“It’s time to more aggressively pursue holistic Data Management,” says David Friedland, IRI VP of Business Development. “Marshalling all your data together in a centralized area,” so that everyone whose activities require access to it can perform their work in a less siloed and more shared way. That’s the message from IRI, which is well-known […]
Linked Data Plays a Role in Efforts to End IoT Fragmentation
The Internet of Things (IoT) is on the fast track, with IHS Markit recently forecasting that the number of connected IOT devices this year will reach 20 billion. In its report, IoT Trend Watch 2017, however, the research firm also points to technology fragmentation in the area, which will require efforts including further alignment of […]
Complete Master Data Management: Improving Data Quality and Compliance
Data solutions provider Innovative Systems has been pursuing an aggressive plan to grow and expand the role its technology offerings can play in the enterprise. Synchronos® Master Data Management (MDM), for one thing, is moving along on its journey to become the base of all the vendor’s product lines. “Think of it as the platform […]
The Leader’s Data Manifesto Debuts: Making Data as an Asset Everyone’s Business
The Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference in Atlanta was host to the announcement of The Leader’s Data Manifesto. The document, which you can sign here, urges that organizations embrace large scale change at the people, structural, and cultural level to truly become data-driven. The Leader’s Data Manifesto is the work of data industry leading proponents […]
The Case for the Data Management Maturity Model
The CMMI Institute announced its Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) back in 2014 to enable organizations to improve Data Management practices across their entire business. Some two-and-a-half years later, the technology-independent model continues to help organizations optimize their data assets is being successfully used by organizations across all industries to meet many Data Management objectives. […]
Alation’s Data Catalog: Enterprise Level Data Curation Moves Forward
Your employees need to be able to easily search for business data assets that are relevant to their specific needs; trust that what they are pointed to is highly useful and of high quality; and, then be able to use the information as necessary. Whether that’s creating a visualization or a model or anything else. […]
Smart and Scalable: The Next Generation Data Lakes
Data Lakes have come under some scrutiny in recent times, with complaints that businesses wind up storing anything and everything in them, yet aren’t realizing the value they expected from all the data they’ve piled up. Sam Chance, who’s recently taken on a Managing Director role in Cambridge Semantics Solution Engineering organization, has a take […]
Kinetica Aims to be The Data Science Company with its GPU-Accelerated Database
“I feel the need…the need for speed.” That quote could be as easily applied to business users eager for the power to move forward with Advanced Analytics as it could to generations of Naval pilots inspired by Tom Cruise in the 1986 movie Top Gun. With Version 6.0 of its GPU-accelerated database, released in January, […]
Taking the Cloud Computing Road to Data Integration and Data Management
2016 was a great year for data, but the coming years will be even better. That’s the case being made by many in the industry, including Rob Consoli, Chief Revenue Officer at Enterprise Application Integration and Data Management vendor Liaison Technologies. Its Alloy Platform offers Data Integration and Data Management on a single unified platform, […]
Erwin’s End Game: Holistic Data Management
Data Management vendor erwin Inc. has been following through on the plans it discussed with DATAVERSITY® last year, shortly after its acquisition from CA Technologies by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners. Its efforts to bring together Data Modeling, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Architecture domains to support the data-driven enterprise have been in evidence with its acquisitions […]