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Serve yourself! That's the mantra for many data management practices in this burgeoning Information Economy. Once viewed as a task performed by a few insiders in large organizations, the process of preparing data for analysis has now been embraced on the front lines. Forward-looking organizations are empowering their people to find, curate and deliver enterprise data without bothering the IT depar...

You've likely heard about the right to be forgotten, a key construct of the European Union's recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation. But what about the right to be respected? Customer experience has become a critical success factor in today's business world: the companies that demonstrate their respect for customer preferences have the upper hand. Check out this episode of InsideA...

Arturo Suarez, Enrico Zimuel, Curtis Johnson & Larry Garfield were interviewed by Eric Kavanagh, the tireless Host of InsideAnalysis and DM Radio. InsideAnalysis was proud to be a sponsor at ZendCon & OpenEnterprise 2018 in Las Vegas, NV last month. Eric Kavanagh, interviewed some of the brightest minds & innovators in Open Source and PHP. A few of the standout interviews from the show include: Ar...

Today, it has never been easier to startup a company; all you need is a cell phone and a credit card. If you have great people with experience and knowledge, in the information economy, you are halfway to success. However, Without hard assets, how do you valuate a startup. Ludo Pyis of Areopa says the intellectual capital minus hard costs equals the value of the startup. His company specializes in...

The Enterprise is InsideAnalysis's latest weekly talk show hosted by award-winning interviewer & journalist, Eric Kavanagh. Each week we interview the top minds of leading enterprise software companies and take a closer look at the  major trends in modern business. Each episode, we explore the innovative ideas that are reshaping commerce as we know it. Learn how you can take advantage of the lates...

Legacy systems and old data: these artifacts pose serious challenges for the modern enterprise. How can companies reconcile the past with the present, and prepare for the future? Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Dr. Geoffrey Malafsky, new Data Scientist in Residence at InsideAnalysis, and Justin Reock, Evangelist for Rogue Wave Software.  

We keep hearing about the importance of customer experience, which is code language for data quality combined with smart business processes. These days, the whole concept of digital transformation is central to improving customer experience, but it won't go anywhere without quality data. So notes a new report published by Experian, entitled Mastering the customer experience: Why insights-driven bu...

The growth of cloud computing has raised the bar of innovation across the board and transcends industries. Computer hardware improvements are pacing the growth of cloud computing, data centres & cloud storage. Traditional big data companies are leveraging this newer technology with in-memory & SSD Databases. Business intelligence and analytics companies have never had it so good with the amount of...

What's the fastest cloud-based data warehouse these days? What's the cheapest? Well, data integration specialist Fivetran decided to find out! So, they orchestrated a TPC benchmark test for the five major cloud-based data warehouses, and today's the day for the big reveal! Tested solutions include Azure, BigQuery, Presto, Redshift and Snowflake. Learn all about this benchmark test on InsideAnalysi...

For the last few decades, organizations worldwide have increasingly recognized the remarkable power of data. Data warehouses became common in the 1990s, followed by sophisticated business intelligence applications. Today, data lakes represent another attractive option for companies looking to harness their data at-scale. But there is another side to this equation: liability. Recent regulations, in...

early 27 years ago, Linus Torvalds threw down the gauntlet and began a journey that continues to transform and fundamentally shape the software world. By releasing his open-source operating system, Linux, he set in motion a remarkable movement that now stretches across the entire landscape of modern computing. Find out the latest by checking out this episode of InsideAnalysis. Host Eric Kavanagh w...

There's a new sheriff in town, and the rules are getting more strict. With the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Chinese Personal Information Security Specification now in effect, compounded by individual states taking stricter stances like the recently adopted California Consumer Privacy Act, organizations must get serious about consumer privacy. In essence, the...

