Blog & insights
Articles by cimt consultants on DAMA, AI readiness, the EU AI Act, data integration, governance and analytics. No marketing: what we learn at clients, translated into what you can apply.
A semantic layer records what terms like revenue, customer and margin mean, so people and AI get the same numbers. What it is, why AI agents make it urgent, and how to start small from a DAMA foundation.
Upgrading is unavoidable. With fixed packages and a phased programme per DTAP environment, the cost and the schedule of an upgrade are settled in advance.
AFAS replaces Classic tokens with OAuth 2.0: existing tokens stop on 15 February 2027, the hard deadline is 31 August 2027. What to change in your Talend jobs.
What a data platform delivers to your organisation, explained without the technology. Why integration in the DAMA sense is more than ETL, why application integration is a good place to start standardising data flows and which architecture principles make the difference.
SAP ends mainstream maintenance for PowerDesigner at the end of 2027. What stops, what does and does not carry over to erwin Data Modeler, and how to plan backwards.
A retainer reserves fixed specialist time for your data environment. What it covers, how it differs from ad-hoc support and when it pays off.
An SLA for a data environment covers more than response times: scope, availability, reporting and change management. What it typically contains and how cimt fills it in.
Qlik is a Gartner Leader in Analytics & BI for the 16th year running. What that means in the agentic AI era, from our consultants' practice.
Qlik makes Agentic Data Engineering GA in Qlik Talend Cloud. The new AI agents for catalog, data quality and data products, and what they mean for governance.
Free Qlik event on 23 June 2026 in Rotterdam on moving from AI experimentation to production. What it is, why it's worth attending, and how to register.
Data products are gaining ground as an organising principle for data delivery. What they are, why they are worth the effort, and where things go wrong in practice. Plus: how the DAMA DMBoK foundation makes this workable without spinning up a new department.
Qlik introduced the MCP Server for the Model Context Protocol. What it is, why it matters for governed AI on business data, and how to deploy it without giving up data sovereignty.
The EU AI Act has been in force since 2025. What changes for data governance, data lineage and quality, and how to make your data foundation demonstrably compliant without paralysing your organisation.
cimt ag is 25 years old: founded in 2000 in Hamburg, today 300+ employees across Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. What that means for our clients.
