Read more about author Anand Mahurkar. In the current business landscape, traditional enterprises are looking for agile technologies to accelerate growth and digital transformation. Many of these organizations have petabytes of data stored in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and while ERP platforms can provide an overview of “what happened,” many organizations want to know “what will happen” or “what’s the persona of my user?” or “how much inventory should we order for next quarter?”…

Read more about author Farshid Sabet. Hospitals are one of the best examples to spotlight the complexities of unstructured data. From physicians’ notes in EHRs, emails, text files, photos, videos, and other files, the majority of patient data cannot be read by machines. Research firm IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of data will be unstructured, growing from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025. This example demonstrates a huge challenge in dealing…

Read more about author Gilad David Maayan. A cloud database runs on a cloud computing platform that delivers it to users as a service. Cloud services offer various cloud databases, including SQL and NoSQL databases. Here are the two main cloud database deployment models:  Use a virtual machine (VM) to run your databases on the cloud privatelyPurchase access to a database service maintained by a cloud provider  The main advantage…

Read more about author Irfan Gowani. Data models play an integral role in the development of effective data architecture for modern businesses. They are key to the conceptualization, planning, and building of an integrated data repository that drives advanced analytics and BI.  The proven approach to seamlessly designing and deploying a data warehouse is putting enterprise data modeling at the center of your data warehousing process. By doing so, you can ensure…