Software vendors have been feeding the hope for the perfectly flexible and intuitive BI tool ever since BI software came to the market. Of course the tool would also deliver the response times in line with speed of thought analysis.
I am going to get this started soon with the first data modelling tool to be reviewed…
In a recent article by Wayne W. Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research, entitled “Operational BI: Sorting Out Your Options”, the options are given for providing near realtime business intelligence. The point of the article seems to be that you can have your BI either fast or of high quality, but not both. Given that a data [...]
In the early part of 2007, Neil Raden wrote an article entitled “Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable”. In this article, he argues that the a data warehouse (BI 1.0) is a big, slow, expensive machine for cranking out analytical data, and when it does, the data is highly-structured, only allowing a rigidly defined set of of questions to be answered. He continues that in the day of doing Google searches and social network…
Back in 2008, I was working for a telco in the Dominican Republic, consulting for their data warehouse team. I proposed a complete re-architecture of the data warehouse and the reporting platforms that the data warehouse supported. When I had to cost out the project, I had to include some hardware, primarily for the Ab Initio ETL tool we were going to migrate to, but also for the development and test servers, and more tape backup machines. All in all, the tab for the entire project grew to almost 2 million USD. It was just another reminder to me of how expensive a data warehouse can be…
In the previous post, we took a look at the solution CAST brought to our challenges and how good those solutions were in bringing real benefit to the organization. Here, we will take a look at some of the other things we didn’t do (for one reason or another) that we could have to reap [...]