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Business agility is a must during these pandemic times. Business agility requires data-driven decisions. Data-driven decision making requires data agility and the modernization of data management to enable business-led analytics. The most common, successful, and scalable data management modernizations involve data virtualization, IPaaS, and data hub technologies to provide a data layer.
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Digital transformation requires business and execution agility. Modern data management solutions frequently provide six types of optimizations. Push down optimizations, remote function execution and functional compensation enable full leveraging of the environment. Automation, such as auto ETL, no hard-code and the ability to leverage autoscaling without significant configuration, enables agility and simplifies even the most complex global hybrid environments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.