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10 Tips for Optimising Your Legacy Systems
How Can We Improve Our Legacy Systems? Optimising your legacy systems is crucial to ensuring your business remains competitive. A legacy system, while integral to many businesses’ operations, can quickly become a bottleneck if not properly managed. Below are 10...
Implementing CI/CD in Your Data Warehouse: The Future of Data Management
Implementing CI/CD in Your Data Warehouse: The Future of Data Management As businesses continue to evolve, the need for efficient and reliable data management becomes increasingly critical. Traditional data warehousing approaches are no longer sufficient to handle...
How Can We Improve Our Legacy Systems?
How Can We Improve Our Legacy Systems? Businesses often find themselves struggling with outdated technology – commonly known as legacy systems. While these systems were once the backbone of operations, they can now be a significant barrier to growth. Improving...
The Risks of Ignoring Legacy System Modernisation
The Risks of Ignoring Legacy System Modernisation Clinging to outdated systems can be a signficant barrier to growth and innovation. While legacy systems may seem reliable and familiar, ignoring their modernisation can expose your business to a variety of risks. ...
We’re going to Big Data LDN 2024!
We're Going to Big Data LDN 2024! We are thrilled to announce that we will be at Big Data London this year! And to make things even better, we are exhibiting with our long-term partner WhereScape! Combining Engaging Data’s bespoke consultancy services with...
Why Modernise Legacy Systems?
Why Are Legacy Systems Still in Use? Legacy systems: things from history books. Well, that's how it should be, unfortunately it isn't. Within technology, a legacy system is any outdated computing software or hardware that is still in use. Despite their age,...
Optimise Your Use of Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
Optimise Your Use of Data Lakes and Data Warehouses Managing vast amounts of information efficiently is crucial. Optimising your data lake or data warehouse can lead to significant improvements in performance and cost savings. But beyond these benefits, there is a...
Why Are Legacy Systems Still in Use?
Why Are Legacy Systems Still in Use? The persistence of legacy systems in many organisations is very puzzling to see. These outdated computer systems, software, or applications continue to operate within numerous businesses despite the availability of...
Data Vault vs. Data Warehouse: Key Differences and Benefits
Data Vault vs. Data Warehouse: Key Differences and Benefits Within data management, two terms often come up: Data Vault and Data Warehouse. While both are crucial for organising and storing data, they serve different purposes and have unique advantages. This blog...
Legacy Systems are Killing Your Business
Legacy Systems are Killing Your Business Legacy systems are outdated software and hardware that remain in use, despite new alternatives being available. These systems often form the backbone of business operations. However, as technology evolves, the limitations of...
The Impact of Outdated Technology on Modern Businesses
The Impact of Outdated Technology on Modern Businesses Technology evolves at a breakneck pace, and what was once cutting-edge can quickly become obsolete. Have you ever wondered how your outdated technology affects your business today? Well, luckily for you that's...
Powering Data Innovation: Engaging Data and Databricks Partnership
Powering Data Innovation: Engaging Data and Databricks Partnership Collaboration is key to unlocking the full potential of information. Today, we are excited to shed light on the partnership between us, Engaging Data and Databricks! A partnership poised to redefine...
The Power of Data Vault: Advantages for the Modern Business
The Power of Data Vault: Advantages for the Modern Business Businesses face the challenge of managing vast amounts of data effectively while adapting to ever-changing business needs. Traditional data modelling techniques often fall short in addressing these...
Is Kimball Data Modelling Dead
Is Kimball Data Modelling Dead? Are you still relying on traditional data warehousing approaches, like Kimball, to manage your data? If so, it's time to rethink your strategy. The truth is, traditional data warehousing is no longer sufficient for today's complex data...
Balancing Innovation and Legacy Systems: Striking the Right Harmony
Balancing Innovation and Legacy Systems: Striking the Right Harmony Businesses find themselves standing at a crossroads, torn between the allure of innovation and the comfort of legacy systems. It's a delicate dance, akin to walking a tightrope between embracing the...
When Should You Hire a Data Consultant?
