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Data Virtualization: Building a Single Common Interface to Business Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

Data virtualization provides a real-time “virtual” interface to data that originates from multiple data sources.  Data virtualization is useful for applications like Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data, and in organizations with federated repositories.  Data virtualization typically allows read/write access with

Data Management: Getting a Grip on Enterprise Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data is important for the organization and it is important to develop methodologies to use data efficiently and cost effectively.  451 Research analyst Henry Baltazar proposed four different approaches for getting better control on data managed by the organization: Audit. 

Failed Data Projects: No Different Than Anything Else. Things That Can Go Wrong Will.

By Dick Weisinger

Increasingly businesses are turning to data to help run their businesses.  Benefits include cost reduction, faster and better decision making, and insight in building new products and services. Richard Petley, director of PwC Risk and Assurance, said that “data is

Data Security: Tech Businesses Adopt Encryption to Avoid Government Requests

By Dick Weisinger

Free email.  Free chat.  Free online storage.  Consumers have had a lot of free online services available.  But the tradeoff is that the information was also available to the vendor hosting or enabling the free use of that data.  Business

Data Quality: CIOs Pressured from Data Quality Issues

By Dick Weisinger

While Big Data and associated analytics software has gotten the attention of executives, far less attention has been given to the quality of the data that businesses are collecting and using for analysis.  The bromide “Garbage In, Garbage Out” (GIGO)