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Big Data: Data-First Philosophy Enables Businesses to Think Before they Act

By Dick Weisinger

Data First is a philosophy of using data as a guiding factor in all business decisions and actions.  Advances and successes in Big Data and analytic technologies have businesses clamoring to try it out. Pedro Cardoso, technology consultant, identified three phases to

Cloud-based Data Warehousing: Snowflake, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Redshift

By Dick Weisinger

Data warehousing traditionally required a company to extract and download huge volumes of data from various business software systems into a central repository for analysis.  The process to prep the data was slow which meant that the analysis was always run against

Businesses Clean House Replacing Legacy Apps: One-Quarter Want to Replace Workflow and Document Management

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses are itching to modernize their IT and business applications, according to a survey by Hitachi Consulting.  90 percent of businesses say that they have to deal with legacy applications that are holding them back.  More than one third say

Data Virtualization: Abstracting Cloud and On-Premise Data into a Single Logical Access Point

By Dick Weisinger

Data virtualization is a method that allows the administration and access to heterogeneous sources of data as if they were a single source.  At the core of data virtualization is the abstraction layer that provides a unified access to disparate

Big Data: Businesses with Petabyte Data Sets Becoming More Common

By Dick Weisinger

Data initiatives within companies are increasingly seeing boasts in funding.  A report by IDG found that, on average, businesses will be spending $7.4M on data-related IT projects within the next year, but the investment is heavily skewed by the amount