Better BI on Bigger Data
September 1, 2010
“Can we do BI without a significant infrastructure effort?”
What’s the most common BI tool? Microsoft EXCEL! If you are considering a DW initiative, you are likely encountering resistance from your hard-core, Excel based, analysts. Taking away Excel from them means that they will have less flexibility and spend more time waiting on changes. I’m guessing that they may not be on board with your vision.
1010Data is a zero-footprint, browser based data warehousing product. It has an Excel like feel, but it can handle billions of rows of data (not thousands like Excel). It’s fast, flexible and requires no infrastructure support from IT (if you are in IT, my guess is that you may have already stopped reading this article). The system is not an OLAP system, it requires no design, and not even indexing strategies – but it’s so fast!!
This is a new paradigm shift: from ETL to ELTAR – extract, load and transform as required. Hmmm….cleansing and summarization at query run time; views are used for data governance.
Don’t think it’s true? Dollar General is using the platform and was up and running in 5 weeks to 115 users with a 100% ROI.
What could you do for your customers if you could have their DW up in just a few weeks instead of a few months??
- Jodie
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