When Should You Hire a Data Consultant? Businesses of all sizes are drowning in data. It is everywhere – sales figures, customer information, market trends, and more. But having all this data is useless if you don't know what to do with it. This is where a data...
The Misconceptions about Data Vault
The Misconceptions about Data Vault Data Vault methodology is a game-changer in the realm of Data Warehousing. Its agile and scalable design offers businesses unparalleled flexibility in managing and analysing data while ensuring its integrity remains intact. Common...
5 Ways Legacy System Reviews Boost Business Efficiency
5 Ways Legacy System Reviews Boost Business Efficiency Legacy System Reviews play a pitvotal role in driving business efficiency by identifying areas for improvement and optimising. This blog post explores 5 ways Legacy system Reviews can boost business efficiency...
Overcoming Data Storage Challenges: Embracing Data Vault
Overcoming Data Storage Challenges: Embracing Data Vault The landscape of data management is continually changing, with this, businesses are constantly challenged to find efficient, secure and scalable solutions to store and manage their volumes of data. Traditional...
From Outdated to Outstanding: How Legacy System Reviews Boost Efficiency
From Outdated to Outstanding: How Legacy System Reviews Boost Efficiency Businesses are constantly striving to stay ahead of the curve. For CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, and Heads of Data, this means more than just keeping up with the latest trends – it means ensuring that...
Understanding the Significance of ISO Certification: What it Means for You
Understanding the Significance of ISO Certification: What it Means for You ISO Certification is a globally recognised standard that outlines the criteria for a quality management system (QMS). It is awarded to organisations that demonstrate their ability to...
Reviewing Your Legacy Systems: Enhancing Your Business’ Future
Reviewing Your Legacy Systems: Enhancing Your Business' Future Legacy systems are like old houses with creaky floors and outdated plumbing., They might have served their purpose in the past, but as time goes by, they become more of a liability, in need of renovation...
Unlocking the Data Vault: A Detailed Exploration
Unlocking the Data Vault: A Detailed Exploration Mastering the principles of Data Vault methodology is indispensable for organisations seeking to stay ahead in modern data architecture. This blog post dives deep into Data Vault, offering insights into its core...
Embrace the Freedom to Experiment and Innovate with CI/CD
Embrace the Freedom to Experiment and Innovate with CI/CD Join us for our next Engaging Data Bites session where we’ll uncover the untapped potential of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for data modellers, data engineers and data nerds! In this...
The Pitfalls of Relying on Legacy Systems in Financial Services
The Pitfalls of Relying on Legacy Systems in Financial Services The financial services sector finds itself at a crossroads. While legacy systems have served as the backbone of operations for decades, their limitations are becoming increasingly evident. This blog...
Uncovering Legacy Systems: A Guide for Organisations
Uncovering Legacy Systems: A Guide for Organisations Legacy systems refer to outdated technology, and infrastructure, including hardware and software, that organisations continue to rely on despite the availability of more modern alternatives. These systems are...
How U.S. Lumber Nailed Modernising Their Legacy System
How U.S Lumber Nailed Modernising Their Legacy Systems with WhereScape: Engaging Data Bites Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-expanding volume of data in your organisation? Do you find yourself bogged down by manual data processes that hinder your team's...
Navigating the Business Problem: Legacy Systems and Resistance to Change
Navigating the Business Problem: Legacy Systems and Resistance to Change Within the rapidly evolving business landscape, the reliance on legacy systems presents a significant challenge for organisations striving to stay competitive within financial services. ...
Data Modelling is Not a One-Man Job: Engaging Data Bites
Data Modelling is Not a One-Man Job: Engaging Data Bites Unlock the Power of Teamwork in Data Modelling! Struggling to scale up your data modelling efforts? Feeling overwhelmed with the idea of tackling it alone or with a small team? Don't let limited resources...
Legacy System Survival Guide: The C-Suite Checklist
Unlock the potential of your legacy systems with our C-Suite Checklist. Navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and future-proof your infrastructure with strategic insights. Download our whitepaper, From Legacy to Leading Edge, for expert guidance.