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Complex Event Processing: Challenging Real-Time ETL
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave in the past year, you’ve probably heard of CEP (Complex Event Processing) or data stream analysis. Because a lot of real-time analysis focuses on discrete data...
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The Problem with Total Cost of Ownership
The issue of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) seems to come and go every few years. The need for it tends to ebb and flow with corporate budget cycles. TCO is perfectly fine for well-understood commodity...
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Project Success = Data Usability
One of the challenges in delivering successful data-centric projects (e.g. analytics, BI, or reporting) is realizing that the definition of project success differs from traditional IT application...
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The Misunderstanding of Master Data Management
Not long ago, I was asked to review a client’s program initiative that was focused on constructing a new customer repository that would establish a single version of truth. The client was very...
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Advanced Data Virtualization Capabilities
In one of my previous blogs, I wrote about Data Virtualization technology — one of the more interesting pieces of middleware technology that can simplify data management. While most of the...
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Data Quality, Data Maintenance
I read an interesting tidbit about data the other day: the United States Postal Service processed more than 47 million changes of addresses in the last year. That’s nearly 1 in 6 people. In the...
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Hadoop Replacing Data Warehouse Processing
I was recently asked about my opinion for the potential of Hadoop replacing a company’s data warehouse (DW). While there’s lots to be excited about when it comes to Hadoop, I’m not currently in the...
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Who Has My Personal Data?
In order to prepare for the cooking gauntlet that often occurs with the end of year holiday season, I decided to purchase a new rotisserie oven. The folks at Acme Rotisserie include a large amount of...
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My Dog Ate the Requirements
I received a funny email the other day about excuses that school children use to explain why they haven’t done their homework. The examples were pretty creative: “my mother took it to be framed”, “I...
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My Dog Ate the Requirements, Part 2
There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to rely upon a business partner. There’s lots of business books about information technology that espouses the importance of Business/IT alignment...
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