Dylan Jones is the founder of Data Quality Pro and Data Migration Pro, popular online communities that provide a range of practical resources and support to their respective professions. Dylan has an extensive information management background and is a prolific publisher of expert articles and tutorials on all manner of data related initiatives.
Working on a data migration project gives you a unique opportunity to learn where your organization has fallen short in its data management strategy. It's when you start to explore your legacy data landscape that you get a feel for how big a silo challenge your company has. It wasn't
No one knows for sure who coined the term Big Data. Despite etymological studies, we are still no closer to attributing provenance to any one person, or indeed any one period. Some say the term was coined in the '80s, others believe the '90s – and many are convinced the term originated
In the UK, technology trends move a little slower than for our US counterparts. It was about 5 years ago when I first met a data leader at a conference on this side of the pond who was actively engaging in large scale big data projects. This wasn’t a presenter
