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Yesterday, I shared some of the big players in Big Data. Today, I’m focusing on the big technology vendors that either are taking a unique approach or are using partnerships to break into the ... More >
Forrester analyst James Kobielus recently pondered what could be a multi-million-dollar question: When will one-stop-shop data analytic tool vendors emerge to field integrated development environment... More >
We tend to to talk about silos as the original sin of data management. In the beginning was the mainframe, and then came the fall: Satan, lurking in the silos, introduced departmental computers, whic... More >
We’re in the primordial soup days of Big Data. Every week, new solutions and partnerships crawl out of the muck to claim dominion in this new, exciting era. The fact is even the best data scie... More >
Enterprises are so used to dealing with data, you'd think adding text from social media would be no big deal. And yet, few organizations have managed it. That’s because there are actually real... More >
It can be confusing to sort through the Big Data solutions. For one thing, it seems like Big Data tools are coming out of the woodwork. It’s hard to not be suspicious of that, since Hadoop and NoSQL ... More >
For some government agencies, the barrier to using Big Data might not be so much about technology, but about policy. In a recent Federal News Radio interview , Rear Adm. Jan Tighe, the direct... More >
Hadoop may be making it possible to store and process large amounts of structured and unstructured data — but it hasn’t really made it easy or usable, at least in terms of most organizations. ... More >
Microsoft recently outlined its plans for Skype, and not surprisingly, it’s all about integration with other Microsoft offerings. What did strike me, for some reason, is the scope. Obviously, ... More >
You want to know the big secret to integrating Big Data? Metadata. It’s all about the metadata , Krish Krishnan, president of the analyst consulting company Sixth Sense Advisors Inc., and an ... More >
More IT shops are moving away from hand coding to embrace data integration tools. But these tools aren’t cheap, so IT leaders need to be able to build a business case that justifies the investment .... More >
Here’s an area where you might not think about the impact of silos: reference data. Reference data is information that comes from outside your applications; usually, it’s purchased from an ext... More >
As with all challenges, cloud integration can be seen as a problem or an opportunity. The potential problem: The cloud allows us to build even more silos as we expand to the cloud. The ... More >
By now we know that every integration and BI vendor in the place is hustling to connect with Hadoop. But there are some interesting plays emerging from the Big Data hype cycle. One exam... More >
I came from a family of farmers — and not the milk-cows and raise-organic-chicken kind of farmers. My family, on both sides, were tobacco farmers, which meant hard, dirty work. Tobacco stains your ha... More >
“I believe that data quality will be found in the cloud,” data quality and MDM expert Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen wrote back in 2010 . Somebody give that man a fortune cookie because, sure enough, da... More >
Let’s face it. Business and IT executives have more important things to think about than modeling languages. But for a moment, consider this: If the only modeling tools you use are proprietary soluti... More >
One of the more promising applications of Hadoop and other Big Data solutions is the ability to deliver information in real time. It’s not mentioned often, which is unfortunate, because it’s really a... More >
Daniel W. Rasmus is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be excited about Big Data. The intelligent systems engineer is a “strategist who helps clients put their future in context” using “scenario... More >
Organizations are keen to make smarter decisions, and to do that, they’re focusing on the data served up by business intelligence solutions. The question is: Are these BI tools and the infrastructure... More >
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