Context of Small Data

Reading Time: 2 minutes Big data has entered many companies’ data centers and is already transforming whole business models. The grade of adoption varies from initial test and educational projects towards fully-fledged big data landscapes; on-premise or leveraging the flexibility and power of cloud…

Logical Architectures for Big Data Analytics
Analytics

Logical Architectures for Big Data Analytics

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…

Governed Data Lakes: Take the Plunge
Data Lake

Governed Data Lakes: Take the Plunge

Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine you’ve been walking in the Alps on a hot summer’s day, you’ve reached the highest point of your trek and you come across the crystal clear water of a mountain lake, who wouldn’t want to jump in? In the…

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