More senior execs expect significant migration of core IT functions to the cloud, regardless of type. They believe these workloads will move more than business applications, many of which may have… Read more »
Just about everyone is moving their web operations to the cloud, but a quarter of respondents of all types are moving significant transaction processing. Read more »
Square’s point-of-sale terminal is moving onto the deli counters and coffee bars in several Whole Foods Markets around the country, allowing customers pay for quick items without waiting in a checkout… Read more »
Most enterprise databases have come in two basic flavors over the past 25 years: 1) relational databases optimized for transaction processing, and 2) relational databases optimized for data warehousing. But that… Read more »
The new economics of data warehousing provide attractive alternatives in both costs and benefits. While big data gets most of the attention, evolved data warehousing will play an important role for… Read more »
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made… Read more »
Traditional applications had a common platform that captured business transactions. The software pipeline extracted, cleansed and loaded the information into a data warehouse. The data warehouse reorganized the data primarily to… Read more »
Big data continues to offer more and more opportunity for businesses. By analyzing the information already in an organization, executives can save cost and increase revenue. For example, you may discover… Read more »