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Reading Time: 2 minutes Public and private organizations around the world are opening doors to their data, and to data geeks like me, this is a very good thing. Data that was once locked within inaccessible corporate databases, flat files. or perhaps even spreadsheets…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Data virtualization has a privileged position in modern architectures for data discovery and use cases such as data fabric and logical data warehousing. Data virtualization provides unified data access, data integration, and a delivery layer, bridging the gap between distributed…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this increasingly digital economy, we have seen major change in customer behavior over the last several years as customers switch from traditional channels to digital ones to interact and transact business. Today, the vast majority of purchases take place…
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Data mesh” is a new data analytics paradigm proposed by Zhamak Dehghani, one that is designed to move organizations from monolithic architectures such as the data warehouse and the data lake to more decentralized architectures. As long-time supporters of logical…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Konecranes is an industry-leading group of lifting operations, with a broad customer base that includes engineering and process industries, shipyards, and ports. The company delivers productivity-enhancing solutions and services for lifting equipment of all sizes. In 2020, Konecranes had a…
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are in the data management world, you probably help your company to redefine its data analytics architecture, especially in the context of cloud adoption. At some point in the process, someone might have stared at the myriad boxes…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prologis manages a wide breadth of real estate assets across the globe, which translates into a staggering amount of data that is stored across geographically dispersed sources. Every day, Prologis needs to integrate this vast amount of data, just to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Including external data in many forms of analytics and reporting can provide significant enrichment. New business insights can be discovered that would be impossible to unearth by working exclusively with internal data. The good news is that external data is…
Reading Time: 5 minutes In recent years, we have seen wide adoption of data analytics. However, most organizations continue to find it challenging to quickly yield actionable insights. Some issues that have been most often cited for this include: Poor data quality: While preparing…
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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…
