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Data agility or scale: a false choice?

January 3, 2018

Via: CIO

For decades, I have seen corporate data strategy swing back and forth like a digital pendulum.  Centralize – decentralize. Consolidate – federate. Inmon – Kimball. ERP – EUC (end user computing/desktop). Master data management – analytical sandboxes. Data center – cloud. Each swing is a multi-year, multi-million-dollar migration, after which the limits of the new approach often drive the company to reverse direction again.

The forces driving the pendulum are two very real, and seemingly conflicting, business needs. On one hand, businesses need data agility to respond to rapidly evolving opportunities and threats.

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