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Reading Time: 4 minutesAs C-level executives managing different lines of business, our duties could be varied, but we are all driven by one common goal—to generate profit for the company. And there is always pressure to do it faster—demanded by the CEO. Data…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOrganizations in the 21st century aim to become data-driven. However, being data-driven is a journey where companies continue to learn how to better use data as a tool to create meaningful products and experiences. In order to define a data-driven…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis topic would have seemed incongruous only a few years ago. After a rather long gestation period, data virtualization and its adoption worldwide have surged in recent years to reach enterprise maturity. Yet there is a lot of FUD (fear,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusiness users across the enterprise require access to complete and related information, and they need access to this data in real-time, they need Fast Data. For example, in order to understand and identify opportunities for cross-sell and up-sell, customer facing…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome might think that data warehouses are outdated and unnecessary, because today you can store large volumes of data quickly and easily in a data lake or a data reservoir. I think this is a bit short-sighted. How can you…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs governments worldwide aim to become smarter like Dubai, Barcelona or Singapore, their ultimate goal is to become percipient, astute, shrewd, and quick. That means that smart city governments need to use emerging technologies like Big Data and Internet of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGlobal property investors, asset managers and loan companies collect data about their commercial real-estate portfolios as part of their day to day operations. This data will include details of properties, tenants, income, expenditure, rent escalation terms, costs and revenue, etc….
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhile companies focus on obtaining a holistic view of their data to make insight-driven decisions, chief data officers struggle with the uncontrollable growth of hundreds of data silos and different information systems that prevent them from delivering true business value….
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s funny – only a few weeks ago, I was at Informatica writing about Master Data Management (MDM) and how businesses gained a complete view of their customers by combining the single view of customers, sitting within the MDM system,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the biggest headaches that big corporations face is how to provide a unified view of data across regions. Most of them have grown as a result of acquisitions of regional companies that in many cases operate independently and…
