The big data market is exploding in terms of marketing hype turning big data into a big promise. However to quote a prospective customer: “we have lots of data but little results”. When talking about Big Data the issue of increasing volume is...
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Analysis of Data is Not the First Step
with contributions from Todd Heil and Ed PattersonData Analysis is the practice of ordering and organizing data into information, and identifying and delivering that information to the right decision maker so that useful business insight can be...
Read moreBig Data vendors and technologies, the list!
Now my summer holidays are done, I want to publish the list of vendors or technologies active in the Big Data space. I have organized them following the five Big Data steps. You’ll find a full description of each Big Data step in my No SQL, No...
Read moreManipulating Data - what Olympic medals tables tell us
One of the truisms is that one by British PM Disraeli is 'lies, damned lies and statistics' the point being that you can manipulate statistics to show what you want. The London 2012 Olympics (which as a Brit who attended one of the events with his...
Read moreWhy Smart Keys are Dumb and Dumb Keys are Smart
There was a rage at one stage for product identifiers, customer keys, employee IDs and other elements to be smart. The logic ran as follows We have an identifier. Its got 8, 12, 16, etc character and into this we will embed intelligence which...
Read moreData Fairy tales - Episode 1 'The Quick Win' for Information Management
So, we all remember our 'happily ever afters' don't we? I have the classic Information Management story; an epic and, the proverbial 'catch-22' cliffhanger. Its called the 'Data Quick-Win' and, I am not sure it always ends happily but, it...
Read moreDe-fluff your Information Strategy
Good or Bad Strategy? I am currently reading 'Good Strategy, Bad Strategy' which I urge any budding strategist out there to consume. The author talks to 4 key traits of bad strategy the first of which is 'fluff'; Interestingly, one of the...
Read moreDW 3.0 - The 'Big Data' Warehouse?
In my recent blogs, I have discussed the emergence of the BI 3.0 standard, it's journey and, alluded to the fact that it will need, both a big data foundation and a new form of data warehousing paradigm.Cue, the Big Data Warehouse and its not...
Read moreBI 3.0 The Journey to Business Intelligence. What does it mean?
Today's niche science of data provisioning, integration and presentation will rapidly become tomorrows commodity.The CIO needs to focus not on IT control for Information dissemination going forward rather, should focus on unshackled...
Read moreThe Sisyphean Effort to Address Big Data
Big data is a loosely-defined term used to describe data sets so large and complex that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools (Wikipedia.) The broad definition of big Data often leads one to believe that the key to...
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