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by Angela Guess David Loshin wrote an article regarding the sometimes tricky process of identifying the data requirements for business analytics. He writes, “When the key stakeholders in the organization have agreed to pursue a business analytics strategy, the strongest urge is to immediately embark upon a quest to evaluate and acquire tools. The...
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by Angela Guess Dion Hinchliffe recently enumerated nine strategic uses for social media in Big Data strategies. The first is expertise and reputation tracking: “Most organizations badly want to know if the information they see in their activity streams and social intranets is accurate and authoritative. Externally, they also want to be able to...
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by Angela Guess A new series of articles takes a look at the top root causes of data quality issues. The first root cause is typographical errors and non-conforming data: “Despite a lot of automation in our data architecture these days, data is still typed into Web forms and other user interfaces by people....
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by Angela Guess Phillip Russom recently made the argument for multi-data-domain master data management. It begins, “Most user organizations deploy single-domain MDM solutions. The most popular data domain is customer data, but other common domains for MDM are (in priority order) financials, products, partners, employees, and locations. Here’s the problem with single-data-domain MDM. It’s...
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by Angela Guess Dr. Michael Stonebraker warned attendees of the NoSQL Now! Conference that “Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water’… Instead, SQL (Structured Query Language) can be adopted to newer systems with a few technical adjustments,...
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By Christine Denney One of my favorite songs from a musical has the line ”525,600 minutes; How do you measure, measure a year?” And how many songs have been written about the “measure of a man”? These are all catchy tunes, but after a recent remodeling experience, I was starting to question the “measure of a measure”. It...
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NewSQL vs NoSQL for New OLTP, Michael Stonebraker, VoltDB View more videos from DATAVERSITY About the Presentation Historically, enterprises used traditional RDBMs for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applications. We affectionately call these systems OldSQL, because they are largely legacy code bases, originally written decades ago. New OLTP applications have more extreme performance requirements...
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Why NoSQL Makes Sense, Dwight Merriman, 10gen View more videos from DATAVERSITY About the Presentation Former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman wrote the first lines of MongoDB code in 2007. He drew upon his experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems to create a new kind of database. This session will...
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By Sue Geuens The biggest buzz word or phrase doing the rounds these days is Single View. Single View of Customer, of Product, of Services, etc etc, etc …. But, having spent many years trying to “build” such views, I am left with the feeling that we are failing. I have my ear to...
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By Sue Geuens, CDMP Last month I was lucky enough to attend a webinar by Dr Peter Aiken on Reference and Master Data Management. As the session progressed we hit a slide in which Peter discusses the Gender Codes of Canada. There are 9 (or was it 17) codes – ranging from what most...
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