Today, modern “data pipelines” are used to fuel mission-critical processes at-scale. These pipelines are much more sophisticated than the atomic process of ETL. And the end result? New business models are possible; old business processes can be reinvented; and lots of time and money can be saved! Check out this episode of Query This with Eric Kavanagh and Mark Van de Wiel of HVR Software & Michael Pickett of Talend to learn more!
Now entering its fourth decade of innovation, opensource software continues to transform the world of business. Once considered the work of hobbyists, this now-pervasive paradigm has since conquered the enterprise in deep and meaningful ways. In fact, Linux now reigns supreme over all other operating systems for industrial-grade enterprise solutions. But Linux was just the beginning. Over the past decade in particular, opensource climbed up the ladder of functionality, addressing all things data...
The kids entering the workforce today could be called the Cloud Generation or the Open Source Generation. Nearly every aspect of corporate, government and educational enterprise software designed today either uses open source or evolved from open source coding and is designed to run in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment. Isaac Newton in 1675 once said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Open Source and Open Culture of today embody that statement. One company ...
In this episode of InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh and Dr. Robin Bloor discuss Fast Data with Chris Lawless of HVR. Data has been around since the ancient Mesopotamians began keeping track of their crop yields 7000 years ago. Throughout the ages, we have figured out ways to keep track of more & more data for analytical insights hidden within. However, never before in the history of humanity have we created and kept as much data as we have in the last decade. Indeed, we even came up with a new ...
Should your organization use Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services? Or IBM’s new open-source cloud? Or Oracle? Or SAP? Or Heroku? Well, guess what: You can keep your options open! Check out this episode of QueryThis, to learn all about the advantages of a multi-cloud strategy. We’ll talk to Anton Els of DBVisit, and Chris Lawless of HVR Software.
The rumors of on-prem’s demise have been greatly exaggerated! Rest assured, mountains of data and functionality remain in corporate-owned data centers, and that will not change — much — any time soon. The key to success in this brave, new, cloud-enabled world? To get the right data to the right person at the right time. Sound familiar? Join us today as we talk to Donald Farmer of Treehive Consulting, and Anthony Williams, CEO of HVR Software. We’ll discuss strategies, tactics and challenges for ...
The more things change, the harder marketers tend to work! That’s especially true these days, as the MarTech 7,000 takes the business world by storm. Yes, that’s 7,000 cloud-based solutions now available for optimizing aspects of sales and marketing automation. Across all these new and evolving solutions, one thing’s for sure: data is the cornerstone. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to hear host @eric_kavanagh interview Irshad Raihan of Red Hat about the fast-moving industry of digital ...
Imagine how excited those first automobile drivers were as they cruised down the street in their stylish Model T’s? Compared to hoofing it, or riding in a horse and carriage, this experience must have been truly awe-inspiring at the dawn of the 20th Century. Now in the earliest stages of the 21st Century, so much has changed. But just like that massive transformation in 1908 when the Model T went public, we face a similar change in how business can be done. Somewhat suddenly, we’re seeing the au...
If you go by the buzz, you’ll think for sure that you need a data lake. And that may well be true. But just as mistakes were made in the world of data warehousing, so are mistakes being made in this next generation of data marshaling. The real key is to know your business, know your data, and have a good understanding for where you’re headed. And the bottom line these days, is that a data lake can take any number of forms. It can be the go-to system of record; or it can be a way to store relativ...
Cloud computing has changed every aspect of enterprise software and data management. Companies can offload their data to a cloud and make it easily accessible to users. With hardware and storage no longer being the bottleneck of the past, companies are putting more and more of their data into the cloud which is great; however, it can be difficult to analyze your structured and unstructured data if it is scattered across the cloud in different locations, in different formats, collected at differe...
How safe is data in the cloud? Arguably, the tipping point has already passed, and for lots of reasons. Major cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft can leverage the absolutely best technologies to keep their environments safe. And they can also hire and retain the very top talent. To learn more about this changing dynamic in enterprise data, check out today’s episode of InsideAnalysis, as host @eric_kavanagh interviews several experts, including Chris Lawless, SVP of Operations for HVR...
In today’s episode of Inside Analysis, Eric Kavanagh interviews Asaf Somekh, founder and CEO of Iguazio about the inspiration behind Iguazio and the need to streamline Data Science applications. Somekh refers to "The Luxury of the Tech Giants" when discussing the complexity in their AI and Machine Learning tools, technologies and even standardization which leaves room for companies like Iquazio to streamline Data Science to focus on delivering better, more accurate and more powerful solutions. I...
Most can relate to that sinking yet grateful feeling one gets from a fraud alert notice. The immediacy of the notice can be attributed to the data streaming technology that routes the message event to the customer in real-time. While banks have readily adopted streaming technology to better serve customers, many industries are starting to as well–for reasons that span from gaining an competitive edge to better business practices. But how? In this podcast, hear from industry experts about how org...
According to the co-founder of Blameless, Lyon Wong, nobody likes being blamed for a problem they didn't create, but it's worse being blamed for a problem because you were the one to identify it. Blameless brings together AI-driven incident resolution, blameless postmortems, SLOs/Error Budgets, and reliability insights reports and dashboards, enabling businesses to optimize reliability and innovation to allow teams to get back up quickly; thus, improving the incident response process for SRE and...
One would think the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and social media, in general, would allow people to see important issues from many different perspectives. With so many different opinions from people of different backgrounds, cultures, language & countries, one would think the average social media user would easily and readily get both sides of a picture and be able to formulate a well rounded objective opinion based off of diverse data representing multiple sides of an argument. However, th...
