Author: Lynda Partner

2018 has been a momentous year for data. Not only has the overall importance of data and information within organizations continued to grow, but we’ve also seen the continued rise of megatrends like IoT, big data – even too much…

Not loving your data? You’re not alone. Accessing corporate and external data to gain insight and get ahead is critical—but it isn’t easy. One source claims 90 percent of digital information is unstructured and locked in siloed repositories, meaning departments…

A Twitter user recently turned to the platform to issue an appeal to her bank: “Please don’t send me emails asking if I’m ready to buy a house ten minutes after emailing me an overdraft notice.” That one tweet neatly…

Whether or not the data warehouse is dying or just in need of a major overhaul is a matter of opinion. But what we do know is that traditional data warehouses are challenged to deliver on new and emerging technology…

Everyone knows that data scientists are in high demand and recruiting them is very challenging these days, especially if you’re not a huge sexy brand-name company. What are these data scientists looking for in a company and how can you…

We all know the feeling: the new software is finally rolled out after months, or sometimes years, of hard work by your team. Then, instead of the sound of users calling to share how much the new software improved their…

“Plan for 1000 sources of data” and “Don’t move data any more than you have to.” These were just two of the many interesting best practices shared with a room of IT executives at TDWI’s Orlando analytics leadership summit earlier…

According to the Washington Post, at the end of June the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent a joint alert to the energy sector stating that “advanced, persistent threat actors” — a euphemism for sophisticated foreign hackers —…

A dispatch from the Love Your Data conference 2017, NY When we first came up with Pythian’s Love Your Data tagline years ago, it was emblematic of the core value we delivered to customers. We were well established as a…

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