Financial Services Face Delays in Digital Transformation due to Fundamental Data Issues
February 3, 2021 We live in a time when financial institutions, both retail and commercial, have enormous amounts of data on their customers, including Personal Identifying Information (PII), purchasing habits, geographical information and preferential [...]
Data Breaches Continued to Rise in 2019
May 19, 2020 As technology advances and the amount of data world-wide continues to grow, it is no surprise that the two threaten each other. Technology has to advance, change and improve to keep [...]
Data Security Risks and Leveraging Data Value in M&A
Merger and acquisition activity continues to be strong across multiple sectors. The people, processes and technology that one organization acquires when absorbing another, are essential to the purchasing company’s merged value realization and should [...]
Enabling Gartner’s Data and Analytics Predictions for 2020 and Onward
In 2019, a Gartner Blog Post listed their top data and analytics strategy predictions: By 2022, 90 percent of corporate strategies will explicitly mention information as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an [...]
WhamTech CTO Gavin Robertson to Participate in IoT Slam X Conference
DALLAS, TX – Gavin Robertson, CTO of WhamTech, Inc., is participating in an online discussion panel during IoT Slam X Internet of Things Conference on Wednesday, December 11. The panel, scheduled at 3:15 p.m. [...]
Lack of Interoperability is the Biggest Operational Burden for Healthcare Organizations in 2019
June 27th, 2019 The lack of healthcare interoperability is the biggest operational burden for healthcare organizations in 2019, according to a Stoltenberg Consulting survey of more than 300 health IT professionals who attended the [...]
WhamTech Named Tableau Technology Alliance Partner
WhamTech is excited to announce that it is now a Tableau Technology Alliance Partner, providing security-centric, unique index-adapter based data virtualization software to customers using Tableau products. Tableau partners with a wide range of [...]
A Data Fabric is the Keystone for Hybrid Cloud
April 10th, 2019 There have been several articles/releases, e.g., from Red Hat, about IBM, Red Hat and Hortonworks collaborating on Hybrid Cloud, which generally means deploying apps and associated Hadoop databases as containers in [...]
WhamTech Joins the Cambridge Intelligence Technology Alliance
March 28th, 2019 WhamTech is excited to announce that it has become a member of the Cambridge Intelligence Technology Alliance, providing security-centric, unique index-adapter based data virtualization software to KeyLines’ customers. The Technology Alliance [...]
Bridging the Gap Between HR and Finance Provides Critical Business Insights to Leaders
March 6th, 2019 A recent article published in FEI Daily makes the critical point that “Both HR and finance need each other’s data to understand the implications of people-related decisions across the organization”. [...]
The Lack of True Healthcare Interoperability is Leading to Suboptimal Results
January 30th, 2019 According to a new National Academy of Medicine report, the “suboptimal” nature of healthcare technology purchasing is a major barrier to the interoperable exchange of electronic health information. “When [...]
Do We Still Need Multiple Different Types of Data Models?
December 12th, 2018 There will always be a need to define data objects (aka entities and their attributes) and the relationships between data objects. These could be defined and retained in workflows/applications, [...]
FHIR May Not Help Healthcare Organizations Achieve Semantic Interoperability
December 6th, 2018 A recent article in HIT INFRASTRUCTURE.COM by Elizabeth O’Dowd clearly articulates the challenges facing healthcare organizations seeking semantic interoperability utilizing FHIR due to its many variations that prevent the [...]
EU GDPR Compliance is Lagging – Poor and Incomplete Data Management is the Root Cause
October 1st, 2018 EU GDPR’s effective date was back in May of 2018, and yet many companies are still working to comply with these regulations. To complicate matters further, many states are [...]
Achieving Maximum Value from Dashboards
September 17th, 2018 Dashboards such as Power BI, Sisense, Tableau and numerous others can provide incredible real-time insights for executives to manage and optimize results, whether that be production efficiencies, best in [...]
New answer to a growing challenge – Data Virtualization in an era of exponential growth of large volumes of diverse data in multiple locations
September 4th, 2018 The market for data virtualization is growing exponentially; from an estimated $1.58 billion in 2017 to an expected $4.12 billion by 2022, a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 21.1%. The generation [...]
Data Security
WhamTech assumes a data-centric security approach; providing a balance between enforcing security and enabling/unleashing a digital workforce. WhamTech follows the Forrester Research Zero Trust Data Security Framework - discover, INDEX, classify, secure and leave-in-place data.
Master Data Management
Master data is the consistent and uniform set of identifiers and extended attributes that describe the core entities of the organization, including customers, suppliers and products. Master data management defines the basis for reporting, BI, [...]
GDPR: A Guide to Compliance and Long-term Solutions
WhamTech offers permanent and long-term solutions to the compliance challenges businesses and organizations will face in the looming enforcement of the GDPR. We offer all of the advanced capabilities below with minimal interference with existing [...]
