Alation

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Data Swamp vs Data Lake. But a swamp, on the other hand, is dark and dank, full of scary creatures, heavy wet air, and either a poisonous frog or an angry alligator behind every dead tree snag. And so will your data. You know the story well: you have a ton of data and need fast access to the right data.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

After 416,350 words in posts and 845,128 words in comments on this blog, thus far, there is always more to explore, illuminate and share. It is a great way to stay connected to what's most important to you (and keep the blog and its content relevant!). I'm going to try and answer all of them here. Let's go!

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Andrew White

MARCH 22, 2019

I have blogged before (see this from 2014: A Day in the Life of an Analyst” at Gartner’s IT/Expo Symposium – Day 3 ) about the hot topics I discussed with attendees at our Symposia and data and analytics conferences. MDM is dead; at least the old idea that was peddled that all data in a master file is master data.

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