Data Virtualization: Selected Writings

With data virtualization, organizations can unlock the data stored in their multitude of databases and systems more easily and more quickly than with most other technologies. It can integrate data from multiple sources and can deliver that data in all kinds of forms and shapes to many different types of data consumption. This book is a bundling of articles, blogs, and whitepapers Rick F. van der Lans wrote on data virtualization and related topics over the last ten years. The author is a highly-respected independent analyst, consultant, author, and internationally acclaimed lecturer specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, database technology, and data virtualization. In 2018 he was selected the sixth most influential BI analyst worldwide by onalytica.com. He has been influential in introducing data virtualization worldwide. In 2012 he published “Data Virtualization for Business Intelligence Systems.”