Posts Tagged ‘Emerging BI Trends’

Several weeks ago, I was watching a cable network news channel and the news anchor was discussing what it will take to win the next presidential election. As he discussed it in more detail, he commented about how there will need to be much better analysis of data to pinpoint the right segment of the […]

I recently attended the IBM Business Analytics Summit in Chicago.  My IBM “Analytics” experience at this point in my career is limited.  Consequently, the purpose of attending this summit was to gain a better understanding of the IBM product offerings, gain some contacts in the industry, and to understand some “real-life” examples of what is […]

BI technologies these days are not just limited to the Business world, it has seen widespread adoption in the consumer space as well. And its use is growing and people are finding the value in such analytic tools. I would like to discuss 2 example of personnel analytics that caught my eye in the recent past. Example […]

This post is a continuation to my previous post on changes to the Information Architecture in recent times with the advances in Big Data management. This post discusses the 2 common approaches to implementing Big Data in organizations which accommodate Big Data in existing Information Management framework. The two approaches are Knowledge pooling and Knowledge […]

Oracle’s last Data Warehouse reference architecture was released in 2010 and since then the industry has seen a lot of changes in handling data. This is a 2 part series covering the changes to the data warehouse reference architecture incorporating Big Data needs. As Oracle puts it What has changed in the last few years […]

BI and DW in the cloud has been avoided by companies for a while now. There are many reasons that are attributed for the slow start. Companies want to play the wait and watch approach when it comes to moving BI to the cloud The offered solutions were not straightforward and not much cost effective […]

The last in the series about Data Discovery tools discusses the current product offerings.Links to previous posts in the series. (Visual) Data Discovery ( Beauty or a Beast ? ) Data Discovery – Part 2 – Use Cases Lets look at the features that are most useful for a data discovery platform and then identify […]

It’s 2013!  Will this year be the Year of Self-Service BI?  Or the Year of Mobile BI?  Or perhaps (for the second year running) the Year of Big Data?  Trend-watching is fun, but what does it tell you about making real business decisions with respect to your  growing Enterprise Reporting or BI needs?  Maybe not […]

Second in the 3 part series. The first post  covered a brief overview of search technology and the need for data discovery. This article covers some use cases and problems that DD would help solve. Data Discovery would be a useful in. Data discovery would be useful whenever an analyst wants to perform adhoc analysis without […]

I have had limited experience with SPSS Data Mining for Predictive Analytics.  I was very impressed with the predictive capabilities of the tool.  The business cases for this and any predictive analytics tool are endless.  While conducting some research about predictive analytics, I came across a Microsoft solution – Microsoft Analysis Services Data Mining; which […]

Search technology has been around for more than a decade now, but they have been used to index web files and to help users find what they are looking for. The search technology when used in the enterprise BI context brings two new capabilities to BI. First, search analyses data behind the scene that traditional […]

As 2012 ends, I thought it would be interesting to look at a category of tools that is gaining a significant hold in the Business Intelligence (BI) world. These tools are Personal Analytical Tools. The design of these tools allows users to be self-sufficient, to explore data, and to analyze it without IT involvement. The […]