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Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, we have seen the rise of new technologies like big data, the Internet of things (IoT), and data lakes. But we have not seen many developments in the way that data gets delivered. Modernizing the data architectures is the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Becoming a data-driven organization is not something that can be done in a fortnight. It’s a long and possibly tedious process and certainly not just a matter of buying and installing certain tools. No, even though investments in new technology…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a common saying in entrepreneurial circles that goes, “During a gold rush, sell shovels.” The origin of this saying dates back to the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800s, in which thousands of gold prospectors across the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Too often the design of new data architectures is based on old principles: they are still very data-store-centric. They consist of many physical data stores in which data is stored repeatedly and redundantly. Over time, new types of data stores,…
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 Everything changes so fast, knowing how to adapt is no longer an option but a necessity. Companies now operate in a market that not only moves at an impressive speed, but also changes shape with the same speed. These changes…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Change is sometimes difficult to embrace, especially when it involves downtime. Autodesk, makers of world-renowned 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, wanted to change from perpetual licensing to subscription-based licensing, but knew that this change would likely impact the entire…
Reading Time: 2 minutes On October 19th, Denodo hosted their annual flagship event Denodo DataFest in New York. The following week, Denodo DataFest landed for the first time in London at the St Paul’s Grange Hotel; both events were a resounding success thanks to…
Reading Time: 4 minutes As C-level executives managing different lines of business, our duties could be varied, but we are all driven by one common goal—to generate profit for the company. And there is always pressure to do it faster—demanded by the CEO. Data…
