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...
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True, but the BI tool of choice for SMB is Excel, PowerPivot and now Power View.
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.
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...
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Fantastic video explanation of data warehouses, where they come from and what they do.
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...
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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.
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.
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...
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This is a great article on the differences between "big data" analysis and traditional BI analysis.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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".
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...
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This is a pretty interesting article on the potential social and environmental impact of BI.
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.
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.
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.
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Good synopsis of the Hadoop market and where it is headed.
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Nifty infographic and story on airline industry and BI.