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A Deep Dive into the Core Metrics of the Java Virtual Machine
By Eugen Paraschiv
Overview of JVM Metrics
In this article, we'll cover how you can monitor an application that runs on
the Java Virtual Machine by going over some of the critical metrics you need
to track. And, as a monitoring tool, we'll use Stackify Retrace, a full APM
solution.
The application we'll monitor to exemplify these metrics is a real-world Java
web application built using the Spring framework. Users can register, login,
connect their Reddit account and schedule their posts to Reddit.
How JVM Memory Works
There are two important types of JVM memory to watch: heap and non-heap
memory, each of these with its own purpose.
The heap memory is where the JVM stores runtime data represented by allocated
instances. This is where memory for new objects comes from, and is released
when the Garbage Colle... (more)
DevOps and the Age of Cloud Craftsmanship
Five years ago development was seen as a dead-end career, now it's anything
but - with an explosion in mobile and IoT initiatives increasing the demand
for skilled engineers. But apart from having a ready supply of great coders,
what constitutes true ‘DevOps Royalty'? It'll be the ability to craft
resilient architectures, supportability, security everywhere across the
software lifecycle.
In his keynote at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Jeffrey Scheaffer, GM and
SVP, Continuous Delivery Business Unit at CA Technologies, will share his
vision about the true ‘DevOps Royalty' and how it will take a new breed of
digital cloud craftsman, architecting new platforms with a new set of tools
to achieve it. He will also present a number of important insights and
findings from a recent cloud and DevOps study - outlining the synergie... (more)
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The ‘Known Unknown' of Big Data in IoT: How Big Will Your Data Grow and By
When?
IoT is at the core or many Digital Transformation initiatives with the goal
of re-inventing a company's business model. We all agree that collecting
relevant IoT data will result in massive amounts of data needing to be
stored. However, with the rapid development of IoT devices and ongoing
business model transformation, we are not able to predict the volume and
growth of IoT data. And with the lack of IoT history, traditional methods of
IT and infrastructure planning based on the past do not apply either.
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In his session at @ThingsExpo, Swen Conrad, CEO of Ocean9, Inc., discussed
key cloud concepts and how they enable your successful IoT initiative
providing flexibility and elasticity to your IT infra... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that MobiDev, a client-oriented software
development company, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud
Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MobiDev is a software company that develops and delivers turn-key mobile
apps, websites, web services, and complex software systems for startups and
enterprises. Since 2009 it has grown from a small group of passionate
engineers and business managers to a full-scale mobile software company with
over 200 developers, designers, quality assurance engineers, project managers
in house, specializing in the world-class mobile and web development.
The company's main focus is saving the time and efforts of clients by
providing full-cycle product development, offering dedicated project teams
for long-term collaborations... (more)
22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, is co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo and will
feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced
by a majority of enterprises of all sizes.
Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality
of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid
cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS -
software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts
that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital
transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital
transformation economy."
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEX... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named "Media
Sponsor" of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June
5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads,
potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather
competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and
services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great
deals to great conferences, helping you discover new conferences and increase
your return on investment.
For more information, visit http://conferenceguru.com/.
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8,... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Evatronix will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st
International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Evatronix SA offers comprehensive solutions in the design and implementation
of electronic systems, in CAD / CAM deployment, and also is a designer and
manufacturer of advanced 3D scanners for professional applications.
For more information, please visit http://evatronix.com.
"Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the
IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the
expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP
of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview
at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention
Center in Santa Clara, CA.
21... (more)
CloudExpo | DXWorldEXPO have announced the conference tracks for Cloud Expo
2018, introducing DXWorldEXPO.
DXWordEXPO, colocated with Cloud Expo will be held June 5-7, 2018, at the
Javits Center in New York City, and November 6-8, 2018, at the Santa Clara
Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorld
Expo within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on
being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable
transformation if they plan to survive over the long term.
A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of
business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout
enterprises of all sizes.
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York
(June 5-7, 2018, Javits Center, Manhattan)
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEXPO 2018 Silicon Valley... (more)
SAP HANA was released as a work in progress. Tenants could leverage the
increased speed of the HANA database immediately, but had to wait for the
updated SAP S/4HANA applications to be released. Each release has allowed
applications to more fully harness HANA, creating new, compelling reasons to
migrate for a range of use cases.
With the S/4HANA 1709 release, SAP has taken yet another step toward creating
a complete product, with substantial benefits over Suite on HANA for most use
cases. As with any ERP software, there will be future improvements and
innovations, but at this point upgrading to S/4 is a worthwhile investment
for nearly every landscape still on SAP ECC or Suite on HANA.
New Functionality in the S/4HANA 1709 Release
SAP S/4HANA 1709 provides brand new functionality in a range of sectors and
industries, including manufacturing, finance, shipping, commodi... (more)
Cloud Evolution
In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of
IBM Cloud Infrastructure, will lead you through the exciting evolution of the
cloud. He'll look at this major disruption from the perspective of
technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all
sizes.
