November 30, 2012 Leave a comment
We all understand the business value of BI and analytics as enablers for growth, a means to attract and retain customers, or a way to drive innovation and reduce costs.
CIOs do as well. Both Gartner’s Amplifying the Enterprise: The 2012 CIO Agenda and IBM’s Global CIO Study 2011 place BI and analytics atop CIO’s technology priorities.
October 4, 2012 Leave a comment
I have been closely following Gartner’s Logical Data Warehouse (LDW) strategy for the past year and a half.
August 23, 2012 Leave a comment
I left for vacation right after attending Dave Wells’ Data Virtualization Class at TWDI in San Diego on August 1st, so I hadn’t had the chance to comment on the new course. It’s been a couple of weeks, but I still have positive vibes from the class, as did many of the attendees.
July 23, 2012 Leave a comment
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.
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 8, 2012 Leave a comment
Last week I attended the Gartner BI Summit in Los Angeles. While I am an avid follower of Gartner’s Information Management, Analytics and BI research, it was great to hear this content directly from the analysts and gauge the reaction of the thousand plus attendees.
October 4, 2011 1 Comment
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.
September 2, 2011 1 Comment
In late 2008, I wrote the cover article for the November edition of Virtualization Journal. Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Virtualizing Data described the ten most common mistakes made by data virtualization’s early adopters.
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