The true cost of ELT Today’s business world is demanding more from the data warehouse, because more than ever an organisation’s survival depends on its ability to transform data into actionable insights. However, ELT data integration workloads are now consuming up to 80% of database capacity, resulting in: Rising infrastructure costs Increasing batch windows Longer development cycles Slower…
Data integration defined Data integration is a common industry term referring to the requirement to combine data from multiple separate business systems into a single unified view, often called a single view of the truth. This unified view is typically stored in a central data repository known as a data warehouse. For example, customer data integration involves…
Late last year, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced plans to merge the two companies – a move that came into play early this year. According to Tendü Yoğurtçu, CTO of our partner, Syncsort, the two companies have emerged as clear winners in the data space and gained momentum. “But each has had its own unique strengths,…
ETL defined Extract, Transform and Load or ETL is a standard information management term used to describe a process for the movement and transformation of data. ETL is commonly used to populate data warehouses and datamarts, and for data migration, data integration and business intelligence initiatives. ETL processes can be built by manually writing custom scripts or code, with…
Data governance has become associated with the word “No.” This is the intriguing start to a recent IDC perspective discussing how Cox Automotive bucked the trend and used data governance to become the “Yes” team – delivering the right data to the right person at the right time. The report, which can be accessed here,…
When Harvard Business Review first touted the data scientist as sexiest job of the 21st century back in 2012 the role was still in its infancy. The promise of advanced analytics and the insights that business could gain – about their customers, their interactions, their products and everything else were rightly identified as potential gold. Data…
At a practical level, the goal of a business glossary should be to eliminate confusion caused by using the same term/word to mean different things. The business glossary creates a common language and understanding about business term in use in the business. This seems simple until one tries to do it! For example. let’s assume that…
