2U

Panel discussion by: Mike Ferguson, Independent Analyst, Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies; Gerhard Lennox, Senior Data Engineer, 2U; Stijn (Stan) Christiaens, Co-founder & CTO, Collibra; Arun Dixit, Principal Architect, UST Global.

Denodo customer presentation by Gerhard Lennox, Senior Data Engineer, 2U.

As GetSmarter’s online education system encountered rapid growth, the management team wanted faster deployment and announcements of their newer features and services. In response to that, GetSmarter IT created many microservices targeting business contexts or entities such as enrollment, registration, student portal, user interface, payments, billing, and communications. GetSmarter needed a way to accommodate the many-to-many reporting tool and avoid having to manage multiple database connections. The company needed a solution that would de-clutter the microservice based data architecture and...