Contributor: Barry Devlin
Dr. Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, is among the foremost authorities on business insight and big data, and is one of the founders of data warehousing, having published the first architectural paper on the topic in 1988. With over 30 years of IT experience, including 20 years with IBM as a Distinguished Engineer, he is a widely respected analyst, consultant, lecturer and author of the seminal book, “Data Warehouse—from Architecture to Implementation” and numerous White Papers. His new book “Business unintelligence—Insight and Innovation beyond Analytics and Big Data” is published later this year. A regular contributor to multiple publications, Barry is based in Cape Town, South Africa and operates worldwide.
All articles by Barry Devlin
We in the information technology and data management disciplines must step up to an engaged and active role in educating the public and businesspeople who are not fully aware of the dangers of abuse of personal and related data.
- By Barry Devlin
- March 29, 2018
Will AI eliminate the need for data models?
- By Barry Devlin
- March 26, 2018
The Connected Architecture is one part of an approach to enhancing your BI delivery.
- By Barry Devlin
- March 9, 2018
The current explosion of data and tsunami of analytics make this the perfect time to re-evaluate the measures you think are vital in your enterprise.
- By Barry Devlin
- February 5, 2018
The vortex of anger, criticism, and abuse that has engulfed the Web must not be allowed to pollute business decision making.
- By Barry Devlin
- December 20, 2017
Extensive design and development effort has been expended over more than three decades to allow relational databases to handle time properly. Can data lakes manage it as well?
- By Barry Devlin
- December 4, 2017
The connection between data integration and artificial intelligence is growing.
- By Barry Devlin
- October 27, 2017
Is an algorithmically run democracy our future?
- By Barry Devlin
- September 8, 2017