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Data Management: In-Memory Could Be the Mother of All Wisdom

posted by John Myers | February 27, 2013 | 0 Comments

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As I review my series of #100linesOnBIDW blogs over the last couple of weeks, I found myself looking at the Data Management posting. I covered when to apply schemas, Big Data, and data governance. What I left out was technical implementation concepts for data management systems like row vs. column orientation; in-memory vs. spinning disk...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Big data, Computer data storage, Data management, Database management system, Hardware, In-memory database, Solid-state drive, SSD

Actionable Intelligence in 2013: Action will Define You

posted by John Myers | February 18, 2013 | 0 Comments

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If I told you in September that the Baltimore Ravens would win the Super Bowl in February and you did nothing with that information ( i.e. place a bet, announce your prognostication skill, etc. ), was my prediction worth anything? Much like “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Business Intelligence, Consultants, Data Warehousing, Databases, Operational Excellence, Thomas Jefferson, Workflow

Knowledge Delivery in 2013: Imagination is More Important than Knowledge

posted by John Myers | February 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

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Albert Einstein once said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” And I think that the wonderful world of Knowledge Delivery (aka Data Visualization, Reporting, etc.) needs to think...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Albert Einstein, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Databases, Information graphics, Social media

Business Analytics in 2013 – A Model Is Useful If…

posted by John Myers | February 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

Edward de Bono, a noted expert on creative thinking, once said: The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. Business Analytics is very similar to this concept of science, and specifically,...

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Data Management in 2013: Warning of the Big Data Wolf

posted by John Myers | January 28, 2013 | 0 Comments

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When Aesop created the fable about the shepherd boy who cried wolf, the message was clear: “How liars are not rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them” If analysts like myself and others as well as the mainstream press (ie Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Economist ) continue to shout about Big Data...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Big data, Data governance, Data management, Data model, Facebook, Harvard Business Review

Data Integration in 2013: Give us a platform and we will fill it

posted by John Myers | January 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

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“Back in the day”, Pablo Picaso once said: Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. Data Integration in 2013 seems to follow along similar lines – Give us a Platform and we will fill it with data. This is part two of a series of blog postings on important topics for the world of...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Big data, Business Intelligence, Data integration, Data virtualization, Extract transform load, Hadoop

100 Lines about 25 Business Intelligence Topics for 2013

posted by John Myers | January 17, 2013 | 0 Comments

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I have always loved the song “88 Lines about 44 Women” by the Nails. And based on some recent success with a blogging topic relating to the songs of the 80s, I thought that I would continue that theme with “100 Lines about 25 Business Intelligence Topics”. Think of this list, or series of lists,...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Business analytics, Business Intelligence, Data integration, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Databases, Enterprise resource planning, ERP

What Big Data Is Not

posted by John Myers | December 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Next week, EMA and 9sight will hold a webinar covering our Big Data research findings. Among our insights will be that Big Data has evolved. Moving forward, Big Data isn’t: merely a technology definition solely Hadoop implementations just petabyte and above only used by Data Scientists Big Data is maturing to the point where business...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Apache Hadoop, Barry Devlin, Big data, Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Databases, EMA, Technology

Phish-ing for New Operational Revenues

posted by John Myers | March 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Miami Dolphins, Sun Life Stadium and IBM Intelligence Operations Center Last September, Forbes Magazine published its 2011 ranking of the NFL’s Most Valuable Teams. Forbes gives detailed financial information on why NFL franchise values are “only” growing by 1.4%. The article notes that operating costs for NFL franchises are rising. This increase is due to: Increased...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: IBM, Intelligence Operations Center, Miami Dolphins, Sun Life Stadium

Is there a NoSQL Identity Crisis

posted by John Myers | February 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

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As Big Data initiatives mature into enterprise data sources supported by NoSQL products for analytics and operational systems, a clash of cultures is on the horizon (if not here already). Traditional IT implementations teams and their top-down programs rarely see eye to eye with the grass roots culture of NoSQL platform operators. But this divide...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: ACID, Big data, Business Intelligence, NoSQL