Attendees of a recent TDWI Webinar asked excellent questions.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
Recently, on Tuesday April 15, 2014, I broadcasted a TDWI Webinar in which I presented some of the findings from my new TDWI report, Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data. You can download a free copy of the report in a PDF file. And you can replay the Webinar.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 30, 20140 comments
By Philip Russom
Research Director for Data Management, TDWI
To help you better understand the ongoing evolution of data warehouse architectures and why you should care, I’d like to share with you the series of 35 tweets I recently issued on the topic. I think you’ll find the tweets interesting because they provide an overview of big data management and its best practices in a form that’s compact, yet amazingly comprehensive.
Every tweet I wrote was a short sound bite or stat bite drawn from my recent TDWI report Evolving Data Warehouse Architectures in the Age of Big Data. Many of the tweets focus on a statistic cited in the report, while other tweets are definitions stated in the report.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on April 15, 20140 comments
TDWI just released my newest Checklist Report, Seven Considerations for Navigating Big Data Cloud Services. The report examines what enterprises should think about when evaluating the use of public cloud services to manage their big data. The cloud can play an important role in the big data world since horizontally expandable and optimized infrastructure can support the practical implementation of big data. In fact, there are a number of characteristics that make the cloud a fit for the big data ecosystem. Four of these include:
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Posted by Fern Halper, Ph.D. on March 3, 20140 comments
It’s still early days, but users are starting to integrate big data with enterprise data, largely for business value via analytics.
By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management
A journalist from the IT press recently sent me an e-mail containing several very good questions about the state of big data relative to integrating it with other enterprise data. Please allow me to share the journalist’s questions and my answers:
How far along are enterprises in their big data integration efforts?
According to my survey data, approximately 38% of organizations don’t even have big data, in any definition, so they’ve no need to do anything. See Figure 1 in my 2013 TDWI report Managing Big Data. Likewise, 23% have no plans for managing big data with a dedicated solution. See Figure 5 in that same report.
Even so, some organizations have big data, and they are already managing it actively. Eleven percent have a solution in production today, with another 61% coming in the next three years. See Figure 6.
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Posted by Philip Russom, Ph.D. on January 22, 20140 comments
My new (and first!) TDWI Best Practices Report was published a few weeks ago. It is called Predictive Analytics for Business Advantage. In it, I use the results from an online survey together with some qualitative interviews to discuss the state of predictive analytics, where it is going, and some best practices to get there. You can find the report here. The Webinar on the topic can be found here.
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Posted by Fern Halper, Ph.D. on January 20, 20140 comments
As my flight west from Orlando began its descent into San Francisco, I thought about how touching ground was a good metaphor for the just-completed TDWI World Conference. The theme of the conference was “Emerging Technologies 2014,” but one of my strongest impressions from the keynotes and sessions was the deflation of the hype surrounding those emerging technologies. Speakers addressed what’s new and exciting in business intelligence, big data, analytics, the “Internet of things,” data warehousing, and enterprise data management. However, they were careful to point out potential weaknesses in claims made by proponents of the new technologies and where spending on the new stuff just because it’s new could be an expensive mistake.
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Posted by David Stodder on December 13, 20130 comments