Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Bitemporal Modeling is an extremely useful tool for documenting historical data. It allows you to recreate databases as they existed at any point in the past and see whether the records were correct — based on what you know to be true now. This information can not only […]
Data Lakes: Cleaning Up Data’s Junk Drawer
Click to learn more about author Paul Brunet. We all have that place where we end up stashing those things we think we’ll need or want someday. Some of us throw the stuff in a junk drawer in the kitchen. Others squirrel it away to the attic or into a closet in the spare bedroom. […]
From Business to Data Management to Healthcare to Society: What to Expect from 5G
Click to learn more about author Lindsay Notwell. 2018 is the year in which carriers will begin launching 5G commercially in limited markets while at the same time they are broadly deploying a pathway to 5G services. In February, AT&T announced that Dallas, Atlanta and Waco would be among the first cities to experience the […]
Enterprise Data Needs a Good Yogi
Click to learn more about author Ken Tsai. When it comes to data complexity, the IT community and yoga community want the same thing – serenity and flexibility. A recent study, “Data 2020: State of Big Data,” shows that half of the responding IT decision makers believe that data is inaccessible to a wide variety […]
Three Signs You’re Suffering from Data Mismanagement, and How to Fix it
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. We have more data at our fingertips than entire generations before us. But due to data mismanagement issues, for many companies that doesn’t mean very much. According to the recent survey “Reducing Inefficiency and Increasing the Value of Analytics and Business Intelligence,” only 11 percent of participants […]
A Guide to Data Warehouse Automation for Today’s CDOs
Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. The four “Vs” of data are well known – volume, velocity, variety and veracity. However, Data Warehousing infrastructure in many organizations is no longer equipped to handle these. The fifth elusive “V” – value – is even more evasive. Meeting these challenges at the scale of data […]
Data Profiling: The First Step to Data Science
Click to learn more about author Mark Hensley. In 2012 former Chief Data Scientist of the United States DJ Patil and Babson College Professor Thomson H. Davenport famously declared that the job of Data Scientist would be the “Sexiest job of the 21st Century.” While that may true, most Data Scientists spend the biggest chunk […]
Metadata is the Key to Data Management Success
“Metadata is hotter than ever,” said Donna Burbank, Managing Director at Global Data Strategy. “And there’s data to back up that assertion.” Speaking at DATAVERSITY® Database Now Online 2017 Conference, Burbank was referring the survey findings of the research report Emerging Trends in Metadata Management. 80 percent of survey respondents said that Metadata is as […]
Three Questions You Aren’t Asking That Will Make Your Data Strategy Hum
Click to learn more about author Joe deBuzna. In the world where IoT, AI, blockchain and Cloud-connected devices are redefining everything from energy and finance to supply chains and services, this is the new reality: Companies across all industries are becoming data companies. As a result, tools for managing data workloads, like modern Data Lakes, have […]
Analytics is Much More Than Big Data
Click to learn more about author Chirag Shivalker. BIG Data; though the term is coined everywhere and considered mainstream, is no longer a buzzword. However jazzy the concept of “Big Data” gets, simply having and collecting more data is no longer enough. We have now entered the space where business-oriented “Data Strategies” should be the […]