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…
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Data, including big data, is only as valuable as it is actionable. Vizient, a member-owned healthcare company that specializes in helping its members to do business more efficiently, focuses on not only broadening its intelligence, but also improving its ability…
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Ever since 2015, when the price of oil dropped precipitously, oil and gas companies have had to find every opportunity to reduce expenses while maximizing every available revenue source. For Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, this meant transforming its analytics capabilities, which…
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Neudesic and Denodo Accelerate Adoption of Hybrid Cloud Solutions Using Data Virtualization Companies that leverage data virtualization can quickly achieve their data and analytics goals, but the companies that get there first begin with a solid understanding of their desired…
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Oil and gas companies rely on timely intelligence to guide daily drilling, investment, and business development decisions. This is why Drillinginfo, which gathers information from a variety of sources and leverages it to develop enriched intelligence, packaged specifically to meet…
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Companies cannot make fast, effective business decisions if each department has a slightly different view of customers, products, and other core entities. But gaining a single, unified view is especially challenging when companies engage in rapid evolution, and they introduce…
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For more than three decades, Logitech have been pioneers in the creation of keyboards, mice, trackballs, microphones, and other peripherals; but that was not enough. Video collaboration, gaming, digital home, and security camera technologies were becoming mainstream, and we could…
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Data Virtualization and Graph Databases A couple of years ago now, Forrester forecasted that by 2017 over 25 percent of enterprises would be using graph databases (Enterprise DBMS, Q1 2014. Forrester Research. 2-13-14) . It’s obviously not easy to measure…
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It’s funny – only a few weeks ago, I was at Informatica writing about Master Data Management (MDM) and how businesses gained a complete view of their customers by combining the single view of customers, sitting within the MDM system,…
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I recently attended Business Technology Forum by Forrester Research in Florida. As the event title indicates business and technology cross-over more than ever, just as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have done for operations, and now self-service business intelligence (Self-Service BI) and…
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