Reading Time: 2 minutes Medical research is highly data-driven, and projects are made and broken by the quantity and quality of data available. Biostorage Technologies, a company that stores and manages biological samples for the top biopharmaceutical companies and academic research institutions, knew that…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Organizations in the 21st century aim to become data-driven. However, being data-driven is a journey where companies continue to learn how to better use data as a tool to create meaningful products and experiences. In order to define a data-driven…
Reading Time: 3 minutes There has been a lot of rhetoric around how data is the new oil and why it is the most critical asset and a resource that an enterprise owns. No doubt, enterprise data, today, is business capital. However making meaningful…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Business Intelligence (BI) is critical for the success of today’s enterprise. However, many companies still struggle to figure out how to use analytics to take advantage of their data. It is not the informational BI tools they have; it’s simply…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Use Cases for Data Virtualization in the Cloud As more and more enterprise data moves to the cloud, it has become necessary for data integration initiatives to think past the earth-bound data center, where all enterprise data has been living…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine you’ve been walking in the Alps on a hot summer’s day, you’ve reached the highest point of your trek and you come across the crystal clear water of a mountain lake, who wouldn’t want to jump in? In the…
Reading Time: 6 minutes One could almost call it tunnel vision. The way that we consistently hold on to one way in which to fulfil each and every need for information: data copying, transformation and integration in one physical database. We consider it almost…
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you ever attended some of my keynotes, you have probably heard me talk about the magical soup stone story as I relate it to how organizations can build the right data strategy and become a data-driven organization. In this…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Data virtualization deployments can be small with a few developers and hundreds of queries a day or large with hundreds of developers, thousands of queries and multiple environments to monitor and manage. When working on those large deployments we will…
