We all believe that the traditional enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will evolve from being relational to non-relational within five to 10 years.

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Enterprises with data and information that are presently managed within an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will leverage data integration technologies, such as those offered by large established vendors like Informatica, newly recognized vendors like Hadapt or emerging start-ups like Splice Machine, with whom I spoke this morning, and begin a migration towards Big Data, or Big-Data-like techniques to gain insight, and ultimately business value and innovation from data and information.

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Once all enterprise data was consolidated in a single data warehouse, executives could see, for the first time, what was happening throughout the enterprise.

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The results of the analysis can enable a new class of applications for the enterprise, or can be used to enrich existing data warehouse or master-data implementations.

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