Archive for the ‘BI’ Category
QlikTech’s IPO & Vigilante BI
by Pete Bell
We’re often asked about how Endeca’s BI offering compares to QlikView — more than usual with their “heavily oversubscribed” IPO this morning of their parent company QlikTech (QLIK).
The comparisons aren’t surprising. If you read their S-1 IPO filing, you’ll find spots where you could cut-and-paste “Endeca” for “QlikView.” For example,
“We have pioneered a powerful, easy-to-use [...]
Hadoop + Hive + Endeca, Spotted in the Wild
by Pete Bell
In his post MapReduce just semi-good for semi-structured data, Adam Ferrari answered one of his FAQs about the relationship between Endeca and MapReduce, the popular big data cruncher. Now here’s one example of them complementing each other.
The question Adam answered was, if MapReduce is so powerful for processing big data, then what role does [...]
Bring Back the Dead Ends
by Pete Bell
There’s still so much room for innovation on faceted search user experiences. Here’s a great improvement that’s still rarely seen in the wild: graying out dead ends instead of removing them. “Gray ends” are just for certain cases, but in those conditions, they make a big difference. Moreover, they exemplify one of the great Edward [...]
Cyborg BI
by Paul Sonderegger
Forget about agile BI or self-service BI. Think bigger: Cyborg BI.
In his recent Wired story “The Cyborg Advantage,” Clive Thompson writes about a “freestyle” chess tournament where any kind of entrant was allowed – human, machine or a combination of both. The winner was neither a grandmaster nor a supercomputer. It was a couple of [...]
Backstage tech
by Pete Bell
Following rumors of Google’s potential acquisition of ITA software for $1 billion, the Boston Globe ran a story this past Sunday, “Backstage, they’re stars,” about other area companies that are successful but that aren’t household names, like Gillette or Fidelity. Endeca was on the list, along with PTC and Pegasystems.
What’s most interesting to me is [...]
How Big Is The BI Backlog?
by Paul Sonderegger
The unending requests for custom reports and new data is a problem. But how big? In a new survey of 226 BI decision-makers, Forrester Consulting takes its measure.
The trigger for this work was the TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas earlier this year where the BI backlog was a big topic on one of the [...]
BI Needs A Revolution. But What Kind Will It Get?
by Paul Sonderegger
In his recent post, Revolutionary BI: When Agile is Not Fast Enough, Wayne Eckerson, Director Of Education And Research at The Data Warehousing Institute, called for a BI revolution. “Too many BI teams are shackled by outdated modes of industrial organization,” he says. Instead, BI teams need new tools and new approaches to be more [...]
The realpolitik of Search and BI project triggers
by Pete Bell
Pete Bell
I just attended IDC’s annual Directions conference in Boston, and of particular interest were back-to-back tracks on Search and BI. If you missed Directions in Boston, the West Coast performance comes this week in Santa Clara.
You’ll recall that IDC was the first of the big analysts to publish research on the convergence of search [...]
For Search and interactive BI, what’s the new disk?
by Adam Ferrari
Adam Ferrari
Since the recent New England Database Summit at MIT I’ve been thinking a lot about Storage Class Memory (SCM) – technologies like Flash and PCM that are vying to become the next persistent storage technology of choice. Buzz on this definitely picked up substantially last year with product announcements from many of the data [...]