Check out this Pilot episode of the ChainGang in which Eric Kavanagh, discusses Blockchain and the Information Economy with Alex Mashinsky and Evren Sel Cakir.
The evolution of civilization has been marked by certain stages; for example, hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrialization, and finally to today’s Information Economy. The advent of the modern Internet spurred innovation across the business landscape. One such innovation with the potential to revolutionize transactions within the Information Economy is Blockchain. The Host of DM Radio and Inside Analysis, Eric Kavanagh, discusses Blockchain and the Information Economy with Chris Roebuck and ...
Jason Rose , SAP Sarah Austin , Influencer Eric Kavanagh recently returned from SAP Sapphire where the big talk was SAP’s recent 8 billion dollar purchase of Qualtrics, a single system of record for all experience data including customer, product, employee, and brand all on one platform. SAP has always been on top of Operational Data, the ‘O’ Data as it is often referred. Now they will have detailed X Data, otherwise known as experience Data for a complete picture of the X’s & O’s. In today’...
Time was, anyone could do just about anything with their data… or yours! But those days are gone. With the General Data Protection Regulation now well underway, and the California Consumer Privacy Act also in effect, companies the world over need to mind their Ps and Qs, data-wise. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to hear host @eric_kavanagh interview several experts, including John Ladley, Heidi Maher and Stijn Christiaens. Click the link below to launch the live stream at 3 ET today, o...
Digital transformation has been happening across the world for the last few decades as the traditional brick and mortar companies move from doing business face to face to having a virtual presence. Now, most companies offer their products and services online. The average consumer has had an online experience with one of the larger online companies; such as Facebook, Amazon or Twitter. As a result, consumers have an expectation of a certain level of excellence when using an online product or serv...
Dr. Eric Siegiel, founder of Predictive Analytics World, discusses Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning with our very own, Eric Kavanagh, during the 1st segment of today’s InsideAnalysis. Analytics has always been a part of business but decades past analytics is to a Ford Model T what today’s Analytics is to a Tesla model 3. Thanks to the raw power, seemingly unlimited affordable data storage, that today’s cloud computing provides, businesses are able to insights that are truly changing ent...
Just as Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Machine Learning have been around for a while, so has Natural Language Processing. However, it was the evolution of cloud computing & storage that allowed these technologies to reach their potential. A decade ago, only a handful of companies possessed the computing power that is now available to everyone thanks to the evolution of cloud computing. Natural Language Processing, in particular, has made giant leaps in progress thanks to the i...
We’ve all heard that mantra: “The customer is always right.” That’s still true today, but perhaps even more so than ever before, in part because customers can leave brands at any moment, with only the touch of a finger. That’s the reality that today’s brands must face. Moreover, how customers interact with brands has changed irrevocably, both because of the Internet, but also because of smart devices. Any consumer-facing brand needs to appreciate that the user experience of their apps is now of ...
There have been significant changes in computer hardware and software over the last decade that have completely changed the enterprise computing environment. The most obvious change is the Cloud and the subsequent migration to the Cloud from on-premise. The Cloud provides accelerated computing via parallel processing, optimized storage & optimized memory capable of running large in-memory applications such as databases. One of the best database management systems being used on the enterprise...
Cloud computing and storage has changed enterprise computing and business in general. As companies move from on-prem computing to the cloud, security and GDPR is a serious concern. On today’s InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh discusses these issues with Katrin Lehman, SVP/ Cloud Data Management at SAP and Volker Haentjes, SAP Sr Director.
How big a deal is Kubernetes? Well, when SAP builds an entire solution on top of it (SAP Data Hub) and a company like MapR rearchitects its entire platform on top of it, those are two powerful signals that Google’s open-source project is the real deal. In this episode of InsideAnalysis, host Eric Kavanagh interviews Dan Garfield of CodeFresh, another company that’s going all in on Kubernetes!
The experts at O’Reilly recently conducted surveys to ascertain the adoption and use of Artificial Intelligence across a broad range of industries. Two of O’Reilly’s heaviest hitters, Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan, write: “technology, health care, and retail tend to be the leaders in AI adoption, whereas the public sector (government) tends to be the laggards, along with education and manufacturing.” What does this all mean for you? And what other kernels of insight were revealed in this research? ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new. And in fact, there have been at least two “AI Winters” over the years. Those were periods of time that followed significant hype, when reality set in, and the investment of time and money. We talked about that on InsideAnalysis today, featuring Dr. Robin Bloor and Dr. Geoffrey Malafsky, Chief Analyst and Data Scientist of The Bloor Group!
Tune in and listen to InsideAnalysis’s year long series on Artificial Intelligence. Our first AI show in February is with Paul Heirendt of Trade Harbor. Trade Harbor uses AI and Machine Learning for Voice authentication. One can see the obvious benefits of using using a combination of voice, retinal scan, fingerprint, gait, facial recognition or identity verification. If you lose your biometric password, no need to worry because you will already be dead. To listen to Eric Kavanagh and Paul Heire...
Once a year our President, Eric Kavanagh, updates us on The State of the Enterprise and he assures us the enterprise is strong and growing thanks to the power of the cloud and Big Data. Tendu Yogurtcu of Syncsort joins Eric for a discussion about the state of today’s enterprise and how Syncsort provides specialized solutions to enterprises in over 100 countries and to over 80% of the Fortune 100 companies. Syncsort helps companies to optimize their data on Big Data platforms such as Hadoop, Splu...
