Wonder Why Wonder How!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am Raj Guthikonda I've been a Chief Architect in th Oracle BI & Data warehouse arena
This blog post is my initial musingin the Netezza arena to do soe thought provocation
I wonder why data has so many silos and how can we overcome this silos
Business data is an invaluable commodity in today's fast changing analytic World where we figure out how to beat our customers & how can we leverrage the data that a business has
I have been recently associated with one of the biggest financial services mergers in the mid atlantic region of greater Pittsburgh area
This client of mine was using an analytics tool / application coming from a formidable provider who has the chunk o the market share
but we lacked te basic adapters to bring in the data from various types of data sources such as VSAM & IDM
I hope the next level determining a best of breed business intelligence data base server or the tool should have all this great features where in we can overcome the application silos and build our enterprise wide data warehouses in an efficient way
The next breed should have great analytics capabilities great user interfaces and also could be used to do data integration & data quality assessments
the next generation will be a breed that will take the "best of" the existing technologies to the next level. I am honestly hoping that we don't see a rash of wannabees with highly functioning GUIs but oatmeal power on the back-end
No - the next generation needs to be appliance-facing, especially considering the raw power available in a Netezza machine. If it can bundle-and-test analytics with little effort, it will go a long way towards rapid deployment. I just don't expect the analytic capability to arrive as an algorithm alone (we already have lots of those, they run slow no matter how accurate or high functioning their interfaces are)
I recall being in a meeting with VendorX in North Carolina, and asking them why their uptake on analytics was so slow - and his answer was "that's the trade off". You take the hit up front so you can have a snappy user experience. No, duh - anybody can do that.
The real trick is to make the analytics happen fast, without dimming the lights, and provide it with the lowest possible latency. This take the algorithm sitting on a platform that can power it.