
Understanding data in hybrid cloud environments
Published: 3rd August 2017 | By: Philip Howard
The first question we address in this paper is what do we really mean when we talk about the hybrid cloud?

The Chief Data Officer: getting the basics right
Published: 26th May 2017 | By: Philip Howard
Before a CDO can think sensibly about what data the business might want to leverage they must get a handle on the data assets that the company already possesses.

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
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
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
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.