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Contributor: Philip Russom


Philip Russom, Ph.D., is director of TDWI Research for data management and oversees many of TDWI’s research-oriented publications, services, and events. Before joining TDWI in 2005, Russom was an industry analyst covering BI at Forrester Research, Giga Information Group, and Hurwitz Group. He also ran his own business as an independent industry analyst and BI consultant and was a contributing editor with leading IT magazines. Before that, Russom worked in technical and marketing positions for various database vendors.

  


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The Disruption of 2020 and the Implications for 2021

Long-term trends in data management and analytics have kept their integrity but with serious adjustments for COVID-19 and associated recession.

The Growing Role of Data Lineage in Modern Data Management

Determining data’s origins and transformations as a way of understanding its business value, trustworthiness, quality, and applicability for specific use case.

Modernizing Your Data Team and Its Best Practices

As you modernize your tools and platforms for data management to keep pace with evolving business requirements, take time to modernize your data team.

Platform Architecture and Data Architecture Are Different but Related

Many people (even experienced data pros) confuse related architectures, weakening data-driven solution designs and their business use cases.

Can the New Thing Replace the Old Thing?

This is an important question to ask about many new IT systems and tools. The answer depends on many factors -- including forming the question properly.

The Evolution of Data Lake Architectures

For data lakes, as with any valuable enterprise data set, architecture is a requirement. But it is also a moving target, due to ongoing evolution.

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