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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.

The Vice President of Strategy at Chicago Business Intelligence Group, Krish 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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Market Imbalance

The BI vendor market has become an imbalanced space. There is either consolidation leading to BIG behemoths or you have extremely niche startups or the last choice Open Source. What this leads to is confusion in user organizations.

With market consolidation, companies are left with a mixed bag of solutions and now need to reassess their investments, new market offerings have not reached enough maturity and open source is not accepted yet as enterprise capable in BI. Where we need to go with this situation is to setup an interoperable solution where the vendor consolidation will not impact current investments. There were third party companies that used to offer these kind of solutions and we need a new series of such technologies to be recreated.

I'm really wondering why we blame DW / BI architecture or approach as a failure, when a large portion of the silos are being built by vendor disruption in the market. I certainly hope the vendors will provide a scalable and interoperable answer in the near future.

Till we get some sensible set of solutions, we might have to live in a heterogenous world of solutins and thrive on chaos.

Posted October 23, 2009 8:55 AM
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