Time to put the “T” back into ETL?
A hidden cost of ELT is the proliferation of costly database staging areas to do transformations. High performance ETL may be a better option
5 priorities for your data strategy for 2020
A data strategy enables business goals and objectives by ensuring appropriate delivery of data management capabilities required to meet business goals. Let’s examine each in more detail. Cloud “Cloud First” has become a battle cry for many companies – driven by various factors including the desire to optimise infrastructure (and associated costs) as well as…
Get your data ready for 2020
Welcome to 2020 everyone Kicking off by borrowing a look forward from our partner, Syncsort How to Modernize Your Traditional Database in 2020 If your data center is like many others, you have several important applications that rely on traditional database implementations. For example, it’s not unusual for companies to have business-critical applications that use…
Is it 2020 already?
A recent post on Information Week highlights 10 data and analytics trends that Gartner analyst, Rita Sallam, predicts will expand over the next 3 to 5 years. These trends fit into three main themes – intelligence, structures and scale – bringing together the potential of big data and machine learning. Augmented Analytics Sallam predicts that…
The hidden cost of not finding data
Today I overheard someone say, “Most business users give up trying to find or understand the data they need to do their jobs within 30 minutes of trying.” I gave up after 3 minutes of trying to find its source The digital business is dependent on data Self-service BI is dependent on data. Business goals,…
Data Quality Problems in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers new opportunities and challenges to enterprises grappling with the explosion of data sources, growing data storage needs, and the problem of ensuring data quality.
5 courses to improve your data literacy
What can you do to become data literate?
