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Reading Time: 2 minutes“A company that ceases to grow will die;” a useful albeit slightly morbid mantra for any business trying to make it out there in the big wide world. How can business avoid such an outcome? One answer is by staying…
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe have been talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) for many years now. But just how many “things” are we talking about? Last year, Gartner estimated that 20 billion things will be connected by 2018. These “things” are connected…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt wouldn’t take a genius to notice the evolution of modern technology. In just the past ten years, we’ve watched the flip-phone transform into the smartphone and the automobile inch towards autonomy. Within our own space, we’ve noticed similar shifts,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnyone working in business intelligence and analytics must count themselves lucky. And I’m feeling lucky too. We were here when Tableau and Qlik set a seismic market shift in motion, from reliance on IT to business user independence, creating the…
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: 5 minutesComplex 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 minutesComplex 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: 4 minutesFirst there was EII (Enterprise Information Integration) otherwise known as data federation. Data federation technologies allow one central data store (virtual or physical) to link to one or more remote data sources. The central store allows the consuming application to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBig data has entered many companies’ data centers and is already transforming whole business models. The grade of adoption varies from initial test and educational projects towards fully-fledged big data landscapes; on-premise or leveraging the flexibility and power of cloud…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy 80% of data lakes fail and what you can do about it. The issues and implications of Brexit are all over the news … regionalism vs globalism, independence vs shared governance and regulation, closed vs open borders … and…
