Information Architect

Privacy bargain and big data security

Mark Troester — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:33:20 +0000

I recently presented a session on big data at the 13th Annual Privacy and Security hosted by the Province of British Columbia and held in Victoria. There were a number of interesting discussions and presentations that relate to privacy and security ramifications of big data. The discussion was timely given [...]

Introducing SAS Information Management

Mark Troester — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:40:43 +0000

Several of my recent posts have introduced the need for leveraging a strategic approach to information management backed by industry luminaries such as Gartner. Now it’s time to take a look at our definition of Information Management and discuss how it can be used by IT to effectively manage their [...]

#GartnerChat on Big Data

Mark Troester — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:51:53 +0000

I participated in a lively TweetJam discussion sponsored by Gartner last Friday. In addition to learning that the iPhone twitter app is not the easiest way to read and tweet quickly, there were a number of interesting observations shared by the participants, along with a good bit of humor. We [...]

The end of tactical Data Integration

Mark Troester — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:49:13 +0000

My last post focused on the business and technical aspects that are driving the need for a more strategic approach to managing data and information assets. This post discussed the natural progression from data integration to data management. The data integration market has gone through evolutionary changes over the last [...]

"Outdated Data Management" & the 21st Century

Mark Troester — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:38:46 +0000

Following on my Data Integration is Old News post, we are advising organizations to move to a more strategic way of managing their data, an approach that we refer to as Information Management. Going forward, you can expect to hear much more about this topic from SAS, but I thought [...]

EL-T Technique 1: Batch Loads with Teradata Example

Mike Ames — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:58:23 +0000

This is the first post of a multi-part series on EL-T integration. Lately I’ve been inundated with requests for information about SAS’ ability to do EL-T style (Extract Load then Transform) integration with Data Integration Studio, especially in Teradata shops that use SAS, so we thought it would be useful [...]

Hurwitz on SAS & Big Data: Experience Matters

Mark Troester — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:01:32 +0000

Mike Ames and I recently had an opportunity to talk to Fern Halper and Judith Herwitz from Hurwitz & Associates as they are doing a 4 part blog series on vendor views on big data and big data analytics. You can view Fern's blog post about the SAS perspective here. Here [...]

Data Integration is old news!!

Mark Troester — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:55:57 +0000

This may be controversial coming from someone that has worked with data his entire career, someone that has been involved with software vendors focused on data integration and access for the last 6 years, and someone that is responsible for product marketing for SAS data management capability, but I’ll say [...]

7 keys to high performance data management for advanced analytics

Mark Troester — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:30:12 +0000

Various research efforts and customer conversations clearly indicate that the data exploration and data preparation stage of the analytic lifecycle is complex and time consuming. Scarce data scientist or data analyst resources are spending the majority of their time on data preparation tasks vs. spending their time on deriving insight [...]

Top 10 IT considerations for analytics in 2012

Mark Troester — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:32:00 +0000

It’s hard to believe, but now that 2011 is almost over it’s time to look ahead. The technology pundits are starting to publish their 2012 predictions, and it’s not surprising to see topics like analytics, cloud, big data, mobile, social networking, virtualization, open source on these lists. Instead of creating [...]