As some of you already know, I am dedicating these summer days to the writing of my new book, “99 Questions About Data Management,” which follows in some way the book “20 Things You Have to Know About Data Management.” After the many questions I have received, I find it interesting to answer this one: […]
The Declarative Approach in a Data Playground
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. One of the most fascinating things I’ve found at my current organization is undoubtedly the declarative approach. It is something so simple and so powerful. In my first business intelligence endeavors, there were data normalization issues; in my Data Governance period, Data Quality and proactive Metadata Management were the critical points. But […]
Data Fabric: Convergent Solutions to Avoid Complex Tools Patchwork
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. According to Gartner, data fabric is an architecture and set of data services that provides consistent functionality across a variety of environments, from on-premises to the cloud. Data fabric simplifies and integrates on-premises and cloud Data Management by accelerating digital transformation. How are we going to convince […]
How to Evaluate a Data Governance Tool with 20 Indicators (Plus 1)
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Sometimes large companies choose tools and technologies guided by Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in order to “not take risks,” without knowing that this is not synonymous with a guarantee of good performance and easy implementation. In the Data Governance scenario, there are large vendors that incorporate a governance tool […]
Why Sometimes Business Intelligence Projects Don’t Take Off
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Oh. What a big question, I’m sure you’ve seen everything in your experience, but there are repeating patterns, taking some results of a recent Gartner survey, I’ll try to analyze the different problems. Projects that never end, erroneous reports, non-standardized data, difficulty in generating reports that say something, […]
The Next Generation Logical Data Warehouse: It’s Time to Democratize the Data
Click to learn more about author Michele Iurillo. Previously, a Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure was something very complex where there were: data sources, normalization, ETL, OLAP Cubes and a physical Data Warehouse hosted on a physical server. Technology has grown a lot, and the scenarios are changing due to two particular factors: the Cloud and Virtualization. […]