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  • Whisper Report: Five Quantifiable Advantages of Data Virtualization

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    Data virtualization platforms have numerous benefits to organizations that add it to their architecture. This research examines five quantifiable advantages enterprises that adopt data virtualization experience. Quantifiable advantages include user access to data, copy data management, centralized governance, increased agility, and reduced infrastructure costs. Data Virtualization platforms provide measurable advantages to the digitally transformed and significantly contribute to the return on investment (ROI) realized by the architecture.

  • Whisper Ranking: Data Validation Platforms Q2 2020

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    Digitally transformed organizations expect reliable, data-driven decisions. Data validation platforms are able to test data ingestions and transformations within an enterprise. Many data validation platforms can test structured data, big data, BI Tools and ERP Systems, as well as non-standard data types, be it flat files or streaming. Data validation platforms can conduct regression tests and monitor production data. Likewise, data validation platforms are being used to support six different and critically important use cases. This research evaluates and ranks the various modern data validation platforms according to their architectural capabilities and ability to successfully meet popular use cases.

  • Whisper Report: Six Use Cases Enabled by Data Validation 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 validation and the architecture capabilities used to support the use case. To this end, we examine the validation of ingestion and transformations, the data migration, as well as cloud update use cases. The use cases for production monitoring, completeness of data sets, the ability to compare BI tools’ values, as well as data DevOps are also evaluated.

  • 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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    ABSTRACT

    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.