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Data Capture: Real-Time Systems Hindered by Delays in Capturing Data via ETL

By Dick Weisinger

ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) is a data preparation technique for moving data from standard applications into a data warehouse or analytics system that specializes in translating and interpreting trends and meanings from the data.  The E-T-L of the name…

Data Management: Real-Time Data Analytics Stymied by Delayed Data Loading

By Dick Weisinger

Data is important, and as technology evolves there are continually new formats being introduced for best representing the content represented by the data. Consider  IoT data, streaming data from external sources, sensor data, graphs, key/value pairs, video/audio/image, objects, JSON documents…

IIoT Deployments to Double: Manufacturers Reinvent Themselves with New Technologies

By Dick Weisinger

In the US, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) hasn’t taken hold yet.  67 percent of manufacturers aren’t using the technology.  But a survey by ABI Research found that 74 percent of companies are investigating and planning to deploy IoT…

Copyright Law: EU Planning to Restrict Data Use

By Dick Weisinger

Tech companies in the EU are worried about proposed legislation to severely restrict the use of data for text mining and big data. The proposed legislation is part of EU copyright reform and would restrict any business in the EU…

Skills Half Life: Businesses Struggle to Keep Employee Skills Relevant

By Dick Weisinger

PwC recently released a report detailing the struggles many businesses are having trying to get their employees up to speed with digital technologies.  Less than half of businesses feel that they have enough savvy to be able to successfully use…