Data Warehouse

Business Knowledge Optimization: The "Next Big Idea" in Collaboration

Information Management

Sept. 28, 2011

Michael Dortch published a post

Sept. 23, 2011

Jonathan Wu and 2 other people answered this question

How does big data analytics differ from traditional data warehouse analytics?

Hi Nomaan,
I apologize for the delayed response...too many other things that have my attention. Brian Hopkins' comments about Brewer's CAP Theorem are relevant for transactional systems and for designing/deploying applications in a distributed environment. However, the term big data analytics refers to reporting and analysis ... more

Analytics

Big Data

Does a single underlying deployment of DW platform work for all self-service BI application?

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Aug. 9, 2011

Jonathan Wu answered this question at this roundtable

Self-Service BI, what does it look like? How do you evolve towards Self-Service BI? [8/9 @ 9:30 am]

I believe that a single underlying deployment of a DW platform could work for most self-service BI needs. However, other factors that would warrant another architecture/platform include the business requirements for self-service BI that extend beyond the DW platform such as data refresh intervals, external ... more

Business Intelligence Information Management Information Technology Self-service BI

What are your experiences with automating parts of the enterprise data warehouse?

July 27, 2011

Brielle Nikaido asked a question

Enterprise Data Warehouse

July 11, 2011

Brielle Nikaido asked a question

Who should own data warehousing within an organization?

What should IT decision makers focus on once their companies explore or pursue cloud-based solutions

Information Management

July 11, 2011

JP Morgenthal and 4 other people answered this question

In some regards, the question is analogous to, "once you jump in the pool, where should you swim to?" However, this is not an appropriate analogy for cloud computing. Each use of a cloud computing solution should be justified through a complete analysis comparing it ... more

In what situations would a company want to integrate NoSQL data with their existing BI or DW?

July 8, 2011

Brielle Nikaido asked a question

Is there any benefit to having both your BI and data warehouse in the cloud?

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Data Management

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June 30, 2011

Gopi Krihsna Pampana answered this question at this roundtable

Is BI-SaaS Right for Your Organization? [7/12 @ 9:30 am]

I dont expect any benefits if we have BIW and data warehousing. if we have data warehousing then the reporting can be made simple through business objects ( dash boards, crystal reports ) and if we have BIW also we can have direct reports or ... more

Cloud Computing

Does the use of Excel as a reporting tool create multiple versions of the truth?

June 22, 2011

Jonathan Wu and 2 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Is Data Warehousing a Dead End Approach to Information Management? [6/15 @ 9:30 am]

I believe that the use of MS Excel as a reporting tool has the POTENTIAL to create multiple versions of the truth. I agree with Dan and Lyndsay's comments about SharePoint and the challenges of spreadsheet technology. For most small to mid-size businesses, the use ... more

Data

Does the movement toward the utilization of social data have any implications for the data warehouse

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June 21, 2011

Stephen O'Donnell and 2 other people answered this question

The data warehouse model just doesn't fit social media data such as click streams, graph data structures and log files. Conventional relational models ultimately require scale up hardware and architectures to match the size of the problem. The Big Data requirements, massive data sets and ... more

Marketing

Analytics

Do you need a data warehouse to have mobile business intelligence?

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June 21, 2011

Ryan ONeil and 4 other people answered this question

Good conversation here. Another response to this question would be that the user requirements may be satisfied with a mobile application that accesses an existing data source (even in the cloud), not necessarily a data warehouse. As we see with the growing number of smartphones ... more

Analytics