
Managing Data Lakes
Published: 24th May 2017 | By: Philip Howard
This paper discusses why data lakes need to be managed and the sorts of capabilities that are required to manage them.

Concentric Analytics for IoT
Published: 23rd February 2017 | By: Philip Howard and Jameel Abdul
The Internet of Things can best be imagined as a concentric series of capabilities that start at the edge with sensors and devices of various kinds.

All about graphs: a primer
Published: 20th January 2017 | By: Philip Howard
Over the last few years graph databases have been the fastest growing sector within the database market ...

Foundation issues for the Chief Data Officer
Published: 7th November 2016 | By: Philip Howard and Jameel Abdul
Discovering and understanding your data landscape is a necessary condition for meeting the functional requirements of a CDO

The data management implications of GDPR
Published: 22nd September 2016 | By: Philip Howard
This paper discusses the EU's forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) not from a legal perspective but from the point of view of data management.

Foundation issues for the Chief Data Officer
Published: 21st June 2016 | By: Philip Howard and Jameel Abdul
Discovering, and understanding, your data landscape is a necessary condition for meeting the functional requirements of a CDO.

Self-service data preparation
Published: 16th April 2016 | By: Philip Howard
Data preparation is the meat in the sandwich between data sources on the one hand and business intelligence, analytics and visualisation on the other.

Moving to the Cloud
Published: 17th September 2015 | By: Philip Howard
Which comes first, the cloud or the application/technology? In our opinion there is only one answer to this question.

Streams, events and analytics
Published: 15th September 2015 | By: Philip Howard
Stream processing is enjoying a resurgence thanks to big data and the emergence of the Internet of Things.