The Data Lifecycle: Enabling Business Growth

Everyone is talking about data, “big data” and analytics. Both the volume and sources of data are proliferating at light speed, particularly with the advent of Cloud infrastructure and the Internet of Things (IoT). Companies, small and large, individuals, and inanimate objects create, save, and utilize data. But is there value in that data and … Continued

Big Data Infrastructure

Big Data Infrastructure Definitions for Business Intelligence and Big Data are a lot like a Picasso or Matisse, abstract & defined by the subjective impressions of the viewer.  However, making Business Intelligence (or Analytics) happen with raw, unstructured, or streaming data pushes us out of the theoretical/abstract and into the tangible delivery focused realm. What … Continued

Big Data, In-Memory Databases, and the Extinction of the EDW

“Big Data” is everywhere, and attempts at defining it yield as many questions as bad answers.  The good news is that it represents a legitimate progression of analytics and computing.   Unfortunately, like many new concepts the term/phrase has been misused, mangled, misconstrued, misperceived, and can easily lead to bad practices and a failed project.  Many … Continued