Speaker Bio
John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In
that role he is responsible for leading IBM's public cloud infrastructure
including strategy, development, and offering management. To date, IBM has
launched more than 50 cloud data centers that span the globe. He has been
building advanced technology, delivering "as a service" solutions, and
managing infrastructure services for the past 20 years.
John joined IBM in 2015 as the Vice President of the IBM Cloud Innovation Lab
where he was responsible for the archit... (more)
Attendees at the upcoming Cloud Expo | @ThingsExpo at the Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, Oct 31-Nov 2, will find fresh new
content in a new track called Enterprise Cloud & Digital Transformation.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts
that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital
transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital
transformation economy."
Gaining a better understanding of customers and acting upon this information
is the foundation of Digital Transformation (DX) in the enterprise. Applying
the latest technologies in this area is the key to driving new topline
revenue opportunities.
Global 2000 companies have more than US$40 trillion in annual revenue - more
than 50% of the world's entire GDP. The Global 2000 spends a total of US$2.4
trillion annually on enterpri... (more)
@CloudExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  "Space Monkey by Vivent Smart Home is a product that is a distributed cloud-based edge storage network. Vivent Smart Home, our parent company, is a smart home provider that places a lot of hard drives across homes in North America," explained JT Olds, Director of Engineering, and Brandon Crowfeather, Product Manager, at Vivint Smart Home, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 31, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,934 | By Liz McMillan  DevOps is under attack because developers don’t want to mess with infrastructure. They will happily own their code into production, but want to use platforms instead of raw automation. That’s changing the landscape that we understand as DevOps with both architecture concepts (CloudNative) and process redefinition (SRE).
Rob Hirschfeld’s recent work in Kubernetes operations has led to the conclusion that containers and related platforms have changed the way we should be thinking about DevOps and... Dec. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,496 | By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great deals to gre... Dec. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,762 | By Liz McMillan In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering m... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,855 | By Elizabeth White  Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and systems with limitations. Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning. Dec. 29, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,577 | By Elizabeth White  The next XaaS is CICDaaS. Why? Because CICD saves developers a huge amount of time. CD is an especially great option for projects that require multiple and frequent contributions to be integrated. But… securing CICD best practices is an emerging, essential, yet little understood practice for DevOps teams and their Cloud Service Providers. The only way to get CICD to work in a highly secure environment takes collaboration, patience and persistence. Building CICD in the cloud requires rigorous ar... Dec. 29, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,408 | By Liz McMillan  "Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 29, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,927 | By Pat Romanski  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ... Dec. 28, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,923 | By Liz McMillan  "ZeroStack is a startup in Silicon Valley. We're solving a very interesting problem around bringing public cloud convenience with private cloud control for enterprises and mid-size companies," explained Kamesh Pemmaraju, VP of Product Management at ZeroStack, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 23, 2017 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,698 | By Elizabeth White  Large industrial manufacturing organizations are adopting the agile principles of cloud software companies.
The industrial manufacturing development process has not scaled over time. Now that design CAD teams are geographically distributed, centralizing their work is key. With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled industrial team agility, time-to-market milestones, and impacted P&L; stakeholders. Dec. 23, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,813 | By Elizabeth White  Enterprises are adopting Kubernetes to accelerate the development and the delivery of cloud-native applications. However, sharing a Kubernetes cluster between members of the same team can be challenging. And, sharing clusters across multiple teams is even harder.
Kubernetes offers several constructs to help implement segmentation and isolation. However, these primitives can be complex to understand and apply. As a result, it’s becoming common for enterprises to end up with several clusters. Thi... Dec. 21, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,534 | By Pat Romanski  "Infoblox does DNS, DHCP and IP address management for not only enterprise networks but cloud networks as well. Customers are looking for a single platform that can extend not only in their private enterprise environment but private cloud, public cloud, tracking all the IP space and everything that is going on in that environment," explained Steve Salo, Principal Systems Engineer at Infoblox, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventio... Dec. 20, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,774 | By Liz McMillan  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, James Henry, Co-CEO/CTO of Calgary Scientific Inc., introduced you to the challenges, solutions and benefits of training AI systems to solve visual problems with an emphasis on improving AIs with continuous training in the field. He explored applications in several industries and discussed technologies that allow the deployment of advanced visualization solutions to the cloud. Dec. 20, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,837 | By Pat Romanski  The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent, it’s a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that intelligence. In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer Officer at Ayasdi, provided a tactical framework to become a truly intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to oper... Dec. 19, 2017 04:15 PM EST Reads: 2,657 | By Elizabeth White  "IBM is really all in on blockchain. We take a look at sort of the history of blockchain ledger technologies. It started out with bitcoin, Ethereum, and IBM evaluated these particular blockchain technologies and found they were anonymous and permissionless and that many companies were looking for permissioned blockchain," stated René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventi... Dec. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,964 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it... Dec. 18, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,904 | By Elizabeth White 22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud ... Dec. 18, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,799 | By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage the full benefits of the cloud," explained Alex Brower, VP of Marketing at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clar... Dec. 17, 2017 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,874 | By Pat Romanski  Gemini is Yahoo’s native and search advertising platform. To ensure the quality of a complex distributed system that spans multiple products and components and across various desktop websites and mobile app and web experiences – both Yahoo owned and operated and third-party syndication (supply), with complex interaction with more than a billion users and numerous advertisers globally (demand) – it becomes imperative to automate a set of end-to-end tests 24x7 to detect bugs and regression.
