Some years ago I was consulting in a large financial institution. I was brought in to help transfer the company from one financial classification scheme to a new scheme. The project manager assumed this was a three-month project. He was mistaken. Nearly six months into the project we realized this was
Learn the top 5 reasons for managing data where it lives – whether it's in database or in memory, in the cloud or in-stream.
.@philsimon on whether data governance is still relevant.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become the new It Girl of the IT world. Of course her big brother big data continues to generate big buzz. My sis from another miss Tamara Dull has blogged about the relationship between big data and IoT, positing big data is a subset of IoT on
Many people perceive big data management technologies as a “cure-all” for their analytics needs. But I would be surprised if any organization that has invested in developing a conventional data warehouse – even on a small scale – would completely rip that data warehouse out and immediately replace it with an NoSQL
.@philsimon on the soft skills that Big Data requires.
Jim Harris explains why it's especially important to assess the quality of metadata when it comes to big data.
With Big Data, there are far more technical questions than answers.
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
Jim Harris discusses perspectives on the question of how much quality big data really needs.
