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As an industry, we’ve gotten exceptionally good at building large, complex software systems. We’re now starting to see the rise of massive, complex systems built around data – where the primary business value of the system comes from the analysis of data, rather than the software directly. We’re seeing quick-moving impacts of this trend across the industry, including the emergence of new roles, shifts in customer spending, and the emergence of new startups providing infrastructure and tooling around data. In fact, many of today’s fastest growing infrastructure startups build products to manage data. These systems enable data-driven decision making (analytic systems) and drive data-powered products, including with machine learning (operational systems). They range from the pipes that carry data, to storage solutions that house data, to SQL engines that analyze data, to dashboards that make data easy to understand – from data science and machine learning libraries, to automated data pipe...

  Data modeling is the procedure of crafting a visual representation of an entire information system or portions of it in order to convey connections between data points and structures. The objective is to portray the types of data used and stored within the system, the ways the data can be organized and grouped, the relationships among these data types, and their attributes and formats. Data modeling uses abstraction to better understand and represent the nature of the flow of data within an enterprise-level information system.  The types of data models include: Conceptual data models. Logical data models. Physical data models. Database and information system design begins with the creation of these data models.  What is a Data Modeling Tool? A data modeling tool enables quick and efficient database design while minimizing human error. A data modeling software helps craft a high-performance database, generate reports that can be useful for stakeholders and create data de...

What Is Mainframe Modernization? Mainframe Modernization entails the process of migrating or improving the IT operations to reduce IT spending efficiently. In the realm of improving, we can define Mainframe Modernization as the process of enhancing legacy infrastructure by incorporating modern interfaces, code modernization, and performance modernization. In terms of migration, it is the process of shifting the enterprise’s code and functionality to a newer platform technology like cloud systems. The strategy employed to modernize Mainframe structures relies on factors like business/customer objectives, IT budgets, and costs of running new technology vs. costs incurred from not modernizing. B enefits of Mainframe Modernization to Cloud Cloud can offer economies of scale and new functions that are not available through mainframe computing. The benefits of cloud technologies and the law of diminishing returns in the Mainframe are calling for an increased demand for migration strate...