Is the EDW Dead?

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

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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Big Data Meets Data Virtualization

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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Hey Architects, Why Bother to Abstract Your Data?

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

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.

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Introducing the Enterprise Architecture Track

Let me introduce the Enterprise Architecture track within the Data Virtualization Leadership Blog. 

If you are like me and find enterprise architecture incredibly fascinating, you have come to the right place.

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