Data is a competitive edge, only if we can harness knowledge from it. Successful businesses will drive decision-making based on the trends, anomalies, variances they see in the data. Unfortunately, many companies may not even know the underlying currents and hidden trends in data, which may be critical to their businesses. This results in missed opportunities or expensive mistakes. According to the Harvard Business Review, in 1958, corporations listed in the S&P 500 had an av
On average, a typical mid-size enterprise has hundreds of applications, databases, and unstructured file sources. A consumer-facing application may also have thousands to millions of end devices (IOTs). The data residing in such applications create ubiquitous data islands that do not capture a complete business view. To get a 360 idea of the business, enterprises need to combine data from various sources into a harmonized structure. Often companies create data warehouses, dat