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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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JANUARY 3, 2023

NoSQL database systems continue to gain traction, but they are still not widely understood. There is more than one type of NoSQL database and a large number of individual NoSQL DBMSs. There are more than 225 NoSQL DBMSs listed on the NoSQL Database website alone and it just is not possible to review and understand every option. […].

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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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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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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 4, 2023

The O*NET Data Collection Program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, is seeking the input of expert Data Warehousing Specialists. You have the opportunity to participate […]

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APRIL 4, 2023

Data in the Cloud For a variety of motivations, many organizations have decided to place data and processing on the cloud. One approach to using the cloud is to just throw a lot of data onto the cloud. The cloud vendors advocate this approach. But — for a variety of reasons — there is an […]

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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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MAY 19, 2020

Jeanne Ross (Designed for Digital) Your business may need to develop a new digital platform to replace your existing application-centric IT solution. “The digital world is here but our old companies are simply not yet designed for digital.”

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Breaking Bad with 3D Enterprise Systems is a book that details a practical and proven approach for building flexible applications. Blair Kjenner and Kewal Dhariwal combine several different techniques that allow project teams to create applications that not only met requirements, but could also handle new requirements with ease.

Enterprise 52

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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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JUNE 15, 2022

Occasionally, I pick up on trends in my peripheral vision. These are trends that aren’t in the center of my professional field of view, but are out there on the edges. Obviously, these trends are in the center of someone’s field of view, and there are people out there who make a living tracking technology […].

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the most common and important dialogues is when the enterprise data architect expresses the need to integrate and the project manager is completely focused on developing their specific application.

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MARCH 31, 2020

yield differing answers, making it more difficult to run the business. Executive Summary It seems obvious enough that companies, government agencies and non-profits would benefit from a common language. Without it, coordinating work is more difficult, computers “don’t talk,” and basic questions such as “how many customers do we have?”

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MAY 3, 2022

This column focuses on challenges of edge computing and explore strategy considerations for implementing and utilizing edge computing in the organization.

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Remember the Sears catalog? Hundreds of pages of clothes quickly flipped past to get to the toys! Who didn’t spend countless hours trying to find the perfect suggested gift for your next birthday or holiday? In an Amazon and eBay world, thinking about old-school catalogs seems so quaint. Opening a paper volume to manually flip […].

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A few months back, our company enjoyed a retreat a few hours north of the city. We bonded, brainstormed, and set visions and goals for the development of our company and our products. We also had bonfires with s’mores, and that’s more relevant than you might think. We ended up with a surplus of marshmallows […].

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological systems. We do this to understand and communicate with the world we see around us and help us better engage with that world to become more successful.

Technology 52

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

There is a movement to upend traditional thinking about information systems by putting data and meaning at the center of strategy, architecture, and system development sequencing. Past waves have receded, largely because […].

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Deep learning, as defined by MathWorks, is a system of artificial intelligence that is built around learning by example. Multiple industries have already understood the benefits that deep learning brings to their operational capabilities.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

When it comes to marketing, business owners need to be fast in adjusting their strategies to fit the continuous advancement in technologies. Today, nearly everyone has a mobile phone or another smart mobile device with them at all times.

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JULY 2, 2019

The third and final part of the Non-Invasive Data Governance Framework details the breakdown of components by level, providing considerations for what must be included at the intersections. The squares are completed with nouns and verbs that provide direction for meaningful discussions about how the program will be set up and operate.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With the exponential growth of data from so many different sources, data silos (or in other words, separate unintegrated data stores) are more prevalent than ever. However, what is the root cause of data silos? The more that people view themselves as separated, the more that data is separated. People silos!

Data Architecture 72

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MARCH 17, 2020

Business has a fundamental problem with data quality. In some places it’s merely painful, in others it’s nearly catastrophic. Why is the problem so pervasive? Why does it never seem to get fixed? I believe we’ve been thinking about the problem wrong. It’s time for a fresh look.

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JULY 2, 2019

Before the end of the decade, the number of connected objects is projected to expand greatly. According to several different analysts, the number of connected objects by 2020 could be as low as 26 billion or as high as 50 billion. But even the low end of that range is quite large. Indeed, connectedness is […].

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Not that long ago our information needs seemed much simpler. If we wanted to make a phone call, we had a relatively simple device to help us do this, the humble rotary dial telephone. Similarly, for other technologies, they were built to do the job specified as simple as possible. What we demand of technology […].

Technology 59

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Tableitis (tay-bul-eye’-tus) is a widespread condition suffered by professional data modelers, commonly called “TABLE THINK.” Most professional data modelers suffer from Tableitis… are you one of them? This condition was first recognized by yours truly, Dr. Gordon C. The symptoms are […].

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JUNE 4, 2019

What are the ethics of collecting, managing, and analyzing data? Is it going to come to regulations enforced by government and industry consortiums to make businesses think about data ethics with the goal of truly treating data ethically? Have we given sufficient thought to that question?

Management 71

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Cloud-based analytics is becoming a pivotal tool for today’s digital businesses. Out of its many advantages, the most significant one would be the ability to perform data mapping through cloud-based analytics. Data mapping is an essential process employed in data warehousing to connect separate models to each other.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The goal of data governance is to ensure the quality, availability, integrity, security, and usability within an organization. Many traditional approaches to data governance seem to struggle in practice; I suspect it is partly because of the cultural impedance mismatch, but also partly because […].

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Did you know that 90% of all data has been generated over the last 2 years? Big Data has been an important topic in the marketing scene for quite some time. It has been a major challenge for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) because it’s not easy to organize and extract useful insights from massive amounts of […].

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