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

Many lessons that I've learned @ both Oracle and Microsoft will be applied here as well as the practices that we apply @ Razorfish, many of which originate from Ken W. Jan 8, 2012 - With "Agile Analytics: A Value-Driven Approach to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: Delivering the Promise of Business Intelligence" Ken Collier introduces agile methodology to BI projects. Analytics strategist Seth Grimes also wrote about NoSQL this week in an Intelligent Enterprise column titled "Is It Time For NoETL? VG- brief comment- agile vs adaptive. Sep 11, 2013 - In Forrester's Forrsights Strategy Spotlight: Business Intelligence And Big Data, Q4 2012 survey of 634 BI users and planners, we found that social and mobile data is actually a pretty low priority: We wrote about big data hubs in our report, Deliver On Big Data Potential With A Hub-And-Spoke Architecture, and indeed we think most firms will shift from a data-warehouse-centric approach to one that favors low-cost data hubs. Pentaho's modern, simplified and interactive approach empowers business users to access, Utilizing Pentaho's Agile BI approach, Pentaho Data Integration unifies the ETL, modeling and visualization processes into a single, integrated environment that enables developers and end-users to work seamlessly together. Sep 20, 2013 - A tightly coupled data integration and business analytics platform accelerates the realization of value from big data. Oct 23, 2012 - WhereScape, a Teradata partner since 2006 and provider of agile development software for building and extending data warehouses, announced today that Delta Community Credit Union has purchased WhereScape RED empowering our resource-constrained development team to tackle a large implementation that will enable us to quickly deliver value to our institution and members,” said Delta Community Director of Business Intelligence Services Su Rayburn. He's not the only one Alta Plana Corp. Aug 23, 2012 - In actual use, however, the KPI, its use and its value have been dumbed down in ways that diminish the quality of intelligence we gain from using business analytics. Delacour has Cloud BI will put data scientists in their proper place -- where they contribute most value. Mar 12, 2012 - Business value can be returned as quickly as the first data marts can be created, and the method lends itself well to an exploratory and iterative approach to building data warehouses so that no master plan is required upfront. Collier's exellect book Agile Analytics, which I highly recommend. I also like to emphasize TDD (test-driven development) as an approach that is most effective to quality products in business intelligence and data warehouse solutions. Inmon is one of the leading proponents of Agile, iterative approaches are surely very popular with BI projects these days and both Inmon and Kimball architectures are often implemented using an agile approach. 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. Dec 16, 2013 - Rachel Delacour, CEO of BIME Analytics, names the top five trends in business intelligence to watch next year As the entire web becomes a seamlessly connected data warehouse, organizations have the power at their fingertips to connect and query dozens of data source in the moment, predicts Rachel Delacour, cofounder and CEO of BIME Analytics. Primarily, he said, NoSQL is a good solution for online problems, but less appropriate for bulk load data warehouses and business intelligence. Nov 22, 2012 - Agile analytics : a value-driven approach to business intelligence and data warehousing Collier's techniques offer optimal value whether your projects involve “back-end” data management, “front-end” business analysis, or both.