Applying Hybrid Operational/Analytic Processing (Hoap) in the Real World

With data coming from so many different sources nowadays (both old and new, both internal and external), it is inevitable that data will arrive in many different structures, schema, and formats, with other variables for latency, concurrency, and requirements for storage and processing. When data types are extremely diverse and combined, we now call it “hybrid data.” This usually drives users to deploy many types of databases and different platforms to capture, store, process, and analyze the data, which in turn results in hybrid data management architectures.

When organizations need to move quickly to launch new, digitally transformed applications that rely on terabytes (if not petabytes) of data, they cannot afford to wait for legacy database management systems to catch up. Cloud computing platforms give organizations the ability to stand up systems quickly, but if the data layer cannot offer the linear scalability, low latency, high availability, performance, fault tolerance, security, and agility needed for today’s 24/7 applications, organizations will never realize their objectives.

• The top ten strategic data and analytics technology trends and what they enable. How these trends enable you to build an intelligent and emergent data and analytics portfolio of capabilities that scale to the needs of digital business. Why these trends are growing and having an impact now. How these trends will change your organization, data and analytics program and skills needed. Strategic technology trends have significant disruptive potential over the next 5 years. You must examine your business impacts of these trends and appropriately adjust investments, business models and operations or else your company is at risk of losing competitive advantage to those who do. Data and analytics leaders cannot afford to ignore these 2019 top data and analytics trends.

Data pipelines facilitate information flows and data exchange for a growing number of operational scenarios, including data extraction, transformation, and loading ETL into data warehouses and data marts, data migrations, production of BI reports, and application interoperability. When data engineers develop data pipelines, they may devise a collection of tests to guide the development process, but ongoing tests are not often put in place once those pipelines are put into production.