5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Not sure exactly why, but I have read a lot of articles about data storage, data mesh, customer 360, immutable data warehouse and other concepts related to data management this week. I enjoy reading about these approaches, their pros and cons. Especially when it comes from real practitioners. Of course…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — My personal observation from the last couple of months is that more and more companies are shifting the philosophy behind their approach to data. And apparently Doug Laney has seen the same based on his quote in the Forbes article by Randy Bean: “Many senior executives talk about information as…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Human middleware — a term brought to my attention by Lauren Balik’s recent LI post — is about new roles needed to make things work better. She argues that modern data stack is creating a lot of these roles, which are handling complexities not managed by the individual tools. And…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — The image above comes from Bill Schmarzo’s article called The Ugly Truth About Data Management. It is a sad truth that many data infrastructures resemble a Rube Goldberg machine. One taking a relatively straightforward business reality, captured in an incredibly complex (and complicated) way. Not only it prevents an organisation…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — “We have many ideas for how data and analytics can help our company, but the business is not ready yet.” I’m often hearing this from data teams. It could well be an objective fact. I give them that. But it could also be an excuse. Showing the value of data…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Data world is complex and daunting not only for outsiders and newcomers. So many technologies, terms, concepts, architectures, approaches, tools, methods and buzzwords. Sometimes I’m enjoying the variety, sometimes it’s very distracting. I keep finding myself switching between two approaches — going wide and try to get a high-level overview…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Data hasn’t delivered on its promise yet. But in the last couple of years, we have seen a great progress. Also partly thanks to the hype around big data, which fuelled a lot of investment into technology and data companies. These have been helping to educate and influence the market…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — Are the future data tools code-first, low-code or no-code? As ever, there are supporters of all these options. There are advocates (often providers) of no-code or low-code solutions as well as opinions against the no-code solutions or against limitations of the current no-code solutions. And there are also voices rooting…

5 minutes for 5 hours’ worth of reading — I came across a PwC report asking why there is so few CDOs in this ‘age of data’ earlier this week. One of their findings, which makes the low number of CDOs even stranger, is the increasing number of companies talking about data (in their annual reports). This is in…