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Reading Time: 4 minutes Six months ago, with the potential impact from Brexit, COVID-19, and the US Presidency changes, you would have been brave predicting the future of any market. However, with growing certainty around the outcomes on these and other factors, the start…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In recent years, we have seen wide adoption of data analytics. However, most organizations continue to find it challenging to quickly yield actionable insights. Some issues that have been most often cited for this include: Poor data quality: While preparing…
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’ve all heard the common expressions of the form “thing A is the new thing B.” Often spoken in a whimsical tone, this expression is meant to denote that “thing B” is being replaced in usage and popularity by “thing…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Organizations are rethinking their current data architectures. Unfortunately, the majority considers it a challenge. Obviously, one of the reasons is that they don’t do this every day. Also, insights about how to design them has changed over time. This article…
Reading Time: 5 minutes We are in the midst of a significant transformation in each and every sphere of business. We are witnessing an Industrial 4.0 revolution across the industrial sectors. The way products are getting manufactured is being transformed with automation, robotics, and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes At UCB, a biopharma company based in Belgium, our core purpose is to improve the lives of people with severe diseases in the focus areas of immunology and neurology. Data is critical to this core purpose, as it guides important…
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: 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…
