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The Core of Digital Business TransformationForrester recognizes four types of digital business transformation: digital experiences, digital operations, digital innovation, and digital ecosystems. These form the core of a digital transformation that must continue to evolve in response to customer demands if enterprises are to remain competitive.Download this solution brief to learn more about the following:How the rapidly changing world of digital business is affecting the way we handle and store data.What a digital marketplace is and why it is replacing the EDW as the primary business-facing...

Leveraging Data Virtualization To Avoid Cloud PitfallsCompanies are rapidly moving from desktop apps to cloud-based apps, and they’re moving data from physical data centers to cloud-based repositories. These trends show no signs of slowing down; IDG predicts that by 2018, the typical IT department will house most of its apps and platforms in the cloud. Unfortunately, both app migrations and data migrations are fraught with challenges, and companies will need to overcome these challenges if they hope to take full advantage of cloud benefits. 

Enhance your data warehouse with a logical data warehouse, for unbridled agilityBusiness depends on actionable intelligence, and for years this has been furnished by business intelligence tools, which pull the data from a data warehouse. Business stakeholders have come to expect that all of the relevant data is copied to the data warehouse, even if they sometimes have to wait a day for the latest data to arrive. The problem is, some of the newer sources of data, such as data from social media platforms, data from in-process transactions, or raw data about the movement of machines, is just not...