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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Trends shaping Business Intelligence and Analytics

In TDWI:   5 Macro Trends Shaping next Generation BI and Analytics.    Useful thoughts.  " .. Although the business intelligence (BI) market is growing again at a lightning-fast pace, it has so far failed to deliver a great experience to the designers and consumers of modern analytics. Yesterday's BI solutions are being displaced by "agile" providers that move beyond basic reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analysis. Yesterday's BI stack (e.g., the layering of OLAP engines, ETL technologies, and data warehouse solutions) is completely incapable of solving modern analytical challenges ... " 

I do not agree here, things could clearly be done in a much better way, but I think this is still a matter of wrapping IT methodologies around the appropriate technologies.

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