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Reading Time: 4 minutesSoftware systems designers often structure their thinking around the underlying functional and data/information components of their desired applications. This approach—analogous to the scientific method of breaking a system into its smallest sub-parts in order to understand how it works—forms the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe world is becoming more and more digital, isn’t it? But do you wonder what the future of data strategy looks like? Data exploration and analysis can bring enormous value to a business. End consumers and institutions can both benefit…
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: 7 minutesIn the last few years, data virtualization technology has experienced tremendous growth, emerging as a key component for enabling modern data architectures such as the logical data warehouse, data fabric, and data mesh. Gartner recently named it “a must-have data…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAgile processes and automation are on the rise, causing companies to increasingly seek data virtualization solutions, which offer several important benefits: First, maintenance is cheaper compared to traditional tools, and data virtualization, which does not rely on data replication, eliminates…
Reading Time: 4 minutesSince 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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesUber owns no fleet, and Airbnb owns no real estate. These and other companies have grown very quickly, with relatively little investment, by establishing thin customer-interface layers above complex systems of goods or services owned by third parties. Point is to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesOrganizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to take advantage of scalable yet elastic computing and storage resources. The availability and economics of the cloud for flexible and scalable high-performance environments has radically changed the way information architects envision the…
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: 5 minutesData is becoming increasingly important for understanding markets and customer behaviors, optimizing operations, deriving foresights, and gaining a competitive advantage. Over the last decade, the explosion of structured and unstructured data as well as digital technologies in general, has enabled…
