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Operational BI and Analytics in a Data Driven Enterprise
Posted in: BlogFor a lot of my clients today, the importance of BI and analytics has never been so high. And it’s pretty clear that that opinion is no longer just in middle management. It is also in the boardroom where the belief now appears to be that BI and analytics are mission critical to success. In […]
ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by Mike Ferguson, “A Decade of Hadoop”
Posted in: BlogThis is a ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop’s becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum behind it as a key component platform in big data analytics has been nothing short of enormous. In that time we have […]
Is Self-Service BI Going to Drive a Truck though Enterprise Data Governance?
Posted in: BlogThere is no doubt that today self-service BI tools have well and truly taken root in many business areas with business analysts now in control of building their own reports and dashboards rather that waiting on IT to develop everything for them. Using data discovery and visualisation tools, like Tableau, Qlikview, Tibco Spotfire, MicroStratagy and […]
Agile Governance in the form of Automatic Discovery and Protection Is Needed to Create Confidence in a Big Data Environment
Posted in: BlogThe arrival of Big Data is having a dramatic impact on many organizations, in terms of deepening insight. However it also has an impact in the enterprise that drives a need for data governance. Big Data introduces: New sources of information Data in motion as well as additional data at rest Multiple analytical data stores […]
ELT Processing on Hadoop Will Boost Confidence in Big Data Quality
Posted in: BlogIn my last blog I looked at big data governance and how it produces confidence in structured and multi-structured data that data scientists want to analyse. I would like to continue that theme in this blog by looking at what is happening in the area of Big Data governance in a little more detail. Over […]