Business intelligence: To buy or not to buy?
October 30, 2012 —
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When it comes to handling Big Data within an organization, business intelligence and reporting solutions from vendors can work with Big Data. “We can leverage high-performance data engines, and we also have a huge number of features and elements built into our architecture that support working with large volumes of data,” Abramson said. “We do this through various optimized reporting techniques like data caching, data scheduling, and all the different things that really make it easy to work with accelerated volumes of data that are coming into your systems.”
Moreover, with Big Data, as well as any data really, you need to be able to present data visually to your users. “You want to have some advanced visualizations for your users because they can’t consume or make a lot of sense of all this data by putting it into grids or simple graphs,” said Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho. “You have to have more advanced techniques.”
“You have got to be able to easily get the data that you’re trying to visualize and put onto dashboards. So, what we provide are prebuilt connectors to obviously lots of the relational databases, but now also a lot of the Big Data sources that are coming online,” Ahika said. “These Big Data sources include such things as Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo and so on. We give you connectors that are already built, so you don’t have to build those. We make it very easy to go get the data.”
Another reason why developers should buy instead of build is that there is just so much fundamental business intelligence technology available, there’s no need to build from scratch anymore; it’s more about assembly. “I always talk about how it’s not that you’re going to develop, it’s that you’re going to assemble a solution for a specific business purpose,” said Harriet Fryman, program director of business analytics market strategy at IBM. “There are components already available that you can use as your building blocks so that you’re not worrying about things like how to graphically lay out a table with columns, for example. All of that technology already exists.”
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