Its been a while since we last updated the blog. The whole team has been busy with our latest client, PayPal/eBay. As I mentioned in a tweet a while back we’ve been tapped to develop a high performance self-service bi environment. To meet the goals of the project we will be using almost every single feature in MicroStrategy 9! Some interesting things we’re doing: Read more…
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…
Self Service B.I is a model where end users create reports from scratch independently of the IT team. Several B.I vendors advertise / sell their product highlighting Self Service B.I as one of the features. Prospects are thrilled at the thought of owning a tool that will magically reduce IT costs by transferring B.I reporting directly to the business side. Read more…