In part one of this series I discussed about Software as a service (Saas) and some findings in that area. This post is about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In essence it’s just like the SaaS model instead of buying a server and putting it into your data center and then hire people to administrate […]
Posts Tagged ‘Emerging BI Trends’
Take part in some Big Data
Happy Monday everyone! Okay so I will join the Big Data noise (not that I have not taken part in creating it 🙂 ) but this time I wanted to bring to light a way that any interested party can take part in it. I have written here before about how the open source world, […]
Big Data: Do you really need it? Findings and thoughts
Yeah, yeah, another post about Big Data. And, yes I know, for someone who complains about the number of posts on Big Data I’m only adding to the noise. But as I heard more and more about big data I decided to build myself a little program that I could point at companies and track […]
What is Big Data?
As we head towards the end of the first quarter of 2012, there can be no doubt that concept of Big Data has arrived. But what is Big Data? In 1985 a PC with a 10 megabyte disk drive was state of the art; by 2010 1 terabyte drives were common-place. Is this Big Data? […]
Predictive Model Engineering
Organizations interested in using analytics to predict outcomes will score data pools by applying an appropriate predictive model. Pre-built predictive models are becoming increasingly available in the market place. Data scientists that are knowledge experts in particular areas are developing models that have increasingly better success rates. However the best approach may be for an […]
Mobile BI
I was going through some TDWI material and found what they considered the ‘Best of BI’ in 2011. They mentioned mobile BI as being one of the top. With mobile devices being a key piece of a business today, and Gartner mentioning that by 2013, 33% of BI functionality will be consumed via a mobile […]
Magic Quadrant Madness, Denali and complete transparency
So I just read the recently published BI magic quadrant analysis from Gartner and noticed a slight adjustment in the bubbles. The Microsoft BI platform continues to increase along the ‘Completeness of Vision’ axis (X), but the ‘Ability to Execute’ measure (Y-axis) slipped a notch and I wanted to know why. After reading the ‘Strengths’ […]
Top emerging trends for BI in 2012 – Open Source world keeping up!
I am in the process of an ETL engagement with a client who is using Pentaho, an open source BI suite of products. This has made me reach out to my resources and get caught up with the open source world of BI, and especially Pentaho.
Making BI sense of the Cloud hype: Part 1 Software as a Service
If the hype is to be believed, the Cloud is the most amazing thing ever. Something that you’ll want to wad up into your IT life and roll up to be a singular star in you IT sky. I’ve seen taciturn CIOs turn into giggling fanboys at the very mention of the Cloud. I’ve even […]
Microsoft taking Business Intelligence interaction to the next level
Ok, ok, I’ll admit it, in the past I have been…shall we say snobby towards some of Microsoft’s BI offerings. Well, the big M has shut me up with some serious out of the box thinking. By using their Kinect technology and what they’re calling PowerCenter (Codename: Crescent) Microsoft is really changing the way BI […]
Injecting TDD into your ETL with the SQL Server Stack
Written by Andrew Holowaty – National Microsoft BI Practice
2012 Microsoft ‘Denali’ SSBI – Breaking Barriers
Expanding on “Microsoft BI –No More Excuses”, I recently updated Denali SQL 2012 (Community Technology Preview CTP3) on my demo machine to work with Microsoft’s latest Self-Service BI (SSBI) tools. The result is a MS 2012 Denali SSBI demo and presentation available now from Perficient’s National MS BI team. Below are highlights for 2012 MS […]