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Reading Time: 4 minutes In this era of data-driven companies, there is a lot of talk about data management, but it is my impression that we do not talk about it in a perfectly harmonious way, that we privilege some aspects of the phrase…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I want to talk about a simple but powerful concept in business intelligence and analytics called a “unified semantic layer.” You might be a business user or analyst who works with a variety of tools, like Tableau…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous post, we reviewed the value of APIs and how the data virtualization layer can be used as a data service provider. Another powerful way to use data virtualization and data services is to use the data virtualization…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Some still think it makes sense to compare ETL tools with data virtualization servers. Let me be clear, it really doesn’t. Unquestionably, both tool categories belong to the class of data integration tools, like data replication tools, data wrangling tools,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Oil and gas companies rely on timely intelligence to guide daily drilling, investment, and business development decisions. This is why Enverus, which gathers information from a variety of sources and leverages it to develop enriched intelligence, packaged specifically to meet…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A plan for migrating organizational data to the cloud is often motivated by three key factors: Economics: In many cases, the costs of “renting” cloud storage and computing power is much less than the cost of purchasing (and then depreciating)…
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a common business challenge: the business users require information quickly to inform important decisions, but the team they rely on for this need, primarily the IT team, cannot provide the information fast enough. Perhaps more than a challenge, it’s…
Reading Time: 6 minutes When creating an enterprise data layer using data virtualization some of the questions that usually came up are, what are the options for metadata management and how to provide data governance now that everything is accessed from a new unified…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Broaden Your Vision You can’t monetize what you can’t see, and that’s why business intelligence is so critical. But the requirements for business intelligence are getting steadily more stringent. Companies need to know not only detailed information about their customers,…
