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Property Graphs: The Swiss Army Knife of Data Modeling

Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Happy Days Are Here Again! At least for all of us, who get a kick from new data base technologies. This is much like the repeal of probation in the 1930es (where “Happy days are here again” was a new and popular song). These days the V-commandments […]

By A.R. Guess 4 hours ago

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Alation Inc., the collaborative data company, today announced deeper support for cataloging data lakes deployed both on-premises and in the cloud, including data lakes built with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). The Alation Data Catalog is the first data catalog […]

By A.R. Guess 3 hours ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “One of the largest, most in-depth surveys of clinical data management professionals shows that the time it takes companies to design and release clinical study databases is having a negative impact on conducting and completing trials. According to the 2017 eClinical Landscape Study from Tufts Center […]

By A.R. Guess 3 hours ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Immuta today unveiled its advanced data management platform for data science, providing new features that accelerate the creation, deployment and control of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). With this release, Immuta is the first company to deliver personalized data access and automated differential privacy for […]

By Shannon Kempe 3 hours ago

To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This Webinar was Sponsored by: About the Webinar Data is proliferating at an accelerated rate, with all the mobile and desktop apps, social media, online purchasing, and consumer loyalty programs available today. All of these data sources have not just changed the way we operate […]

By Shannon Kempe 4 hours ago

Mastering Data Modeling for NoSQL Platforms from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This Webinar was Sponsored by: About the Webinar Data is proliferating at an accelerated rate, with all the mobile and desktop apps, social media, online purchasing, and consumer loyalty programs available today. All of these data […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 20 hours ago

“How do we measure the quality of our health care?” asked Laura Tellmann, Healthcare Informatics Executive at BJC HealthCare in St. Louis, speaking at the Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference. She shared a photo of a young boy who had survived a brain tumor and post-surgery stroke, as a reminder that the quality of the […]

By A.R. Guess 20 hours ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Microsoft and Paxata, the pioneer and leader in empowering all business consumers to intelligently transform raw data into ready information instantaneously, today announced the general availability of the industry’s first self-service information platform for Microsoft Azure. The current release of the company’s award-winning Adaptive Information Platform […]

By A.R. Guess 21 hours ago

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Stibo Systems, the global leader in Business-first Master Data Management (MDM)™ solutions, today announced the availability of SpirePLM™ 8.2, the latest release of its comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution enabling organizations to reduce the time required to introduce new products to market, compete efficiently and meet […]

Sep 26 Webinar: Building on Multi-Model Databases

By Shannon Kempe 1 year ago

DATE: September 26, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Webinar What’s the problem? The data is in silos. Business and IT are both demanding a unified view of data to help provide solutions to today’s business challenges, but you can’t […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: September 28, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Master Data Management (MDM) can create a 360 view of core business assets such as Customer, Product, Vendor, and more. Data modeling is a core component of MDM in both creating the technical integration between […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 5, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data Lakes are meant to support many of the same analytics capabilities of Data Warehouses while overcoming some of the core problems. Yet Data Lakes have a distinctly different technology base. This webinar will provide […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 10, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Good data is like good water: best served fresh, and ideally well-filtered. Data management strategies can produce tremendous procedural improvements and increased profit margins across the board, but only if the data being managed is […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 12, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar The right DM architecture will enable continuous improvement. The wrong one will haunt you forever. Once developers have a knowledge management model – covered in our August webinar – they still have to deal with […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 19, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar Data Modeling can be described as the discipline of data definition and database design. Data Governance must be applied to the definition, production, and usage of data in order to be effective. So therefore data […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: October 26, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. About the Webinar A tenet of the Agile Manifesto is ‘Working software over comprehensive documentation’, and many have interpreted that to mean that data models are not necessary in the agile development environment. Others have seen the value […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 2, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Data visualization is central to big data analytics because the volumes of data involved are beyond the scale that can be effectively manually reviewed by humans. Data visualization provides techniques for quickly viewing, understanding, and […]

By Anita Kress 1 year ago

DATE: November 9, 2017 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar A generation that grew up with games that read behavioral cues and provide haptic feedback is ready for more advanced interfaces – can you deliver what they want? We are a long way from systems […]

Property Graphs: The Swiss Army Knife of Data Modeling

By Thomas Frisendal 4 hours ago

By Kim Grennan 2 days ago

Click to learn more about author Kim Grennan. If employers want to better analyze, interpret and apply data, they need to first rethink the nature of employment. They need to look at the data about the global economy, about the changing nature of work and a change in nature among workers themselves. Employers need to educate […]

By Kartik Patel 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. To be successful in business, every organization must find a way to accurately forecast and predict the future of its market, and its internal operations, and better understand the buying behavior of its customers and prospects. With the democratization of Business Intelligence and the advent of Self-Serve Business […]

