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  • 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.

  • Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019

    Conference Whispers: PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 Video Playlist TBW1010

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    PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2019 allowed 30,000+ attendees to see over 2,000 machine providers over 900,000 net square feet of exhibits. There were vendors ready for Industry 4.0 that could collect any and all of the data you would like – and those that weren’t. Some data requires a separate license, some is stored in historians, and some is stored in the cloud. There were machines that are reconfigurable and those that can teach themselves. There was even a robot with a neural network embedded on a chip that only needs to see examples to learn.

  • 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.

  • Conference Whispers: Black Hat USA 2019

    Conference Whispers: Black Hat USA 2019 Video Playlist TBW1006

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    Black Hat USA 2019 provided 20,200+ attendees with an opportunity to dive into training, try their hand at white hat activities, attend briefings, listen to the keynote and attend a large variety of sponsored parties. Artificial intelligence-based security tools have arrived and may foreshadow the future state of cyber warfare. Solutions for data management and related actions focused on security operations centers were displayed. White hat tools to self-test Windows 10 against process injection and self-protecting data software development kits were announced, as were vulnerabilities in common consumer products. Finally, the gaping privacy loopholes created by GDPR were also presented.

  • 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.

  • Whisper Report: Digital Transformation Requires Modern Data Engineering

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    Digital transformation is a highly sought-after end-game for corporations. Scalable digital transformation cannot occur without 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.

  • Conference Whispers: Predictive Analytics World 2019

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    Mega-PAW 2019 clearly demonstrated that predictive analytics is ready for primetime and can lead to fantastic results, but success is far from guaranteed. The 720 attendees had seven tracks across five co-located conferences to choose from. With so much desired content, many found themselves missing a presentation if they hadn’t brought colleagues to cover concurrent sessions—a positive sign of a good conference. While there were some food misses, attendees found the conference interesting and had a takeaway from each speaker.