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Data Tools: Defining the Characteristics of Quality Data

By Dick Weisinger

When can data be considered ‘high quality’?  Joseph Juran, an early promoter data-quality, defined “data to be of high quality if it fits the intended uses in operations, decision making and planning.”  Data needs to consistently and accurately represent real…

NoSQL: Polyglot Persistence — Matching the Data Storage Tool to the Data

By Dick Weisinger

“NoSQL Distilled, A brief guide to the world of Polyglot Persistence” is a great new book by Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler, published by Pearson’s Addison-Wesley Professional.  Both Sadalage and Fowler now work at ThoughtWorks, a consultancy that specializes in…

Cloud Computing: Restrictive Laws in Europe Slow Cloud Growth

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey of US consumers found that nearly 90 percent of Americans have used cloud services in some way, although many don’t realize that they’re using the cloud.  In fact, many didn’t know what ‘the cloud’ is, with more…

Business Intelligence: Self Service BI is Still A Long Ways Off

By Dick Weisinger

Business Intelligence is high on the radar at most companies.  Gartner says that businesses rank BI as their highest priority in 2012, and IDC is forecasting that the BI market will reach $39.9 billion in 2012. The current trend in…

Storage: IT Fights Back to Slow Explosive Storage Demands

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like business analytics and Big Data are increasing the amounts of data that business need to store. For example, Syed Masroor, Head of technology and solutions at NetApp India, recently told ComputerWorld that Netapp has always “firmly believed that the entire…