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The Visual Design Checklist
This checklist is a guide to creating effective data visualizations and designing for visual dialogue.
The Data Visualization Competency Center™
Data Visualization Competency Center supports the use of effective self-service data visualization by providing best practices, standards and education
Enabling Governed Data Discovery
As business-driven data discovery continues to become fundamental, ensuring data and analytics are trustworthy and protected becomes more important
Solution Brief: iVEDiX
iVEDiX is a true mobile-first platform that focuses on intuitive user interaction to drive engagement
Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption
This paper examines the emergence of Hadoop as an operational data platform, and how complementary data strategies and increasing year-over-year adoption can accelerate consolidation and realize busin
Big Data Total Cost of Ownership: Understanding Hard Costs and Options
This Insight Paper explores the total costs of ownership of a Hadoop environment from a tangible costs perspective.
Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption
Hadoop has been a phenomenon, both as a framework for big data workloads and its operational capabilities.Major initiatives brought Hadoop from its batch-oriented roots to the interactive
Big Data Total Cost of Ownership: Understanding Soft Costs and Options
This Insight paper explores the total costs of ownership of Hadoop Big Data environments from a soft costs perspective – those skills and resources necessary to build, run, and maintain a Hadoop env
Definitive Guide to the Data Lake
This report aims to clarify the data lake concept by combining fundamental data and information management principles with the experiences of existing implementations
How to Keep Your Data Scientist (and Keep Them Happy)
We’ve spent so much time trying to figure out who the data scientist is, that we haven’t yet asked the next logical question: once we find him, how to we keep him?
How to Design for Discovery
Disruptive vendors focus on providing tools that facilitate discovery by design; they provide tools and technology solutions that make the end user more independent. Yet, self-sufficiency doesn’t ha
Overcoming Barriers to Data Virtualization Adoption
This research presents a practicable, independent, and unscripted “cross-talk” to fill information gaps and assist companies in overcoming barriers to data virtualization adoption
Self-Sufficient Data Discovery by Design
Disruptive discovery tools allow companies to truly capitalize on the business process of discovery
Why SQL is the Language of Discovery
While Hadoop is gaining acceptance and adoption as a data management system, SQL has become the key to unlocking the real business value inside new data discovery
Solution Brief: Hortonworks and Microsoft
Hortonworks and Microsoft: Strategic Partnerships in Thriving Hadoop Ecosystems
Understanding Data Abstraction
Data abstraction – or, as it is also referred to, data virtualization (DV) – is being recognized as the popular panacea for centralization, tackling challenges for manageability, consistency, and
Informatica Shows Its Visionary Muscle with Intelligent Data Platform
Informatica unveiled its vision for the Intelligent Data Platform, which recognizes that rapidly increasing sources and forms of data (both internal and external) needed to be leveraged correctly and
Key Considerations for Analytic Solutions for Life Sciences
From pharmaceuticals to global health to the environment, twenty-first century life sciences companies are transforming into data-driven life sciences companies, leveraging vast