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And the 2017 Cool Vendors Are…
by Svetlana Sicular | June 1, 2017
This is the time of our Cool Vendors season finale — the reports showcasing fascinating technologies and breakthrough ideas are out. The season usually starts in January, when analysts submit...
Hadoop is dead, long live Hadoop!
by Svetlana Sicular | September 29, 2016
This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hadoop. In 2006, we lived in the dark ages of data: Several databases were old news and a single Gartner analyst was...
Centaur Intelligence: Half-Human, Half Machine
by Svetlana Sicular | September 20, 2016
I call the symbiosis of a man and a machine Centaur Intelligence, in which the head is always human: people do at what they excel — curiosity, creativity and compassion....
Balancing Data and Analytics Governance
by Svetlana Sicular | April 26, 2016
If you hear someone saying “D&A” it is not “DNA.” D&A stands for “Data and Analytics.” (Not “Depreciation and Amortization” or “Drug and Alcohol.”)
The term “Information” has been confusing for...
A Secret Sauce of Data Governance
by Svetlana Sicular | February 28, 2016
When Gartner clients ask me how to start data governance, they often expect some magic solution. And they are right — such magic exists: it’s the people. Find others —...
Catalyst Makes You Look Smart: Big Data Analytics for Non-Data Citizens
by Svetlana Sicular | July 24, 2015
Analytics is exploding — it is becoming everybody’s domain, rather than an expert’s domain. The digital economy requires to expand your existing expertise with new knowledge. The digital economy is...
Big Data Is Pregnant with Analytics
by Svetlana Sicular | June 23, 2015
We are at the interesting point: big data time is over. It is now big data analytics time. Many organizations are at the point when they have figured out how...
Two Main Questions about Big Data
by Svetlana Sicular | April 16, 2015
More and more people describe the speed of big data technologies in dog years. In the lightning-fast cadence (“fail fast”), considerations for actual technical professionals who are deploying big data...
What’s Next for Big Data?
by Svetlana Sicular | December 23, 2014
Shortly after joining Gartner, I noticed subtle magic in the air. Not Magic Quadrants – they were too obvious. It was I told you so repeated by many analysts on...
Big Data Is Entering the Age of Aquarius
by Svetlana Sicular | October 23, 2014
Suddenly, I realized: fluids are in, animals are out. The big data ecosystem has given up on its elephants, impalas and pigs in favor of aquatics. Perhaps, the shift started...
