Many use cases are available today as safe starting points for leveraging big data.
- By Philip Russom, Ph.D.
- August 27, 2013
Fern Halper of TDWI Research examines a pair of preliminary results from the TDWI Predictive Analytics Best Practices survey.
TDWI, the premier provider of in-depth, high-quality education and research in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) industry, has announced the featured track for its next 2013 TDWI World Conference, “Business-Driven BI: Building a Business/IT Partnership.”
Although their responsibilities and cultures may be planets apart, organizations ultimately need what business and IT teams can only deliver together.
- By David Stodder
- August 20, 2013
The cost of data integration is clearly misunderstood by most building BI systems. You need to understand more than you think, and it takes more time than you expect.
Innovation by NoSQL players like DataStax challenges the BI status quo.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 20, 2013
In the world of big data, it's logical that the market continues to push for ever-faster analytics. However, the true benefit comes when enterprises combine analytics in real-time with automated decisions on that data.
Hadoop will not replace relational databases or traditional data warehouse platforms, but its superior price/performance ratio can help organizations lower costs while maintaining their existing applications and reporting infrastructure. How should your enterprise get started?