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Krish Krishnan

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein.

Hello, and welcome to my blog.

I would like to use this blog to have constructive communication and exchanges of ideas in the business intelligence community on topics from data warehousing to SOA to governance, and all the topics in the umbrella of these subjects.

To maximize this blog's value, it must be an interactive venue. This means your input is vital to the blog's success. All that I ask from this audience is to treat everybody in this blog community and the blog itself with respect.

So let's start blogging and share our ideas, opinions, perspectives and keep the creative juices flowing!

About the author >

Krish is a recognized expert worldwide in the strategy, architecture and implementation of high performance data warehousing solutions. He is a visionary data warehouse thought leader and an independent analyst, writing and speaking at industry leading conferences, user groups and trade publications.  He has authored two eBooks, more than 75 articles, viewpoints and case studies on business intelligence, data warehousing, and data warehouse appliances and architectures. In his 19 plus years of professional experience, he has been solving complex architecture problems spanning all aspects of data warehousing and business intelligence for Fortune 1000 clients. He has designed and tuned some of the world’s largest data warehouses.

He is the president of Sixth Sense Advisors Inc., a Chicago-based company providing management, strategy, technology and analyst consulting services in data warehousing and business intelligence. He teaches regularly at TDWI, DAMA, IRM UK and other conferences, and is helping drive and mature the data warehouse appliance market. Krish also serves as Associate Vice President of Programs for DAMA Chicago and is Ethics and Governance Advisor to DAMA International.

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Web Semantic Modeling

As data warehouse appliances gain momentum across the data centers of the world, a renewed push is occurring to adapt to the cloud. As we move towards this thought process, a challenge arises in how to make the data warehouse more SOA ready. This is where we need to understand the notion of semantic web modeling. This is the newest trend that will evolve to become the trendsetter in the next five years.

The data warehouse of the future is more of a data services layer and will be a shared services setup. In that world, web portals and mobile gadgets will be the user interface and queries will be more non-sql and structured in English like sentences of questions. This is where web semantic modeling will play a critical role, right from services and interfaces to reports and kpis.

Today this concept is largely still in its nascent state, and is a very evolving subject. In the next five years we will see a large scale growth of this idea. In the current world of data warehouses and analytics, we have tossed Metadata as a nice to have feature or a dressing on the cake, but when we move to the new world, the Metadata layer is the Cake itself to a large extent.

Stay tuned for a detailed article next month in my column on this subject.

Posted July 16, 2009 8:13 PM
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