Blogs - Avalon Consulting, LLC
Data integration is one of the most familiar and difficult business challenges. For years, we have invested in technologies that are inflexible by modern standards, but today’s demands for agility and volume cannot be met by yesterday’s systems and strategies. Due to the vast accumulation of data in legacy systems and the fragmentation of data […]
How NoSQL complements traditional relational databases I like working with traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS). There is something elegant about good table design and the physical implementation of a database. I like running SQL statements and looking at data along with figuring out how to get specific result sets. I’m not sure why this […]
Lucene was ‘born’ in 1999, created by Doug Cutting; and in 2005, it became a top-level Apache project. That year, Gartner Group announced that the search ‘Leaders’ platforms on their Enterprise Search Magic Quadrant included Autonomy, FAST, Endeca, IBM Omnifind, and Verity. The Google Search Appliance was right on the cusp between ‘Challengers’ and ‘Leaders’. […]
Organizations have now spent years moving to agile development. In many ways, that has been a positive movement. Anything that focuses on delivering the highest priority items first is a good thing. And having something ready to deploy at the end of each sprint is a huge improvement over waiting for 6 months or more […]
Avalon Consulting, LLC transforms data investments into actionable business results through the visioning and implementation of Big Data, Web Presence, Content Publishing, and Enterprise Search solutions. We are the trusted partner to over one hundred clients, primarily Global 2000 companies, public agencies, and institutions of higher learning.
Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Avalon also maintains offices in Austin, TX; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; St, Louis, MO; and Washington, DC.