TDWI 9th Annual BI Report (TDWI’s Best of Business Intelligence: A Year in Review) was published this month. It contains a good mix of articles focused on the BI and data realm with this year’s hot topics – Big Data and mobile BI. It also provides a good insight into what trends we may expect in the forthcoming future and some generalized predictions around areas such as Big Data analytics, data integration, visualization, self-service BI, life cycle management and agile BI. It’s a really good lunch-time read so download on it on the TDWI website or HERE.
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.
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!
