Why Data Integration Matters in Financial Services
2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day, and that number is continuously growing. For financial services companies, that presents untapped potential to gain better insights into existing customers, new business opportunities, target market audiences, and the competitive landscape. At the same time, this flood of data raises significant challenges for financial services companies […]
The Enterprise Data Hub: A Look at the Real Value of Data Integration
The typical IT landscape in a modern enterprise could include multiple ERP systems, CRMs, specialized operations or billing software, and much more. While each of those components plays an important role, the proliferation of systems across an organization presents a particular data integration challenge. For companies operating across both existing infrastructure investments (e.g. mainframe and […]
Best of 2020 – Round Up
As 2020 wraps up, we would like to recap our top posts of the year in Data Enrichment, Data Integrity, Location Intelligence, and Data Integration/Data Quality. Let’s take a look! Best of Data Enrichment Data enrichment is about seeing the world in a more nuanced way and adding context to existing business data. The results […]
Best of 2020 – Top 10 Data Integration and Data Quality Blog Posts
Data integration helps to connect today’s infrastructure with tomorrow’s technology to unlock the potential of all your enterprise data while data quality helps you understand your data and ensure it’s accurate, consistent, and complete. As 2020 ends, we wanted to share our most viewed Data Integration and Data Quality articles from the Precisely blog. Let’s […]
Data Integration and Enterprise Security
Data integration and enterprise security go hand in hand. When a business decides to integrate data across the organization, it means you commit to ensuring the delivery and the security of that data. And in today’s business environment, there is a lot of data to manage! As a result, planning for and achieving integration is […]
Cloud Migration and Modernization with Databricks, Microsoft, and Precisely
Read any analyst report from 2019, and you learn one thing – over the next three years, enterprises will migrate their database infrastructure to the cloud. However, these reports were published when most authors did not expect what 2020 would have in store for us. So now, as we look to the end of the […]
Worried about Cloud Vendor Lock-In? Follow These Best Practices
Hybrid and multi-cloud strategies can enable greater cost control and scalability for fast-growing big data. That is likely why 84 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy in 2020. Though that is the case, many organizations still maintain and integrate the enterprise mainframe on the multi-year road to the cloud. Seventy-one percent of Fortune 500 companies are […]
The World Has Changed. Is It Time to Revisit Your Data Management Strategy?
As the volume of data continues to increase exponentially, many companies are coming to the realization that there are hidden riches within their information systems. There is a rush to exploit that resource, and the companies with the most effective data management strategy to do that will have a significant advantage over their competitors. Data […]
Precisely Connect and Cloudera, a strategic data integration approach to enterprise data cloud
To say, “current data management practices are disjointed” is an understatement. At Precisely, we see our customers looking with increasing urgency to correct this challenge. For most, it has become impossible to create a management process that enables or simplifies data-driven use cases. Their end goal is to create a cloud or hybrid-cloud environment that […]
Key Takeaways from Spark+AI Summit
The 2020 Spark+AI Summit 2020 organized by Databricks hosted 60,000 virtual attendees. The keynotes focused on technical updates such as data integration and quality, and included multiple live demos, and use cases. Spark turns 10 years old Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-founder at Databricks and Matei Zaharia, co-founder and Chief Technologist at Databricks, celebrated Spark’s […]
Building a Repeatable Data Integration Framework
According to Precisely’s definition of the term, data integration refers to the requirement to combine data from multiple separate business systems into a single unified view, often called a single view of the truth. As this definition suggests, the role of data integration is to: Collect data from varied sources throughout an organization’s IT infrastructure. Validate, […]
Is Multi-Cloud Architecture Right For Your Data?
Could a multi-cloud architecture improve your data management strategy? That’s a question more and more companies are likely to ask themselves as multi-cloud computing grows in popularity. What is multi-cloud computing? Multi-cloud computing refers to cloud computing architectures in which organizations leverage multiple clouds at once. In some cases, multi-cloud architectures involve spreading the same […]