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Social, Mobile, Cloud, Big Data and … Agile BI

by Rob Meyer on February 6, 2012 – 11:22 am

I just came back from MicroStrategy World. There were many conversations about social, mobile, cloud and big data. There was strong interest in cloud, clear adoption of mobile, and some big data adoption. eHarmony had a great presentation about how they handle big data with Informatica, and how they’re starting to use Hadoop with Informatica HParser running on Hadoop for processing JSON.

But that wasn’t the number one conversation. The one topic that everyone was interested in – and I talked to nearly 100 customers and partners over four days – was creating new reports faster, or Agile BI. Read More »

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ANNOUNCING! The 2012 Data Virtualization Architect-to-Architect & Business Value Program

by Ash Parikh on January 25, 2012 – 7:30 am

Today, agility and timely visibility are critical to the business. No wonder CIO.com, states that business intelligence (BI) will be the top technology priority for CIOs in 2012. However, is your data architecture agile enough to handle these exacting demands?

In his blog Top 10 Business Intelligence Predictions For 2012, Boris Evelson of Forrester Research, Inc., states that traditional BI approaches often fall short for the two following reasons (among many others):

BI hasn’t fully empowered information workers, who still largely depend on IT
BI platforms, tools and applications aren’t agile enough Read More »

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What it Takes to Be a Leader in Data Virtualization!

by Ash Parikh on January 23, 2012 – 10:18 am

If you haven’t already, I think you should read The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012. For several reasons – one, to truly understand the space, and two, to understand the critical capabilities required to be a solution that solves real data integration problems.

At the very outset, let’s clearly define Data Virtualization. Simply put, Data Virtualization is foundational to Data Integration. It enables fast and direct access to the critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is not to be confused with simple, traditional Data Federation. Instead, think of it as a superset which must complement existing data architectures to support BI agility, MDM and SOA. Read More »

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From Big Insights to Fast Actions with Big Data

by Rob Meyer on December 7, 2011 – 5:39 pm

If you’re reading this article, you’re probably interested in big data, but don’t really know what you’re looking for with big data or how you’ll find it. Don’t feel confused. It’s not like traditional analytics, where you know the structure of the data – the relations across sources, the dimensions to build, the calculations to perform – and the reports you need. Big data can be completely unstructured, with no clear relationships. And you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find patterns. A complaint might come in about an online shopping cart being wiped out, which is what happened to my wife with a big toy retailer during some online Christmas shopping. I’ll tell you right now they ended up losing a lot of money. If they’re using big data, they might find a pattern of the steps that made her hit that bug. Then they might search for all customers that had the same problem, get their e-mail addresses or names, and do a recovery campaign. I hope the retailer is using big data properly. My wife would receive a call, and get that order. They’d be happy, and I’d be happy.

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Dodd-Frank Legislation and Structured Data Retention

by Informatica on November 21, 2011 – 12:11 am

The “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” has recently been passed by the US federal government to regulate financial institutions. Per this legislation, there will be more “watchdog” agencies that will be auditing banks, lending and investment institutions to ensure compliance. As an example, there will be an Office of Financial Research within the Federal Treasury responsible for collecting and analyzing data. This legislation brings with it a higher risk of fines for non-compliance. Read More »

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