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Legos for Data Management
To meet the insatiable demand for data and analytic solutions, teams must innovate to become faster, clean, lean, and consistent in their data management practices. Looking for patterns to modularize the components of a data pipeline and creating a consumable...
A Review of 2023 Meets an Exciting Outlook for 2024
We couldn't be more excited about 2024, but before we move forward let’s look back at all our accomplishments. This year, infoVia announced incredible growth, a new access control pricing model, growing leadership, and a new advisory board as well as new customers and...
Liberate Your Data, Don’t Isolate It!
In times of uncertainty, tendencies are to isolate and restrict access. This goes for our personal lives and applies to our organizations... especially when sensitive information is in play. However, maybe we should consider a radical, alternative approach. Realizing...
September Snow Day: Knowing When to Pivot
Knowing when to hold and when to fold is a crucial skill, not only in life's adventures but also in preparing your business for better data-driven insights using data warehouse and advanced analytics like artificial intelligence. Let me share a personal experience...
Lead, Follow, or Get out of the Way – Navigating the Complexities of Decision-Making with Advisors
It’s a quote originally attributed to Thomas Paine and famously leveraged by General George Patton and Media Tycoon Ted Turner. It sounds easy, but having the confidence to lead requires applied knowledge and experience. Lacking those, it may be wiser to follow...
The Great Data Adventure- When Failure is not an Option
Embarking on the Great Data Adventure is akin to undertaking risky wilderness pursuits like rafting the River of No Return Wilderness or climbing Mt. Borah. Earlier this month, I checked off two items on my personal bucket list with friends. We rafted the River of...
Unveiling the Challenges IT Professionals Face Without Access Control
In today's digital age, IT professionals play a crucial role in managing and securing the vast amount of data within organizations. However, without proper access control measures in place, they encounter a myriad of challenges that can hinder productivity, compromise...
Automatic backing up repository by using batch file
This document explains the complete RED command line example code to automate the backing up repository by using the window batch script. Use the scheduler to back up the 3d repository daily, weekly, monthly or by request. Automatic backing up repository by...
WhereScape 3D DV deployment in Red Repository
This document explains the complete command line example code to automate the wherescape 3d XML mode deployment to red repository through the scheduler by using the batch script. (If you know what this means, congratulations! 🙂 Wherescape 3d DV Model Automation...
When “IT” doesn’t come naturally
I participated in the Society’s Process Consulting Training course at just the right moment. My professional life, previously so successful and smooth-flowing, hit an unexpected bump when my decades-long employment came to an end. Undeterred, I started my own company...
WhereScape Release 2022 New Features
Wherescape December “DevOps” release , this includes new Metadata Ingestion, Model Test Automation workflows, Merge and Compare options, and Performance tweaks PLUS the official launch of Where scape Enablement Packs along with new File Parser...
All you need is Love… and Automation
It’s Valentine’s Day! At the risk of being corny, we’re going to write about love. Which is harder to find? A lifelong relationship or a fantastic data engineer. There are so many opportunities to transform data into practical decision-making in 2022. As such,...
Know what’s Cooler than Magic?
Spoiler Alert: Well, just a one-liner rather; not a plot spoiler at all. So read on without fear… 🙂 Our family took in the new Spider-Man movie this week. A good flick it was, we all agreed. It includes one of my new favorite movie...
Unwrapping WhereScape Red
Part of what makes WhereScape Red such a powerful tool is how it treats metadata. The metadata is used to drive every component of WhereScape Red's GUI and often that is sufficient for business needs. However!Moving beyond the GUI and opening up the WhereScape Red...
High Water Mark Loads
High-Water Mark Loading is a way to optimize your load strategy. Some data sources will have a column such as "update" or "effective" which can be relied on to track when data in the table has been inserted or changed. It is possible to track the latest entry (aka...
Part 3: What is Information – Implications
We want to thank Certus for their guest blog. Part 3 in a 3-part series on revisiting the definition of Information. In this third blog post in a three-part series, we’re exploring the implications of both the definition of information and the...
Part 2: What is Information – Laws of Nature
We want to thank Certus for their guest blog. Part 2 in a 3-part series on revisiting the definition of Information. In this second blog post in a three-part series, we’re exploring the connection between Laws of Nature and...
What is Information? – A Much Needed Revisit
We want to thank Certus for their guest blog. Part 1 in a 3-part series on the Laws of Nature for Information. Every so often it is useful to stop and re-examine our previous ideas and understanding. When we considered some of the challenges faced by the Information...
Using Business Key Collision Codes (BKCC) in WhereScape 3D
infoVia is happy to announce a Business Key Collision Code (BKCC) solution for WhereScape 3D! This is a lightweight change that expands 3Ds automation capabilities to integrate the BKCC column in Data Vault models, enabling greater control of how your vault integrates...
Automated Record Tracking Satellites
A crucial component of any Data Vault is making sure there is a way to identify when data is no longer current. For data sources without a form of inbuilt change tracking, Record Tracking Satellites are going to be required. A Record Tracking Satellite compares...
Implementing Data Vault – How to do it Right and Save $250K-750K
We want to thank Vincent McBurney from MLC Life Insurance and Certus for their guest blog. In this blog post, guest author Vincent McBurney from MLC Life Insurance shares how to implement Data Vault efficiently to save cost. ...
The Great Data Adventure
Who doesn’t love an adventure? Exploring and discovering are filled with mystique and intrigue. That’s part of why I love living here in Idaho. Within minutes of my home we have rivers, trails, mountains, lakes, and slopes begging for our quests to experience and learn from our natural surroundings.
The Power of Data Liberation, not Isolation.
In times of uncertainty, tendencies are to isolate and restrict access. This goes for our personal lives, and also applies to our organizations…especially when sensitive information is in play. However, maybe we should consider a radical, alternative approach.
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