Peter James Thomas

MAY 3, 2019

The flip side is that making the necessary investments to provide even basic information has been at the heart of the successful business turnarounds that I have been involved in. The bulk of Business Intelligence efforts would also fall into this area, but there is some overlap with the area I next describe as well.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 2, 2019

Business Glossary (contributor: Tenny Thomas Soman ). Data Architecture – Definition (2). Data Catalogue. Data Community. Data Domain (contributor: Taru Väre ). Data Enrichment. Data Federation. Data Function. Data Model. Data Operating Model. Chart (Graph).

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TDAN

DECEMBER 3, 2019

MSBI & power BI are both well-known administrations in the Business Intelligence world now. In this way, here’s an article looking at both, MSBI versus Power BI, for your audience. It concentrates, transforms & loads data, can sort out and imagine multidimensional information, whereas, […].

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Everyone’s talking about data. Data is the key to unlocking insight— the secret sauce that will help you get predictive, the fuel for business intelligence. It relies on data. The good news is that data has never […]. The transformative potential in AI?

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MARCH 15, 2022

In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the case for building data mesh as the next generation of enterprise data platform architecture.

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Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 18, 2018

No this article has not escaped from my Maths & Science section , it is actually about data matters. The image at the start of this article is of an Ichthyosaur (top) and Dolphin. Even back then, these were used for activities such as Analytics , Dashboards , Statistical Modelling , Data Mining and Advanced Visualisation.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Prominent entities across a myriad of sectors are preparing for the digital revolution by integrating a host of technologies such as IoT, AI, Big Data, digital twins, and robotics, in their processes, products, and workflows. The industrial landscape is undergoing a digital transformation at a breakneck speed.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

LIDAR is a remote detecting innovation that utilizes the beat from a laser to gather data that measures and makes 3D models and maps of inaccessible articles and conditions. A LIDAR framework works in a way that is similar to radar and sonar yet rather than sound or radio waves, it utilizes light waves from […].

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

The data world continues to change rapidly and you may want to consider these predictions when planning for the new year. The rise of generative AI startups: Generative artificial intelligence exploded in 2022. Special thank you to Altair for providing the following set of bold predictions for 2023.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

To stand out in a competitive industry, businesses must invest in revamping their existing sales processes and crafting a modern sales strategy that aligns with the sales predictions for 2023. The sales industry has been witnessing the rise of AI and automation over many years and 2023 will not be an exception. The role AI […].

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While we have seen a change in the calendar year, one initiative that continues to be a top priority for businesses is storing, managing, accessing and optimizing corporate data. With the new year events well behind us, we’re steadily focused on moving forward in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Top-quality data currently represents one of the most important resources for any company. This is especially true for young businesses that don’t have much experience in their market and that still don’t know enough about their customers.

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JULY 19, 2022

Data is considered by some to be the world’s most valuable resource. Going far beyond the limitations of physical resources, data has wide applications for education, automation, and governance. It is perhaps no surprise then, that the value of all the world’s data is projected to reach $280 billion by 2025.

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MAY 31, 2022

Synthetic Data is, according to Gartner and other industry oracles, “hot, hot, hot.” In fact, according to Gartner, “60 percent of the data used for the development of AI and analytics projects will be synthetically generated.”[1]

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MARCH 2, 2021

Cloud computing is growing rapidly as a deployment platform for IT infrastructure because it can offer significant benefits. But cloud computing is not always the answer, nor will it replace all of our on-prem computing systems anytime soon—no matter what the pundits are saying.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The increasing speed and pace of business certainly contributes to several data challenges (quality, timeliness, availability and, most important, usability of the data).

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JANUARY 18, 2022

Picture this scene: It is a little after 5 p.m. on a Friday and a chat message pops up from my “favorite” application programmer. Something isn’t working properly. Yes, that is the message. Something” isn’t working properly. That’s all. “OK,” I say. “What are you trying to do—give me a bit more detail so I […].

