Has anyone done this already?  If so, can you share with us how your transition went and if there were any major roadblocks or issues along the way?

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I just listened to this webinar from Greenplum.  It basically describes their EDC platform (Enterprise Data Cloud) and how it enables self service bi running on commodity hardware.  One central theme is getting data into the hands of business users as fast as possible by giving them their own space and resources to prototype data.  I’m heartened to hear thought leaders in data warehousing like Mark Dunlap of Evergreen Technologies promoting the idea of fork lifting data from source systems and deploying atypical approaches to developing BI. Read more…

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Information Week article describing Gartners presentation on “BI”g Discrepancy.  Many of the points they discuss are along the lines of my previous post,  especially their points on “personal data sandboxes” and “data discovery environments.”

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