A primary concern of digital businesses today is the reliability of data. Many business users are still judging the ultimate value of data-guided analytics with a certain degree of skepticism, which can only change over time with delivery of solid benefits. The reliability of business data comes from a well-designed and well implemented Data Architecture. […]
Five Ways Data Integration Improves Profitability
Click to learn more about author Eran Rozenfeld. With the beginning of a new year, most businesses will share one common resolution – to increase profits in 2019. However, focusing on efforts to generate more sales is not enough. Finding ways to reduce costs by becoming more efficient is also an integral part of maintaining […]
Slides: Improving Transactional Applications with Analytics
Improving Transactional Applications with Analytics from DATAVERSITY To view just the On Demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> Original Air Date: January 29, 2019 This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Today, most web and mobile applications are limited to “lightweight” analytics because general-purpose databases can be optimized for transactional or analytical workloads, but […]
Data Quality’s Importance to Blockchain
What’s the connection between Data Quality and Blockchain? Dan Myers, principal information quality educator at DQMatters and the publisher of The Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality — which seeks to align the Data Management community by using common definitions — addressed the issue during his Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled “Improved Data Quality Implications […]
Case Study: Cornell University Automates Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Cornell University is a privately endowed research university founded in 1865. Ranked in the top one percent of universities in the world, Cornell is made up of 14 colleges and schools serving roughly 22,000 students. Jeff Christen, data warehousing manager at Cornell University and adjunct faculty in Information Science, and Chris Stewart, VP and general […]
How to Not Get Overrun by Your Data Overrides
Click to learn more about author Richard Mohrmann. Large-scale enterprises rely heavily on market and consumer data sourced from outside vendors, but that information comes at a cost. In addition to intermittent issues with the data quality itself, consumers of vendor data can face timeliness problems, non-standard formats, coverage gaps, and lags in technical support. […]
Blockchain as a New Security Standard for Industries
Click to learn more about author Mary Ann Callahan. Everybody is into Blockchain nowadays. Even the people who don’t have a technical background started to realize its great potential and the opportunities it can create. That is entirely expected, as the Blockchain technology indeed has the power to change the world as we know it […]
Microsoft Acquires Citus Data, Re-affirming Its Commitment to Open Source
In a recent article on the Microsoft blog, Rohan Kumar announced, “I am thrilled to announce that we have acquired Citus Data, a leader in the PostgreSQL community. Citus is an innovative open source extension to PostgreSQL that transforms PostgreSQL into a distributed database, dramatically increasing performance and scale for application developers. Because Citus is […]
Seven Preventative Cyber Security Tips SMEs Should Take Today
Click to learn more about author Samuel Bocetta. When a major corporation or government website gets hacked, it’s front page news. All the TV talking heads discuss security in general, people panic, and sales of cyber security software goes up. That’s good for developers and shareholders, but what about small and medium business owners? The […]
2019: Full Scale Schema Modeling
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Using Concerns to Navigate Data Architectures Welcome to 2019! This is the year that offers us a unique opportunity to re-architect the way we think schemas, data models and Data Architecture. We do indeed need to do some things better. The real world is full of concerns, […]