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Big Data vs. Fast Data
This article "Which Do We Need More: Big Data or Fast Data?" from Entrepreneur.com shines a light on the buzz word Big Data, and makes a reference to the Fresh Prince of Belair, which is always awesome. The article astutely points out that Big Data is not the answer...
Which OLAP is Best?
OLAP technology has continued to develop, a good indicator of its broad applicability in the software solution market. And though newer doesn't always mean improved, our opinion is that the most recent OLAP technologies are faster and (generally) better than their...
Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses
The article, The File-less Organization: Why Excel Isn’t Enough for Businesses, from Dataversity.net is quite astute in the way it identifies Excel as a problem--noting that each manager gathers his or her own version of the numbers to bring to a meeting. And so in...
4 Bad BI Habits to Drop in 2015
This article from the Sisense blog has a valuable little list of Bad BI Habits to Break in 2015. To-dos for the new year are suggested, like "embracing big data" and "getting a grip on all data." We tend to agree, because data is going to continue to grow in vastness...
Will Business Intelligence ever be Intelligent?
From Forbes.com, this article sparked a lot of interaction on our social media outlets, and we think it is an important one: Business Intelligence (BI) Isn't Very Intelligent, Yet. Yes, big companies talk about BI like they know what is going on. Fact is, very few...
Is HTAP the latest type of OLAP?
Some vendors have run from the four letters OLAP…and yet, articles continue to be published, and assertions made, that “analytical processing” is entering a new phase. There’s a new acronym in the market, HTAP, which stands for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical...
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