by Angela Guess A new release out of the company reports, “Dell Software today announced the spring 2014 release of Dell Boomi…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Bryan Bell, the Executive Vice President at Expert System. Expert System are the developers…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Massimo Ruffolo, the CTO at Altilia. Massimo will be giving a session at the…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Daragh O Brien, the Managing Director at Castlebridge Associates. Daragh will be giving two…
by Jelani Harper Continuing developments in the fields of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science are making it increasingly necessary for organizations to become cognizant of the distinctions between these terms, as they relate to the value they can produce for the enterprise. The latest developments to influence these various aspects of the enterprise include:…
by Jennifer Zaino Any business with plenty of customers has plenty of data about each and every one of them. Chances are that these businesses have spent a lot of time in the past – and expect to spend a lot more of it in the future – trying to leverage that data to maximum…
by Jelani Harper The ability for the enterprise to continue to make data-based decisions is becoming increasingly reliant on analytics. At present there are four principle categories of analytics, including: Descriptive: Descriptive Analytics are historically based and utilize technologies found in conventional Business Intelligence platforms such as reporting and dashboards. Diagnostic: Diagnostic Analytics are more…
by Ian Rowlands There was a plaintive note on LinkedIn recently from Jim Barker, Director of Data Management at Honeywell. You can see his link here — http://lnkd.in/bDyr__Y . He’s conducting a survey for on what firms are doing on Data Governance for a thesis he’s writing. Please review the survey and consider participating. What…
by John Ladley Apologies to Alexander Pope, who penned “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” But it is a good statement to set the context with this month’s blog. Most of us reading this are dealing with data quality, data governance and other information-related topics. If you are any amount of effort into these…
by Ian Rowlands I was privileged to do a webinar on March 19th as a preview for a session that I’m doing at the Enterprise data World Conference in Austin on April 30th. I got some really good questions and I thought I’d use my DATAVERSITY Blog to address some of them in two parts…
DATE: April 24, 2014 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar What to do when you are asked to do wrong? What data modeling topics tend to run into ethical issues? Is DW/BI more prone to ethical issues? What if you are asked to model for…
DATE: May 7, 2014 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Hosted by the: About the Webinar As the winner of the first annual Data Stewardship Award, Barbara Deemer has been successful as the Chief Data Steward of Sallie Mae for the last 4 years. Attend…
DATE: May 13, 2014 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data architecture is foundational to an information-based operational environment. It is your data architecture that organizes your data assets so they can be leveraged in your business strategy to create real business value. Even though…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Bryan Bell, the Executive Vice President at Expert System. Expert System are the developers of the patented, award-winning Cogito® semantic technology. Cogito® helps enterprises of all sizes to increase the effectiveness and unlock the value of all their text-based information. Expert System are a Sponsor at the Enterprise…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Massimo Ruffolo, the CTO at Altilia. Massimo will be giving a session at the Enterprise Data World 2014 Conference in Austin, Texas from April 27 – May 1, 2014. His session is titled “How to Turn Big Data into Smart Data and Make Sense Of It All.” The Speaker…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Daragh O Brien, the Managing Director at Castlebridge Associates. Daragh will be giving two sessions at the Enterprise Data World 2014 Conference in Austin, Texas from April 27 – May 1, 2014. His first session is titled “Data Privacy & Protection in a Big Data World.” His second session…
by Jelani Harper Continuing developments in the fields of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science are making it increasingly necessary for organizations to become cognizant of the distinctions between these terms, as they relate to the value they can produce for the enterprise. The latest developments to influence these various aspects of the enterprise include:…
by Angela Guess John Leonard of Computing.co.uk recently asked, “In 10 years’ time will big data analytics have replaced traditional relational business intelligence systems? That was one of the questions that Computing asked UK IT decision-makers in the quantitative survey that formed part of our recent big data research programme. The answer to that question was a pretty decisive ‘No’, with…
by Jennifer Zaino Any business with plenty of customers has plenty of data about each and every one of them. Chances are that these businesses have spent a lot of time in the past – and expect to spend a lot more of it in the future – trying to leverage that data to maximum…
Real-World Data Governance: How to Write a Data Steward Job Description from DATAVERSITY To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar A Data Steward Job Description is a list of job responsibilities that a Data Steward uses for tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of them in their everyday role. It…
