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Real-time data integration serves up freshest reporting, analytics
Data coming and going behind a curtain of computing obscurity presents problems. If companies can’t gauge recent changes, they may miss something crucial. If they can’t direct data sets to the right targets, they could lose valuable insight. Integration and analytics tools can squint through the shroud and provide constant data intelligence.
Sweeping all data into one data lake is where big data failure rates to the tune of 70 percent come from, according to Anthony Brooks-Williams (pictured, right), chief executive officer of HVR Software Inc. Companies need to be smart about where they store their data — for availability, analytics, etc. This is where HVR’s real-time data-integration software can help.
“It’s very efficient at capturing data once and then sending to to many [targets],” Brooks-Williams said. It also captures changes to data as they happen so that users can make decisions based on the freshest data.
Brooks-Williams and Paul Specketer (pictured, left), enterprise data architect at Suez Water Technologies and Solutions, spoke with John Walls (@JohnWalls21), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren (@jpwarren), chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. They discussed the benefits of intelligent, real-time data integration. (* Disclosure below.)
Cha-cha-changes for BI cha-ching
Suez uses HVR for consolidated reporting and to move data around before it hits the extract, transform, load stage. In the past, capturing recent changes to data required database triggers and special programs written just for the purpose.
“That all goes away when you do log-based data replication,” Specketer said. “For us, we changed our whole strategy and we said, ‘You know what, just take everything from the [enterprise resource planning], move it up into the cloud, and then from there, move it where you need to process the ETL and ship it around.'”
HVR’s change data capture feature captures changes to data and sends them across the network.
“The board level are making decisions on their business with the freshest numbers that are sitting in front of them at that time,” Brooks-Williams concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. (* Disclosure: HVR Software Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HVR nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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