Open Source Software has enabled innovative leaps in enterprise software and changed the way companies design, deploy, maintain and use software. Our host, Eric Kavanagh, is fond of saying, "bad code goes away" and this is even more apparent in the community mindshare environment of open source. Join us in today's episode of InsideAnalysis from Portland, Oregon as Kavanagh interviews open source i...

What, exactly, is ​FinTech, and why should you care? The simple answers: it's tech innovation in financial services, and it affects just about everyone on planet earth. The impact can be seen throughout the world of finance: transfers, fees, deposits, withdrawals. BitCoin is an excellent example of highly disruptive FinTech, and it makes most regulators edgy! What can be done about this revolution...

Bottlenecks and compatibility between software and operating systems and the massive amounts of data collected in today's serverless applications can cause serious concerns at scale. High performance saves money with second saved; However, getting a handle on this complexity can be the difference between success and failure.   Listen to Eric Kavanagh interview Ben Sigelman of LightStep and find ou...

The old normal is now gone. The new normal is multifaceted, multivariate, and most of all: multi-cloud! Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace, and even SAP are all touting their cloud platforms. What's the enterprise to do? Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview David Linthicum of Deloitte, plus Eric Wright of Turbonomic, Dimitri Moraitis, Mist.io, and...

A premier showing of Black Panther and a blowout event for the World Wrestling Federation: common occurrences in Western culture, but in the Middle East? My, how times have changed! The new possibilities in this ancient land are vast and varied. Entrepreneurship is on the rise, and foreign investments are heating up. How can you get involved? Check out this special pilot episode of The World Matte...

The machines just keep learning. From smartphones to self-driving cars, the universe of intelligent mechanization keeps on rolling. We may be a long way off from the so-called "Singularity" – but the power embedded in today's most innovative machinery genuinely boggles the mind. What's the latest, and where is all of this going? Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to find out! Host @eric_kav...

When Hasso Plattner threw down the gauntlet more than a decade ago, many of the industry's other titans merely shrugged. An entire platform built on in-memory technology? Pshaw! Some of the major players eventually embraced the in-memory concept, but only in bits and pieces. The boldness of Plattner's vision, however, required a wholesale embrace of this technology as the foundation for tomorrow's...

Software development in the enterprise took a major leap forward in the last few years, as the concept of DevOps took the industry by storm. Developers started working directly with operations personnel, and the speed of innovation took a sharp turn for the better. In some ways, the vector of this change actually outpaced the ability of organizations to keep their data management processes up to s...

A common storyline in the news these days warns of Artificial Intelligence taking jobs away from hard-working people. A more realistic take is that AI increasingly augments professional activities. From sales and marketing to operations and even accounting, AI algorithms are tackling a variety of tasks, from mundane "administrivia" to the more compelling function of predictive analytics. Check out...

The cloud made its first presence known in the 1990s, but that was a long time ago, and far far away in terms of functionality. Companies like AOL, Excite and Yahoo! all offered basic services like email, and groups. Today, the power of cloud computing is genuinely mind-blowing. What do industrial-strength cloud service providers offer? Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to find out! Host Er...

Many organizations weigh the benefits and risks of data lakes versus data warehouses. The former can be vast but slow, while the latter requires great effort to achieve the desired speed. But these solutions are no longer mutually exclusive. A new kind of supercharged information architecture can deliver the best of both worlds, enabling the richness of data lake designs, along with the performanc...

The scalable compute power of the cloud has placed Machine Learning in the spotlight of what's now possible with Big Data. The evolution of cloud computing — with readily accessible and ever-increasing pools of resources such seemingly endless affordable cloud storage — has opened the door to new possibilities that would have been impossible both financially and technically to most individuals and...

First came the data warehouse, then the data lake. Open-source upstarts Cloudera and Hortonworks jumped on the data lake concept quickly, touting their mastery of Apache Hadoop as key to their ability to effectively build and maintain data lakes that provide business value. But a funny thing happened on the way to the digital forum: Cloud storage underwent a major metamorphosis, with major price-p...