Real-World Data Governance: How to Write a Data Steward Job Description from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar A Data Steward Job Description is a list of job responsibilities that a Data Steward uses for tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of them in their everyday role.…
by Ian Rowlands There was a plaintive note on LinkedIn recently from Jim Barker, Director of Data Management at Honeywell. You can see his link here — http://lnkd.in/bDyr__Y . He’s conducting a survey for on what firms are doing on Data Governance for a thesis he’s writing. Please review the survey and consider participating. What…
by Angela Guess A new release out of the company reports, “Dell Software today announced the spring 2014 release of Dell Boomi AtomSphere® integration platform as a service (iPaaS) featuring an adaptive approach to application integration designed to accelerate customer time to value. Leveraging AtomSphere’s unique single-instance, multi-tenant architecture to gain deep insight into customer usage metrics, the…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Daragh O Brien, the Managing Director at Castlebridge Associates. Daragh will be giving two sessions at the Enterprise Data World 2014 Conference in Austin, Texas from April 27 – May 1, 2014. His first session is titled “Data Privacy & Protection in a Big Data World.” His second session…
by Angela Guess Wally Bahny of Tech Republic recently compiled a list of ten hot IT topics that CTOs and CDOs should stay abreast of. First on the list is software-defined networking: “Software-defined networking (SDN) was, by far, the biggest topic discussed at Interop this year. It seemed like a full 25% of the sessions were…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Massimo Ruffolo, the CTO at Altilia. Massimo will be giving a session at the Enterprise Data World 2014 Conference in Austin, Texas from April 27 – May 1, 2014. His session is titled “How to Turn Big Data into Smart Data and Make Sense Of It All.” The Speaker…
by Angela Guess IDA Singapore recently wrote in Venture Beat, “Here are five ways companies are using big data to treat customers more like individuals — and build better long-term relationships so those customers happily buy more and more. 1. Predict exactly what customers want before they ask for it. Remember when that shopkeeper had your…
by Angela Guess Michael Dixon, GM of Smarter Cities IBM, recently wrote for Forbes, “Analysis of popularly named ’big data’ has enabled professionals throughout cities to analyze data, explain behaviors, or use modeling to predict the future. The application of these techniques had enabled cities to discover that they can meet new challenges and solve existing thorny problems…
by Michael Blaha 1. Higher quality. Just as architects consider blueprints before constructing a building, you should consider data before building an app. On average, about 70 percent of software development efforts fail, and a major source of failure is premature coding. A data model helps define the problem, enabling you to consider different approaches…
by Jennifer Zaino March came in like a lion for the Data Modeling community. Not quite halfway through the month, news came that Embarcadero Technologies had entered into an agreement with CA Technologies to acquire CA ERwin, described here by Ovum practice leader Mark Blowers as “one of the most extensively used and recognized data…
Big Challenges in Data Modeling: Staying Relevant & Valued as a Data Modeler – Interview with Alec Sharp from DATAVERSITY About the Webinar We invite you to join us in this monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series, “Big Challenges with Data Modeling” hosted by Karen Lopez. Join Karen and Alec Sharp this month as they discuss how…
by Angela Guess Doug Henschen of Information Week reports, “GE Power & Water has been monitoring its industrial turbines and predicting maintenance and part-replacement needs for nearly 10 years. But three changes in recent years have really enabled this $28 billion unit of GE to up its game, according to CIO Jim Fowler. The first trend…
by Angela Guess Eliot Horowitz, CTO and Co-founder of MongoDB reports, “In the five years since the initial release of MongoDB, and after hundreds of thousands of deployments, we have learned a lot. The time has come to take everything we have learned and create a basis for continued innovation over the next ten years. Today…
by Charles Roe DATAVERSITY™ recently interviewed Joe Caserta, the President and Founder of Caserta Concepts. Joe will be giving a session at the Enterprise Data World 2014 Conference in Austin, Texas from April 27 – May 1, 2014. His session is titled “Zero-Latency Analytics with NoSQL.” The Speaker Spotlight Column (and its parallel venture the…
by Jelani Harper Continuing developments in the fields of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science are making it increasingly necessary for organizations to become cognizant of the distinctions between these terms, as they relate to the value they can produce for the enterprise. The latest developments to influence these various aspects of the enterprise include:…
by Angela Guess Eric Blattberg of Venture Beat reports, “There are plenty of programmers who can match a startup’s pace. There are plenty of PhDs with solid research backgrounds. But there’s a serious dearth of job applicants equipped with both skill sets. Foursquare veteran Michael Li is working on a solution: a hacker bootcamp for data…
by Gil Allouche Big data is making waves like never before, and it’s time for your company to seriously invest in it too. To have success with big data companies need to invest in data gathering, storage, and analytics. With programs like Apache Hive, big data analysis is becoming easier and more important. After all,…
