BITunes on the Cloud? – The Emergence Of Subscription Based On-Demand BI

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 29, 2010 | Blog

As I research more and more into the world of Cloud-based BI, it is becoming pretty evident where we are headed. In my opinion we are moving down the road to an iTunes model for BI.   Yesterday I spent some time with Actuate in London looking at their BIRT On-Demand platform as a service (PaaS) […]

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Cloud Based BI – Understanding The Options Is the Biggest Barrier

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 22, 2010 | Blog

Last week I was in Munich to present at the annual TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) conference on “Business Intelligence and Data Management in a Cloud Computing Environment”.  It was a very well attended conference with some great speakers and sessions.  My session focused on the following: What is Cloud Computing and why use it […]

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Chasm Not Crossed as A Sensor Data Tsunami Comes Over The Horizon

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 21, 2010 | Blog

Just over a week ago I spent a day at SensorExpo in Chicago to present on Complex Event Processing (CEP) discussing how CEP engines, Predictive Analytics, business rules can be used to analyse sensor emitted event data in-motion to facilitate business optimisation. This was a very busy conference. I estimated at least 2000-3000 people on […]

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Microsoft Opens Up Collaborative and Self-Service BI

Posted by Amanda Dascalakis | June 21, 2010 | Blog

Just over a week ago I was invited to attend an analyst briefing at the Microsoft BI conference in New Orleans that was running alongside the Microsoft TechEd conference.  The conference itself was very well attended with several thousand delegates.  Several things were on show at this event including SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, […]

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Data Federation – Master Data Patterns – On-Demand Information Services Pattern

Posted by Mike Ferguson | December 18, 2009 | Blog

Pattern DescriptionThis pattern uses data virtualisation to provide on-demand integrated data to applications, reporting tools, processes and portals via a web services user interface. Structured and semi-structured data sources are supported including RDBMS, any web service (internal or external), web syndication feeds, flat files, XML, packaged applications and non-relational databases. Pattern Diagram Pattern Example Use […]

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