There are a lot of moving parts involved in running a successful IT organization. For example, data scientists, analysts, infrastructure personnel, and platform teams all have important roles to play. Underlying all of their work is data. Each of these IT roles need...
Wholesale migrations offer the biggest transformations, but at what risk? One of the coolest (and often confounding) aspects of technology is that it evolves and improves constantly and quickly. Many eager and ambitious technologists love to push change. It’s often...
For many companies, writing is a core part of doing business. Whether it’s creating a project proposal, a sales pitch, or a legal document, organizations need their skilled employees to write long-form, detailed pieces of content to move projects forward, share...
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can save your company time and money and refocus important resources to higher value activities. One of the best tools to get started with is UIPath. It’s an eternal business quest: find innovative ways to reduce costs, increase...
The retirement of Technical Debt has never been more relevant. The great recession, and, more recently, the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly dampened the ability and willingness of enterprises to address an ever-growing amount of Technical Debt. Too often,...
Since I started my career about 25 years ago, data warehousing and the analytics tools it supports have come a long way. From the early days of relational database management systems (RDBMS) to the launch of high-performance analytics appliances and the emergence of...
Guardium Insights 2.5 was released at the end of last year. It is a great new version of an exciting product from the Guardium team at IBM. We got it up and running over the holidays and started playing around with it. This article is a result of one of those...
When you read my earlier blog, “Netezza is making a comeback”, from this blog series, did you think to yourself, “Where did it go? I never left.” If you have ever had a chance to use Netezza in your data estate for warehousing, high-performance INZA push down...