By Daisy Ridley 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Daisy Ridley. In recent years, data democratization has spread very quickly across the enterprise. It has brought with it, the slogans from end users all over for an expansion in access to the self-service capabilities. The companies are now evolving to understand that offering line-of-business users with access to data […]

By Richard Macaskill 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Richard Macaskill. You’ve no doubt heard at least something about the GDPR, the EU’s new privacy and Data Management law with its greatly increased maximum fines for non-compliance and tighter definitions for acceptable use of personal information. If you’ve continued reading past paragraph one of any of the many articles, […]

By Ian Rowlands 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Ian Rowlands. It’s been a while since I posted. It’s been a busy summer as we’ve been working on launching our latest product. However, I’ve also taken some time to experiment with some of the tools that Citizen Data Scientists (CDS, for short) might be working with, to get more […]

By Bree Baich 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Bree Baich. Recently, a follower on Twitter reached out to share her frustration over the results of her data storytelling research. “We’ve been researching the topic like crazy, but I don’t seem to find an agreed upon definition for it.” I’ve spent my entire career in roles that required a […]

By Prince Kapoor 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author Prince Kapoor. Being paranoid about Big Data Security no longer looks funny. The growing cyber security threats are making brands scared to the death. The article explains major challenges and best practices for Big Data Security. Let me ask you a simple question, are you paranoid about Big Data Security? […]

By P.K. Agarwal 2 weeks ago

Click to learn more about author P.K. Agarwal. Northeastern University-Silicon Valley recently conducted a survey among approximately 600 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Not surprisingly, the survey found that one of the biggest challenges of IoT was data aggregation and analysis. Many companies and universities are finding ways to weave in […]

Case Study: Three Strategies for Data Governance Success

By Amber Lee Dennis 20 hours ago

By Paramita Ghosh 2 days ago

It is only when Data Analytics start meshing with advanced technologies like Machine Learning and Deep Learning that enterprises will reap the benefits of their analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) activities. Those technologies require well-planned Data Science principles built around business need. Such Data Science use cases are now mature enough that business owners, leaders, […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 days ago

In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview, Donna Burbank, the Managing Director at Global Data Strategy, said: “The difference between Data Management vs. Data Strategy is almost in the definition of the two words. Think about your money. If you’re just managing it, you’re sort of just getting by, but if you’re thinking strategically, you’re really thinking […]

By Keith D. Foote 1 week ago

In 1865, Richard Millar Devens presented the phrase “Business Intelligence” (BI) in the Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes. He was using it to describe how Sir Henry Furnese, a banker, profited from information by gathering and acting on it before his competition. More recently, in 1958, an article was written by an IBM computer […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 1 week ago

It’s the morning of May 18, 2018 and you arrive at your desk to find a message from a former job applicant in Germany asking for an inventory of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) you have for him, and a request to delete all his information. There’s also a notice from IT saying they have […]

By Keith D. Foote 1 week ago

Many organizations would like to develop and incorporate a NoSQL data model in their existing architectures, and to hire staff with Data Modeling skills. Unfortunately, there is a significant lack of data modelers with NoSQL experience, and reliable NoSQL Data Modeling tools are only just beginning to emerge into the market. The shortage of experienced […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

With the emergence of multi-structured data, Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT), and streaming data, business owners and operators are now faced with the challenge of managing petabytes of data arriving at tremendous speed from various data pipelines across the enterprise. Thus, Real-time Analytics, or the technological capability for “processing data as it arrives” has […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

When it comes to metrics, “Less is more,” said Kelle O’Neal, Founder and CEO of First San Francisco Partners, presenting at DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data Governance Online 2017. You don’t have to measure everything, she said, you just have to “choose what’s important and meaningful to your stakeholder group and your program.” O’Neal’s presentation showed how […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made fantastic advances since its debut about a half century ago. What has changed in the last ten years is that computing power and tools have improved to make it possible for machines to solve more complex problems, so they can handle not just very specific tactical tasks but also make […]

Alation Delivers Governance for Insight in Data Lakes, Both On-premises and in the Cloud

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by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, today announced Veritas Cloud Storage, a new software-defined storage solution designed for massive amounts of unstructured data. This storage solution enables customers to apply analytics, machine learning and classification technologies to stored data, which can help customers extract […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Arcadia Data, provider of the first native visual analytics software for big data, today announced updates to its platform to streamline big data analytics with machine-assisted insights that allow greater accessibility and self-service to business analysts. Meant to reduce the complexity of handling modern data types […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Qumulo today announced Qumulo File Fabric (QF2), the world’s first universal-scale file storage system. QF2 is a modern, highly scalable file storage system, creating a single file domain that spans the data center and the cloud. For the first time, enterprise customers have the freedom to store, […]

By A.R. Guess 2 days ago

by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Next IT, the provider of conversational AI for the Global 5000, today announced a new initiative to help every enterprise succeed with AI by making their proprietary AI tools and conversation platform commercially available. By placing their tools directly in the hands of businesses, Next IT […]