Cartoon: The Perils of Business Innovation
By Timo Elliott, from: http://timoelliott.com/blog/2014/07/cartoon-the-perils-of-business-innovation.html
By Timo Elliott, from: http://timoelliott.com/blog/2014/07/cartoon-the-perils-of-business-innovation.html
What’s the biggest barrier to business innovation in today’s world?
It’s not lack of opportunity
Big changes in the world mean big opportunities for the companies that can take advantage of them.
Successful business intelligence has always been about negotiating the right tradeoffs between the needs of individual business people and the […]
In the buzz around Big Data,it’s worth remembering that analytics is as old as business computing itself. In 1953, LEO (short for Lyons Electronic Office) was the first computer in the world used to manage a business – and for the first ever analytics applications.
New technologies like Hadoop are reinventing analytics. Most of it isbreakthrough additions to existing analytic systems – and some of it […]
The data says that Hadoop isn’t going to replace your enterprise data warehouse.
Anyone who knows what this photo depicts? Hint: it’s the father of self-service….
What do you find people misunderstand about self-service BI’s concept?
That it’s a very hard thing to define concretely in terms of technology implementation. The underlying business need is a very broad concept that covers a very wide range of different types of technologies and information uses, and that the distinctions between “reports,” “dashboards”, “data discovery,” etc are blurry — and the need for “business information” covers a lot more than what is stored in traditional databases (documents, external news feeds, etc.)
There’s no truly self-service BI solution.
What chance does data have when faced with strong opinions?!
GigaOM Research recently published an interview with database rock star Michael Stonebraker on “the impending battle of the database elephants,” covering his thoughts on the disruption in the database market.
This blog includes the excerpts I thought were most interesting:
Here’s the real business benefit of in-memory processing.