In th... Dec. 17, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,953 | By Liz McMillan  Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Dec. 17, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,800 |
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This is the time of year when everyone makes his or her predictions for 2018. I have my predictions as well, but wanted to do something a bit more fun. So I thought I’d look backwards to the state of technology 50 years ago to gain some insights that we can use to make projections about 2018. That is, what “predictions” made in the 1950’s might tell us about 2018.
However, it’s really hard to find predictions about the future made in the 1950’s. There was no Internet or Social Media or Reality TV, so I found the next best proxy…sci-fi movies! I decided to review the most popular sci-fi mo...
Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.
The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out their annual predictions for the coming year. Copying off since 2012, rather than thinking up my own, I figured I’d regurgitate what many others expect to happen.
Top 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Infosec Institute kicks off this year’s Top 10, Top 10 list with a look back at their 2017 predictions (AI, IoT, etc.) and dives head first into 2018 noting that Ransomware will be the most dangerous threat to organizations worldwide; cryptocurrency will attract fraudsters looking to mine; cloud security will (ag...
The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the development process, accelerating application delivery times, and ensuring that developers will become hero...
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently announcing its ambi...
This month, an AI (artificial intelligence) system passed a medical exam in China for the first time. I wonder how its bedside manner will be? In addition, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. With all these rapid advancements, I think it is time we explore the spiritual life of robots.
Up till recently, programmers coded and configured algorithms, AI, automation and machine learning system and took personal responsibility for all the code. Today, however, AI has escaped the confines of human oversight and has been empowered and employed to self-program, self-optimize, ...
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been the subject of much discourse in the last several years. They were widely anticipated in the gaming and entertainment industries, but in marketing and corporate settings, the benefits were murky at best. Today, these technologies are becoming more of a reality in all areas of business.
For example, the new IKEA® shopping app leverages augmented reality to help shoppers determine how certain popular items will look in their homes – no trip to a crowded megastore necessary. Marriott® deployed virtual reality for customers to see its hot...
As we end 2017, I’m tired of writing “lecturing” blogs about what organizations should be doing to master data monetization in order to power their business models and achieve digital transformation. While the objective of every organization should be to master big data and data science (artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning) to drive “data monetization,” let’s take a breath and have some fun.
My recent ankle surgery afforded me the opportunity to binge watch “Game of Thrones.” As I watched the impending battle between the White Walkers and humanity, I couldn’t help but ...
For better or worse, big data has irrevocably altered the digital landscape. The explosion in variety, velocity, volume and value of information presents an abundance of previously unimaginable opportunity. But it also creates a number of challenges that need to be successfully navigated.
This reshaped technical world poses the following question to organizations: do you risk presenting, stale, incorrect or erroneous data to your customers? Because, with 2.5 quintillion bytes of data now being created every day, finding a way to manage and harness such potential is a new experience for everyo...
Net Neutrality rules were originally enacted to ensure that all Americans would have equal access to a free and open Internet. We can argue about what Net Neutrality rules did and did not accomplish in a moment, but now I want to explore the most sensational of all the post–Net Neutrality fears: the death of the Internet.
If you’re still reading, you know that the FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality rules (aka the Open Internet) and replace it with the “Restoring Internet Freedom” order. The outcry from the Open Internet camp has been loud, hyperbolic, hypothetical, and mostly based on the fun...
When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be looking at some significant engineering investment.
On-demand, serverless computing enables deve...
“Why incur the expense of generating and collecting all of this IoT data if you’re not going to monetize it?”
Organizations are racing to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT) as the pundits create “visions of sugar-plums dancing in their heads.” McKinsey Global Institute released their study “The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value beyond the Hype” in June 2015 that highlighted the staggering financial value that IoT could create! (See Figure 1.)
Recently I read somewhere this statement – As we end 2017 and look ahead to 2018, topics that are top of mind for data professionals are the growing range of data management mandates, including the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation that is directed at personal data and privacy, the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in enterprise applications, the need for better security in light of the onslaught of hacking cases, and the ability to leverage the expanding Internet of Things.
There is a war a-brewin’, but this war will be fought with wits and not brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that “the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the ruler of the world,” the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet.
Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the surroundings / environment. See the b...
What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities. How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage? Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital business models to capture untapped demand.
So data warehousing may not be cool anymore, you say? It’s yesterday’s technology (or 1990’s technology if you’re as old as me) that served yesterday’s business needs. And while it’s true that recent big data and data science technologies, architectures and methodologies seems to have rendered data warehousing to the back burner, it is entirely false that there is not a critical role for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence in digitally transformed organizations.
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