21 Wednesday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data, Consider this, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing
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Big Data, business intelligence, Core Statistics, DW 3.0, enterprise data warehousing, information management, information supply framework, statistics
Big Data, together with Cloud computing and the Internet of Things, are topics that are very much to the fore in contemporary trends in Information Management. Continue reading
19 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data, Consider this, statistics
Hold this thought: If Data Warehousing was Tesco then Big Data would be the “try something different”.
Since the publication of the article Aligning Big Data, which basically laid out a draft view of DW 3.0 Information Supply Framework and placed Big Data within a larger framework, I have been asked on a number of occasions recently to go into a little more detail with regards to the Analytics Data Store (ADS) component. This is an initial response to those requests. Continue reading
17 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Architecture, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Consider this, Data Warehousing, statistics
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Analytics, aspiring tendencies in IM, Big Data, business intelligence, Core Statistics, enterprise data warehousing, Quotes
Martyn Richard Jones
Continue reading13 Tuesday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data, Consider this
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Remastered for 2026
I aim to bring some semblance of simplicity to the Big Data debate. I also strive for coherence and integrity. Hence, I am sharing an evolving model for pervasive information architecture and management.
This is an overview of the realignment and placement of Big Data within a more generalised architectural framework, one that integrates data warehousing (DW 2.0), business intelligence, and statistical analysis.
The model is now referred to as the DW 3.0 Information Supply Framework, or DW 3.0 for short.
10 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026
I came across a blog post titled “The Best Big Data Quotes Of All Time”.
At first, I ignored it. I really like the author, but I’m generally not a fan of this type of ‘content’; of top 10 lists or cute collections or amazing pussy cat videos on YouTube, although I respect other people’s tastes.
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Consider this, Data Warehouse
This is the first in a series of collections of talking points on the processing of extensive data sets by non-relational or pseudo-relational means, speculative data analytics with these large data sets which is typically non-operational data and social media data obtained from internet sources, and how usable outcomes, if any, are derived, can be integrated into strategic, tactical and operational decision support. Continue reading
01 Thursday Jan 2015
Posted in Big Data
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This is the first in a series of short commentaries on the burgeoning, babbling and bludgeoning world of Big Data applications, real or fictitious, tangible or unsubstantiated, original or plagiarised.
The idea is to pick up on viral truths, half-truths and downright fibs, and then take a look under the bonnet. Frequently by simply questioning assertions, assumptions and motivations, and leaving it up to the reader to take it further, if they so wish.
So, here is the first piece entitled Big Data, Mom and Apple Pie. Continue reading
30 Tuesday Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data
I Martyn Richard Jones
I have looked into the immediate twelve-month future of Big Data, and the immediate future looked back and said, “Be more goat”.
27 Saturday Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Consider this
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art, Big Data, News, responsibilities, roles, social media, sports, technology
Martyn Richard Jones
This article is in English.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
I have been involved in an in-depth study of the changing face of IT. This includes data architecture and data management. I spent all afternoon, as a matter of fact, examining the challenges that the profession faces.
In particular, I have focused on emerging and evolving roles and responsibilities. I have examined their significance and synergies. Additionally, I considered their collaborative potential in a future marked by high-speed, volatile, and unpredictable conditions.
Continue reading25 Thursday Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Consider this, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
I have worked in data architecture and management for three decades, I have become a recognised expert in my field, and as a result I have become almost oblivious to the fads, fancies and fashions that pass through IT. However, being an expert in a field also means that from time to time we are oblivious to the difficulties that some people may have when trying to understand issues and concepts that we simply take for granted – because, one simply knows. This is the case with data.
20 Saturday Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Data governance, Data Warehousing
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Martyn Richard Jones
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
From the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Big Data is dead! Long live Information Management. Continue reading
09 Tuesday Dec 2014
Posted in Big Data, Marty does
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
HERE WE GO WITH BIG DATA VIBESClive: Yeah, well, you had to, didn’t you? You had to stand up for what you stood for, didn’t you? I mean, the only time I remember a similar occasion was, I was in, errm… I was at Spurs, Tottenham Hotspurs.
