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Business Intelligence Insights
A round-up of business intelligence, IoT and data articles across the Internet.
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Business intelligence solutions will enhance travel experience for passengers ... - Web In Travel

Business intelligence solutions will enhance travel experience for passengers ... - Web In Travel | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Business intelligence solutions will enhance travel experience for passengers ...
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Nifty infographic and story on airline industry and BI.

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April 14, 2014 5:06 PM
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ATA Endorses Vigillo's Athena Big Data Business Intelligence Platform | Twitter on Ulitzer

ATA Endorses Vigillo's Athena Big Data Business Intelligence Platform | Twitter on Ulitzer | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
check this out ATA Endorses Vigillo's Athena Big Data Business Intelligence Platform | Twi... http://t.co/oEgIQ19Zuz @twitter #data #ad
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Considering that Vigillo is specifically made for trucking fleets, it would be more of a story if the ATA didn't endorse them.

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April 14, 2014 3:41 PM
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6 Reasons Why SMBs Should Use Business Intelligence Solutions - Business 2 Community

6 Reasons Why SMBs Should Use Business Intelligence Solutions - Business 2 Community | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Business 2 Community 6 Reasons Why SMBs Should Use Business Intelligence Solutions Business 2 Community 6 Reasons Why SMBs Should Use Business Intelligence Solutions image processes Some SMB managers and entrepreneurs still think that business...
Greg Deckler's insight:

True, but the BI tool of choice for SMB is Excel, PowerPivot and now Power View.

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April 14, 2014 1:58 PM
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Facebook Open Sources Presto SQL Query Engine - InformationWeek

Facebook Open Sources Presto SQL Query Engine - InformationWeek | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Facebook Open Sources Presto SQL Query Engine
InformationWeek
Facebook announced Wednesday that it is committing its Presto low-latency, SQL-compliant query system for Hadoop to open source.
Greg Deckler's insight:

Yet more evidence that MapReduce is not long for this world.

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April 14, 2014 1:55 PM
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Real Data Warehouse?

How do you know if you have a real Data Warehouse? What are some of the symptoms when one is not in place? Here is the link to the video referenced about how...
Greg Deckler's insight:

Fantastic video explanation of data warehouses, where they come from and what they do.

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April 14, 2014 9:24 AM
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A unique approach to Business Intelligence secures a finalist spot in the ... - CMO

A unique approach to Business Intelligence secures a finalist spot in the ... - CMO | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
A unique approach to Business Intelligence secures a finalist spot in the ...
Greg Deckler's insight:

Good article, but I'm just not sure how unique using Excel and SharePoint for BI dashboards is...not very?

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April 11, 2014 1:38 PM
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Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB

Scaling the Facebook data warehouse to 300 PB | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Meet the engineers who code Facebook
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Pretty interesting article for us BI techies

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April 11, 2014 1:30 PM
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Three opinions about the future of Hadoop and Data Warehouse

Three opinions about the future of Hadoop and Data Warehouse | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
nosql:
Building on the same data coming from Gartner and a talk from Hadoop Summit (exactly the same), Matt Asay1 and Timo Elliott2 place Hadoop on the data warehouse map.
Matt Asay writes in the...
Greg Deckler's insight:

Click the link and then the title of the piece to get the full story.  Good summary of a couple key perspectives on a big thread that has been making the rounds lately.  Bottom line, Hadoop = Yet Another Technology You Have to Support.

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April 11, 2014 1:12 PM
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Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 Released! - Hortonworks

Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 Released! - Hortonworks | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Announcing Hadoop 2.4.0 - the second release of Hadoop in 2014. (Apache Hadoop 2.4.0 released! Thanks to the entire community!
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Good to know.

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April 10, 2014 10:58 AM
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What’s next for hotel business intelligence?

What’s next for hotel business intelligence? | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hoteliers outline the important roles business intelligence play at their hotels and identify wish lists for additional data that would shape future operational decisions. (What’s next for hotel #BusinessIntelligence?
Greg Deckler's insight:

Interesting perspective on the future of BI within the hospitality industry.

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April 10, 2014 9:52 AM
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Big Data Is A Game Changer

Big Data Is A Game Changer | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
I spoke recently at the Gaming Technology Conference in Las Vegas, and instead of sharing my slides with the many folks who asked for them, I thought I’d just share my slides and messages with ever...
Greg Deckler's insight:

This is a great article on the differences between "big data" analysis and traditional BI analysis.

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April 9, 2014 11:46 AM
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Financial Companies Do Hadoop

Financial Companies Do Hadoop | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Banks, insurance and securities firms store and process huge amounts of data in Apache Hadoop for better insight into both their risks and opportunities.
Greg Deckler's insight:

This is a pretty good article, especially if you are in the Financial industry, but even if you are not, has some good information.

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April 9, 2014 11:36 AM
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Building a Hadoop Data Warehouse: Hadoop 101 for Enterprise Data Professionals – Dr. Ralph Kimball Answers Your Questions

Building a Hadoop Data Warehouse: Hadoop 101 for Enterprise Data Professionals – Dr. Ralph Kimball Answers Your Questions | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
New post: Building a Hadoop Data Warehouse: Hadoop 101 for Enterprise Data Professionals - Dr. Ralph Kimball Answers http://t.co/6atCh7UM9N
Greg Deckler's insight:

This is a pretty insightful Q/A session.

