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As a much younger writer and marketing guy watching the database technology boom of the 80’s and 90’s, I was fascinated with the advent of the data warehouse surge that started about twenty years ago. I saw it coming and watched it bloom. The promise of a “sandbox of meaningful data” for quicker and easier use by line of business managers was exciting.
On September 5, 2013, industry expert Charles Yorek, presented an outstanding webinar on the topic of “Achieving Success with Mobile BI.” The slides from that presentation are available for you to download and you can also see the entire recorded webinar.
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BI Professionals are used to working with a wide range of products and platforms and typically have a pretty substantial tool belt to be able to work across a multitude of different technologies. Over the past couple of months I took the opportunity to experiment with technologies that are entering the data warehousing ecosystem. These technologies included the Cloudera Sandbox, Hortonworks Sandbox, IBM Big Insights Sandbox, and Amazon’s Red Shift.
iOLAP Inc., has signed a Consulting Partner agreement with web infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for their new Redshift platform, a petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
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This blog entry was published on TIBCO Spotfire’s Business Intelligence blog, by Linda Rosencrance, of the Spotfire Blogging Team. Here are 13 of her favorite data quotes – gathered from a number of sources on the web – from CEOs, statisticians, authors and even Sherlock Holmes.
I thought it was really cool!
The business impact of BI software and practices have plateaued for some, though 2013 brings huge opportunities with mobile access, according to a BI adoption assessment. BI Scorecard surveyed and assessed 634 business intelligence practitioners “2012 Successful BI Survey,” the sixth installment its annual gauge of adoption and trends.