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Data silos have become the scourge of the 21st century. Besides the costs of eventually having to undo silos, having data separated in various databases and programs rather than fully integrated also significantly hinders efficiency and productivity. When your company’s data lives in separate, non-communicating systems, you are hampering your company’s ability to get the […]

More than any year before it, 2017 has seen big data analytics go mainstream in a wide range of industries. Although it’s been a driving force for nearly a decade in fields like engineering and medicine, big data now drives marketing campaigns, shapes customer relationships and guides many other business operations for an ever-growing list […]

A colleague was recently trying to convey to his client the best way to build an analytics strategy. The company had already begun the hard work of creating a data warehouse, data lake, data lab and data team — and it was getting prepared technically to handle the complexities and challenges that arise when an […]

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What is a company’s most valuable asset? Its people. It’s not just some cliché, it’s a fact. According to a 2016 economic analysis report by Korn Ferry, human capital is worth roughly 2.33 times as much as physical capital, such as property, inventory, and technology. Unlike a skyscraper or a computer, a person’s productive value […]

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By Matt Asay For all its hype as technology’s next big Gold Rush, few Big Data vendors seem to be making money. Oh, sure, we’ve seen companies raise several hundreds of millions of dollars to make a few hundreds of millions of dollars, but none of the biggest vendors of Hadoop, Spark, and other big […]

How much difference can automation make? I’ll give you an example. A global banking and financial services firm with more than 50,000 employees recently implemented robotic process automation (RPA) to automate a process that – until then – required highly paid traders to spend multiple hours a day extracting data from one system and inputting […]

We are currently at the peak of the analytics revolution. While for the most part we still analyze backwards (observing user actions that already happened), the time has come to harness real-time (RT) analytics to drive immediate decisions and most importantly, instant actions. Companies are using more real-time analytics, because of the pressure to increase […]

If you’re a database administrator (DBA) or database developer, you’ve most likely faced challenges throughout the development lifecycle, such as backup errors, insufficient data or system availability, configuration issues and so on. One of the most important tasks in developing your database is constant testing. And if you’re not using database automation, testing may prove […]