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Machine learning-driven foundational data discovery: Adding efficacy to the data lake/data warehouse combination

Once, centrally-administered data warehouses were the most authoritative and comprehensive repository available for analysis of corporate information. With the passage of time and the advent of self-service BI tools like Microsoft’s Power BI, Tableau and Qlik, people in the business units have become self-driven to read more...

March 26, 2018

Enterprise Data Management

Of data governance, and minding the store

Data governance is a hot concept right now. With the twin phenomena of frequent data breaches and ever more stringent regulations on data protection, this should be no surprise. But as is often the case with hype-driven terms, not everyone knows what data governance actually read more...

January 30, 2018

Data Flow

Plotting the progress of graph databases

Graph database products are a relatively new category of data storage and query technology, and one that’s getting a lot of attention lately. Unlike most conventional databases (and even some newer “NoSQL” products and engines) which track entities and their attributes, graph databases track entities read more...

December 19, 2017

Data, Enterprise Data Management

Embedded AI: the inside story

Most new technologies, when they first emerge, are treated as curiosities. It’s the nature of the beast. People are intrigued by technology in general and so, when a new technology comes out, fascination abounds. But there’s a problem with that fascination phenomenon, and there’s an issue read more...

November 14, 2017

Enterprise Data Management

To have a good lake, you need an anchor

Ever since Enterprise adoption of Hadoop and so-called NoSQL databases began, there’s been a schism in the database world. On the one hand, we have conventional relational database management systems (RDBMSes) which have been powering both operational databases and data warehouse systems for decades. On read more...

October 16, 2017

Regulatory & Compliance

Data Governance in Financial Services is Make-or-Break for Compliance

One decade after the 2007 economic crisis, financial services firms are still grappling with the regulatory aftermath. Data governance is a critical practice for all corporations to ensure compliance with complex regulatory reforms. Regulators worldwide have imposed new rules and strengthened old ones. Enterprises that want read more...

September 15, 2017

Business, Chief Data Officer, Data, Data Flow, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Information Managment

How A 360-Degree View Of Your Customer Data Can Energize Your Business and Help Avoid Disaster

In today’s business climate, a complete 360-degree view of a firm’s data is a necessity to compete at the highest level. Total awareness and control of information enables business leaders to maximize revenue opportunities (think better customer profiling, cross-selling), lower costs (think customer service read more...

June 14, 2017

Business, Chief Data Officer, Data, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Information Managment

Data Analytics: Should You Build a New Data Lake or ‘Drain the Swamp’?

Modern data analytics is rapidly transforming business in all industries. Early movers are rapidly disrupting business models and transforming customer expectations while others are scrambling to catch up and avoid becoming a dinosaur. For example: A large pharmaceutical company struggling with rapidly rising clinical trial costs read more...

April 24, 2017

Business, Chief Data Officer, Data, Data Flow, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Information Managment, Uncategorized

SOFTWARE MODERNIZATION: HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BENEFIT FROM UNDERSTANDING ALL YOUR UNDOCUMENTED DATA?

Software Modernization The need for businesses to drive competitive advantage and innovation through rapid, technology-driven transformation and software modernization has never been greater. This imperative has moved the CTO role and enterprise IT from a supporting department to a critical C-level function. Daniel Burrus, a leading read more...

April 06, 2017

Business, Data, Data Flow, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Information Managment, Uncategorized

GDPR Part 3: What the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Means for Accountability and Data Protection

This is the third and final blogpost in our series of GDPR related posts. In the first post we discussed the extra-territorial reach of the regulation and why U.S. companies need to understand GDPR. The second post focused on specific new requirements related to the read more...

March 15, 2017

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