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 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…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the Bronze age, recycling became large-scale, opening the doors to cross-border trade and collaboration across nations. Unwanted bronze implements were melted down and poured into a mold to make new implements, and thus the manufacturing technology of the bronze…
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: 6 minutes Across all vertical markets, organizations adopt data virtualization as a core part of their IT infrastructure because data is becoming more distributed, more heterogeneous, and larger in volume. The pressures on business to be more competitive are continually growing, so…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Altus Analytics provides real estate investors with the technology and data they need to derive the best value from their properties. Comprehensive, value added reports are at the heart of what they provide, but these were taking them a few…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In all of my conversations about data, the same words and phrases keep coming up – agility, performance, security, governance, the heterogeneity of data sources (data silos), and ease of access, just to name a few. I use them so…
Reading Time: 2 minutes If telecommunications subscribers are not happy with their providers, they can easily switch. This is why keeping customers happy is more than a top priority for providers; it is the difference between success and failure. Get is a Norwegian telecommunications…
Reading Time: 2 minutes We have a certain level of expectation when it comes to driving; we expect the ride to be smooth and comfortable, with the car gliding over road surface irregularities with ease. This is owing to the active suspensions, which controls…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In many businesses today, data complexity is already a challenge with more and more data stores both on-premises and in the cloud as well as thousands of possible data sources. The days of just having a data warehouse and some…
