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Reading Time: 3 minutes Faster-than-enterprise-software Growth in Data Integration Market Coupled with Data Virtualization’s Rapid Adoption as an Alternative to Material Data Integration The 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration tools was just released, shedding new light on data integration market growth and…
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the ways that you can tell that a concept or technology is gaining currency is that many people start interpreting or associating with it in their own way, sometimes in very, very different ways. Data virtualization is a…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I recently attended Business Technology Forum by Forrester Research in Florida. As the event title indicates business and technology cross-over more than ever, just as software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have done for operations, and now self-service business intelligence (Self-Service BI) and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes One 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…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I recently read an excellent article “A Strategist’s Guide to the Internet of Things” by Strategy & (formerly Booz & Company), which prompted me to think about what the Internet of Things for data strategists and data professionals. As we…
Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve undoubtedly heard the (tired) definition of big data involving the three “Vs” for volume, variety, and velocity. Now there’s a growing movement to associate a fourth V-word with big data sets: virtualization. But what is data virtualization? For years,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Data virtualization is being used in everything from small projects that are in need of quick data access, as part of bigger application or data warehousing project, as an enterprise-wide semantic or common data layer or any combination thereof. The…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last year, I was involved in a proof-of-concept (POC) in a major financial institution. It was mid-2023, and Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) was already reaching what’s known as Gartner’s ‘peak of inflated expectations.’ The POC was for a data…
Reading Time: 3 minutes In recent years, a series of global shocks – from the COVID-19 pandemic to geopolitical tensions like the Russia-Ukraine conflict – has disrupted industries worldwide, including healthcare, technology, retail, and manufacturing. These disruptions have propelled businesses into initiating or accelerating…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Regulatory compliance keeps getting more complex. Facing a range of regulations covering privacy, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), to financial regulations such as Dodd-Frank and Basel II, to…
