February 13, 2013 Leave a comment
Data Virtualization: How to get your Business Intelligence answers today is the title of a new thought leadership white paper from the Business Information Management group at Capgemini.
January 17, 2013 Leave a comment
In my last blog, Data Virtualization Returns to the BBBT, I announced Composite’s fifth presentation to the Boulder BI Brain Trust on January 4, 2013. This blog is a “trip report” covering that visit.
December 10, 2012 Leave a comment
I have long admired Rick Sherman’s BI and data management writing as it is grounded by the challenging client projects from his Athena IT Solutions consulting practice.
So when I wanted some help in explaining the role of data virtualization as an enabler for analytics, I reached out to Rick.
August 16, 2012 2 Comments
Congratulations to my friend Rick van der Lans on his new book on data virtualization titled Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Systems: Revolutionizing Data Integration for Data Warehouses.
July 9, 2012 Leave a comment
You know times are changing if you see The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) offer a class that involves anything ‘virtual.’ But the data warehouse has been evolving, and today and tomorrow’s DW is not your father’s DW anymore.
June 4, 2012 Leave a comment
If you are reading this blog entry, you certainly are aware of the rising importance of data virtualization as a key enabler for BI agility, IT cost savings and more.
Big data is an ever bigger trend, solving new classes of business problems with new types of analytics that leverage today’s unprecedented data volumes , varieties and velocities.
How do these trends intercept? And what are the consequences for the business and IT?
May 14, 2012 Leave a comment
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.
April 12, 2012 Leave a comment
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.
March 19, 2012 3 Comments
Is BI too slow? Rick van der Lans thinks so. Author of the upcoming book “Data Virtualization in Business Intelligence Architectures: Revolutionizing Data Integration for Data Warehouses,” believes “The biggest challenge facing the industry today is how to develop systems that have an agility level that matches the speed with which the business evolves.
January 24, 2012 Leave a comment
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