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Contributor: James Powell


James E. Powell is the editorial director of Upside.com and for the TDWI Business Intelligence Journal and the TDWI BI This Week newsletter.

  


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Q&A: Data Fabric Technologies: Stitching Together Disparate Data for Analytics

Data fabrics can incorporate a wide range of analytics capabilities, including data exploration, business intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning. Jeff Fried from InterSystems tells us what we need to know about the technology.

Executive Q&A: A Closer Look at Open Data Lake Analytics

An open data lake analytics approach will augment (and over time surpass) adoption of data warehousing given the significant long-term strategic benefits it provides to companies, Ahana's Dipti Borkar argues.

Advice for Automating Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics

AutoML can solve many of the problems businesses face, but not all. Democratization of machine learning can make a difference. Adam Carrigan, co-founder and COO of MindsDB, explains.

Q&A: Today's Basic Business Skills Include Reading, Writing, and Data Literacy

A new professor ambassador program focuses on highlighting educators who are training the future generation of workers to help their employers build a data-driven culture for competitive advantage.

Executive Perspective: A Closer Look at Data Literacy

How is the concept of data literacy evolving? Roman Stanek, CEO and founder of GoodData, discusses how organizations need to move beyond last year's model to help users derive more business value from data.

Executive Q&A: Containers and Kubernetes Accelerating Digital Transformation in 2021

Don Foster, vice president, global sales engineering at Commvault, explains how containers free DevOps teams from worrying about tweaking applications for specific environments so they can focus more on development and innovation.

Executive Perspective: Looking Forward to Data Odyssey Year 2021

What does 2021 have in store for data-related technologies? Heine Krog Iversen, founder and CEO of TimeXtender, discusses the data journey in the coming year, including the demand for self-service analytics, and the continued growth of AI and cloud computing.

Why Structured and Unstructured Data Need Different Security Techniques

Data is data is data, right? Not so fast. As Scott Lucas, head of marketing at Concentric, points out, enterprises need more than a one-size-fits-all approach to data security.

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