What does the term data warehouse mean here today? This industry, over the past 20 years, has seen many vendors forging definitions for data warehousing that conveniently matched their current technology capabilities. It’s left the industry in such confusion that it’s important to surface what each...
Embedded databases have become a popular use of database technologies. Aggregating all the uses of databases would show embedded databases to be just as popular (or more so) than the more extrinsic approach now that there are 25 billion connected devices, growing to a projected...
NLP is a necessary enterprise discipline today. Understanding the challenges and possibilities will help you harness this discipline for your language applications.
Natural language processing (NLP) is poised to make major advances in enterprise applications. No longer is this an arcane art continually pushed...Embedded databases have become a popular use of database technologies, especially for IoT applications in the enterprise, as I discussed in this recent article at Upside. There are many reasons to embed a database in your application’s endpoints instead of just pushing data out to...
Today, Informatica announced their Winter Launch. It’s a huge release, encompassing the bulk of their vast data management portfolio. As one of the few larger companies out there primarily focused on data management, I consider their moves a bellwether for the industry, and worth knowing...
At Cloudera Analyst Days, Cloudera announced the details of their highly anticipated direction. Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is a combination of the Cloudera and Hortonworks stacks, pulling in Spark, Tez, Hive, LLAP, Impala, druid, and other project capabilities, 30+ in all, into a single integrated...
No matter which "stages of grief" model you buy into, the idea has importance for individuals and companies alike. We're only human (or, ahem, a company), so we will go through similar stages when our big moves forward become painful. The key is how long...
The world of data is rapidly changing. Data is the prime foundational component of any meaningful corporate initiative. The means to manage the prime asset of data is a key decision point being made continually in competitive organizations. Incorporating new information into this process is...
The recent Informatica World Conference was the 20th World Conference and comes on the heels of last year’s celebratory 25th anniversary of the company. At World this year, Informatica staked its claim in which area will define the enterprise competitive landscape. Informatica clearly sees a near-term...
I attended IBM Think last week in San Francisco as a guest of IBM. The event was an outstanding opportunity to stay in close touch with the rapidly-changing technology industry and the uses of data. Data & AI was one of the campuses of the...