Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise Data and Analytics’

One of the common HR reporting needs is to determine the Utilization and Availability of employees. These metrics may also be studied at a higher level. For example, checking Workforce Utilization Percentages across a company’s different organizations provides insight into how overstaffed or understaffed each organization is. This blog describes an OBIEE design methodology to […]

Picking up from my earlier blog post, there are two kinds of MDM tool types, one targets specific domain (Customer and Product are the most common ones) and the others follow a multi-domain (Customer, Product, Location, Supplier etc. all in one) strategy. Most of the analysis I found are either for Customer Domain or Product […]

Forrester recently released some research titled “Reset on Big Data” and this research highlighted the lag between IT’s understanding of Big Data’s role within the enterprise data ecosystem.   In short, business leaders were 40% less likely to cite Big Data’s role as an extension to the current the current analytical environment.  This is not surprising […]

My exposure to Master Data Management as a tool and all the surrounding process, organization and platforms dates back to 2005 in one form or another. MDM as a tool and its expected functionality are evolving constantly. I was curious to see what MDM tools and vendor landscape looked like in 2006 compared to MDM […]

Last year the Data Warehouse was on the endangered species list.   A number of Hive solutions were being marketed as the Data Warehouse killers. However, this message has been muted this year and is evidenced by some developing trends. First, all of the mega-vendors have announced technologies to access data in Hadoop.   Oracle and IBM […]

Yarn….. Yes, Hadoop may be changing everything, but when Yarn was released, the change pedal has been pushed aggressively to the floor. Putting the technical details aside, the bottom-line is that now multiple concurrent workloads can be executed and managed on Hadoop clusters. This “pluggable” service layer has separated the data processing and cluster resource […]

One of the not so nice parts of the conference is seeing companies that have technology that have been superseded by the new releases of Hadoop, primarily Hive. One company, boasted about the fact it did not have to do full scans and could return SQL queries in seconds on large datasets. The look on […]

Update from the Hadoop Summit: Its only part way through day one and there is an un-mistakable theme: Interactive SQL on top of Hadoop is here, and in a big way.   Stinger, Impala, and a number of other niche providers are not promising, but delivering on interactive SQL.   Benchmarks, case studies of production clients, hands […]

MDM is a popular topic and many organizations are in different stages of MDM journey. Many times clients (primarily IT) want to engage consultants who can recommend a MDM tool and start the implementation, bypassing the Planning / Pre-planning stages. Typically this leads to a MDM solution which is not thought through completely or end […]

Next week is the Hadoop summit in San Jose. Perficient, along with almost every Partner, will be attending, sponsoring and/or exhibiting. Big Data, especially Hadoop-based solutions is the most dynamic area of IT. Hundreds of companies have products and solutions, all geared at increasing the value enterprises are able to extract from their information. Hope […]

 I was reading the interview of Jamie Miller, the new CIO of General Electric.  Please do check out the interview. Some of the key focus areas she was describing are: Innovation Simplification Employee experience Cyber security Investing in our IT talent   The innovation explained in this interview revolves around the mobile technology, and big […]

After attending many marketing sessions on In-Memory database like HP Vertica, Oracle Exalytics, Kognitio, SAP HANA, and SQL*Server 2014 with in-memory capabilities, finally I got an opportunity to look under the hood.  I  attended the SAP HANA training, and had the firsthand experience in playing with the In-Memory database. Gartner says, at least 35% of […]