LDM Webinar: Data Modeling & Business Intelligence from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this webinar, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Business Intelligence (BI) is a valuable way to use information to show the overall health and performance of the organization. At its core is quality, well-structured data […]
Softcoded Data
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. Database applications typically have a direct representation. Application concepts are represented as tables with their attributes stored as table columns. This direct approach works well for applications with fixed structure. However, it fails for applications with structure that is not fully known as the application is being built. […]
Erwin’s End Game: Holistic Data Management
Data Management vendor erwin Inc. has been following through on the plans it discussed with DATAVERSITY® last year, shortly after its acquisition from CA Technologies by private equity firm Parallax Capital Partners. Its efforts to bring together Data Modeling, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Architecture domains to support the data-driven enterprise have been in evidence with its acquisitions […]
Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence: Hey Robo Data Modeler!
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. In the data space plenty of new terms are being coined (by marketing?) for handling data modeling, governance and quality issues: “data preparation”, “data wrangling”, “data catalogue” and “machine-based data harmonization” (™ of ClearStory Data). Do we need stuff like this? Definitely so. Today we need to move […]
LDM Webinar: How Data Modeling Fits into an Overall Enterprise Architecture
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as it relates to data and its […]
LDM Slides: How Data Modeling Fits into an Overall Enterprise Architecture
LDM Slides: How Data Modeling Fits into an Overall Enterprise Architecture from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical […]
Six Key Principles to Accelerate Data Preparation in the Data Lake
Click to learn more about author Paul Barth. In the digital economy, most companies are looking to significantly increase their use of data and analytics for competitive advantage. Many are making investments in new technologies like Hadoop that promise the speed and flexibility they need, and early pilots look promising. However, companies are struggling to scale […]
Debugging Complex SQL Queries
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. We favor the offloading of application logic to SQL queries. Developers can save time, effort, and reduce mistakes by substituting SQL for programming code. This leads to lengthy and complex SQL that must be debugged. It is common to write a SQL query that initially fails to execute. […]
erwin Releases New Version of Industry-Leading Data Modeling Solution
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “erwin Inc., the data management experts, today announced the availability of a new version of erwin DM™, the company’s market-leading data modeling solution used by more than 50,000 professionals around the world. The new erwin DM solution effectively models and governs any data assets stored anywhere for […]
SQL versus NoSQL Databases: A Review of Key Themes
Non-relational databases (aka NoSQL), in many different variations, have become a popular database model for handling Big Data. They use two novel concepts, making them different from earlier, “classical” database models. The concepts having so much impact are horizontal scaling, spreading out the storage and work, and eliminating the use of “Structured Query Language” (SQL) […]