Do you know what data you have available? Are you making the most of it? These guidelines for a data inventory can help answer these questions.
- By Wes Flores
- April 28, 2016
Imagine empowering more of your employees by using self-service data prep tools to address both exploratory use cases and operational use cases.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 27, 2016
Customer analytics can help you optimize business processes, but first you must assess how you are managing your customer data.
- By David Loshin
- April 25, 2016
Big data platforms such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and Spark are usurping the central role of the ETL engine that is at the heart of data integration.
- By Steve Swoyer
- April 18, 2016
Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 18, 2016
Several start-ups market products designed to address the lack of data management features for big data platforms. For example, Diyotta provides a scalable architecture for big data integration including old-world enterprise amenities such as metadata management.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 18, 2016
Why your data must be trusted, useful, integrated, and governed.
- By Wes Flores
- March 8, 2016
Limitations of ETL and how to get around them, plus big data project failure due to miscommunication among employees and how bad data quality prevents good marketing automation.
- By Quint Turner
- February 22, 2016