A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]

With the growing interest in the potential business value to be gleaned from “Big Data” or Extreme Information analytics, a new role has been gaining interest: the Data Scientist. The data scientist is a hybrid role encompassing computer science, advanced statistics/mathematics, forensics analytics and other advanced skills, as well as business savvy. The data scientist [...]

More and more organizations are realizing that data integration done RIGHT can be a key differentiator.  But, with the ever-changing integration landscape, how can IT professionals be sure they are taking the right approach?  Has the democratization of integration services thanks to Cloud and SaaS-based services made the lives of business and technology innovators easier, [...]

Thoughts on enterprise data quality Few things get better with time.  Without careful attention your data certainly won’t be one of them. For most organizations, a love/hate relationship exists with their data.  We love that we can draw together information from various systems and use it to see a picture of how effective we’re being. [...]

Business users possess the knowledge of how data is used for certain business processes — such business users are invaluable for examining business data: first, to determine its value in context, and second, to understand how it contributes to intelligence being gathered for the enterprise. Until data is understood in relationships to various systems and [...]