Irfan Ahmed

Businesses are increasingly adopting a data-driven culture. The significant surge in the volume of the exchanged data indicates that the trend is creating a paradigm shift – a shift from manufacturing to an information economy.

PDF (portable document format) files were developed in the early 1990s to enable different platforms and software tools to share documents with a fixed layout of text and graphics. Since PDFs are independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems, […]

If Shakespeare was an IT manager, the famous question ‘To be, or not to be’ would have been ‘To build or to Buy.’ In fact, the phenomenon of DIY-ing something or buying a commercial product is not only limited to […]

Astera Centerprise has been verified for IBM’s ‘Ready for Data and AI’ validation program. 

ELT process complementing traditional ETL approach for improved performance and agile results Introduction ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and ELT (Extract, Load and Transform) are two approaches to data manipulation that are often mistaken for substitutes. The situation in which either […]

Businesses collect data from disparate sources in a variety of formats. To make sense of this data and extract value out of it, enterprises employ different data integration tools that bring data at one place for transforming and loading to […]

Clean and accurate data is the foundation of an organization’s decision-making processes.

It was a particularly happening year for Astera Software as our team attended TDWI Anaheim and Big Data Toronto conferences. The focus of the conferences was to bring data professionals together and promote discussions that can pave the way for future technologies and advancements in the data management domain.