Monthly Archives: February 2009

a lingua franca for data integration

I’ve said here before that developers should be shielded from the underlying technology of any solution. How else can we focus on what’s really important – delivering a functioning application that solves a real business need? But we also need to work on the language problem. Why should we be forced to juggle a handful [...]

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keeping it real — cloud computing and active data warehousing

We’ve been talking for a while with a prospect interested in data integration delivered through the cloud, and the solution we’re working on is a practical implementation of the “active data warehouse” philosophy. I like how InformationWeek’s Richard Martin once described the whole concept, paraphrasing Teradata’s Stephen Bropst, as: ” ‘activating’ the data in storage [...]

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