People are constantly coming up with new and intelligent ways to use the Cloud. As a consequence, Cloud Architecture designs and developments are constantly being tweaked, adjusted, and improved upon. Today’s businesses need to be flexible, move quickly, and understand their customer’s desires and expectations. To do this, businesses are relying on the Cloud to […]
A Brief History of Big Data
Big Data has been described by some Data Management pundits (with a bit of a snicker) as “huge, overwhelming, and uncontrollable amounts of information.” In 1663, John Graunt dealt with “overwhelming amounts of information” as well, while he studied the bubonic plague, which was currently ravaging Europe. Graunt used statistics and is credited with being […]
Case Study: A Business Intelligence Upgrade Keeps Ultra Mobile Operating at Light Speed
“Our development teams move at light speed here,” Mike Burkes, VP of Business Intelligence, Fraud Management, and Revenue Assurance at Ultra Mobile says, “Decisions made on a Friday are worked into the next available Scrum sprint and can be out the door to our customers in as little as two weeks.” Ultra Mobile provides international […]
Data Management vs. Data Governance
Successful companies capitalize on their organizational data assets through effective understanding of how to best leverage the similar, but notably different, practices and concepts of Data Management vs. Data Governance. According to Dr. Peter Aiken, Facebook has an estimated worth of more than five times that of United Airlines, $200 billion vs. $34 billion. The […]
Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation
Bringing Data Governance to an Agile environment requires a focus on thin-slice, small step implementation, said Sarah Rasmussen, Senior Manager, Data Management, at CUNA Mutual, speaking at DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference during her presentation titled “Delivering a Data Governance Program the Agile Way.” “It’s about being incremental, and the key is to communicate […]
Data Curation 101: The What, Why, and How
Humans have an imperative to practice Data Curation. People have and continue to gather, maintain, and archive data at ever greater volumes, and they always have. They drive to get useful data for today and tomorrow. As Mike Schmoker elegantly states, “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those […]
Data Science Trends in 2018
The Data Science Trends for 2018 are largely a continuation of some of the biggest trends of 2017 including Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), along with some newer technologies like Blockchain, Edge Computing, Serverless Computing, Digital Twins, and others that employ various practices and techniques within the Data Science industry. The Dataconomy […]
Case Study: Hach Supports Water Quality with Master Data Management
On the home page of the Hach company website, there is a red button that says, “Hurricane Assistance.” That’s because the company provides water quality testing equipment to communities, companies, and individuals all over the world, some of whom are dealing with natural disasters. Above the button, the words: “After the storms, Hach is here […]
It’s Time for Data Governance 2.0 with erwin DG
The erwin, Inc. premiere of erwin DG at the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Summit 2017 marks a new approach to tackling the practice of discovering, understanding, governing and socializing data. That strategy, dubbed Data Governance 2.0, puts the focus on making Data Governance everyone’s business, in order to fully leverage data for strategic advantage and remove […]
Driving Greater SQL Scalability and Flexibility with Machine Learning
It’s time to dispel some myths surrounding SQL. That’s the message from MemSQL, a scalable real-time Data Warehouse that is designed to ingest and transform millions of events of data per day, while simultaneously analyzing billions of rows of data using standard SQL. As that description makes clear, there’s no reason to believe that there’s […]