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ZDNet Big data: Why IT departments mustn't be a drag on analytics ZDNet The Royal Bank of Scotland, which generates copious data from more than 400 branch-based transactions for businesses per second, has just deployed a parallel data warehouse... Via Rob Kingston
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I really, really like this article. There are some real gems in here that people responsible for BI within organizations should take note of.
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March 18, 2014 8:52 PM
Big Data strategy? First, take control of your tech strategy.
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In this video demonstration, Microsoft SQLCAT Senior Program Manager Murshed Zaman will demonstrate how to solve a customer question using relational data fr...
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This is a pretty cool demonstration of Microsoft's PolyBase but in general, it provides a really good demonstration of the power of EXTENDING your data warehouse to include unstructured data in a system like Hadoop.
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Business Intelligence and Predictive Search Company SimpleQL Launches at ...
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Interesting, signed up for their free test drive and it looks a lot like some of the natural language query stuff that I have seen in Power BI. This is really the future of self-service BI. In my opinion, self-service BI is all just talk unless you can take it to the level of natural language search queries.
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ReadWrite Why Hadoop Isn't Killing The Data Warehouse ReadWrite There are two realities here: One reality is that Hadoop, the open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation, doesn't threaten yesterday's data warehouse...
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This is largely correct about Hadoop's place with regards to the enterprise data warehouse. However, I think the article focuses on the wrong thing with regards to Microsoft. The article frets that IBM, Oracle and Teradata haven't really embraced Hadoop, but Microsoft has as their Parallel Data Warehouse and PolyBase shows.
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What is Hadoop? It’s a yellow toy elephant. Not what you were expecting? How about this: Doug Cutting - co-creator of this open-source software project - borrowed the name from his son who happened to call his toy elephant... Via Sathya Pandalai
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Dr. Ralph Kimball explains how Hadoop can be both a destination data warehouse, and also an efficient staging and ETL source for an existing data warehouse.
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Teradata's QueryGrid to power multi-database analytics
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Interesting, this seems similar to Microsoft's PolyBase and other products in the market that are focused on being able to use a single query against their own data stores as well as Hadoop, etc.
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David DeWitt discusses the PolyBase project developed at the Jim Gray Systems Lab at University Wisconsin-Madison.
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I really like the concept of PolyBase. Having to introduce yet more tools like Hive and Pig into an already cluttered landscape for BI developers is just a tough sell in terms of value to a business. Being able to leverage existing skills but extend those skills into workloads handled best by Hadoop is much more palatable in my opinion.
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NoSQL databases dent relational software's data processing dominance TechTarget A PostgreSQL open source database holds highly relational operations data, and all of the information is summarized in a SQL-based Amazon Redshift data warehouse for...
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I actually have a pending QSI blog article about NoSQL vs SQL and this article does a nice job of presenting things rationally. I still shudder though when people bring up NoSQL "document stores", it just strikes me as Lotus Notes all over again, and, seriously, who wants that?
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@GartnerBI states 70-80% of #BI fails. Need bridge tech/biz divide constantly. Yes! #leadership http://t.co/j1Xg8vxESh
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Wow, I hate to say that I am prophetic in any way, but this article says a lot of the same things that I posted in my QSI blog article, "The Age of Arrogance", about BI projects and IT's capabilities to truly deal with BI effectively within a business.
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Has your business intelligence software under-delivered on value? I don't only mean the ROI of your BI – I also mean simply how valuable BI is to your organization. Is its use engrained in your company culture?
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Recent user research results give insight into why BI implementations often fall short of expectations, and how to avoid this happening.
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Very succint explanation on why business intelligence projects fail, although nothing really new if you already know the main reasons why BI projects fail.
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Another 'sh*t people say' video, this time about the ridiculous and sublime world of Business Intelligence. This is sh*t business end-users say to report dev...
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OK, just for fun, I still love this video. If you've been in BI for any length of time, this stuff will give you a chuckle.
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IT Business Edge
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Not a bad list at all.
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The suggestion is going around these days that with the proliferation of “big data,&...
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I guess I didn't realize that people thought that big data was making data warehouses obsolete. I don't get that impression from my customers at all.
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New for Q2 - Solutions Review Releases a Business Intelligence Buyers Guide ...
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By following the link, can register for a free copy.
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Teradata launches new database to help businesses monetise the Internet of ...
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Teradata now supports JSON, pretty cool.
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Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse platform has seen a huge increase in popularity over the last couple of year but remains a mystery to most of the ...
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If you don't know much about Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), this might be a worthwhile webinar coming up this Thursday.
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SQL-on-Hadoop engines are available from a variety of vendors. But expert Rick van der Lans cautions that while they appear similar on the surface, there are important differences.
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Many of the projects that I’ve been working on over the last 6 to 9 months have evolved to include more and more data integration.
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Solid, pratical guide with some nice caveats to be aware of.
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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA Speaker: Adam Shook This session assumes absolutely no knowledge of Apache Hadoop and will provide a complet...
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This is a good introduction to Hadoop for even the non-technical to understand what it is, how it can be used and the various technologies involved.
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SQL Server 2014 went general availability on April 1st. The big business intelligence pieces here are the new Data Explorer and GEOFlow features and, my favorite, the ability for Power View to operate against multidimensional cube data as well as tabular data models.
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RT @biupdates: White Paper - Social Media Meets Business Intelligence http://t.co/UMGI3jhTjd
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I am glad to finally see someone take on this subject because it is much ballyohooed in certain circles. However, the white paper just reinforces my position that for the vast majority of companies, particularly those without a global reach and/or without consumer products or without a strong brand, the integration of social media into business intelligence really does not add much, if any, business value.
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This is the first English YouTube video I have made to demonstrate the Microsoft Data Platform Technologies, products and solutions. In this YouTube video I ...
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Definitely worth a look to see what Microsoft's parallel data warehouse can do.
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Something about this announcement strikes me as profoundly odd considering that one of the key drivers of Hadoop was to offer parallel processing on commoditized hardware in order to drive down price. So now IBM is offering the technology on expensive, proprietary hardware? How does that make any sense?