Why IT says “no!”

by Ted Cuzzillo on August 10, 2012

Many data repositories are fragile, held together with shaky, ad libbed fixes, observes a busy consultant. Free access for data analysts scares the hell out of administrators.

Tagged as: data access, data analysts, IT

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Dan Murray August 14, 2012 at 11:53 pm: This is the reality for mostly all business information consumers. Tools like Tableau bridge the gaps with less efforts than traditional BI tools.

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