DoT Blog

As cloud computing adoption continues to grow, so  the need for modern and more efficient business and data integration capabilities. And while many aspects of business and data integration are being simplified and automated, the increasing sophistication of business needs and the requirement of capabilities for performing highly efficient integration continuously are forcing organizations to make continuous calls for new and ongoing digital transformation efforts. In this vein, an interesting news came in just a couple of weeks ago when a partnership between Informatica , a big player in the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and tech giant Google was announced . Of course, the mere fact that two major players in the software industry decide to partner is already something worth to listen to, but the partnership is also particularly interesting because it involves the provision of artificial intelligence(AI)-driven integration services, in an enormous effort from b...

There is probably no bigger dream for a data geek like myself than creating the ultimate data dashboard or scorecard of the world. One that summarizes and enables the analysis of all the data in the world. Well, for those of you who have also dreamt about this, Kalev H. Leetaru , a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber & Homeland Security has tapped into your dreams—and is working on something in this realm. Leetaru, whom some have called “The Wizard of Big Data,” is developing a platform for monitoring and better understanding how human society works. The project called Global Database of Events, Language, or simply The GDELT Project , is an ambitious endeavor created to “crack” the social numbers of the world, and has the aim of improving our understanding of human society. As described by the folks at GDELT: The GDELT Project came from a desire to better understand global human society and especially the connection between communicativ...