For decades, enterprise data infrastructure focused on answering the question: “What happened in our business?” Business intelligence tools, data warehouses, and pipelines were built to surface ...
These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused by the COVID-19 crisis are felt far and wide, and the world's economies have taken a staggering blow. As with most things in ...
Everybody my age wanted to be an archeologist. I used to look out of the windows of our 1967 Buick Skylark hoping I'd spot dinosaur skeletons when we went for Sunday drives. (This was on the south ...
Ever since the introduction of the Google Knowledge Graph, a growing number of organizations have adopted this powerful technology to drive efficiency and effectiveness in their data management.
The information businesses have in their possession is more than just a collection of files sitting on a server or in the cloud—it's the lifeline that provides the context and insight to achieve ...
The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of ...
Knowledge graphs are reshaping how we organize and make sense of information. By connecting data points and revealing relationships between them, these powerful tools are transforming industries, from ...
It’s not an accident that data is the bedrock of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid made famous by Russell Ackoff in 1989. That expresses the common conviction that data are the ...
Although federal EHR technology investments had disappointing results, they were necessary to start digitizing the nation's health care data and set the stage for a promising future. An architecture ...