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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn all of my conversations about data, the same words and phrases keep coming up – agility, performance, security, governance, the heterogeneity of data sources (data silos), and ease of access, just to name a few. I use them so…
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn many businesses today, data complexity is already a challenge with more and more data stores both on-premises and in the cloud as well as thousands of possible data sources. The days of just having a data warehouse and some…
Reading Time: 4 minutesAlice Well’s early successes as CIO at Advanced Banking Corporation (ABC) in solving the old problem of getting real-time data (Gaining Real Time Insight) to the call center and the newer opportunity presented by the data lake (A Warehouse in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesOk, forgive the hyperbole in the title since data virtualization doesn’t actually have magic powers to keep you safe from getting ticketed by the police. However, in one specific series of incidents that I recently encountered which did involve getting…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s common knowledge that a focus on customer service will yield significant, tangible results. How significant? Consider the success story of Ultra Mobile, a nationwide mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that is focused on offering the best quality international voice…
Reading Time: 4 minutes2019 is the year of the data-driven organization. The more data an organization collects, the more insights they will have, right? Well no actually, it’s more about how you glean the insights from the data rather than how much data…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMergers and acquisitions are a fact of life, and they often take a toll on everyday business; people, real estate, processes, and systems need to be properly integrated before the acquiring company and the acquired company can act as one….
Reading Time: 7 minutesData are the eyes with which we look at reality. They are the means – not the only one – with which every company can aspire to have full awareness of itself and of the context in which it operates…
Reading Time: 4 minutesAllow me to introduce the (fictitious) Advanced Banking Corporation, or ABC for short. It may be advanced in name, but its IT systems are anything but. ABC will be our constant companion as we explore all three scenarios for data…
Reading Time: 4 minutesBelieve it or not we are now over 25 years into building data warehouses and many companies around the world have very well-established systems supporting query, reporting and analysis of historical master and transaction data that has been captured from…
