Alliance’s aim to help the IT industry tackle big data and deal with the skills gap is very positive however enterprises could avoid many of the problems associated with big data if they used the correct tools.
With the UK dipping back into recession today, organisations are going to have to be more accountable than ever and are going to need to make informed business decisions, based on their own data, in a more timely way than ever. Put simply, the speed at which Big Data is exploited is critical – the faster it is used for these business decisions, the more valuable it is. The job of a modern BI tool is to enable a broader "class" of worker to interact more simply with data. The problem with so many aged BI tools is that they are rigid in their approach to delivering only sophisticated (complicated) analysis, requiring a high degree of skill. The right tool can help to deliver just the right amount of data analysis to the right user at the right place and time, no more and no less. Wouldn't more business intelligence be used and data-driven decisions be made if the tools properly supported a broader set of the workforce? And, isn't this something that a modern BI tool should help with?
The survey from Constellation Research highlights, yet again, that Big Data is real and represents a huge opportunity. The variety, velocity, and volume of data available has never been richer for the picking of technologists and business leaders. We've seen the rise of big data – organisations increasingly taking advantage of the opportunities presented by the information out there - harnessing its volume. The truly flexible way to tackle the data is often with cloud BI. The current interest and advancement of Cloud BI helps to confirm that reporting and analytics have really become part of the fundamental fabric for the Cloud platform infrastructure.
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Alliance’s aim to help the IT industry tackle big data and deal with the skills
gap is very positive however enterprises could avoid many of the problems
associated with big data if they used the correct tools.
With the UK dipping back into recession
today, organisations are going to have to be more accountable than ever and are
going to need to make informed business decisions, based on their own data, in
a more timely way than ever. Put simply, the speed at which Big Data is
exploited is critical – the faster it is used for these business decisions, the
more valuable it is. The job of a modern BI tool is to enable a broader
"class" of worker to interact more simply with data. The problem
with so many aged BI tools is that they are rigid in their approach to
delivering only sophisticated (complicated) analysis, requiring a high degree
of skill. The right tool can help to deliver just the right amount of data
analysis to the right user at the right place and time, no more and no
less. Wouldn't more business intelligence be used and data-driven
decisions be made if the tools properly supported a broader set of the
workforce? And, isn't this something that a modern BI tool should help
with?
Tom Cahill, VP Worldwide Channels at Jaspersoft
The survey from Constellation Research highlights, yet again, that Big Data is real and represents a huge opportunity. The variety, velocity, and volume of data available has never been richer for the picking of technologists and business leaders. We've seen the rise of big data – organisations increasingly taking advantage of the opportunities presented by the information out there - harnessing its volume. The truly flexible way to tackle the data is often with cloud BI. The current interest and advancement of Cloud BI helps to confirm that reporting and analytics have really become part of the fundamental fabric for the Cloud platform infrastructure.
Tom Cahill, VP Worldwide Channels at Jaspersoft