Most data architects need to make quick database platform decisions to support business applications. The applications teams notoriously fail to include the data team until late in the game, by which time deadlines have been set. This is an organizational problem that should be fixed,...
As information management practitioners, we have the honorable charge to enable analytics with powerful platforms delivering key data to business users who will make game-changing insights. At least that is what we tell ourselves we are doing. Say the following statement to yourself: "Platforms and data...
Software has greatly enhanced the information management possibilities in the last few years. Consider the advancement of nonrelational systems such as Hadoop, NoSQL, and graph data stores, as well as streaming data, master data management, data virtualization, and data visualization. SSDs and in-memory (and soon...
At the Teradata Third-Party Influencers Meeting in San Diego May 8-10, Teradata shared a go-to market strategy for 2017 and beyond that had some very clear messages. High-End Customers Teradata has always had an outsized presence in larger companies. Recent years have found Teradata pushing into the...
Against the backdrop of more organizations turning to the cloud for the storage and use of the valued asset of data, Informatica has announced their Cloud Spring Release for 2017. Organizations today need to take advantage of the numerous relevant data platforms to provision their data...
Companies with customers, supply chains, partners, and offices in multiple countries must understand the cross-border data restrictions of each country they are involved with. A dizzying number of country-by-country (or country-union-by-country-union) data laws and standards have appeared since 2015, when an EU court threw out the...
Analysts, leaders, and other business professionals often see statistical modeling and advanced analytics as confusing and complex. In fact, many will not even attempt to understand them. They see data science as something beyond their grasp -- a world for Ph.D.s or people with rarified...
Future businesses will be defined by new efficiencies, strategies, and business models created with data-driven knowledge. If companies wish to maintain traditional on-premises ERP solutions, they will face costs and compromises. For the rest of the article, please see link....
Many shops experience database spread -- the existence of far too many databases, often with redundant data, and often for very discrete needs. In these shops, databases are often built relatively quickly to expedite projects and applications. Once this is done repeatedly over the years...
One fact circulated last month at Teradata Partners was that 90 percent of Teradata customers believe they will be on some form of hybrid cloud by 2020 and 40 percent of workloads will be run there. Teradata certainly believes this; it has rallied around that market...