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Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently there has been a lot of discussion around the concept of the logical data warehouse. What is the cause of this buzz? Why are logical data warehouses so important for data professionals? To understand this, we first need to…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Complex Questions that Need Simple … but not Simplistic … Answers Update: make sure you also read the first part of this content. Data Virtualization Performance and Source System Impact (Part 1) In part 1 of this article, we looked…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Complex questions that need simple … but not simplistic … answers. Update: make sure you also read the second part of this content. Data Virtualization Performance and Source System Impact (Part 2) Within sixty seconds into a data virtualization conversation,…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Business Intelligence (BI) is critical for the success of today’s enterprise. However, many companies still struggle to figure out how to use analytics to take advantage of their data. It is not the informational BI tools they have; it’s simply…
Reading Time: 6 minutes One could almost call it tunnel vision. The way that we consistently hold on to one way in which to fulfil each and every need for information: data copying, transformation and integration in one physical database. We consider it almost…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Can you set your enterprise data free and make it dance to your tunes? Tunes that range from self-service BI to predictive analytics? Yes you can, with the help of the logical data warehouse powered by data virtualization. What is…
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Hadoop ecosystem is here to stay, for long. Having been one of the most important big data enablers in the recent years and in position to continue being so in the years to come, Hadoop is nowadays one of…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Data science disciplines have evolved rapidly in recent years. Fueled by the rise of big data and the internet of things, advanced analysis of large data sets are driving science, business and marketing decisions. At the same time, the exponential…
Reading Time: 2 minutes In 2013, Gartner issued the CIO Agenda Report. In this report, CIOs ranked Analytics and Business Intelligence as their number 1 technology priority. Separately, just a few months ago, Forbes magazine confirmed that 89% of business leaders believe big data…
