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... A LOT OF THE COMPANIES IN THE REGION ARE STILL USING LEGACY DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES WHICH WERE GOOD FOR THE DATA PROBLEMS WE HAD 20 YEARS AGO ( MOSTLY STRUCTURED TRANSACTIONS , NOT THAT BIG SCALE WISE , AND MOST QUESTIONS COULD SIMPLY BE ANSWERED BY SQL )... enterprises in terms of helping businesses build a modern architecture i order to make analytics pervasive across their organisation ? We see a data revolution taking place , not that dissimilar from the industrial revolution . During the industrial revolution we used machines to create things ( e . g . carpets , utensils , etc .). Countries and companies that figured out how to leverage the industrial revolution prospered and became www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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