Derek: Yeah.
Clive: I was watching a game against Arsenal, and this bloke come up to me and said, “Hello”.
Derek: Oh no…
Derek and Clive – This Bloke Came Up to Me Continue reading
26 Sunday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Big Data, BS, governance
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Ask Martyn, awareness, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, BS, crap, data analytics, deceit, enterprise data warehousing, history, hustlers, IT business, lies, Organisational Autism, Pimps, spin, Stories
Written by Martyn Richard Jones
What does Big Data have to do with Robitussin?
I will explain.
12 Sunday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Banking, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves
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Ask Martyn, Banking, Behavioural Economics, Best principles, Big Data, Bill Inmon, business intelligence, data integration, Data Marts, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, Information and Technology, information management
This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.
It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.
11 Saturday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, BS, Data Warehouse, disinformation, information, Knowledge, wisdom
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster for 2026
I am a sceptic. Part of the awkward squad of troublemakers.
People who ask questions and who won’t stop asking.
People who won’t take bullshit for an answer.
People who are not preprogrammed to unquestioningly follow specific paths.
But to question everything.
Such as, “What the feck’s that all about then?” Continue reading
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
Martyn Richard Jones
A remake for 2026
Sometimes I get asked in to support the manager of a failing project.
Most of the time I get to take over a failing project, with or without the previous manager’s involvement.
Occasionally I am called in to act as a Project Manager for clients who have brought in Systems Integrators and Management Consultants to do most of the project work.
10 Friday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
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Ask Martyn, Best principles, Big Data, business intelligence, Commercial IT, Corporate IT, Data Warehouse, IT business, IT Strategy, Pimps, Pundits
The IT business suffers a malaise, it also affects other businesses. In IT, like in other lines of business, much of what has been made is eventually sidelined and forgotten. If it was ever on the radar in the first place. Continue reading
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, business, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, operational, pig data, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remastered for 2026 – Buy my books! Get my advice! Benefit from me!
I frequently include the term Operational Awareness in talks.
I think it’s important for strategy.
So I wrote a piece that tried to convey what I mean by the term. Continue reading
08 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Data Warehouse, enterprise data warehousing
Martyn Richard Jones
2026 Remaster
The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.
06 Monday Oct 2014
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Analytics, Behavioural Economics, Best principles, Big Data, Dogma, Economics, Financial, Goal Setting, Management, Marketing, Strategy
Martyn Richard Jones
Remaster 2026
Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.
Last week, we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.
He’d been with us for years.
01 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Architecture, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Excellence, Inmon, Peeves
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Behavioural Economics, Best principles, BI, business analysis, Business Enablement, Business Management, data integration, enterprise data warehousing
One of the most soul-destroying moments in the life of a data warehouse professional is when a key decision maker (usually backed by other key decision makers) decides to radically alter course, and “in a dance as old as time”, snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
This can happen in various ways, but the most gut-wrenching of all is this…
01 Wednesday Oct 2014
Posted in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse
If you judged everything by what the media tells us, you would get the impression that the world is in continuous revolt. Violence, destruction and protest is everywhere. It’s like as if every hour of the day there is one reason or another to go marching, standing or sitting somewhere about something.
Well, that’s the impression one may get.
01 Wednesday Oct 2014
As legal sources close to the Westminster Bar would have it, an alleged fan of Stewart Lee, a leading English social commentator, writer, director, musician and stand-up comedian, has called on the power of big data outcomes to highlight changing demographics and to place hot-topic issues of people and society in the public forum. Continue reading
30 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Big Data
You walk down the street, maybe in London, Paris and Rome. You look out of your spacious apartment in Manhattan, Unter den Linden or Mahim. You are cycling slowly along the streets of Amsterdam, Bonn or Zurich.
Got the picture?