Building the Unified Data Warehouse and Data Lake – Results of New TDWI Best Practices Research

For years, TDWI research has tracked the modernization and evolution of data warehouse architectures, as well as the emergence of the data lake design pattern for organizing massive volumes of analytics data. The two have recently converged to form a new and richer data architecture. The architecture is fairly new, and not many organizations have embraced it yet, although the majority of respondents to our recent TDWI Best Practices Report survey see it as an opportunity because it provides more options for managing an increasingly diverse range of data structures, end user types, and business use cases.