Going Deep on Analytic Sandboxes and Data Hubs

Richard Sherman, founder of Athena IT Solutions, which provides business intelligence, data integration and data warehouse consulting and training, has published two new white papers describing a new generation of analytical sandboxes and analytical hubs and their emerging role in enabling agile analytics.

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Don’t Let Legacy Systems Slow You Down

In our ever changing technology environment, new opportunities are everywhere.  Predictive analytics, big data, mobile, cloud and virtualization are but a few.

These new technologies improve business competitiveness, increase agility, save money and more.

But migrating from existing systems can be risk prone.  And efforts often drag out.

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Analytics and Data Virtualization on My Mind

I have been thinking a lot about analytics lately.

It is not just because I have been working on my presentation for our upcoming webinar, A Novel Approach to the Analytic Sandbox Challenge on September 11, 2012.

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It’s Logical: New Report on the Logical Data Warehouse

Last month, Gartner analysts Mark A. Beyer and Roxane Edjali published Understanding the Logical Data Warehouse: The Emerging Practice. This is the most recent published research on the logical data warehouse that has been forming since Gartner analysts noted the rising significance of big data and data virtualization back in 2008.

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Is it time to Embrace a Hybrid Data Ecosystem?

From a data management strategy point of view, we all understand the critical importance of the enterprise data warehouse. Yet new business imperatives and new technologies have significantly changed the data management landscape, hereafter changing the role of the EDW.

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Rearranging Deck Chairs on IT’s Titanic

One Hundred Years Ago Today

On April 12, 1912, the maiden voyage of the seemingly unsinkable RMS Titanic ended in disaster. 

Now, one hundred years later to the day, IT is on course for a similar collision, with similar catastrophic fate. 

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Data Virtualization Roadmap – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series I addressed the wider access and deeper optimizations dimensions of our roadmap.  In Part 2 I will address broader deployments, ease of use and governance.

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Data Virtualization Roadmap – Part 1

At Composite Software, our roadmap for relevant and successful product evolution is driven by collaboration with innovative customers, consideration of key industry trends and the creativity of our engineering organization. 

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Composite + RainStor = Big Data Management Flexibility

Last week Composite and RainStor announced that Composite has added access to RainStor’s Big Data management database to our long list of popular enterprise applications we support including Oracle, SAP, and salesforce.com as well as relational and multi-dimensional data sources from IBM, IBM Netezza, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP BW, SAP Sybase and Teradata.

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What is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?

Five Popular Data Virtualization Usage Patterns

Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration challenges.  Based on nearly ten years of successful implementations, several common usage patterns have emerged to help guide your enterprise’s data virtualization adoption strategy.

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