One of the comments that we frequently hear during our conversations with enterprise data scientists and data experts is that they spend (too) much of their time completing tactical projects to simply access some of their data sources. As a…

Andy Palmer to speak at the Chief Data Officer Summit in San Francisco on May 22nd, 2014. Most companies leverage less than 10% of their own data. Often, this data can be siloed, incomplete or out of date. To grow…

Three years ago, my partner Mike Stonebraker was working on a research project at MIT to test the boundaries of data integration and curation. Mike and his fellow researchers wanted to see if it was possible to connect thousands or…

(In this entry, I explain the three generations of data integration products and note what appears to have caused the transitions between the product families.) In the 1990s, data warehouses arrived on the scene. Led by the major retailers, customer-facing…