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Data Deduplication factory

We recently had a discussion with a financial services company which had several concerns about moving to the cloud. But surprisingly, these concerns did not come from the technical staff, but rather their business leaders. "I just don't trust it" was the statement from one of their executives. So, this article is for all those…

Over the last 4 weeks, Intricity hit over 86,000 views on its YouTube channel called Intricity101. The channel covers a wide array of topic including Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Business Intelligence, and other data related topics.

In our previous video we talked about the Discovery Stage which pointed out the data challenges of smaller organizations. In this video, we’re going to cover the Inclusive stage which usually represents companies that are between 100-200 million dollars in size. These organizations are seeking to prioritize inclusiveness in both audience and data sources, and…

About 5 years ago I published a video titled “What’s your data management maturity?” That video has been in many boardroom meetings helping executives make sense of what their data management landscape challenges are. I want to do a refresher on that video by creating a series of 4 or 5 individual videos to dive…

If you’ve seen my video on ETL then you’re aware of the important role these kinds of integration tools play within an organization. However in that video I don’t spend a lot of time talking about ELT. So in this video I’d like to draw a distinction between these two options. ETL stands for Extract…

Raw data, to actionable information. That's ultimately a need in every organization. It’s why we have data governance programs, it's why we spend hours over databases, ETL tools, reports, and analytics. But how you set those processes up really matters. Just like the setup, the assembly line mattered for Ford. Before Ford’s assembly line, every…

There has always been a bit of a no man's land between IT and Business. IT is supposed to know, how to work with data, but the business is supposed to know what the data represents. So we often find that neither knows enough about the data to strategically use it. What we often see…

In 1999 Warren Buffett coined a phrase during an interview that became an “aha moment” for investors. He said, “The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.” In other words having a product or service which is hard for new entrants to replicate is…

Jared Hillam presented to over 1000 people during an Amazon BI Tech Talk. Click here to see the recording of the presentation:

I’m going to rewind the clock to the 7th century During the Tang Dynasty in China. Commerce at that time was done by exchanging coins which had holes in the middle of them. By stringing them together and simply measuring the stack of coins you could make big trades. But obviously this made trade a…

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Data Deduplication factory

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