Consumer data is being widely spoken about in the fintech industry, especially as data personalization and transparency are significant to financial data ecosystems. As a fintech founder, I have been particularly fascinated by consumer retail trends appearing from transactional data that could rapidly improve user experience and targeted marketing in-store. The best value proposition is to combine […]
Exploring the Need for Modern Databases
We have reached an exciting milestone in how we harness digital technologies. The shifts forced by the pandemic have altered our behaviors and expectations around the digital services we use. As many have said, the past 20 months accelerated years of planned digitization. But it’s only starting to become evident how successful that transformation has […]
What Is Enterprise Information Management (EIM)?
The Gartner IT Glossary defines Enterprise Information Management (EIM) as: “An integrative discipline for structuring, describing and governing information assets across organizational and technological boundaries to improve efficiency, promote transparency and enable business insight.” According toOpenText, EIM: “Helps businesses attain 360-degree views of their Big Data and Analytics by streamlining organizational workflows, increasing the quality […]
Data Fabric vs. Data Mesh
In the hyper-connected world of the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT), every computing network device is connected to another through a complex, interconnected network. This poses a serious challenge to future Data Management, as the ultimate goal of Data Management is the sharing of business data across disparate platforms and technologies. This article […]
Building a Grassroots Data Management and Data Governance Program
Many in enterprise Data Management know the challenges that rapid business growth can present. Whether through acquisition or organic growth, the amount of enterprise data coming into the organization can feel exponential as the business hires more people, opens new locations, and serves new customers. The enterprise IT team, in particular, plays a significant role […]
3 Misconceptions About Change Management That May Be Holding You Back
Click to learn more about author Gaurav Belani. There’s no denying that successfully navigating an enterprise through a transitional period is no easy task. As it turns out, most people are inherently fearful of change for one reason or another. In both our personal and professional lives, we seem to resist the new in an […]
Big Data Ecosystem Updates: Hadoop, Containers, and VMs Explained
Twenty years ago, a startup called VMware brought in business by providing a platform to create nonphysical machine virtualizations, such as Linux, Windows, and others. As server processing capacity increased, basic applications couldn’t maximize the use of all the abundant new resources. Enter Virtual Machines (VMs), designed to run software on top of a physical […]
What Is Data Cleansing?
Data cleansing (aka data cleaning or data scrubbing) is the act of making system data ready for analysis by removing inaccuracies or errors. This process prevents questionable and costly business decisions based on messy data. Data volumes and sources have grown much bigger and are expected to scale up even quicker. Companies wish to access […]
The Hybrid Approach to Responsible AI
Click to learn more about author Luca Scagliarini. Artificial intelligence (AI) is on an upward growth trend and there is no sign it will level off any time soon. Recent research by Fortune Business Insights suggests the market will jump nearly tenfold from $27.23 billion in 2019 to $266.92 billion by 2027. This represents a staggering […]
A Brief History of Database Management
A database management system (DBMS) allows a person to organize, store, and retrieve data from a computer. It is a way of communicating with a computer’s “stored memory.” In the very early years of computers, “punch cards” were used for input, output, and data storage. Punch cards offered a fast way to enter data and […]