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Is the EDW Dead?

August 24, 2011 by Marc Breissinger 1 Comment

“The King is dead. Long live the King” is a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch. But what happens when the original king was highly revered and his successor brings foreign ways to the throne?

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Filed under Architecture Tagged with Big Data, Data Federation, Data Integration, Data Virtualization, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Architecture

Bloor Group’s Information Oriented Architecture – A Data-centric Take on SOA

July 11, 2011 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

The Bloor Group recently released a white paper describing comprehensive reference data architecture. Called the Information Oriented Architecture or IOA, it is a data-oriented companion to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Its purpose is to aid organizations seeking to modernize their information architectures to meet today’s data-centric business requirements.

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Filed under Architecture Tagged with Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Enterprise Architecture, Market Trends, SOA

Big Data Meets Data Virtualization

June 30, 2011 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

“Not Your Grandfather’s Data Warehouse – Big Data and Virtualization Impact your EDW Architecture” is the title of a recent CIO.com blog by Brian Hopkins, a new analyst in Enterprise Architecture group at Forrester Research. Brian makes some great points about how two key technologies, Big Data and Data Virtualization, are impacting information architecture strategies and changing the role of the enterprise data warehouse as we know it.

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Filed under Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Tagged with Big Data, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy

Hey Architects, Why Bother to Abstract Your Data?

June 21, 2011 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

The benefits of providing better access to information assets are many. So too are the integration challenges.

Consider the typical enterprise information architecture. It includes:

Large volumes of complex, diverse data spread
A wide landscape of application silos and fit-for-purpose data stores
Each data source has its own schema and syntax
Few sources are structured properly for consumption by other applications
Many sources are incomplete, duplicated – or both!

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Filed under Architecture Tagged with Composite Data Virtualization Platform, Data Abstraction, Data Federation, Data Virtualization, Enterprise Architecture

Have you seen Forrester’s new Data Management Reference Architecture?

April 12, 2011 by Marc Breissinger Leave a comment

On February 2, 2011, a cohort of Forrester analysts including Noel Yuhanna, Gene Leganza, Rob Karel, Boris Evelson, James G. Kobielus, Leslie Owens and Mike Gilpin, published Forrester’s Data Management Reference Architecture.

In a nutshell, this reference architecture provides a framework, including architectural patterns and building blocks, to guide these data management stakeholders in managing strategy and architecture.