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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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
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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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
Data Management

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

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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
Artificial Intelligence

Mind the Gap! Where Traditional Data & Analytic...

If you are among the four million people who ride London’s Tube daily, you are undoubtedly familiar with its ubiquito...

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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
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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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
Data Integration

Is It Time To Rethink How We Connect Our Data A...

Connections is More than a Game I play the Connections game in the New York Times daily (and Wordle, too!).  It's a f...

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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
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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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
Artificial Intelligence

Why Now Is the Time to Move to Data-Centric AI

Model-centric AI Helps You Get Started In The Art of War, Sun Tzu advises, “In all fighting, the direct method may be...

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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
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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Why Can’t We Be Friends? AI Agent Collaboration in Data Engineering
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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