Date: May 16, 2013 | Sponsor: Talend
Where there's smoke, there's fire, which is just one reason to seriously consider the principles upon which master data management was built. Information systems are increasingly heterogeneous, despite the brute force of cloud computing and its predicted hegemony. ...
Date: May 9, 2013
When the earth shakes, buildings fall and that's why skyscrapers in San Francisco boast tremendously flexible foundations. In the world of information management, the foundation is typically a database, and one that honors the time-tested ACID standard: atomicity, ...
Date: May 2, 2013
If you don't know today which questions you'll ask tomorrow, how can you build a requirements document today? The rate of change in the world of information management has reached a pace that defies old models of storing, accessing and analyzing data. Yes, there are novel ...
Date: April 25, 2013 | Sponsor: Gartner
Every industry has its day in the sun and, for information managers, their time is now! This industry is teeming with activity, and there are countless new and interesting jobs available. Java developers are in demand everywhere, but so are all manner of information workers. ...
Date: April 18, 2013 | Sponsor: GrapeCity
For years, this industry clamored for widespread adoption of business intelligence and analytics. Research reports pegged usage at a scant 10 percent of the enterprise or less. Well, those days are finally over! BI for the masses is here, as the “consumerization” of ...
Date: April 11, 2013 | Sponsor: Denodo
While big data remains all the rage these days, the looming power that is transforming the information management industry is still the cloud. Take Amazon RedShift: By offering a hosted data warehouse solution at $1,000 per terabyte per year, Amazon Web Services just sent a ...
Date: April 4, 2013
Minor differences in meaning can result in major problems, especially when money is on the line. That's one reason why semantics really matter. Big data is another. The biggest challenge with big data is its unwieldy nature, but with semantic technologies, its meaning and ...
Date: March 28, 2013
Oh, to be a CIO these days! The challenges, the opportunities, the excitement of data science! And then there's all the real work. Yes, the role of a CIO has changed, but most would likely say for the better. There will be fewer huge-ticket software purchases, but more ...
Date: March 21, 2013 | Sponsor: Denodo Technologies, Composite Software
Data may not technically weigh anything, but the forces of gravity apply nonetheless. Moving data requires time, energy, money and human resources, which is why data federation is a growing trend. When possible, information managers like to keep data where it is and only grab ...
Date: March 14, 2013
When you design a data model well, you learn something about the business, something central to the business model itself. That's especially true in today's cloud-heavy application ecosystem. More than ever, companies must be very efficient with data modeling if they want ...
Date: March 7, 2013
Many people keep asking whether Hadoop spells trouble for the enterprise data warehouse. Almost invariably, the answer right now is no; Hadoop merely provides a complement to the EDW which enables the use of unstructured data. Nonetheless, there are many business needs that ...
Date: February 28, 2013
Here today, gone tomorrow, but what about the next day? Predicting the future will never be easy, but big data coupled with increasingly affordable technology is opening the door to a new era in predictive analytics. But prediction only matters if the business takes ...
