Dipping into Data Lakes
Infor Tech TV is an interactive service provided by Infor for learning about Infor enterprise technologies with the topic of the day in this session being Data Fabric. This Infor webinar explains the difference between Data Lakes, Data Fabric, and Data Warehouses. Infor admitted that as frequently as they release software, they also release a whole raft of new names for things. When new functionality is introduced, the original name may not give a rich enough explanation, so data lake grew into data fabric which represents MORE. And Infor data warehouses remain an important part of the overall data strategy and should be used alongside data lakes, but they ring-fence specific data.
In the middle of all this, Infor offer ways to pull data from these data sources, (lakes, warehouses, and fabric) to extract and process the data downstream, and locally, with tools that integrate to BI to give actual insight instead of raw data.
For those more technically minded this webinar digs far deeper into the storage and use of data: HERE
Some other useful resources that define the differences between data lakes, data warehouses, data fabric and other cloud data terms, in slightly less academic and technical terminology:
· Data Lakes versus Data Warehouses
And this interview with Joseph Pascaretta and Massimo Capoccia discusses how Infor harnesses the power of data and AI.