June 2015 First published in the Business Intelligence Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2015) Download pdf The traditional BI architecture approach consists of a single stack of layers with data managed and moved from layer to layer. There were (and still are) good reasons for this design, but modern business needs drive another approach. [...]
TDWI Munich Conference 22-24 June, 2015 Barry Devlin presents a three-hour class: Building a Data Driven Business: Opportunities and Pitfalls Wednesday, 24 June, 9am – noon […]
International Data Management, Analytics and Business Intelligence Summit, 25-26 June, 2015 Download brochure Barry Devlin presents two sessions: New Analytics Architectures – The Role of A Data Reservoir and Data Refinery BI Organisation 2.0 – The expanding role of Data Scientists and Business Analysts […]
April 2015 Multiple sponsors Download pdf The third EMA / 9sight Big Data Survey was conducted in late 2014, with the results published in April 2015. Beyond Big Data itself, the survey also addressed the concepts of data lake, data driven and the Internet of Things, providing a comprehensive view of the state of thinking [...]
January 2015 Sponsored by WhereScape Download pdf Three key ways in which data warehouse automation changes the design, development and ongoing maintenance of data warehouses and marts. First, how automation addresses the old conundrum of delivering consistent, quality data in the timeframe demanded by modern business needs. Second, how streamlining the overall process provides a [...]
November 2014 Sponsored by NuoDB Inc. Download pdf We explain how and why the current layered DW architecture developed and examine why today’s business imperatives of speedy decision making and data driven action taking demand a new operational/informational approach. This environment, also called HTAP (hybrid transaction/analytical processing), needs a combination of in-memory operation and novel [...]
October 2014 Sponsored by Kalido Inc. Download pdf This paper examines four use-case-based business needs in banks and financial institutions that demand increasing speed, agility and business-IT collaboration in today’s market conditions. In each of these areas–reporting, risk management, customer profitability and responsive decision making–we examine the business challenges, prior and current implementation problems, and [...]
September 2014 Sponsored by Cisco Download pdf In this paper, we explore the evolution of metadata to context-setting information and describe the Business Directory in which it is stored, managed and made available to business users. We propose the adaptive decision cycle as a model to bridge from discovery and exploration to production and governance. [...]
June 2014 Sponsored by International Business Machines Download pdf By describing seven real customer implementations across four industries, this paper steps beyond marketing hype around analytics and provides compelling evidence of what it can deliver in actual implementations. To differing degrees, these implementations show triple-A characteristics required of analytics today to create business value: adaptive [...]
Replay (YouTube): ACM Webinar, 17 June, 2014 Presented by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery As big data and business analytics become the norm, companies with existing data warehouse architectures are worrying how these new approaches relate to traditional BI and what must be done to implement new analytic systems. Unfortunately, much current advice focuses [...]