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Category: Whisper Report

  • Whisper Report: Six Advantages of Copy Data Management

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    Copy data management solutions are being added to architectures to address the demands of CCPA and GDPR. Copy data management is a capability available as a stand-alone data management tool, as well as provided within data virtualization platforms. Advantages of copy data management discussed in this research include the ability to stop orphan data copies, eliminate extra storage costs and keep copies up to date. Advantages discussed also include the ability for copies to be kept equal to each other, simplified governance and accelerated development.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Whisper Report: Decision Integrity Requires Data Validation

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    Digitally transformed organizations expect reliable, data-driven decisions, but data-driven decisions require reliable data if the business is to maintain decision integrity. Don’t stop short with only providing data quality that is responsible for standardizing data. All data integrations must be verified and transformations must be validated to ensure decision integrity. Historical methods of “stare and compare” or leveraging SQL scripts are not efficient, nor do they meet governance requirements. Some modern data validation tools can validate even the largest data sets.

  • Whisper Report: Cloud Advantages Found on-Premise and at the Edge

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    Clouds are known for the ability to be purchased via operational expenses (OpEx) versus capital expenses (CapEx). In addition, clouds provide software, infrastructure and even the platform itself ‘as-a-service,’ enabling auto-scaling, auto-update capabilities and ease of administration. This research examines vendor products that bring cloud-like features to the edge and on-premise. This includes capabilities that enable a seamless edge/cloud hybrid experience.

  • Whisper Report: Seven Security and Governance Data Space Issues CxOs Don’t Know About

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    CCPA and GDPR expect CxOs to be able to answer the question, “who shared what customer data with whom.” Unfortunately, due to configuration errors, missing driver updates, missing log files or lack of understanding of vulnerabilities, many CxOs are not aware of which data copies exist, let alone how they are being shared. This research shares seven security and governance issues in the data space that compromise security and governance, yet, unfortunately, remain generally unknown by CxOs. Remedies are also discussed.

  • Whisper Report: Six Data Engineering Capabilities Provided by Modern Data Virtualization Platforms

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    When creating your data architecture, it is valuable to understand the extent of data engineering capabilities provided by modern data virtualization platforms. 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.