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Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor: Mark Madsen
Mark Madsen is president of Third Nature, a consulting and research firm focused on business intelligence, data integration and data management. He is a principal author of Clickstream Data Warehousing and speaks about data warehousing and emerging technology. Write him at mmadsen0@yahoo.com.
Blog: Natural Insight
by Mark Madsen
Spreadmarts and the Ideology of BI
Excel is the devil and BI tools are the savoir. Spreadsheets are a satanic element we're trying to drive from unrepentant departments. This is because centralized data is good and distributed data is bad. Ideologies exist to simplify the world by trying to separate everything into two buckets: good and evil... Ever try to add a quick formula to a Web-delivered report?
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06. 2.2008
Security, the Cloud and the Data Warehouse
"Doesn't DW-in-the-cloud suffer from the same fundamental problem as DW-as-a-Service in that you have to pump all of your proprietary, strategic, highly sensitive data outside of the firewall onto someone else's hardware?" James Dixon posted this question in response to my last post, and it points to a fundamental criticism that has been around since the first ASP started years ago...
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05.29.2008
'In the Cloud' is the New 'as a Service'
I've come to the conclusion that "as a service" is getting played out as a marketing term. The new and exciting term now being borrowed from the Web world is "in the cloud." While there is a difference between the two, many companies never figured out if they were SaaS or a managed hosting environment... I expect to see more confusing messages as vendors rush to the next buzzword.
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05.27.2008
Is EMC Shaking up the DW Appliance Market?
In a presentation planned for the upcoming EMC World conference in May, the storage vendor will introduce another entry into the warehouse appliance market through a partnership with ParAccel... On the competitive front, this is going to put pressure on hardware-based appliance vendors — companies like Netezza and Dataupia...
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03. 6.2008
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