If you can’t join them, JSON them – Adding NoSQL to Teradata
February 2014
Sponsored by Teradata Corporation
The rapidly emerging Internet of Things presents enormous opportunities for data warehousing and analytics. It also presents a number of challenges. Both aspects are addressed head-on by Teradata’s embedding of JSON in its flagship database product.
Untangling the Internet of Things: Driving Value with Treasure Data
February 2014
Sponsored by Treasure Data Inc.
Although much of the popular market attention has focused on the devices on the Internet of Things, the real monetary value emerges from the business’ ability to effectively use the data they generate and on IT’s skill at capturing, storing and managing it. This paper explores the uses and challenges of the Internet of Things, drawing on examples of business use cases, and positions the data processing needs in the context of traditional data warehousing, big data and cloud computing. It also describes a new managed service cloud offering, Treasure Data, which is structured rather like a traditional three-stage data warehouse. (more…)
Operationalizing the Buzz: Big Data in 2013 An EMA and 9sight White Paper
November 2014
Multiple sponsors
The second annual EMA / 9sight Big Data online survey addressed 259 business intelligence and data management professionals, including almost 600 projects, and was designed to identify the key trends surrounding the adoption, expectations and challenges connected to Big Data. This report summarizes the findings. (more…)
Unlocking Machine-Generated Data: Bridging the Structure Chasm between Hadoop and Relational
September 2013
Sponsored by Teradata Corporation
Collecting and using machine-generated data as name-value pairs is often seen as demanding Hadoop or other NoSQL tools. This paper shows how it can be effectively done in a relational database, based on work done at eBay. (more…)
Business unIntelligence: Beyond Analytics and Big Data
Replay: BrightTALK Webinar, 11 September, 2013
The old world of business intelligence is being transformed into a new biz-tech ecosystem. Analytics is forcing the recombination of operational and informational systems in a consistent and coherent IT environment for all business activities. Big data – despite the hype – introduces two very different types of information that transform how business processes interact with the external world. Together, these directions are driving new business intelligence, very different to its prior form, which presenter Dr. Barry Devlin calls “Business unIntelligence”.
In this session Barry will cover business drivers and results of the biz-tech ecosystem, modern conceptual and logical architectures for information, process and people, the positioning of all forms of business analytics and big data, and provide a roadmap from today’s business intelligence to tomorrow’s business insight and innovation.
Operational Analytics from A to Z: An integrated platform for enterprise analytics of all sizes
May 2013
Sponsored by International Business Machines
Operational analytics has become a mandatory competence for modern business.
This paper outlines the business value and technological foundations of operational analytics in a manner that is accessible to the business-savvy IT professional and the computer-aware business manager. A well-integrated, highly cohesive and easily extensible platform to enable operational analytics is defined and shown to be an evolution of well-tried and tested data warehouse technologies. (more…)