Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake
As cloud computing platforms make it possible to perform advanced analytics on ever larger and more diverse data sets, new and innovative approaches have emerged for storing, preprocessing, and analyzing information. Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks and other products have rapidly gained adoption. Technology innovators have developed a diverse range of platforms, but the distinctions between them […]
5 Best Practices for Data Integration Techniques
Compared to two decades ago, when data integration techniques were a more straightforward operation for most organizations, data integration has become the connective tissue that holds the modern IT environment together. In the past it was a bit like a small-town road system, with few connection points, no traffic jams, and few road hazards with […]
A Chief Data Officer’s 4 Imperatives for Achieving Data Intelligence and Driving Transformation
Data is one of the most valuable assets that a business can have in their digital transformation journey. It’s so important, that corporations will eventually formally recognize data as an asset on corporate balance sheets, alongside hard assets like real estate or inventory, and intangibles such as intellectual property or goodwill. It’s only natural, then, […]