Click to learn more about author Bassam Chahine. Redis, which stands for “REmote Dictionary Server,” is a speed-optimized in-memory data store most often used as a cache. Redis has data structure versatility — from strings, lists, dictionaries, and sets, to support for approximate counting, geolocation, and stream processing. While Redis is configured as a cache […]
Crafting Great Business Definitions: Definitions vs. Rules
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. In this fourth and final post of a four-part series about crafting great business definitions, I will explain the difference between definitions and rules, and how each best serves its own particular purpose. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 here. Definitional Rules Definitions are fundamentally […]
Crafting Great Business Definitions: Shaping Precise Definitions
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. In this third post of a four-part series about crafting great business definitions, I will explore how to make definitions precise. Surprisingly, the very first word in the definition is key to keeping it on target. Beyond that, I will explain how to express fine distinctions between […]
Crafting Great Business Definitions: Common Pitfalls
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. In this second post of a four-part series about crafting great business definitions, I will identify common pitfalls in creating definitions. I will explain how to detect when a definition is data-ish, how to avoid circular definitions, and what the difference is between a definition and a […]
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. […]
Levyx and Neueda Partner to Bring Python Into the Modern, Big Data Era
A new press release states, “Levyx Inc., a leading provider of ultra-low latency data processing software that brings high performance to demanding enterprise applications, announced today its partnership with Neueda, the leading-edge data management specialist, to deliver key enterprise enhancements to the Python community. By adding these critical features through the Helium™–Python interface, the parties […]
Data Management vs. Data Virtualization
Data Management, as a principle, requires that data is brought to a single place, governed actively, and available in real time. It also includes the trust needed for business users to perform day-to-day business functions and to do it better than the competition. Data needs are contextual and based on the role of the user. […]
Next and Prior: Pointing in Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Pointers have been in and out of data models. From the advent of the rotating disk drive in the 60s and until around 1990, pointers were all over the place (together with “hierarchies”, which were early versions of aggregates of co-located data). But relational and SQL made them […]
The Strategic Chief Data Officer: Leveraging Data for Customer Value
AT&T is inundated with data. Steve Stine, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at AT&T says that over 186 petabytes of data traverse AT&T’s network every day, and with operational data and customer data, “there’s a lot of opportunity to enhance more of what [AT&T is] doing” for the customer. Yet, with such an immense flood of […]
Using Your Data Corpus to Further Digital Transformation
Click to learn more about author Gary Orenstein. Introduction Every day we see freshly created data streams. From new mobile apps, to new connected appliances and automobiles, to new business applications capturing information from all corners of the world, we are awash in data. This dramatic trend is perhaps best illustrated in the skyrocketing valuations […]