Eric Kavanagh

With budgets now tightening across corporate America, and the era of easy money a fast-fading memory, the time is nigh for achieving a long-sought goal in the world of business intelligence and analytics: closing the loop. As far back as 2001, at data warehousing firms like my old haunt of Daman Consulting, we touted the […]

Did someone tell your data to shelter in place? That wouldn’t make any sense, would it? Ironically, for vast troves of valuable enterprise data, that might as well be the case, because massive, compute-bound data silos are practically everywhere in the corporate world. Hadoop played a role in creating this scenario, because many large organizations […]

The best carpenters make the fewest chips.  ~ English proverb, c.1500s Waste not, want not. This classic cliché keeps us all on notice, that frugality will pay dividends in more ways than one; and that frivolous behavior will not foster good fortune. Carpenters understand this truism intrinsically, because they simply must. In the business of […]

“Make it so!” Such is the ideal scenario for every manager everywhere, right? You have an idea? You figured it out? Just assign that task to a trusted colleague and watch as the magic happens. Well, maybe that’s a reality best expressed in a famous sci-fi TV series, but … … the best news these […]

Around and around and around it goes … where it stops, nobody knows! At least not until now. “It,” of course, is data, and its mechanism of transport has long been the tried-and-relatively-true practice of extract, transform, load, aka ETL. That’s now finally changing. Granted, there have been other ways of moving data: Change data […]