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What are the Key Big Data Tools? Summary
In part 3 of his series on big data, Barry Devlin suggests that although the big data tools market is moving rapidly, you should move deliberately and with care when choosing a big data tool for your organization.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Big data, Hadoop, NoSQL

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
04-17-2012
Big Data – Separating the Hype from Reality Summary
In this article, Barry Devlin explores the “big data” phenomenon and its impact on business intelligence and data warehousing.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Analytics, Big data
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by Barry Devlin | 2 comments
03-05-2012
What is the Importance and Value of Big Data? Summary
In part 2 of a series on big data, Barry Devlin discusses the various business circumstances in which big data can drive real value.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Statistical Analysis, Data Warehousing, Big data

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
01-12-2012
What is This Thing Called Big Data? Summary
In this first article of a series, Barry Devlin categorizes big data into four classes and explains that each class requires different approaches to management and processing.

Topics: Analytics, Big data

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
10-06-2011
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 10 Summary
Barry Devlin concludes this 10-part series by providing three actions that can be taken now to prepare your business intelligence environment for the transition to the new world of Business Integrated Insight.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Marts, Data Warehousing, Architecture

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
01-20-2011
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 9 Summary
In this article, part of a continuing series, Barry Devlin explores the practicalities of moving from today's business intelligence environment to the new world of business intelligence.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Architecture, ETL, Data Federation

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
12-14-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 8 Summary
This article, Part 8 of a continuing series, looks at the top layer of the Business Integrated Insight architecture. This layer, the Personal Action Domain, addresses the interaction of users within the process and information layers.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
11-03-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 7 Summary
This article, Part 7 of an ongoing series, continues the discussion of the process layer of the Business Integrated Insight architecture, the Business Function Assembly.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Information Management, Data Warehousing, Architecture, Data Management

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
10-05-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 6 Summary
This article, Part 6 of a continuing series, describes the process layer of the Business Integrated Insight architecture and replaces each of 3 common myths with a modern premise.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Information Management, Data Warehousing, Architecture

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
09-01-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 5 Summary
This article, Part 5 of a continuing series, addresses another fundamental information management issue – the accuracy, consistency and timeliness of information as it travels from personal to enterprise usage and beyond.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Information Management, Data Warehousing, Architecture

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
08-03-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 4 Summary
This article, Part 4 of a continuing series, describes a modern approach to the business need for meaningful convergence of hard and soft information, which historically has been a challenge for data warehousing.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Architecture, Metadata, Unstructured Data, Analytics

by Barry Devlin | 2 comments
07-07-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 3 Summary
This article, Part 3 of a continuing series, reveals some interesting possibilities for radically changing the way information is structured and stored across the breadth of the business.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Data Marts, Data Warehousing, Architecture

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
06-08-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 2 Summary
Current business trends demand greatly improved integrity in the information and processes that lie at the core of every enterprise today. This article introduces the structure and the layers of the Business Integrated Insight architecture that is based on the need for integrity across multiple data stores and types, timeliness of information, reliability of processes and support for social networking.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Information Management, Data Warehousing, Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Management, Social Media

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
05-05-2010
From Business Intelligence to Enterprise IT Architecture, Part 1 Summary
The boundaries between operational and informational computing are becoming increasingly blurred. This series of articles explores the business and technological drivers for this change and its far-reaching implications for architects, developers and vendors alike. It also describes the architecture that’s needed to move the focus from business intelligence to the wider world of enterprise architecture.

Topics: Business Intelligence, Architecture

by Barry Devlin | 0 comments
03-03-2010

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