by Thomas Evans | May 15, 2018 | AgileBI, Amazon Web Services, Analytics, Business Intelligence, CloudBI, Data Integration, General, Managed BI, Managed services, MongoDB, Open Source, Training |
If you’ve chatted with me in depth about BI/DW it’s highly likely I’ve mentioned Presto – an open source project I’ve been following for the last few years. Presto is a “SQL on anything” distributed SQL query engine which was...
by Thomas Evans | May 9, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, General, Visualisation |
If you’ve read through my blogs you would have seen I am a bit of a data geek (I’m probably in the right job for it). One site that I always find interesting is Google Trends, it’s essentially a way of finding out what’s hot and what’s...
by Kate Loguteva | May 8, 2018 | Business Intelligence |
Data warehouses are like ogres… and onions. They have layers. Any Data Warehouse architecture will have at least staging and business data layers, also there could be a raw data layer and a reporting layer. Layers, physical or virtual, should be isolated for...
by Melanie Butler | May 3, 2018 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Training |
I’m normally cynical about data analysts who have started calling themselves Data Scientists. My view stems from roles where I have managed data warehouse teams and business intelligence data analysts. In extreme situations, we’d take on a lot of legwork for...
by Thomas Evans | May 2, 2018 | Business Intelligence, Qlik Sense, Uncategorized, Visualisation |
Having worked with a number of reporting and analytic platforms, I know as well as anybody, the complexity in licencing structures. Today I am going to talk through the Qlik Sense licencing model, as at April 2018, and hopefully, convey it in a simple enough manner....
by Kate Loguteva | Apr 18, 2018 | Business Intelligence, ODE, Open Source |
We were recently approached by a client with an interesting job – they wanted us to create a solution for Persistent Staging Area for them, and the requirements were quite broad. They had an MS SQL Server as their RDBMS and the loading tool was SSIS, just to...
