Cybersecurity practitioners don’t necessarily think of themselves as Data Scientists – but they should. In fact, most of them are already doing that work, even if they don’t recognize that the term applies to them. Securing the network and protecting the enterprise means that information security pros do everything from administrating servers and workstations in […]
Smart Availability Enhances Enterprise Architecture Success
Smart Availability enables a workload to always be run from the best execution environment. Smart Availability uses the central idea of high availability (dedicated resources between systems preventing downtime) and develops it into the maximizing of a competitive advantage. Smart Availability allows clients and staff to shift workloads between servers, operating systems, and virtual and […]
Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes
David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]
Connecting SQL and NoSQL into One Platform
Merging the comfortable familiarity and efficiency of SQL with the flexibility and scalability of a non-relational systems is no easy task. CrateDB, offered by Crate.io, is a “distributed SQL database that is built on top of a NoSQL foundation.” It allows users who are comfortable using and SQL database to save and query machine data, […]
The Fundamentals of Microservices: Use Cases and Benefits
Microservices offer a number of benefits, which include helping release software faster, update software more frequently, and add new features more quickly. Microservices provide the flexibility to use different technologies and different programming languages, depending on the organization’s needs. The Microservice philosophy of decentralization effects the management and architecture of data. The traditional monolithic approach […]
The Value of Strong Metadata Discovery
Too often professionals such as Data Analysts, Data Architects, and Compliance Specialists find themselves at a loss when it comes to being able, on their own, to discover, understand and use the rich Metadata within large enterprise ERP and CRM applications. It becomes complicated, costly, and time-consuming for these users to pull relevant business-context subsets […]
The Leader’s Data Manifesto: Time to Focus on Why Data Management Matters
The Leader’s Data Manifesto, originally unveiled at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference, continues to generate attention from data professionals. The Manifesto counts hundreds of signatories at this point, expressing their support of its vision for data and information to be truly valued and managed as a business asset. Signers-on include Data Quality managers, Chief […]
Bridging the Data Gap Between Business and IT
Click to learn more about author Pete Aven. In any organization, it’s plain to see there are distinct differences in the way business executives and IT professionals think about their company’s data. The disconnect is a result of perspective, and manifests itself in a lack of communication that produces further confusion as IT systems evolve to […]
Disrupting Metadata Management with Metadata Automation
The pre-digital card catalogs of libraries offer a good example of metadata (title, author, copyright, location on shelf). Metadata essentially means “data offering information about the data” or simply “data about data.” It is also often defined as “data in context,” since it supplies the “what, where, when, why, and how” of data. Metadata is […]
Case Study: Unilog Leverages Data Preparation to Monetize Upstream Data
“Paxata has facilitated the monetization of our data,” said Noah Kays, Director of Content Subscriptions, at Unilog. Unilog is a global technology company specializing in e-commerce solutions and content for business-to-business distributors in the industrial products (electrical, plumbing, etc.) market. The solution includes Product Information Management system (PIM), a Content Management System (CMS), helping distributors […]