Tag: BI
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The Big Data Era: How Data Strategy Will Change
Doug Henschen’s The Big Data Era: How Data Strategy Will Change is another good piece about the future of BI and Big Data (registration required, or ask Google for freely accessible copies of the article). He mentions lots of different companies, their challenges and how they solved them, so good to get an overview of the different facets.
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Dual BI Architectures: The Time Has Come
In Dual BI Architectures: The Time Has Come, Wayne Eckerson suggests that:
As an industry, it’s time we acknowledge the obvious: our traditional data warehousing architectures are excellent for managing reports and dashboards against standard corporate data, but they are suboptimal for managing ad hoc requests against heterogeneous data.… Continued
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What is Analytics?
Sybase’s Phil Bowermaster is trying to shed some light on the question of What is Analytics?
The vital distinction is this: advanced analytics involves more than just slicing and dicing of the data. […] Ultimately, it’s this reliance on models that sets advanced analytics apart from other types of BI analysis.… Continued
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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch
Oracle is inviting for its Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Launch on 7. July. Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development are going to be at the London launch event, and will be broadcasted to local events throughout Europe.… Continued
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Considerations for Hadoop and BI
Cloudera are looking at Considerations for Hadoop and BI in a little series of two articles (2nd part). BI tools traditionally were designed for small volumes of structured data where Hadoop generally stores data in complex formats at scale and processes data on read using MapReduce, so that can be quite a problem, and it’s good to see some guidance around this, because I know it’ll be one of the first questions when we look at it here too.… Continued