If data is the lifeblood of the business world – a constant stream of information that fuels business decisions – then metadata is the DNA. It is ‘data that describes data’, documenting the source of your data, transformations it has been through, dependencies and so...
For those of us who’ve been in the IT industry a while, conferences like Oracle Open World or Dreamforce have acquired almost mythical status; huge jamborees celebrating the successes of Oracle and Salesforce, the ecosystems that surround them, and the results they...
Today, at the WorldWide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) event in Stowe, Vermont, I launched the Data Vault Alliance, a new global community which seeks to unite Data Vault experts, vendors and practitioners and share best practices for Data Vault 2.0 with...
Chatting to prospective customers at a recent event, it struck me that, for buyers and sellers of data warehouse solutions, the conversation between the two has shifted irrevocably over the last few years. With an increasingly buyer-driven purchase process, it’s...
At our inaugural Partner Summit, in Lisbon last night, we at WhereScape recognized the partners that uphold our ethos across the EMEA region and have contributed most to our commercial success. Closing deals is the end goal of every successful company of course, but...
Living in a vault, especially of the underground variety, doesn’t sound too pleasant to me. However, a vault can also mean a roof in the form of an arch, as in a cathedral. To that point, living in a Data Vault demands some over-arching thought, uniting business...
So, I’m playing a little with words here. I’m certainly not advocating locking anybody or anything in a Data Vault. I want to share how you can lock in success as you design and deliver your new Data Vault. I assume you have your business people fully on board as...
The term Data Vault evokes an image of a safe and secure place to store your most important, core data assets. A lot of engineering goes into its design and delivery to ensure it does that job. However, there also is another image—a large, steel door—that comes to...
Sometimes a major technological advance is accelerated by another complementary innovation. It seems data automation and a Cloud-native database that separates storage from compute go together just like peas and carrots. Two huge steps forward in data management and...