In his presentation “Trends in Business Analytics”, Colin White (Founder, BI Research) will explore the impact that trends such as analytic RDBMSes, Hadoop and MapReduce, the NoSQL movement, smarter and real-time analytics, and self-service business intelligence will have on businesses. He will also examine the ways these trends can be used to extend existing business analytics infrastructure to enable businesses to reach new levels of innovation. Not a highly technical overview but nevertheless Colin provides a great insight into what has the potential to become a de facto standard in the not so distant future.
The 2012 Gartner BI Magic Quadrant report was released in February (see copy HERE) and in comparison to last year’s report there are no dramatic shake-ups, particularly in the ‘Leaders’ quadrant. The most notable change is probably in the bottom-left quadrant representing ‘Niche Players’ where new vendors e.g. Alterix or Prognoz have been included and others e.g. Corda Technologies or Bitam have disappeared. As for the Leaders of the BI quadrant the key change in the market positioning applies to Microsoft which dropped a few notches behind Oracle and MicroStrategy on the ‘Ability to Execute’ scale as well as QlikTech which raised above SAS, also in the ‘Ability to Execute’ scale. Surprisingly, just like last year, the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant remained empty and the ‘Challengers’ have remained exactly the same i.e. the quadrant includes only two vendors (Tableau and Spotfire).
My name is Martin and this site is a random collection of recipes and reflections about various topics covering information management, data engineering, machine learning, business intelligence and visualisation plus everything else that I fancy to categorise under the 'analytics' umbrella. I'm a native of Poland but since my university days I have lived in Melbourne, Australia and worked as a DBA, developer, data architect, technical lead and team manager. My main interests lie in both, helping clients in technical aspects of information management e.g. data modelling, systems architecture, cloud deployments as well as business-oriented strategies e.g. enterprise data solutions project management, data governance and stewardship, data security and privacy or data monetisation. On the whole, I am very fond of anything closely or remotely related to data and as long as it can be represented as a string of ones and zeros and then analysed and visualised, you've got my attention!
Outside sporadic updates to this site I typically find myself fiddling with data, spending time with my kids or a good book, the gym or watching a good movie while eating Polish sausage with Zubrowka (best served on rocks with apple juice and a lime twist). Please read on and if you find these posts of any interests, don't hesitate to leave me a comment!
