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Reading Time: 5 minutes In recent years, we have seen wide adoption of data analytics. However, most organizations continue to find it challenging to quickly yield actionable insights. Some issues that have been most often cited for this include: Poor data quality: While preparing…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a common saying in entrepreneurial circles that goes, “During a gold rush, sell shovels.” The origin of this saying dates back to the California Gold Rush of the mid 1800s, in which thousands of gold prospectors across the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Forrester Research recently published The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Virtualization, Q4 2017 report. The firm profiled 13 vendors in this report. The last Wave on this topic was published in March 2015 with 9 vendors. Here is an account of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes It 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: 4 minutes Data Virtualization and Graph Databases A couple of years ago now, Forrester forecasted that by 2017 over 25 percent of enterprises would be using graph databases (Enterprise DBMS, Q1 2014. Forrester Research. 2-13-14) . It’s obviously not easy to measure…
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…
