Robert Eve

Robert Eve

Robert (Bob) Eve is a data management thought leader who helps users and vendors achieve data-driven success. At Composite Software Bob helped define the data virtualization category and co-authored the first book on Data Virtualization, Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility. Bob has held executive leadership roles at Oracle, PeopleSoft, Mercury Interactive, Cisco, and TIBCO.

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Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI
Data Management

In a GenAI World, Do I Still Need a Data Catalog?

Who doesn’t love a data catalog? When you need several data sets to power a new analysis, you go to the data catalog....

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Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI
Data Management

AI and Graph Data Technology: Why 1 + 1 = Much ...

AI is revolutionizing business models and technology infrastructures. Graph database technology, critical to enabling...

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Data Analytics & BI

Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril

Change Is Upon Us, Will We Change as Well? “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot b...

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Data Management

Why AI Needs Good Semantics, And What to Do Abo...

That’s Just Semantics How often have you heard someone exasperatingly state, “That’s just semantics,” when claiming t...

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Data Management

How to Create Hit Data Products in an AI World

Are Your Data Products Platinum Hits or Just Background Noise I recently attended a Rolling Stones concert here in Si...

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Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytics Governance Fails AI
Data Management

AI for Data Engineering: The Good, The Bad, and...

A tour de force among Western genre movies, with its unrivaled cast featuring Clint Eastwood as “the Good,” Lee Van C...

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Data Management

Part 4: How Data Virtualization-as-a-Service Ad...

Against these forces, traditional data integration approaches, designed for simpler, less competitive times, don’t st...

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Data Management

To Succeed In 2025, Data Engineers Need to Beco...

When asked how he addresses difficult and complex challenges, Microsoft founder Bill Gates replied, “I will always ch...

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Data Management

Is a Data Fabric Still the Path to Frictionless...

Two and a half years ago, in mid-2021, I wrote a blog about data fabrics as a path of frictionless data access, a dat...

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