For years, enterprise companies have been plagued by data silos separating transactional systems from analytical tools—a divide that has hampered AI applications, slowed real-time decision-making, and ...

Open-source database provider MariaDB Corp. is combining its transactional and analytical databases into a single unit and launching a managed service supporting public and hybrid cloud deployments.

Media Horizons Management has bowed EnVision, a consumer database which combines multi-channel transactional information with demographic and lifestyle data. The heart of the database is purchase, ...

Let's kick off 2024 by checking in with the current status of some of Microsoft's more popular database options, like Azure SQL Database, Azure Managed Instance and more. Happy New Year's to my ...

Founder and Managing Principal of DBP Institute. I consult companies on how to transform technology and data into a valuable business asset. Management guru Peter Drucker is often quoted as having ...

Bud Financial uses AI and transactional data in retail banking and wealth management to provide advice and prompts to customers, to measure a customer’s risk and also monitor risk across a financial ...

Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider many factors. Previously, I discussed two important techniques, sharding and partitioning, for gaining greater throughput and ...

After almost seven years, the General Services Administration’s Transactional Data Reporting pilot program is still “flawed” because of inaccurate, unreliable and unusable data, which could cause ...

To acquire and retain customers, savvy retailers simply cannot say, “We have a nice product” or “We have lovely salespeople” or “We’re on the sunny side of the street.” It’s hard work to constantly ...