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Reading Time: 2 minutesSavvy organizations know that business growth and success are intrinsically linked with an effective strategy for managing data. But as the big data momentum builds, more questions are raised. In this post, I’ll answer five of the most important ones….
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe amount of data a company can manage these days is huge, but making use of these data for analytics and decision-making can be hard and expensive using traditional approaches.Traditional architectures like data warehouses and data lakes rely on storing…
Reading Time: 7 minutesMany organizations have made it a high priority to implement a data virtualization solution. This makes sense, since traditional data warehouses can no longer keep pace with the explosive growth in data volumes and user queries. The logical data warehouse…
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the years I have seen how data virtualisation can simplify data access and significantly improve agility. Given all the benefits this brings, I would most certainly recommend any organisation to add data virtualisation software to their toolbox – particularly…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s a common business challenge: the business users require information quickly to inform important decisions, but the team they rely on for this need, primarily the IT team, cannot provide the information fast enough. Perhaps more than a challenge, it’s…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is data virtualization? Here’s an analogy using a concept that we can all relate to: a supermarket. Picture the scene: Shopping list in one hand, shopping basket in the other, you’re ready to tackle your weekly shopping in your…
Reading Time: 7 minutesHow many users, inside and outside your organization, access your organization’s data? Dozens? More likely you have a hundred or more, each with his or her own structure and content requirements. Moreover, users probably have different rights, in terms of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe have been talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) for many years now. But just how many “things” are we talking about? Last year, Gartner estimated that 20 billion things will be connected by 2018. These “things” are connected…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt wouldn’t take a genius to notice the evolution of modern technology. In just the past ten years, we’ve watched the flip-phone transform into the smartphone and the automobile inch towards autonomy. Within our own space, we’ve noticed similar shifts,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe logical data warehouse is the data architecture of the future — fast, flexible and ideal to support self-service BI. In the past year, I have published quite a lot regarding the architectural advantages of the logical data warehouse (read…