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We hear this a lot. We hear it from very smart people. Just the other day we heard someone say they had tried RDF twice at previous companies and it failed both times. RDF stands for Resource Description Framework,[1] which is an open standard underlying many graph databases). It’s hard to convince someone like that […]

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Rural areas worldwide are disconnected in a landscape that nearly requires the internet to work or socially interact. But eventually, the entire planet will have equal, high-speed internet access. Neglecting the digital divide and broadband gap will cause cybersecurity concerns for communities entering the digital era.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions).

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JUNE 21, 2022

Twenty-five years ago today, I published the first issue of The Data Administration Newsletter. It only took a few months to recognize that there was an audience for an “online” publication focused on data administration. […].

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JULY 18, 2023

It is no secret that cloud migration and transformation helps your business attain desired growth, cost savings, agility, and profitability. With these, your team is able address customer needs faster, monitor app performance, and scale applications according to demand.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to have reached its peak, and yet it is still growing and reaching even the most remote parts of the world. There are countless benefits to this technology, including life-saving tools and systems that function with automated AI algorithms.

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MAY 18, 2021

With increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) getting connected and the ongoing boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Human Language Technologies (HLT) and other similar technologies, comes the demanding need for robust and secure data management in terms of data processing, data handling, data privacy, and data security. (..)

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JANUARY 20, 2021

In the cloud-era, should you store your corporate data in Cosmos DB on Azure, Cloud Spanner on the Google Cloud Platform, or in the Amazon Quantum Ledger? The overwhelming number of options today for storing and managing data in the cloud makes it tough for database experts and architects to design adequate solutions.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

For a while now, vendors have been advocating that people put their data in a data lake when they put their data in the cloud. The Data Lake The idea is that you put your data into a data lake. Then, at a later point in time, the end user analyst can come along and […].

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MAY 16, 2023

Procurement is an essential function within any organization, involving the acquisition of goods and services necessary for business operations. However, with the rise of digitalization and technology, procurement processes have become increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Creating robust privacy protection programs is only possible when organizations understand their data well. Data inventories enable a business or organization to have a comprehensive understanding of the data they hold and how each piece of the data is being used and stored.

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JULY 20, 2021

The development of the cloud has opened thousands of doors to increasing the speed and efficiency of data management and connectivity. Though some of us struggle to understand the concept and many of us can’t even begin to fathom how it all works, most of us grasp the critical importance of the cloud in how […].

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Naturally, being intelligent and rational beings, we took the action necessary to prevent the oncoming catastrophe. Surely then, being intelligent and rational beings, we prepared for what was to come by stopping building […]. In 2006, the world learned an inconvenient truth.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Your security team has plenty of challenges, but securing and protecting your data with consistent, granular, and automated enforcement across your hybrid cloud data estate shouldn’t be one of them.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

The current decade will see the most rapid technological advancements in history: emergence of new technology and faster development of existing technology. One of the technologies that is expected to grow is the Internet of Things (IoT).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Insightful and accurate data is the lifeblood of any successful business. Without it, you may find yourself missing out on opportunities or dissatisfaction from your customers— not what we want at all!

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JULY 19, 2022

The notorious SolarWinds hack of 2020 sent shock waves across the software as a service world. In the attack, hackers gained access to the development pipeline for a SolarWinds financial management product— Orion. Once in, they were able to insert malware into the system. That malware then got rolled out by Orion themselves as an […].

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MAY 3, 2022

Edge Computing Challenges By shifting computing power and data storage closer to those devices on the network, edge computing has managed to secure benefits such as: faster response times, improved reliability, and superior cost […].

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MAY 3, 2022

The road to creating business value through a well-oiled data management strategy can be long and challenging. A successful data management strategy is one that generates value rapidly and unlocks new data-driven insights.

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MAY 5, 2020

Many businesses keep their data in silos and employ analytics at a process or departmental level. Centralizing these data silos to create a data mart, warehouse, or lake gives organizations more visibility over operations and results in more accurate analytics that take a wider range of internal and external factors into consideration.

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