by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “ZEPL today moved its interactive, multi-tenant environment platform out of beta and is now generally available. Designed for data scientists to collaboratively execute analysis through a single notebook interface, ZEPL ensures better, faster interactions with data. ZEPL also launched ZEPL Team, a more feature-rich solution to […]
How to Make Decisions About Data Modeling Relationships in Databases
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. When you face highly connected data, you might have to choose between Relational vs. Graph. Which one is better? The answers became clear to me, when I asked people from both camps using two (non-scientific) questionnaires. It is not rocket science, but you still need to do […]
Data Modeling Trends in 2018
The Database Management and Data Modeling landscapes have evolved significantly in the past few years, from the traditional relational model to now include non-relational models as well. The growth of Big Data and its unstructured and semi-structured data formats, along with trends in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Lakes, Machine Learning, Blockchain and others pushing […]
Metadata Discovery in Minutes: An Intelligent Solution
Roland Bullivant is accustomed to the stunned silence that often greets a demonstration of Safyr®, Silwood Technology’s Metadata Discovery software. Moments after realizing that Safyr creates a complete Metadata Glossary for large ERP and CRM packages in a matter of hours, a process that can take an entire team working full time six months – […]
Kalypso Announces Formulation and Compliance Workbench Release 2.0
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Global consulting firm and Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Gold Cloud Select member Kalypso today announced the launch of the second release of Formulation and Compliance Workbench for Oracle product lifecycle management (PLM), an application that helps process manufacturers integrate formula prototyping and development with their PLM and […]
How Not to Get Lost in 2018 with Knowledge Graphs: Map, Graph, Go!
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Losing your way is easy. Much of Data Modeling in the search, analytics and reporting spaces have been focused on the fabulous five W-words. The hope is to try to answer the Why-question: We have been throwing technologies at this for quite some years now: Plain old […]
Data Models Create ‘Living Policy’ for Data Management
“Data Models can be the critical link between business definitions and rules, and the technical data systems that support them,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director of Global Data Strategy, while speaking during her presentation Building Actionable Data Governance through Data Models & Metadata at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017 Conference. She discussed how […]
Knowledge Maps – Interesting Versus Boring
Click to learn more about author John Singer. When designing your Knowledge Maps it certainly helps to have some interesting questions that you are trying to answer. (See Knowledge Maps – How to Ask a Data Question). “Build it and they will come” approaches didn’t work very well for data warehouse and BI efforts and the […]
Overcoming Common Roadblocks to Data Vault Development
Click to learn more about author Barry Devlin. Data Warehouse developers have historically walked a narrow line between Data Quality and business agility. At the same time, they balance the needs and relationships between IT and internal business clients. Technology has answered this dilemma with two separate approaches: the Data Vault optimized for Data Warehouse […]
Say No More: Verbal Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. ”Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more”. Says British Eric Idle in the third Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode, “How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away” from 1969. Indeed, it should not be necessary to say more, once […]