One of the challenges data warehousing has faced in recent years has to do with the growing volumes of data It has manage. As data volumes have increased, data warehouses find themselves unable to keep up. As a result, organizations are struggling with inconsistent data quality, coupled with the fragmented systems and manual processes that are in place in many of these organizations...

There has been a growing focus towards data-driven innovation as the availability and abundance of data made it possible for enterprises to create new products and services or make significant improvements in their processes. Such innovation has not only helped companies adapt to the changing market and environment but also identify new opportunities that can provide them a competitive edge over its competitors...

In today’s data-driven world, the importance of data as a valued “commodity” is widely recognized. Many organizations across all sectors have come to rely on data as an important element for them to make critically-sound decisions that will impact their organizations. And factoring into these decisions is the data these organizations have. Not necessarily the amount of data they have but more so the quality of such data...

The sobering reality is that most organizations’ data analytics remain in the early phases, at the descriptive and diagnostic levels that tell a “what” and “why” story but for one reason or another, have either not yet reached the crucial “what to do” phase of the story that prescriptive analytics provides or are drawing their own findings and solutions without the rigid process of prescriptive analysis, which only guarantees failure for the organization’s data-driven endeavo

We have previously discussed here how ETL (which stands for extract, transform, load) data processing provides a competitive advantage...