Posts Tagged ‘Emerging BI Trends’

Big Data is big deal. Every vendor has a strategy and a suite of products. Navigating the maze and picking the right Big Data platform and tools takes some level of planning and looking beyond techie’s dream product suite. Compounding the issue is the open source option vs. going with a vendor version of the […]

In part 1 of this series, we discussed some of the most common assumptions associated with Big Data Proof of Concept (POC) projects. Today, we’re going to begin exploring the next stage in Big Data POC definition – “The What.” The ‘What’ for Big Data has gotten much more complicated in recent years; and now […]

It seems as though every large organization these days is either conducting a Big Data Proof of Concept (POC) or considering doing one. Now, there are serious questions as to whether this is even the correct path towards adoption of Big Data technologies, but of course for some potential adopters it may very well be the […]

Tomorrow I will be giving a webinar on creating business cases for Big Data. One of the reasons for the webinar was that there is very little information available on creating a Big Data business cases. Most of what is available boils down to a “trust me, Big Data will be of value.” Most information […]

When Apple jumped into the payment processing with ApplePay, I thought this would be a great leg up for Apple. But who will be the winner and who will be the loser? Granted the payment switches from the credit card to ApplePay which indirectly pays for the purchase, who cares as long as we can […]

In my blog post about ‘Qlik Leadership’ – back in April – I pointed out how Qlik was going to reinvent itself and the BI market once again. A few months later Qlik Sense was released. Qlik Sense Desktop is a Windows-based desktop application, and I view it as Qlik’s first installment on the .Next […]

One of the key points I make in our Executive Big Data Workshops is that effective use of Big Data analytics will require transforming both business and IT organizations.   Big Data with access to cross-functional data will transform the strategic processes within a company that guide long term and year to year investments. With the […]

A few years back I worked for a client that was implementing cell level security on every data structure within their data warehouse. They had nearly 1,000 tables and 200,000 columns — yikes! Talking about administrative overhead. The logic was that data access should only be given on a need-to-know basis. The idea would be […]

In the Hadoop space we have a number of terms for the Hadoop File System used for data management. Data Lake is probably the most popular. I have heard it called a Data Refinery as well as some other not so mentionable names. The one that has stuck with me has been is the Data […]

The data warehouse has been a part of the EIM vernacular for nearly 20 years. The vision of the single source of the truth and a single repository for reporting and analysis are two objectives that have resulted in a never-ending journey.   The data warehouse never has had enough data and the quality required for […]

  It is amazing to see the technology terms we come up with to explain new technology or trend. The consulting thought leadership coins the words to group a set of technology, trend to make it easier for people to have a context. However the success and adoption of the technology/trend defines the term’s reputation. […]

Years of work went into building the elusive single version of truth. Despite all the attempts from IT and business, Excel reporting and Access databases were impossible to eliminate. Excel is the number one BI tool in the industry and for the following good reasons : accessibility to the tool, speed and familiarity. Almost all […]