WhamTech and SiriusIQ Join Forces to Deliver Next-Gen Hybrid Cloud 2.0 Solutions for Microsoft Azure
WhamTech and SiriusIQ join forces to deliver next generation Hybrid Cloud 2.0 solutions that remove the boundaries between Clouds, on-premise systems, mainframes, data centers and third-party data sources February 20, 2018 11:00 AM Eastern Standard [...]
Interview with Mark Armstrong, CEO and President at WhamTech
January 26th, 2018 Starting a business is a big achievement for many entrepreneurs, but maintaining one is the larger challenge. There are many standard challenges that face every business whether they are [...]
Wide Load: Puzzling Out the Place of the Diagnostic Image in the Emerging Healthcare Landscape
November 17th, 2017 For years now, the question of how to fully integrate the appropriate sharing of diagnostic images into healthcare data exchange—including into the phenomenon of health information exchange (HIE) has [...]
WhamTech Mentioned in Recent Gartner Study
November 3rd, 2017 In a new case study, Gartner Inc. shares insight on the future of data security and the role that data management and governance platforms, including WhamTech’s, play in driving [...]
WhamTech CTO, Gavin Robertson, Named Finalist at Dallas-Fort Worth CIO/CTO Awards 2017
D CEO recognizes the top tech executives in North Texas. BY D CEO PUBLISHED IN D CEO NOVEMBER 2017 This year’s list of honorees includes technology executives that span across industries—from real estate to restaurants to [...]
WhamTech and Optimity Advisors to Deliver Premier Data Virtualization Technologies for Advanced Data Management Solutions
Partnership poised to transform data management, integration and insights for data-intensive industries View full press release here. November 01, 2017 09:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WhamTech, a Dallas, Texas-based software company that provides a [...]
Fighting Fire With FHIR: Driving Healthcare Interoperability
Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR): improving interoperability and provider access to data. By Gavin Robertson, CTO and SVP, WhamTech October 16th, 2017 Healthcare providers are dealing with more data than ever and there are [...]
The Demise of the Data Warehouse
August 1st, 2017 "My job, as an industry analyst, is to research and write about what is going on in the industry. But my job is also to predict what is going to [...]
Fighting Fire with FHIR: Enabling True Interoperability in Healthcare
Guest post by Gavin Robertson, CTO and senior vice president, WhamTech. July 25th, 2017 As technology continues to permeate healthcare in different ways, it is becoming increasingly important for providers to have access to the [...]
WhamTech, Inc. Adds Three Board Members Supporting Company as It Gears for Significant Growth
June 28th, 2017 DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WhamTech, Inc. (WhamTech), a Dallas-based software company providing a comprehensive distributed data virtualization, federation, integration, master data management, analytics, and security platform, announced today new additions to its [...]
The Future of Federal Agency Data Access, Integration, Sharing and Security
June 21st, 2017 "In this special guest feature, Gavin Robertson, CTO and SVP of WhamTech, discusses the future technology of data federation and protection within federal agencies. These new technologies could have [...]
Using Real-Time Analytics to Overcome Interoperability Issues
May 17th, 2017 "Healthcare organizations are seeking real-time information by gaining a single, simplified view of patient data. However, organizations integrating disparate health data management systems can face interoperability issues and challenges [...]
High Quality Data Solutions to Support Health Organizations’ Data Management
April 23rd, 2017 Segment overview: In today’s Health Supplier Segment, Gavin Robertson CTO and SVP of WhamTech, discusses topic of interoperability in healthcare as well as an give an introduction to WhamTech. [...]
The Dirtiest Little Secret about Big Data: Short Supply of Expensive Data Scientists Spending over 50% of their Time Preparing Data
October 3rd, 2016 A recent article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-dirtiest-little-secret-about-big-data-jobs/ has “Jobs” listed as the dirtiest little secret, which is good news if you are a union for data scientists, but that is bad news [...]
The Enormous Value of a Single Patient View of All Data
October 3rd, 2016 It seems so simple to obtain a single view of all data relating to a customer/patient, yet, it remains one of the most elusive goals of any organization. Many [...]
Seamless and Automatic Integration of Master Data is Key to Better Business
October 3rd, 2016 Effective use of master data in an enterprise has been an elusive goal for many organizations, as it is often a separate system and involves a lot of fundamental [...]
BNA Insights: Basel III Cybersecurity Requirements for Data Storage
October 3rd, 2016 Basel III and the Dodd-Frank Act require certain financial institutions to develop, implement and maintain enhanced data information technology to accurately assess and aggregate a variety of potential financial, [...]
Analyzing Whether HIPAA’s ‘Industry Standard’ Means You’re Safe From Cyber Attacks
October 3rd, 2016 The HIPAA Security Rule requires covered entities to implement “appropriate” security measures and to maintain such precautions in a manner that is both “continuous” and “reasonable” in order to [...]