Struggling with Your Big Data Strategy?
Posted in: BlogTwo 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 […]
Is Self-Service BI Going to Drive a Truck though Enterprise Data Governance?
Posted in: BlogThere 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 […]
Agile Governance in the form of Automatic Discovery and Protection Is Needed to Create Confidence in a Big Data Environment
Posted in: BlogThe 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 […]
Data Federation – Master Data Patterns – On-Demand Information Services Pattern
Posted in: BlogPattern DescriptionThis pattern uses data virtualisation to provide on-demand integrated data to applications, reporting tools, processes and portals via a web services user interface. Structured and semi-structured data sources are supported including RDBMS, any web service (internal or external), web syndication feeds, flat files, XML, packaged applications and non-relational databases. Pattern Diagram Pattern Example Use […]
Data Federation – Master Data Patterns – The Virtual MDM Pattern
Posted in: BlogFollowing on from my last blog on data federation, the next data federation pattern I would like to discuss is a Master Data Virtual MDM pattern. This is as follows: Pattern Description This pattern uses data virtualisation to provide one or more on-demand integrated views of master data entities such as customer, product, asset, employee, etc., […]

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