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Consider this: Big Data and the Analytics Data Store

19 Monday Jan 2015

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To begin at the beginning

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 →

Why Management Fails in Information Strategy

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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In the dim and distant past most organisations struggled along with what they euphemistically referred to as Information Systems.

They were Information Systems with no overall design, no elements of management and no architecture.

Information Systems were built to show how the company had been performing in the immediate past, and that was it. Continue reading →

Silly Season! Data Warehousing is Hadoop is Big Data? – Unplugged for 2026

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones

2026 Remaster

Let’s get this baby off the ground

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.

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