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Dr CARSTEN DITTMAR

Dr Carsten Dittmar is Partner and Area Director West at Alexander Thamm GmbH. He also heads the Strategy Practice at Alexander Thamm GmbH. For more than 20 years, he has been intensively involved in the fields of business analytics, data science and artificial intelligence with a focus on strategic and organisational consulting for data-driven initiatives. Dr Carsten Dittmar is a European TDWI Fellow and author of various specialist publications and speaker at numerous specialist events.

Second Generation Data Lakes: Architectural Principles and Technologies

by Dr. CARSTEN DITTMAR | Oct 28, 2021

This article was first published as a cover story in the magazine BI-Spektrum (issue 4 / 2021) under the headline "Data Lakes of the second generation". As a central element of a data-driven organisation, many companies rely on the development of...

Data lake as the basis for Industry 4.0

by Dr. CARSTEN DITTMAR | Feb 1, 2021

For a long time, the data warehouse was considered the central source for all data analyses. In the course of increasing digitalisation and the resulting mass of available data, the data lake has now taken over from the classic data warehouse.