Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

<r>What is big data, really? Despite what the term implies, the definition is not actually about the size of your data. It’s how you use the data. When it comes to data, size is always relative. True, the number of data sources and the amount of information that can be stored and analyzed have incre...

<r>Site selection is the process of assessing the suitability of a potential retail location and forecasting the financial return on that investment. By leveraging objective data and unbiased retail analytics, retailers are able to model the financial performance of potential locations with a high d...

<r>Data integration and enterprise security go hand in hand. When a business decides to integrate data across the organization, it means you commit to ensuring the delivery and the security of that data. And in today’s business environment, there is a lot of data to manage! As a result, planning for...

<r>“COVID-19 has already changed the world forever.” “Our social, economic, and political impacts will be felt for many years to come.” “Our new normal.” These are things we’ve heard over and over, but just what exactly do they mean? While many have already become numb to these expressions, the cons...

<r>Data analytics is ultimately about the insights you can derive from relationships within your data. In a scenario involving sales analytics, for example, most companies would like to better understand the relationship between customers and products. For a more nuanced view, you might prefer to se...

<r>In layman’s terms, data verification and data validation may sound like they are the same thing. When you delve into the intricacies of data quality, however, these two important pieces of the puzzle are distinctly different. Knowing the distinction can help you to better understand the bigger pi...

<r>Data integration has come a long way in the past few decades. In the past, integration was based on ETL processes that used a few skilled developers to fulfill data integration requirements. Fast forward to today and things look quite different. A new dynamic and fluid model of data integration h...

<r>Online shopping has been steadily becoming more popular for several years and has seen a huge increase with the pandemic forcing the temporary closure of brick and mortar stores.  A recently published study by eMarketer shows that US consumers will spend $709.78 billion in 2020 on ecommerce, whic...

<r>For the past three years, Precisely has annually surveyed IT professionals who are responsible for IBM i systems at their companies. When respondents were asked to indicate their organization’s top five IT priorities for the coming year, IBM i system security came up as the most-selected priority...

<r>What forces are driving expanded adoption of data governance programs? Data governance has become a primary concern of companies everywhere. And with good reason – businesses must have strong data governance and data quality management in order to mitigate risks as thoroughly as possible. These r...

<r>On October 22, Precisely held its first Data Integrity Summit. It was a two-hour virtual event filled with exciting presentations and demonstrations from industry leaders. Data integrity is a business imperative Josh Rogers, CEO of Precisely, introduced us to data integrity and its fundamental ro...

<r>Across the world, the impact of COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation initiatives for virtually every industry. In fact, IDC estimates worldwide spending on digital transformation to reach $1.3 trillion this year.¹ However, while data-driven initiatives are a key focus, the products, se...

<r>Data has changed the world. It has opened up new possibilities for products, services, and experiences to which companies, organizations, and governments can create differentiation in the digital economy. Enter data integrity. With spending on “digital transformation” initiatives set to reach $1....

<r>A wave of new innovations is enabling government leaders to implement “smart city” technology to improve services to their citizens, increase energy efficiency, and save money. Municipalities are using Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and improved network connectivity to gather data on traffic, e...

<r>Read any analyst report from 2019, and you learn one thing – over the next three years, enterprises will migrate their database infrastructure to the cloud. However, these reports were published when most authors did not expect what 2020 would have in store for us. So now, as we look to the end o...

<r>In recent years, two important technology trends have converged: big data analytics and location intelligence. Big banks, telecommunications companies, global retailers, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations have all tapped into this combination of big data and location to gain new in...

<r>In virtually every industry, data is playing a more important role than ever before in driving decisions. There are vast increases in the amount of data available, including information that would never have been imaginable in the past (such as mobile trace data). At the same time, the ability to...

<r>Between 2017 and 2019, there were 638,000 claims resulting from hail damage in the state of Texas alone. To make matters more complicated, 50% of hail claims go undetected for up to 18 months. That adds up to significant costs for insurance companies. How can insurers get a clearer picture of pas...

<r>Big data has arrived, and companies seeking a long-term competitive advantage are acutely aware of that fact. A decade ago, businesses that wanted to draw strategic insights from their data were forced to narrow the scope of the questions they were asking because there were hard limits on how muc...

<r>Today’s customer engagement must be omnichannel, personalized, and seamless. For marketers, customer experience, and customer service professionals, that represents a significant challenge. How has customer engagement evolved over time, and what tools do marketers need today to create solid custo...