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 […]
SQL versus NoSQL Databases: A Review of Key Themes
Non-relational databases (aka NoSQL), in many different variations, have become a popular database model for handling Big Data. They use two novel concepts, making them different from earlier, “classical” database models. The concepts having so much impact are horizontal scaling, spreading out the storage and work, and eliminating the use of “Structured Query Language” (SQL) […]
2016 DATAVERSITY Top 20
It’s that time of year again to announce the Top 20 publications by DATAVERSITY in 2016. We are excited to wrap up another great year of education. We published over 100 articles, over 150 blogs, 89 webinars, two online conferences, and five face-to-face conferences. We also launched our new DATAVERSITY Training Center this year where […]
IDERA Drives Business-Driven Data Architecture
Today’s enterprise IT environment most likely consists of a plethora of different database platforms, all of which must be supported across the lifecycle. How to streamline managing every aspect of the multi-platform database ecosystem? IDERA’s answer is to let it help out. Its acquisition last fall of Embarcadero Technologies’ ER/Studio Data Architecture solution and DB […]
Data Modeling Lends a Hand to NoSQL Databases
Sectors such as banking, healthcare, and insurance are increasingly interested in NoSQL databases and Data Modeling for NoSQL. As they take their first or their next steps in the space, they want “to have the tools available to them that give credibility and legitimacy to the technology,” says Pascal Desmarets, Founder and CEO at Hackolade, […]
Top 20 Hottest Data Management Posts Year-to-Date 2016
It has become a semi-annual tradition here at DATAVERSITY® to publish our top twenty most popular data management content year-to-date. Though we monitor topic popularity daily, we like to stop every six months or so to do a deep dive into what subscribers are reading. What’s hot and trending? Our top twenty includes Data Blogs, […]
ERwin Looks to the Future of Data Modeling
The recently completed acquisition of Data Modeling industry leader ERwin from CA Technologies by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners comes a couple of years after the Department of Justice effectively ended plans by Embarcadero Technologies to do the same. Since then, the market has gone through further transitions, with IDERA’s acquisition of Embarcadero last […]
Data Schemas and Data Structures 1
by Michael Brackett Following the discussion of Data Architecture and Data Structures, the next questions are What’s the difference between data schemas and data structures? and How are data schemas, data structures, and data models formally named?[i] Numerous attempts have been made over the years to formally name specific data structures and the data models […]
Do You Know What a Year Is?
As the calendar year comes to a close, a new one begins, and the fear of a December 21, 2012, catastrophe fades away, the meaning of a year comes to mind. Data resource managers deal with a wide variety of different years, and those different years need to be formally named and comprehensively defined to […]
Assessing Data Management Maturity Using the DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge (DMBOK) Framework – Part 2
Part 1 of “Assessing Data Management Maturity” discussed the primary elements of the Data Management Maturity Assessment (DMMA) conducted by April Reeve, an advisory consultant at EMC Consulting, for a mortgage bank. The primary elements of this maturity assessment were: The beginning of the DMMA process includes determining which business lines to assess. The mortgage […]