Philip Russom, Ph.D., is senior director of TDWI Research for data management and is a well-known figure in data warehousing, integration, and quality, having published over 550 research reports, magazine articles, opinion columns, and speeches over a 20-year period. Before joining TDWI in 2005, Russom was an industry analyst covering data management at Forrester Research and Giga Information Group. He also ran his own business as an independent industry analyst and consultant, was a contributing editor with leading IT magazines, and a product manager at database vendors. His Ph.D. is from Yale. You can reach him by email ([email protected]), on Twitter (twitter.com/prussom), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/philiprussom).
A hub should centralize governance, standards, and other data controls, plus provide self-service data access and data prep for a wide range of user types.
By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
I recently spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation, sharing the stage with Informatica’s Scott Hedrick and Ron van Bruchem, a business architect at Rabobank. We three had an interactive conversation where we discussed the technology and business requirements of data hubs, as faced today by data management professionals and the organizations they serve. There’s a lot to say about data hubs, but we focused on the roles played by centralization and self-service, because these are two of the most pressing requirements. Please allow me to summarize my portion of the webinar.
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Posted on July 12, 20160 comments
The trend toward integrated platforms of multiple tools and functions enables broader designs and practices that satisfy new requirements.
By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
Earlier this week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation and moderated by Informatica’s Roger Nolan. I talked about trends in user practices and vendor tools that are leading us toward what I call end-to-end (E2E) data management (DM). My talk was based on three assumptions:
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Posted on June 30, 20160 comments
By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
To help you better understand what data warehouse (DW) modernization is, what variations it takes, who’s doing it, and why, I’d like to share with you the series of 30 tweets I recently issued on the topic. I think you’ll find the tweets interesting, because they provide an overview of data warehouse modernization in a form that’s compact, yet amazingly comprehensive.
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Posted on June 8, 20160 comments
Bigger than ever, with more user speakers and an impressive executive vision for product R&D
By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
I just spent three days attending and speaking at Informatica World 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Compared to previous years, this year’s event was bigger than ever, with over three thousand people in attendance and five or more simultaneous break-out tracks.
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Posted on May 31, 20160 comments
Keep pace with evolving data and data management technologies, plus the evolving ecosystem of firms with whom you do business.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
Earlier this week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation, along with Informatica’s Daniel Rezac and Alan Lundberg. Dan, Alan, and I talked about trends and directions in a very interesting data management discipline, namely business-to-business (B2B) data exchange (DE). Like all data management disciplines, B2B DE is modernizing to keep pace with evolving data types, data platforms, and data management practices, as well as evolving ways that businesses leverage exchanged data to onboard new partners and clients, build up accounts, improve operational efficiency, and analyze supply quality, partner profitability, procurement costs, and so on.
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Posted on April 29, 20160 comments
As data and its management continue to evolve, users should consider a variety of modernization strategies, including data hubs.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
This week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation, sharing the stage with Informatica’s Scott Hedrick. Scott and I had an interactive conversation where we discussed modernization trends and options, as faced today by data management professionals and the organizations they serve. Since data hubs are a common strategy for capturing modern data and for modernizing data integration architectures, we included a special focus on hubs in our conversation. We also drilled into how modern hubs can boost various applications in analytics and application data integration operations.
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Posted on March 29, 20160 comments