Interesting blog entry on how Big Data and Data Warehousing are coming together

Big Data is not making the Data Warehouse obsolete overnight. The apostles of the Data Warehouse have fought back and demonstrated that it is not always as simple as “load and go.” Although some data engineering has been eliminated or reduced, and Big Data approaches are reducing the costs of data management, data still needs […]

Business Choice Awards 2014: Business Intelligence

Some might call it an oxymoronic term, but Business Intelligence can put an organization on the path to data-driven decisions. Here are the ratings of BI tools used by PCMag’s more corporate readers. In today’s big data world, every big business needs a software or service designed to retrieve, analyze, and report data to provide […]

“Global SaaS-Based Business Intelligence (BI) Market 2014-2018″

New Software market report from TechNavio: “Global SaaS-based Business Intelligence (BI) Market 2014-2018″ Boston, MA — (SBWIRE) — 07/25/2014 — The term BI refers to applications and technologies that are used for gathering, providing access to, or analyzing information about a company’s operations. BI help organizations to acquire comprehensive knowledge of the factors affecting their […]

Big data a winner in the World Cup

ON the exhibition floor of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, one of the stand-out displays was a large TV screen on which the tactics of the German football team were being analysed. Enterprise systems company SAP was demonstrating how an application called Match Insights could gather data before and during a match […]

How Vertical Markets will Drive Big Data

Although the article is bit dated, this 2012 report from Gartner does a good job of defining the vertical market opportunities that existed in the emerging world of Big Data.  As you can see in the first graphic below, all vertical markets had some interest in Big Data in 2012, with Education and Transportation having […]

Delving into customer thoughts: TEXT ANALYTICS provides insights

Text analytics is a powerful tool that so far has been used most extensively for analyzing customer-related information. “The tools are business-friendly and the content—once parsed—is easy to process,” says Leslie Owens, VP of research at Forrester. “The leading vendors have found the most adoption in social listening and are well established, with robust cloud-based […]

Text Analytics Market (By Applications & Deployment Models) Expected to Cross $4.90 Billion by 2019

Text Analytics Market report categorizes the Global Market by Applications as Data Analysis, by Users, by Deployment Model as Cloud, On-Premise & by geography. Dallas, TX — (SBWIRE) — 07/10/2014 — The report “Text Analytics Market by Applications (Enterprise, Web-based and Software, Data Analysis, Search-based, Others), Users (SMBs, Enterprises) & Deployment Model (Cloud, On-premise) – […]

What is logical data warehouse?

According to Gartner Hype Cycle for Information Infrastructure, 2012, “the Logical Data Warehouse (LDW) is a new data management architecture for analytics which combines the strengths of traditional repository warehouses with alternative data management and access strategy. The LDW will form a new best practices by the end of 2015.” It has seven major components: […]

Operational Business Intelligence (OI)

Real Time BI used to be hot topic since 10 years ago. As a result of big data phenomenon, data volumes and the diversity of new data sources are exploding. Now it is the emerging Operational Intelligence supports the real time BI on big data.Although visibility into streaming big data by itself is extremely valuable […]