Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing by Ken W. Collier

Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing



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Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Ken W. Collier ebook
ISBN: 032150481X, 9780321504814
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Page: 366
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Nov 26, 2013 - Their pitch centered on three areas – data warehousing, big data analytics and integrated marketing – that to some degree reflect Teradata's core market and acquisitions in the last few years of companies like Aprimo who provides integrated I want to note that the premise behind UDA is that the complexities of the different big data approaches is abstracted from the user which may access the data through tools such as Aster or other BI or visualization tool. You won't regret the time or the money. Oct 25, 2011 - What about when you're working in an Agile environment? May 18, 2011 - As a CxO you know that your Business Intelligence costs are mainly driven by these 4 areas: License acquisition costs While Agile BI can immediately imply faster deployment of the BI solution (#3 above), in Pentaho we add value in all the 4 areas. According to Ken Collier, “Agile BI” blends the iterative, quick progress of Agile Software Development and a short-run project approach to Business Intelligence using the same steps and measurable results. Oct 30, 2009 - Agile development is being merged with Business Intelligence to create smaller-scale, rapid-results with analytics applied to corporate data. Collier is a senior consultant in business But Agile is about delivering high-value data. Nov 4, 2013 - “We have built, and continue to build upon, an extremely robust and rapidly evolving BI data ecosystem that drives new initiatives in order to tune and manage the operational and strategic aspects of our online gaming and media business. Sep 26, 2013 - Many teams who follow this approach end up building massive data warehouses that can take months – or years – to complete before anything is delivered to the end-users. Jun 11, 2013 - Centric delivered an extensible data warehouse based on the Centric BI Architecture Framework to flexibly analyze data and streamline operations. Here is how: Consolidation of licenses: Any BI implementation requires some form of Data Integration, Data Warehousing/Data Mart development, and Data Visualization (Reports, Analysis, and Dashboards). He's not the only one Alta Plana Corp. Jan 11, 2012 - If you are a data management professional, you should get and read this book ASAP. Cirro is a 'game-changing' approach to analytics allowing us to ask those questions quickly and gain initial insight and context across all our data silos without ETL build-out or the cost and complexity of a semantic layer. Jan 26, 2011 - Business Intelligence; // Data Warehousing; // Business Analytics Essentially, Agile BI is not intended as a large-scale, program approach to business intelligence and analytics. As a notable insurance carrier specializing in P&C commercial and personal lines, Centric's client always had analytics and reporting While this approach had served the company well over the years, executives recognized the need to move toward verifiable information-backed management of the company. Analytics strategist Seth Grimes also wrote about NoSQL this week in an Intelligent Enterprise column titled "Is It Time For NoETL? Mar 24, 2010 - Last week, I wrote about the business value of NoSQL, an alternative approach to relational databases that's gaining more attention in the trade press. Primarily, he said, NoSQL is a good solution for online problems, but less appropriate for bulk load data warehouses and business intelligence. Check out the interview I had with Ken Collier about his book, Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Apr 22, 2014 - For example, we'll see more BI solutions that automatically alert business leaders to real-time, dramatic shifts in data.