Data Fabric - Hype, Hope, or Here Today?

Oct 02, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Data fabric is a recently emerged term that manages to simultaneously seem intriguing and nebulous. What is data fabric? 

Blockchain and the IoT: Piledriving Into a Data Network Near You

Oct 02, 2018 by Jeff Cotrupe in All Things B.I.

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The start-stop-somewhat halting rise of the blockchain; and the rise of the so-real-you-can-see-and-touch-it IoT; are creating what some would call a “megatrend,” but in truth is a commonality across verticals and channels: the importance of dealing with intelligence at the edge. This blog lays...

Get Data Preparation Right or Prepare to Fail

Oct 02, 2018 by Jeff Cotrupe in All Things B.I.

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As companies hurtle toward the Holy Grail of “analytic insights,” there is just one little roadblock…actually, it is a sizable roadblock: in most cases, the data they are using contains errors and inaccuracies, its formats are inconsistent, and in short, it is unworkable. As a result, companies...

The Impact of AI on Analytics: Machine-Generated Intelligence

Oct 01, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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We’re at the dawn of a new era in decision making made possible by the intersection of business intelligence and artificial intelligence. 

The Future of Data Warehousing: Integrating with Data Lakes, Cloud and Self-Service

Sep 30, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Recent developments in data management—self-service, big data, data lakes, NoSQL, Hadoop, and thecloud—raise questions about the role of the data warehouse in modern analytic ecosystems. Though pundits have declared the data warehouse dead, most organizations continue to operate at least one data...