I have seen a number of articles asking the question of whether Apache Spark will replace Hadoop. This is the wrong question! It is like asking if your your DVD player will replace your entire home theater system, which is pretty absurd. Just like a home theatre system has many components, a TV or Projector, a Receiver, […]
Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Data and Analytics’
Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS): Data Sync for Automated Data Load
In a few days Oracle will release Data Sync, a utility that facilitates the process of loading data from various on-premise sources into BI Cloud Services (BICS). The Data Sync utility comes as an addition to several other already available means of loading data into BICS: data load wizard to upload data from files, SQL […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: How to migrate from Test to Production?
With an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) subscription, you get accesses to two instances: Test and Production. The test instance can be the initial playground where the upfront development work is carried out before pushing the developed components to the Production instance. The development work may entail creating tables in the Oracle Cloud Schema […]
Reasons for chronic Data Quality issues…
Many companies have invested millions in building a successful BI / EDW and are investing in advanced analytics for the future. But the mystery remains about the data quality. Though glaring DQ issues might be contained through constant backend data corrections or through exception handling, many organizations still faces the challenge of poor data quality. The reason Data […]
Analytical Talent Gap
As new companies embark on the Digital Transformation leveraging Big Data, key concerns and challenges get amplified especially for the near term before the technology and talent pool supply adjusts to the demand. Looking at the earlier post Big Data Challenges, the top 3 concerns were: Identifying the Business value/Monetizing the Big Data Setting up the […]
Big Data Challenges
As companies start adapting to handle Big Data, the challenges still remains. Barring the obvious applications, the challenges of getting the value out of the new-found data continues to be on the top of the list. ROI’s and potential revenues are yet to be realized. As the technology and the usage becomes more sophisticated we will […]
IT (Operational) Vs. BT (Business Technology) Investments
IT spending is primarily focused on technologies to run the business primarily operations. With new ways of doing business, technology platforms decide the winners and losers. Typical brick and mortar versus online stores. If you look at the CIO’s budget, more than 70% goes to operational systems, infrastructure and keeping-the-lights-on-type-of applications, and the rest is […]
Managing Data in the Digital Transformation Era
Managing data has been a challenge irrespective of the size of the company. Last couple of decades most of the companies invested in leveraging the Enterprise Data through variety of initiatives like Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence. If we divide the enterprise information usage in the last 2 decades, primarily they fall into the […]
Data Quality – Don’t Fix It If It Ain’t Broke
What is broke? If I drive a pickup truck around that has a small, unobtrusive crack in the windshield and a few dings in the paint, it will still pull a boat and haul a bunch of lumber from Home Depot. Is the pickup broke if it still meets my needs? So, when is data […]
Think Better Business Intelligence
by jDevaun.Photography Everyone is guilty of falling into a rut and building reports the same way over and over again. This year, don’t just churn out the same old reports, resolve to deliver better business intelligence. Think about what business intelligence means. Resolve, at least in your world, to make business intelligence about helping organizations […]
Big Data, Big Confusion
Everyone wants a piece of Big Data action whether you are part of Product Company, Solution provider, IT, or Business user. Like every new technology, Big Data is confusing, complex and intimidating. Though the idea is intriguing, the confusion begins when the techies start taking sides and tout the underlying tools rather than solution. […]
Big Data Changes Everything – Has Your Governance Changed?
A few years ago, Big Data/Hadoop systems were generally a side project for either storing bulk data or for analytics. But now as companies have pursued a data unification strategy, leveraging the Next Generation Data Architecture, Big Data and Hadoop systems are becoming a strategic necessity in the modern enterprise. Big Data and Hadoop are technologies […]