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Digital Innovation in Data is Business Opportunity
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Data Expertise OverviewVentana Research offers guidance on data and information management to help you expand competencies that will enhance the value of information, through smarter storage, compute, integration, virtualization, governance and preparation to uncover and use new methods for using information effectively.
Blockchain
Collaboration
Collaboration
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Data Governance
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Overview
• Blockchain distributed ledger technology is a shared database of assets and their owners located on multiple nodes (sites) on a network.
Direction
• Emerging distributed ledger technology will expand beyond the Office of Finance.
• DLT serving as a machine-to-machine universal data connector for B2B transactions.
• Blockchain databases will become a critical data source for analytics.
Market Research
• Dynamic Insights: Blockchain (Q4 Launch)
Blockchain
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Overview
• Collaboration provides methods for people to interact digitally on any device for whatever purpose.
Direction
• Social media has condition the market to expect and embrace collaboration.
• Mobile technology provide constant communication and collaboration.
• Collaboration technologies enable more effective use of data throughout the organization.
Market Research
• Benchmark: Big Data for Business (Q1 Launch), Analytics and BI (Q2 Launch)
• Dynamic Insights: Natural Language Processing (Q1 Launch)
• Value Index: Collaborative Analytics (Q1 Release)
Collaboration
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Overview
• Data Governance ensures than an organization’s data can be cataloged, trusted and protected.
Direction
• New data types have been adopted without the requisite data governance in place.
• Data catalogs have made governance “enabling” rather than “disabling.”
• Develop and implement a data governance strategy for all types of data.
Market Research
• Benchmark: Big Data for Business (Q1 Launch)
• Dynamic Insights: Data Governance (Q2 Launch)
Data Governance
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Overview
• Data lakes combines massive storage capabilities for any type of data in any format with the processing power needed to transform and analyze the data.
Direction
• Organizations debate the role of data lakes vis a vis data warehouses.
• Object stores grow as storage platform for data lakes.
• Unstructured data drives polyglot storage architectures.
Market Research
• Benchmark: Big Data for Business (Q1 Launch)
• Dynamic Insights: Data Lakes
Data Lakes
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Overview
• Data Preparation enables organizations to convert data and information into usable formats to maximize the value of analyses and operational use of the data.
Direction
• End users expect to access data sources directly without requiring support from IT.
• Data preparation make data info lifecycle more accessible and valuable to business and IT.
• Establish data preparation for information responsiveness.
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• Benchmark: Data Preparation (Q2 Launch)
Data Preparation
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Overview
• Information Management empowers organizations to manage increasing volumes of data and assemble information for business use.
Direction
• Cloud, IoT and unstructured data drive diverse and distributed data sources.
• Data lakes and data virtualization provide access to these diverse data sources.
• Data lakes provide comprehensive data sets to support analytics and machine learning.
Market Research
• Benchmark: Big Data for Business (Q1 Launch)
• Value Index: Big Data Platforms (Q2 Launch)
• Dynamic Insights: Streaming Analytics (Q1 Launch)
Information Management
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Data Technologies• DBMS• Hadoop• In-memory computing• NoSQL• Spark• Blockchain
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Master Data Management• Enterprise• Customer• Product• Employee
Analytics• Advanced and predictive analytics• Discovery and exploratory• Location and geospatial• Machine data
Content and Text • Extraction and integration• Natural language processing• Presentation and consumption
Event and Stream Computing• Analytics• Integration• Notification and alerts• Visualization
Technology Areas of Focus for Data and Information Mgt
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Benchmark Research• Big Data for Business (Q1 Launch)
• Internet of Things (Q1 Launch)
• Analytics and BI (Q2 Launch)
• Data Preparation (Q2 Launch)
Dynamic Insights• Data Lakes
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing (Q1 Launch)
• Streaming Analytics (Q1 Launch)
• Data Governance (Q2 Launch)
• Data and analytics in the Cloud (Q3 Launch)
• Blockchain (Q4 Launch)
Value Index• Analytics and BI (Released)
• Big Data Platforms (Q4 Launch)
Market Research for Data and Information Management
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The Future of Data is Just Ahead
Achieving Success in Data Requires Change
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Management Research in 2019Setting the annual expertise and topic agenda
David MenningerSVP & Research Director
@ventanaresearch In/ventanaresearchblog.ventanaresearch.com