January 15, 2020
Digital Transformation Arrives with Next-Gen Intelligent Data Virtualization91% of businesses today are facing persistent barriers to digital transformation and are looking to make major investments in security and compliance, multi-cloud, self-service analytics and artificial intelligence. Only too aware of operating in a 'transform or die' landscape, performance…
January 13, 2020
Data Liberation: The Rise of True Self-Service AnalyticsIn an ever-accelerating information age, the companies most likely to succeed are the ones that not only glean the most profitable insights from their data, but do it faster and more nimbly than their competitors. In fact, according to ESG,…
January 8, 2020
How to Achieve True Big Data Analytics with Today’s DataIn order for big data analytics to work optimally, data must be consumerized–that is, it must be readily available to all stakeholders across the organization in a self-service manner, while ensuring reliability and security. What are the most common barriers…
December 23, 2019
Security & Governance in ActionSecurity and governance are top of mind in an era where data is everywhere and bad actors are trying to steal it. But it’s not just hackers we need to worry about. Providing inappropriate data access to people inside the…
December 17, 2019
Big Data Analytics in the Cloud for Today’s Distributed and Diverse DataLast week, my good friend David Menninger and I discussed the state of Big Data analytics and its future in our webinar “How Distributed, Diverse Data has Transformed Big Data Analytics”. As the Research Director at Ventana, David highlighted some…
November 21, 2019
AtScale: A Better SSASMy co-founders and I started AtScale to change the trajectory of the analytics tools of our day. As consumers of tools like Microstrategy, Qlik and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) at Yahoo!, we were often disappointed by the complexity of…
October 18, 2019
Should You Build or Buy Your Universal Semantic Layer?It only makes sense that organizations are investing in universal semantic layers. Providing analysts and business users universal access to data that can be understood by their BI tool of choice has become mission-critical. And that’s exactly what a universal…
October 2, 2019
How Adaptive Analytics Can Optimize Cloud Migration for the Healthcare IndustryThe healthcare industry is enthusiastically undergoing digital transformation and embracing hybrid cloud architectures. However, cloud migration in the healthcare industry comes with significant challenges. If there is any disruption to the migration process, or any compatibility issues between old and…
September 10, 2019
5 Essential Tips for Successful Cloud Migration (and how to avoid the “Gotchas”)What is Cloud Migration? Cloud migration is the process of moving data and application hosting infrastructure from on-premise data centers to a public cloud hosting service like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure. Migrating your data center operations…
September 6, 2019
The Four Cloud Transformation Capabilities of an Adaptive Analytics FabricAn adaptive analytics fabric has the following four capabilities when bridging the gap between users and data: 1 - Bring all data (silos) to users’ fingertips IT organizations today have common server orchestration tools to manage their on-premises and cloud…
