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Every year when budget time rolls around, many organizations find themselves asking the same question: “what are we going to do about our data?” Organizing scattered and large data sets is one of the top business challenges that companies face, but one that many regularly put off.

The Logical Data Warehouse works by intelligently marrying two distinct technologies to create an entirely new manner of integrating data. The first technology is data federation, which connects two or more disparate databases and makes them all appear as if they were a single database. The second is analytical database management, which provides semantic business-friendly data element naming and modeling, thereby enabling flexible ingestion and modeling options.

For years, businesses and organizations have been relying heavily on data.

By Tim Elfrink, Data Scientist at Vantage AI

De weerstand die plaatsvindt bij innovatie is hetzelfde als in topsport: ‘’als ik nummer twee van de wereld ben, waarom zouden we dan moeten veranderen?  Volgens Marc Lammers, voormalig gouden hockeycoach en nu actief als coach bij verschillende bedrijven,  is dat juist niet de bedoeling: ‘’we moeten constant vernieuwen.’’ Data speelt daar volgens Lammers een grote rol in, want ‘’meten is weten.’’  Vaak ontbreekt er echter een goede samenwerking tussen alle lagen van een organisatie.