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April 15, 2014 4:33 PM
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Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL | TechCrunch

Microsoft Announces New Tools Bringing The Cloud To The Internet Of Things, Uniting Hadoop And SQL | TechCrunch | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
This morning in San Francisco, Microsoft announced several new data-focused tools in front of a cadre of customers and partners, not to mention a decent-sized..
Greg Deckler's insight:

Microsoft Analytics Platform System, the unification of Microsoft's PDW and HDInsight is pretty exciting.

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April 14, 2014 4:40 PM
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Actian to Present on Employing Predictive Analytics for More Effective Staffing at Healthcare Business Intelligence Forum

Actian to Present on Employing Predictive Analytics for More <br/>      Effective Staffing at Healthcare Business Intelligence Forum | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Actian to Present on Employing Predictive Analytics for More Effective Staffing at Healthcare Business Intelli... http://t.co/13Zo0HOu5k
Greg Deckler's insight:

Using analytics to improve Healthcare staffing, very interesting.

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April 14, 2014 2:03 PM
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3 Trends Driving Big Data Breakthroughs: A CIO's View - InformationWeek

3 Trends Driving Big Data Breakthroughs: A CIO's View - InformationWeek | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
GE Water & Power CIO says data blending, scalable storage and processing, and a maturing Internet of things are shaping big data progress. (impressed RT @trifacta: What does #GE @jimrfowler believe are the trends shaping #BigData progress?
Greg Deckler's insight:

External data, NoSQL, Internet of things

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April 14, 2014 1:56 PM
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Hydra Takes On Hadoop - InfoQ.com

Hydra Takes On Hadoop - InfoQ.com | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hydra Takes On Hadoop
InfoQ.com
Matt Abrams the CTO at AddThis who outlined the Hello World program for Hydra and Ian Barfield, engineer at AddThis spoke to InfoQ about comparisons between Hydra and Hadoop.
Greg Deckler's insight:

Interesting alternative to Hadoop

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April 14, 2014 9:26 AM
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Defining Business Intelligence 3.0 - Smart Data Collective

Defining Business Intelligence 3.0 - Smart Data Collective | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Defining Business Intelligence 3.0
Smart Data Collective
In his article, What is Business Intelligence 3.0?, Cabiro contends that BI 3.0 represents two things: A changing philosophy regarding BI user types and an amalgamation, or confusion, of terms.
Greg Deckler's insight:

I really like the graphic in particular for defining BI 3.0

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April 14, 2014 9:17 AM
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Internet-of-stuff startup dumps NoSQL for ... SQL? - Register

Internet-of-stuff startup dumps NoSQL for ... SQL? - Register | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Internet-of-stuff startup dumps NoSQL for ... SQL?
Greg Deckler's insight:

Good article on some challenges with NoSQL versus SQL

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April 11, 2014 1:34 PM
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Rio Tinto's BI strategy, as leaked by Microsoft - iT News

Rio Tinto's BI strategy, as leaked by Microsoft
iT News
The case study details a data warehouse and reporting platform to be used by approximately 500 "business users".
Greg Deckler's insight:

Funny, the link to the case study is now gone.

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Analytics and data lay the foundations for smart city energy consumption - Diginomica

Analytics and data lay the foundations for smart city energy consumption - Diginomica | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Diginomica Analytics and data lay the foundations for smart city energy consumption Diginomica But, as theory turns to practice, it's likely that most of these projects will find that they need a mix of analytics technologies to explore the data...
Greg Deckler's insight:

This is a pretty interesting article on the potential social and environmental impact of BI.

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April 11, 2014 1:11 PM
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Hadoop founder says future of big data looks like, well, Hadoop

Hadoop founder says future of big data looks like, well, Hadoop | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Prediction is actually quite simple when you're not really stretching yourself to potentially startling new insights.
Greg Deckler's insight:

Harsh!

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April 10, 2014 9:55 AM
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The Tools That Power Business Intelligence - BizTech Magazine

The Tools That Power Business Intelligence - BizTech Magazine | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
The Tools That Power Business Intelligence
BizTech Magazine
Business intelligence technology has come a long way from the decision support systems of the 1960s.
Greg Deckler's insight:

Decent article, but poor title, really about tool capabilities, not the tools themselves.

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April 9, 2014 11:48 AM
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Hadoop 101: The Most Important Terms, Explained

Hadoop 101: The Most Important Terms, Explained | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
To eliminate the confusion and help professionals understand Hadoop once and for all, we enlisted the help of three experts to create this informative guide.

Via Sathya Pandalai
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Really good, comprehensive overview of Hadoop technologies in plain language.

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April 9, 2014 11:45 AM
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Research and Markets: Global Hadoop Market (Hardware, Software, Services ... - Business Wire (press release)

Research and Markets: Global Hadoop Market (Hardware, Software, Services ... - Business Wire (press release) | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Research and Markets: Global Hadoop Market (Hardware, Software, Services ...
Business Wire (press release)
The global hadoop market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 58.2% between 2013 and 2020.
Greg Deckler's insight:

Good synopsis of the Hadoop market and where it is headed.

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