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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last year, I was involved in a proof-of-concept (POC) in a major financial institution. It was mid-2023, and Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) was already reaching what’s known as Gartner’s ‘peak of inflated expectations.’ The POC was for a data…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, the most innovative and successful organizations leverage data to increase revenue, minimize expenses, and deliver products and services that meet the needs of their customers. To be truly “data-driven,” an organization must view data as more than a byproduct…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Data mesh is a modern, distributed data architecture in which different domain based data products are owned by different groups within an organization. And data fabric is a self-service data layer that is supported in an orchestrated fashion to serve…
Reading Time: 2 minutes As the volume, variety, and velocity of data continue to surge, organizations still struggle to gain meaningful insights. This is where active metadata comes in. Listen to “Why is Active Metadata Management Essential?” on Spreaker. What is Active Metadata? First…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Organizations today have an opportunity that’s too good not to seize. If they could access the full wealth of their data that is distributed across cloud and on-premises systems, they could leverage enterprise data to achieve several compelling benefits. These…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In recent years, there has been a growing interest in data architecture. One of the key considerations is how best to handle data, and this is where data mesh and data fabric come into play. But what are the key…
Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). It was written by L. Delport. Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”….
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Le roi est mort, vive le roi.” This phrase—the king is dead, long live the king—marks the transfer of power from one monarch to the next. In times of potentially troublesome change, the apparent paradox and inner poetry of these…
Reading Time: 3 minutes First we had data warehouses, then came data lakes, and now the new kid on the block is the data lakehouse. But what is a data lakehouse and why should we develop one? In a way, the name describes what…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Since its first incarnation almost 35 years ago in my IBM Systems Journal article, the data warehouse (DW) has remained a key architectural pattern for decision-making support. By decision-making support, I mean everything from simple reporting and querying to AI-based…
