Welcome to February 2025’s “Book of the Month.” This time we’ll be reviewing the book “Holistic Data Governance Volume 1: The Guardrail Hierarchy” by David Kowalski. In this book, Kowalski successfully gives the reader a head start in building data governance at their organization – starting from a strategic vision, then moving into the foundational aspects […]
Data Sips: Interview with Tom Redman
Data Sips is a new video miniseries presented by Ippon Technologies and DATAVERSITY that showcases quick conversations with industry experts from last month’s Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) Conference in Washington, D.C. The fourth episode of the Data Sips series features “The Data Doc” Tom Redman, president of Data Quality Solutions, chatting with host Steve MacLauchlan, head […]
Modern OLAP: From Static Beginnings to a Big Data Renaissance
Online analytical processing (OLAP) enables users to interactively extract insights from complex datasets by querying and analyzing data in a multidimensional way. By structuring data by dimensions and measures, OLAP allows for intuitive and immediate slicing, dicing, and pivoting to interactively answer critical business questions. OLAP has come a long way since its inception. The […]
Revenue Data Governance: The Competitive Advantage Enterprises Can’t Afford to Ignore
Revenue data is no longer just a metric – it’s the strategic heartbeat of every enterprise. In the next decade, companies that capitalize on revenue data will outpace competitors, making it the single most critical asset for driving growth, agility, and market leadership. To achieve sustainable growth, companies require a holistic view of their revenue […]
Securing Your Company’s Data Assets Depends on Both Tech and Humans
It is obvious how essential data security has become in the face of sophisticated cyber attacks. Companies need to continue to improve their processes and systems to protect sensitive information. While advanced cybersecurity technologies help massively, they can’t do it alone. Ensuring all-around safety requires the humans in the loop to work in tandem with […]
MySQL Replication: Unlocking Performance and Flexibility with Advanced Techniques
In database management, replication has long been a cornerstone of data reliability, redundancy, and performance. For those familiar with MySQL, replication may seem straightforward – simply read the binary log and apply it to a replica server, right? While this basic understanding is correct, improving replication performance is far more complex, particularly when dealing with […]
Balancing Efficiency with Performance: The Role of GenAI in Modern Data Strategies
Generative AI (GenAI) has undoubtedly taken the spotlight as this year’s defining innovation. Models like ChatGPT and LLama can generate text and code, perform exploratory data analysis, and automate documentation, which introduces countless opportunities for data science efficiencies. However, tech work is often a compromise between implementation efficiency and performance. In some cases, GenAI can […]
Data Sips: Interview with Mathias Vercauteren
Data Sips is a new video miniseries presented by Ippon Technologies and DATAVERSITY that showcases quick conversations with industry experts from last month’s Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) Conference in Washington, D.C. The third episode of the series features Mathias Vercauteren, president and principal of Data Vantage Consulting, chatting with host Steve MacLauchlan, head of data […]
The Convergence of the Data Mesh and Data Fabric: Data Architecture’s New Era
The most meaningful development in contemporary data architecture isn’t the growing interest in the concepts of the data mesh and the data fabric. Instead, it’s the potential for convergence of these two architectural approaches into a single architecture that supports both decentralization and centralization of integrated data, local data ownership, universal accessibility, and top-down and bottom-up implementation methods. […]
Enhancing Generative AI with Vector Databases: Practical Applications in the Travel Industry
As AI continues to drive innovations in customer experiences, the need for better data management systems has become more evident. One such system, vector databases, is gaining traction as a key enabler of generative AI in industries like travel. These databases are specifically designed to store and process high-dimensional data in the form of vectors, […]