Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Have you come across this phenomenon in the enterprise software market? When a new category gains prominence, many ancillary technologies with capabilities different from those of the original products that innovated that category, encroach into the mainstream and cause confusion. Case in point: Data Virtualization vs. Copy Data […]
Hot Data Technologies for 2018 and How to Embrace Them
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. One of the biggest problems today is not a lack of innovation or solutions, but rather how to settle on any technology. The key is to pick one and embrace it in a meaningful, productive way, without falling prey to debilitating “pause your business” problems that arise when […]
Speed Is All That Matters: The Difference between Getting Ahead and Being Left Behind for Market Share
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Just like any other Saturday, I was at home, spending time with family and catching up on work. My daughter, likewise, was in her room finishing up her homework before the weekend came to an end. Using her MacBook, she took her time and typed up her paper […]
Stop Chasing the Specter of a Single Monolithic Data Repository
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Back in the 1980s, when databases first enabled us to store megabytes of data, we were enthralled because we could store what seemed to be large volumes of data in a single place. Since then, we continue to try to collect our data in a single place for […]
Weaving Your Own Big Data Fabric
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. With Big Data, anyone with a modest budget can store, manage, and process vast amounts of data. The problem is, many companies are storing data from different systems in different formats, creating Big Data silos that results in large datasets that need to be integrated manually. Aside from […]
The Power of Data Intermediaries
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Food for Thought At the grocery store the other day, I marveled at the staggering number of brands that were assembled under a single roof, and I thought about the incredible journey that brought each of them together, from diverse factories and farms. This ample selection could […]
How to Avoid Messing Up Big Data Analytics
Click to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. “Big Data” is still in the news these days, but the story has evolved from describing what it is to how an organization can actually use all that data for actionable intelligence, or “Big Data Analytics”. In fact, Forbes just reported on a Honeywell study of 200 manufacturing […]
Data in the Cloud: How Organizations Are Shedding Their Fear in the Name of Agility and Speed
Click here to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Data is the new currency in this digital economy. Companies generate data during the normal course of their operations, analyze that data to gain intelligence about their business, and use that insight to tweak their operations to improve results; call it the data cycle. To protect such […]
How to Improve Competitiveness with Fast Data Strategy
Click here to learn more about author Ravi Shankar. Speed is the most important factor in sports or business. We all know that when determining an Olympic winner, speed can make all the difference between winning the coveted gold medal or settling for a silver or bronze. Businesses are no different. Companies that move fast […]