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Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months ago, I spoke with the head of data architecture at a leading European bank. They’d just completed a multi-year investment in a modern data lakehouse platform — a combination of Databricks on Azure, paired with legacy systems…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe data lakehouse attempts to combine the best parts of the data warehouse with the best parts of data lakes while avoiding all of the problems inherent in both. However, the data lakehouse is not the last word in data…
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst 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: 5 minutesIn my previous post, I described the data fabric architectural pattern. Before turning to the data lakehouse, let’s first look at what I mean by an architectural pattern. The Power of a Pattern An architectural pattern, or logical architecture, describes…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn edited version of this blog is also posted on InsightJam. The recent announcement that Salesforce is acquiring Informatica has sent waves throughout the data management community. This follows ServiceNow’s acquisition of data.world, a cloud-native data catalog platform, raising questions in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn upstream oil & gas, the data deluge is no longer a looming threat – it’s the new normal. Seismic volumes are growing. Well logs are multiplying. Environment, social, and governance (ESG) regulations demand more granular data across emissions, water…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe data lakehouse has emerged as a powerful and popular data architecture, combining the scale of data lakes with the management features of data warehouses. It promises a unified platform for storing and analyzing structured and unstructured data, particularly for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the world of financial services, the data opportunity is enormous—but so is the execution gap. As institutions modernize with cloud, lakehouses, and open finance ecosystems, they’re discovering a hard truth: consolidation alone doesn’t activate intelligence. We’re standing at the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesData is often hailed as the most valuable asset—but for many organizations, it’s still locked behind technical barriers and organizational bottlenecks. Modern data architectures like data lakehouses and cloud-native ecosystems were supposed to solve this, promising centralized access and scalability….
Reading Time: 4 minutesAn edited version of this blog is also posted on InsightJam. Saying we live in a world of disruption and change has become cliché, but sometimes unpredictable events arise that put this statement into stark reality and challenge even the…
