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Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I asked someone about the first location that will come to their mind when I mention the word “technology,” anyone who has been around for the past ten years would say “Silicon Valley.” In fact, the valley is such…
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 minutesAt a recent NYC roundtable panel for Chief Data Officers, global Business Process Management (BPM) company, WNS, mentioned that they see common pain points across their customer spectrum. Namely, that big data and the IoT are creating an exponential growth…
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the best parts of my job is helping customers realise their goals of turning a theoretical proposed enterprise architecture with all its promise into a reality by deploying an Enterprise Data Access Layer. It’s a tenuous link, but…
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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesI 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: 2 minutesBig Data is not always Big Information Organizations don’t need big data, they need big information. Let me explain. Years ago, my professors taught me the critical difference between data and information. Data are raw unorganized facts that need to…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBig Data Warehouses require Hybrid Data Storage There’s no stopping the big data revolution. The potential business advantages are clear. Big data systems make advanced forms of analytics possible that allows organizations to optimize business processes, increase customer delight and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesReal-world big data use cases have moved beyond “possibilities” to multiple use patterns including analytics and low-cost archival storage of large datasets. In all cases, big data is thought of in an ENTERPRISE sense, even if big data analytics that is performed…
Reading Time: 4 minutesMost companies have inadvertently locked away the value of their enterprise data assets, because they can rarely harness the right information at the right time. When they finally do access information, it is often inaccurate, incomplete or unavailable. This is…
