A major subsidiary of a global insurance and reinsurance company has more than 100 offices across six continents. In this post, I’d like to share this company’s experience with the Denodo Platform. No Single Version of the Truth The insurance/reinsurance…
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Organizations all over the world are migrating their IT infrastructures and applications to the cloud. Organizations are leveraging cloud analytics to extract useful insights from big data, which draws from a variety of sources such as mobile phones, Internet of…
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The phrase “survival of the fittest” originated from Darwin’sevolutionary theory, describing the mechanism by which natural selection occurs. In business, the same principles apply; fast moving markets, new trends, new methods of customer engagement, new emerging technologies, all favour organisations…
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We are in the midst of a significant transformation in each and every sphere of business. We are witnessing an Industrial 4.0 revolution across the industrial sectors. The way products are getting manufactured is being transformed with automation, robotics, and…
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One of the most common trends in data strategy is moving to the cloud. More recently, we have been hearing companies say that they’re moving “everything” to the cloud. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, because some data, or…
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Data are the eyes with which we look at reality. They are the means – not the only one – with which every company can aspire to have full awareness of itself and of the context in which it operates…
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I have long been an advocate of integrating data quality techniques as a core component of an organization’s end-to-end data processes. When I began evangelizing data quality management about twenty years ago, the common practices for data quality involved post-processing…
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When E.F. (Ted) Codd developed the relational model in the early 1970s, he had a dream. He wanted applications to be independent of the data storage and data access layer. Changes made to one should not lead to changes to…
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Landslides have caused more than 11,500 fatalities in 70 countries between 2007-2010. Over 1000 people were victims of a landslide that hit Sierra Leone in August 2017. The situation is getting worse as the volume and intensity of rainfall in…
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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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