Executive Breakfast Briefing – Data Virtualisation (Composite Software)

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Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies explains ways to integrate big data, cloud sources and your data warehouse for richer business insight. Mike shows how Composite Software’s Data Virtualisation Platform is a key component. Data Virtualisation Agile Analytics Composite Software Business Agility IT Agility

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Struggling with Your Big Data Strategy?

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Two weeks ago I attended the popular Strata conference in Santa Clara California where, frankly the momentum behind Big Data was nothing short of unstoppable.  3100 delegate poured into the Santa Clara Convention Centre to see a myriad of big data technologies. Things that stood out for me include the massive interest in the new […]

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Is Self-Service BI Going to Drive a Truck though Enterprise Data Governance?

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There is no doubt that today self-service BI tools have well and truly taken root in many business areas with business analysts now in control of building their own reports and dashboards rather that waiting on IT to develop everything for them. Using data discovery and visualisation tools, like Tableau, Qlikview, Tibco Spotfire, MicroStratagy and […]

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Agile Governance in the form of Automatic Discovery and Protection Is Needed to Create Confidence in a Big Data Environment

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The arrival of Big Data is having a dramatic impact on many organizations, in terms of deepening insight. However it also has an impact in the enterprise that drives a need for data governance. Big Data introduces: New sources of information Data in motion as well as additional data at rest Multiple analytical data stores […]

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ELT Processing on Hadoop Will Boost Confidence in Big Data Quality

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In my last blog I looked at big data governance and how it produces confidence in structured and multi-structured data that data scientists want to analyse. I would like to continue that theme in this blog by looking at what is happening in the area of Big Data governance in a little more detail. Over […]

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