Introduction In BARC’s recent webinar, six vendors went head to head in a direct comparison – here is the second part of the webinar report by our data management expert Timm Grosser. Having looked at the three data catalog market leaders – Alation, Collibra and Informatica – in the first part of this series, we now turn […]
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European cloud BI implementations are driven by flexibility and scalability European cloud BI implementations are much more driven by flexibility and scalability than North American ones, which focus more on cost and deployment speed. In terms of actual benefits, European companies find greater benefits in outsourcing hardware and lower administration costs, while North American firms
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Modernizing the Data Warehouse: Challenges and Benefits Data warehousing is getting on in years. Concepts and architectures have been applied more or less unchanged since the 1990s. However, data warehousing and BI applications are only considered moderately successful. Users criticize their inadequate benefits, quality, efficiency and effectiveness. Especially in times of rapidly changing markets, decision-support
The current state of data storytelling and its analytical requirements The ultimate goal of data-driven decision support is to gain tangible benefits from analytics. The value of information and how it is used to save costs (e.g., optimization) or increase revenues (e.g., new offerings) show how effectively organizations use their information assets. The importance of certain aspects of data storytelling serves as
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Extracting data from standard application software such as ERP or CRM systems is a challenge. The reason for this is the encapsulation of the data. The data in the system is stored in complex data models that are incomprehensible and inaccessible without knowledge of the access logic.
Open source databases enjoy great popularity and are widely used, especially for the implementation of operational use cases. They are inexpensive to license and easy to obtain, are already part of an operating system or can increasingly be used via the cloud.
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The vendor perspective The BI vendors who responded to The BI & Analytics Survey answered a number of questions that revealed some differences between their perceptions and customers’ experiences. This article shows that vendors do not have a precise understanding of why customers chose their products, what problems their customers encounter and how customers use their products.
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Learn how to foster a data-driven culture, overcome challenges, and enhance decision-making through democratized data and analytics.
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Big Data and Information Security Analytics Part I As cyber-attacks become increasingly advanced and persistent, and the traditional notion of a security perimeter has all but ceased to exist, organizations are having to rethink their cybersecurity strategies. New real-time security intelligence solutions are combining big data and advanced analytics to correlate security events across multiple
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Data is a central resource in the 21st century. Only those who manage to extract value from their data will remain competitive. For this reason, many organizations are looking at innovative ways of using their data to create value. Data monetization refers to the process of identifying and marketing data or data-based products to generate monetary value. Data products (i.e.,
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