Big Data Part II: Don't Bash the Data Warehouse

Feb 12, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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In the following post, the second in the five-part series on the impact of Hadoop on business intelligence, Wayne Eckerson discusses a new option for Hadoop.  With the Hadoop 2 and in particular, the Apache Yarn project, companies can now process the data in Hadoop without moving it to...

Big Data Part I: Battle for the Future of Hadoop: Cloudera versus Hortonworks

Feb 11, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Big data begs a big question: does Hadoop replace your enterprise data warehouse or augment it? The two leading vendors of Hadoop distributions offer very different answers. For Cloudera, the first vendor to offer a Hadoop distribution, the answer is an unequivocal yes. 

Data Governance Part III: Two Worlds of Data Governance: Managing Data from the Top and Bottom

Feb 09, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Abstract: This article describes the top-down and bottom-up worlds of data governance and how they play off each other. In the top-down world, governing committees or boards define the meaning of key data elements, along with policies, processes, and procedures to govern changes, troubleshoot...

Data Governance Part II: How to Create a Common Data Vocabulary

Feb 07, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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This article addresses the key challenge facing most global companies: lack of a common vocabulary for doing business. Internally, companies are a proverbial tower of Babel, communicating at cross-purposes with data and metrics that are inconsistently or ambiguously defined. This article provides...

Data Governance Part I: Data's Evil Twins: Definitions and Duplicates

Feb 06, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in AI-Analytics-Big Data-IoT Avenger

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Most of my clients recognize the value of data—or rather, the pain of inconsistent and poor quality data.  This article discusses the two of the biggest pains and drains on business organizations to gathering data - definitions and duplicates. Through the creation of cross-functional,...