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Author: dgalli

  • Conference Whispers: CONEXPO-CON/AGG & IFPE 2020

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    North America’s largest construction trade show, CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE are held together every three years in Las Vegas. There were endless examples of Industrial Intelligence of Things (IIoT) and edge computing. The conference featured 2.7 million net square feet of exhibits, over 2,300 exhibitors, 150 educational courses, and 130,000 attendees from 150 countries. The intelligence enabled by sensors continues to expand as does the visibility of the results. The digital transformation of the construction site is underway with multiple vendors offering supply chain and job site integrated views. The show closed one day early due to COVID-19.

  • Whisper Report: ETL Not Agile? Here’s 3 Alternatives

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    TDWI Las Vegas was an educational and strategy event for 425 attendees, including 66 international attendees from 15 countries. Four major educational tracks featured over 50 full day and half-day sessions, as well as exams available for credit on related courses to become a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP). The educational tracks included: Modern Data Management, Platform and Architecture, Data Strategy and Leadership, Analytics and Business Intelligence. The strategy Summit featured 14 sessions, including many case studies and a special session on Design Thinking. The exhibit hall featured 20 exhibitors and 6 vendor demonstrations and hosted lunches and cocktail hours.

  • Conference Whispers: TDWI Las Vegas

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    TDWI Las Vegas was an educational and strategy event for 425 attendees, including 66 international attendees from 15 countries. Four major educational tracks featured over 50 full day and half-day sessions, as well as exams available for credit on related courses to become a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP). The educational tracks included: Modern Data Management, Platform and Architecture, Data Strategy and Leadership, Analytics and Business Intelligence. The strategy Summit featured 14 sessions, including many case studies and a special session on Design Thinking. The exhibit hall featured 20 exhibitors and 6 vendor demonstrations and hosted lunches and cocktail hours.

  • Whisper Ranking: Data Virtualization Platforms Q1 2020

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    Modern data virtualization platforms are increasingly becoming a critical part of data architectures for the digitally transformed. Many data virtualization platforms provide data as a service, data preparation, data catalog, logically centralized governance, the ability to join disparate data sets, and an extensive list of query performance optimizations. Likewise, data virtualization platforms are increasingly being used to support six different and critically important use cases. This research evaluates and ranks the various modern data virtualization platforms according to their architectural capabilities and ability to successfully meet popular use cases.

  • Conference Whispers: Oracle Next Generation Cloud Analyst Summit

    Playlist for Conference Whispers: Oracle’s Next Gen Cloud Analyst Summit 2020

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    Oracle’s 2020 Next Gen Cloud Analyst Summit allowed 40 industry analysts from North America to see executive product managers and customers talk about Oracle’s newest offering. There were four breakout session topics: Data and Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure, Identify Management and Core Cloud Security, as well as Application Development and Integration. Attendees were able to hear the story of Oracle’s digital transformation and migration to the cloud in addition to four other Oracle customers’ stories.

  • Conference Whispers: CES 2020

    -Playlist for Conference Whispers: CES 2020

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    CES 2020 allowed over 175,000 attendees from 160 countries to see more than 4,400 exhibitors and 250 conference sessions, with 11 official venues totaling over 2.9 million net square feet of exhibits. Attendees described the event as “huge,” although many first-timers used the word “overwhelming.” There were advances and capability announcements across the 36 product categories and 22 marketplaces, including Internet of Things, now more appropriately called Intelligence of Things. CES 2020 brought current technology advances in 5G, quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality together to welcome the new decade of technology and the 4th industrial revolution.

  • Whisper Report: Five Differences with Sensor Data

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    Many IT departments are beginning to work with sensor data – but sensor data is different from transaction data. Sensor data may arise out of IoT applications or operations engineering integrations with IT. The consequences of application failure with sensor data may result in the loss of millions of dollars, explosions, or death. Sensor data is not accurate, and all values must be cross-checked before critical action is taken. Sensor data is voluminous and is often stored in time-series databases. It is important not to confuse tag databases with metadata tags. Finally, sensor data often lacks all context which must be added.

  • Whisper Report: Six Use Cases Enabled by Data Virtualization Platforms

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    When selecting technologies for your data architecture, it is important to understand common use cases enabled by the technology. This research examines six use cases enabled by data virtualization and the architecture capabilities used to support the use case. To this end, we examine the customer/enterprise 360 view of data that is also met by the logical data warehouse (LDW) architecture use case. We also evaluate the use cases of the large, hybrid multi-cloud environments, data lake acceleration, collaboration with external master data management (MDM) and data catalog solutions, managing Excel as well as application integration.

  • Whisper Report: Six Capabilities Provided by Data Validation Platforms

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    Digital transformation requires data-driven decisions; data-driven decisions require data validation. This research covers the variety of capabilities found in data validation platforms. From testing structured, unstructured and big data, to testing data sources such as BI tools and ERP systems or even nonstandard files, the validation platform must match your environment. Regression testing and even the capability to monitor critical business data points can also found in data validation platforms.

  • Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

    Playlist for Conference Whispers: Tableau Conference 2019

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    Summary: Tableau Conference 2019 allowed 18,000+ attendees to see over 650 presentations. Attendees described the event as fun, although more than a few were disappointed. There were major advances and capability announcements across the platform, including data management and augmented analytics. Some capabilities, such as write to database, require enterprises to take additional independent steps to avoid orphaned data copies and the related governance issues. The conference was notably inclusive, featuring closed captioning, signing and the story of the historical achievements by the group known as the Code Girls.