Philip Russom, Ph.D., is senior director of TDWI Research for data management and is a well-known figure in data warehousing, integration, and quality, having published over 550 research reports, magazine articles, opinion columns, and speeches over a 20-year period. Before joining TDWI in 2005, Russom was an industry analyst covering data management at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group. He also ran his own business as an independent industry analyst and consultant, was a contributing editor with leading IT magazines, and a product manager at database vendors. His Ph.D. is from Yale. You can reach him by email (prussom@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/prussom), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/philiprussom).
I recently started work on a new TDWI Best Practices Report with the working title: Deep Analytics with Big Data. The report is a tad schizophrenic, in that it’s really about two things – big data and analytics – plus how the two have teamed up to create one of the most profound trends in business intelligence (BI) today. Let me share some of the thinking behind the schizophrenia. Please reply to this blog to tell me whether this makes sense or not.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 25, 20110 comments
A few days ago, I presented a TDWI Webinar based on my newly published TDWI Best Practices report about “Next Generation Data Integration” (NGDI). Almost three hundred people attended the broadcast, and (with such a large turnout) I got a ton of great questions from the audience about data integration (DI).
I’d like to share some of those questions with you (and my responses to Webinar attendees who asked them), as a way of expanding and clarifying the research findings of the report. If you care about DI, this should be interesting for you.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 19, 20110 comments
This week, we at TDWI produced our third annual Solution Summit on Master Data, Quality, and Governance, again in Savannah, Georgia. Jill Dyché and I moderated the conference, and we lined up a host of great user speakers and vendor panelists. The audience asked dozens of insightful questions, and the event included hundreds of one-to-on meetings among attendees, speakers, and vendor sponsors. The aggregated result was a massive knowledge transfer that highlights most of today’s burning issues in master data management, data quality, and data governance. I’d like to share with you some of the themes and insights that arose at the TDWI Solution Summit.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on March 14, 20110 comments