Click to learn more about author Michael Morrison. The world irrevocably changed in March 2020. For years, pundits and technology leaders said that remote work was the future. Businesses were hesitant to lean into the model because of their unfounded fear that — despite mountains of evidence to the contrary — employees couldn’t maintain productivity […]
Maintaining Data Integrity During Integration
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani Every organization integrates and shares data with multiple systems, processes, and individuals. With data being generated and consumed at unprecedented levels, the challenge is ensuring its integrity before it’s processed or fed into reporting and analytics databases. Consider a scenario, where you have to decide whether to […]
Graph Databases vs. Key-Value Databases
Graph databases and key-value databases have very different features and are used for accomplishing different tasks. Key-value databases are streamlined and fast, but are limited and not as flexible. Graph databases, on the other hand, are very flexible and great for research, but not terribly fast. Both typically use a non-relational foundation. The two key […]
The Four Data Management Mistakes Derailing Your BI Program
Click to learn more about author Emma Williams If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a BI consultant, it’s that Data Management problems, like speeding tickets and jury duty, are terribly common but somehow still feel unlikely to happen to you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen BI implementations drag on for […]
Business Intelligence Meets Metadata Challenges
Many BI managers, CEOs, and CIOs cannot afford to add more staff, so they are seeking technologies that can help their existing teams operate more accurately and efficiently. They “need to change the physics, as we call it. They can’t just add more people to the team,” said Amnon Drori in a recent DATAVERSITY® interview. […]
How to Handle Throttling in Cloud Databases
Click to learn more about author Niels Brinch. Retry. Yes, retry is the answer and conclusion of this article, but let’s spend a little time looking at the problem on a higher level — what solutions there are and what the consequences are of those solutions. What is Throttling? If you are used to having […]
Trusting Data Delivery: What to Look for in a Data Validation Solution for Replication
Click here to learn more about Joe deBuzna. Many of us have experienced moving to a new home or city. And in any moving process, it’s common to end up with missing valuables or broken items that leave you wondering if you should have packed better, picked a different moving company, or just thought through […]
Leverage Your Data to Get a Holistic Customer View
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani Today, data is the center of everything. Therefore, it’s only natural for organizations to leverage it to create a data-centric customer strategy that aims to optimize sales and marketing processes. Every customer action, ranging from the first touchpoint to the purchase, creates a digital footprint. These interactions […]
Three Steps for More Secure Open-Source Use
Click to learn more about author Nicole Segerer. Low-cost solutions. Enhanced productivity. Faster time to market. These benefits of open-source software (OSS) are some of the driving factors behind its wide adoption. With open-source use also comes the need for users to minimize the risksrelated to third-party software. Using OSS and being license compliant is necessary […]
Big Data to the Rescue?
Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. In a world ravaged by COVID-19, having access to the right data is literally a matter of life or death. Governments need authentic data for tracing the possible contacts of an infected person and identifying potential clusters. But that information gets accumulated on a day-to-day basis and […]