MCKNIGHT CONSULTING GROUP BLOG

Informatica continues to reengineer components of its portfolio to be cloud-native and to bundle components into its iPaaS Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). Informatica is really at the dead center of the digital transformation movement through data and continues to thrill with new product developments, partnerships and global customer stories. Several items caught my eye…

Another day, another mind-blowing show of capabilities from the graph database market. Neo Technology recently released their “world’s biggest graph database” report. This features the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) running 1 trillion relationships where throughput and latency improve linearly with the number of shards that it’s distributed across. If it was uncertain, now it’s certain that Neo4J…

In our paper, we present the first demonstration of a massive knowledge graph that consists of materialized and virtual graphs that span multiple hybrid clouds. We show that it is possible to have a one trillion-edge knowledge graph with sub-second query times without storing all the data in a single centralized location. This capability has the ability to usher in a…

I was a guest speaker at the Astera DW Builder Product Launch on Wednesday, May 19. It was an interesting event for which you may want to get all the details if you are building a data warehouse, data mart or any analytic database on relational database technology or reevaluating what you have in terms…

Enterprises from every industry and scale are working to leverage data to achieve their strategic objectives—whether they are to be more profitable, effective, risk tolerant, prepared, sustainable, and/or adaptable in an ever-changing world. An enterprise’s data maturity must grow at pace with the business and its needs to achieve agility and resilience today—otherwise it will…

Data maturity modeling is understanding where you stand vis-à-vis the possibilities across multiple dimensions. It is a cold, hard, quantifiable, objective look at data use in a company, department line-of-business, or whatever scope is modeled. Although the ratings are interesting and inform urgency, what’s most interesting should be what the next level in each category…

Compact’s metadata connectivity capabilities will enrich the Informatica Data Catalog portfolio to reach more types of enterprise data, including legacy mainframes, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, code and scripting languages, enterprise and modern cloud apps, analytic apps, ETL tools, BI and statistical tools, and more. Compact’s scanners will also add expanded metadata management. Compact Solutions…