The world of Business Intelligence
Rain, Rain everywhere, but not a clean drop to drink
Data, data everywhere, but not a reliable byte to impact Business
In the good old days, data existed in memory (of the human brain) and passed on from the teacher to the taught, from a mentor to the mentee, from a parent to a child….
With the evolving human clan learning to record better and better, data transferred to different mediums and finally now persists in memory again (of computer chips).
There has been rapid progress and breath taking evolutions in the way data is now being gathered. As it became easier and cost effective to store, more data is being stored.
The more, the merrier huh? How do we really use the gazillion peta bytes around us. Besides, is it reliable, accurate, and trustworthy?
The terms DSS(Decision Support System), MIS (Management Information System) have been replaced by Business Intelligence, competitive intelligence, Market analytics, drilling, predictions,
forecasting sciences. This all basically boils down to storing data the right way and enabling access to required folks quickly and easily. Data then becomes knowledge and information can be used to benefit
Wiki, aptly defines BI. Business intelligence (BI) "is the ability of an organization to collect, maintain, and organize data. This produces large amounts of information that can help develop new opportunities. Identifying these opportunities, and implementing an effective strategy, can provide a competitive market advantage and long-term stability"
Market is flooded with Infrastructure, Tools, Automation, Wizards to enable data storage, retrieval, Analytics, Mining with improved performance and visualization. We will look at Microsoft's offering in the space to include SQL Server 2012, office, SharePoint, Azure, Parallel data warehousing, Big data et al in the following blogs
Happy new year 2013 to all of you
Comments
Anonymous
January 09, 2013
For a long time I wanted to read your blogs Deepthi...Will look forward to next ones..Good LuckAnonymous
January 09, 2013
Good one! Brief, Crisp and to the point!Anonymous
January 09, 2013
Good one......Anonymous
January 10, 2013
Thanks AllAnonymous
January 14, 2013
Nice blog... awaiting more tech details with your wit and humor. You truly know how to make learning easy.Anonymous
January 23, 2013
Love your writing style-simple and lucid. Keep up the brilliant work!! :)Anonymous
January 29, 2013
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March 28, 2013
Nice blog deepthi...liked it..Anonymous
May 01, 2013
Very well written..!! Too good..!!!! Keep it up :)Anonymous
May 25, 2013
I read few of your blogs today.Data Cubes,Hekaton & about BIDS..All were plainly simple and clearly written such that even person from other technical background will get some idea with your post . Appreciated !!! Excepting more technical informations too...Thanks....:)Anonymous
May 26, 2013
Sure Sathyanarayanan S, I shall convey more technical information in the forth coming blogs...Thanks for your encouragementAnonymous
February 25, 2014
awesome blog post. #Helpful