All Is Well with Data Virtualization
April 2019
Sponsored by Denodo
This series of four blog posts, published by Denodo between November 2018 and April 2019, explores data virtualization and its application in a variety of use cases.
(more…)Process in the Production Analytic Platform
September 2018
Sponsored by IRI Total Data Management.
The Production Analytic Platform is a data integration paradigm that merges the benefits of the data warehouse and the data lake for faster insight, and bridges operational and informational environments, in particular, to support operational analytics. New insights are described here into the core role of processing in addition to storage.
This extension is exemplified by IRI Voracity, a comprehensive platform for data management platform for data discovery, integration, migration, governance, and analytics.
Resources available:
- A compendium of four blog posts published from July to August 2018 covering:
- Process on Par with Information
- Data Processing Drives Efficiency
- Processing Real World Data
- Unifying the Worlds of Information and Processing
- Podcast with David Friedland of IRI available on B-Eye-Network
- Video presentation
- Article on TDWI Upside, June 2018
Thirty Years of Data Warehousing
September 2018
First published in the Business Intelligence Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1 (June 2018)
Since its first formal, public description in 1988, the data warehouse architecture has successfully provided the foundation for decision making support across enterprises in every industry. With two main interpretations, the architecture has remained stable since the 1990s and has only recently been challenged by the data lake concept. This paper traces the early history and drivers of the data warehouse before pivoting to discuss the data lake and its implications for the original architectural approach. This leads to a proposal: A Production Analytic Platform that positions the data lake and warehouse, showing how to begin to dismantle the old operational-informational divide. This platform can extend the value of the data warehouse architecture for at least another decade.
Introducing the Production Analytic Platform
February 2018
Sponsored by Teradata.
A compendium of four ThoughtPoints published from October 2017 to January 2018 covering:
- Definition of the concept of a Production Analytic Platform
- Approaches to handling Temporal Data
- The ever-shrinking Decision Cycle
- Future outlook for the Production Analytic Platform
Data Discovery Automation – Revised
October 2017
Sponsored by TimeXtender.
Learning from the Warehouse Experience: Definition and population of a Discovery Hub.
Data Discovery – Right on Time
August 2017
Sponsored by TimeXtender.
How Automation Underpins Data Discovery: Three occasions for adopting a Discovery Hub and four real-life use cases.