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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you check the reference logical architectures for big data analytics proposed by Forrester and Gartner, or ask your colleagues building big data analytics platforms for their companies (typically under the ‘enterprise data lake’ tag), they will all tell you…
Reading Time: 5 minutesBusiness Intelligence (BI) is critical for the success of today’s enterprise. However, many companies still struggle to figure out how to use analytics to take advantage of their data. It is not the informational BI tools they have; it’s simply…
Reading Time: 5 minutesImagine you’ve been walking in the Alps on a hot summer’s day, you’ve reached the highest point of your trek and you come across the crystal clear water of a mountain lake, who wouldn’t want to jump in? In the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis topic would have seemed incongruous only a few years ago. After a rather long gestation period, data virtualization and its adoption worldwide have surged in recent years to reach enterprise maturity. Yet there is a lot of FUD (fear,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWould you agree that the data demanded by business users outpaces the data supplied by IT from the enterprise systems to the degree that the users are trying to make sense of yesterday’s data, today? Forrester Research analysts Noel Yuhanna…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusiness users across the enterprise require access to complete and related information, and they need access to this data in real-time, they need Fast Data. For example, in order to understand and identify opportunities for cross-sell and up-sell, customer facing…
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Hadoop ecosystem is here to stay, for long. Having been one of the most important big data enablers in the recent years and in position to continue being so in the years to come, Hadoop is nowadays one of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2013, Gartner issued the CIO Agenda Report. In this report, CIOs ranked Analytics and Business Intelligence as their number 1 technology priority. Separately, just a few months ago, Forbes magazine confirmed that 89% of business leaders believe big data…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLogical data warehouses, driven by data virtualization, are the force of the future. Yet while many BI specialists have embraced the logical data warehouse in theory, they struggle with the actual practical application of data virtualization. Some seem to feel…
Reading Time: 4 minutesAfter my previous posts about the performance of data virtualization in Logical Data Warehouse and Logical Data Lake scenarios, I have received similar feedback from many of you, “ that is all very interesting… but we want numbers!” Well, you…
