All posts by Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson is Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited. As an independent analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, analytics, data management and big data. With over 35 years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies, spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Formerly he was a principal and co-founder of Codd and Date Europe Limited – the inventors of the Relational Model, a Chief Architect at Teradata on the Teradata DBMS and European Managing Director of DataBase Associates.

Using Data Virtualisation to Simplify Data Warehouse Migration to the Cloud

November 15, 2018
Technology
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Believe it or not we are now over 25 years into building data warehouses and many companies around the world have very well-established systems supporting query, reporting and analysis of historical master and transaction data that has been captured from…

Data Virtualization and the Information Catalog – Agile Data Provisioning in a Data-Driven Enterprise

July 5, 2018
Business
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Many organizations today have either already created or are in the process of creating a data lake. There are of course multiple configurations of a data lake including: A centralized data lake typically on a single data store such as…

The Role of Data Virtualisation in a Data Lake

August 31, 2017
Business
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It seems at present there is huge amount of hype on big data and the concept of a data lake. Already however there is confusion as to what a data lake is with multiple different definitions ranging from a centralised…

The Power of Virtual Data Sources – An Overlooked Capability In Data Virtualisation

June 7, 2017
Business
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Over 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…